Nature

An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834

From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)

Nature

As late, in wreaths, gay flowers I bound,
Beneath some roses Love I found;
And by his little frolic pinion
As quick as thought I seiz'd the minion,
Then in my cup the prisoner threw,
And drank him in its sparkling dew:
And sure I feel my angry guest
Fluttering his wings within my breast!

✦ ✦ ✦

1792

MLA

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/120/.

Chicago

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/120/.

Read this poem with the Codex →

More by Samuel Taylor Coleridge