Romantic

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772–1834

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher, co-founder of the Romantic movement.

His visionary poems ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and ‘Kubla Khan’ remain touchstones of the imagination he spent his life theorising.

Poems (515)

Kubla Khan
Work Without Hope
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Christabel
Lewti
The Ballad of the Dark Ladie
Love
The Three Graves
Dejection: An Ode
Ode to Tranquillity
France: An Ode
Fears in Solitude
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
To a Gentleman
Hymn Before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
Frost at Midnight
The Nightingale
The Eolian Harp
The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution
The Garden of Boccaccio
The Two Founts
A Day-Dream
Sonnet: To a Friend Who Asked How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me
Lines to W. Linley, Esq.
Domestic Peace
Song (Sung by Glycine in Zapolya)
Hunting Song
Westphalian Song
Youth and Age
Time, Real and Imaginary
Love's Apparition and Evanishment
Love, Hope, and Patience in Education
Duty Surviving Self-Love
Love's First Hope
Phantom
To Nature
Fancy in Nubibus; or, The Poet in the Clouds
Constancy to an Ideal Object
Phantom or Fact
Lines Suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius
Forbearance
Sancti Dominici Pallium
On Donne's Poetry
On a Bad Singer
Ne Plus Ultra
Human Life: On the Denial of Immortality
The Butterfly
The Pang More Sharp Than All
The Visionary Hope
The Pains of Sleep
Love's Burial-Place
Love, a Sword
The Kiss
Not at Home
Names
To Lesbia
The Death of the Starling
On a Cataract
Hymn to the Earth
The Visit of the Gods
Translation of a Passage in Ottfried's Metrical Paraphrase of the Gospel
The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn
Epitaph on an Infant (I)
On an Infant Which Died Before Baptism
Epitaph on an Infant (II)
An Ode to the Rain
Answer to a Child's Question
Something Childish, but Very Natural
Lines on a Child
The Knight's Tomb
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter
The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone
The Devil's Thoughts
Cologne
Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers
Limbo
Metrical Feet: Lesson for a Boy
The Homeric Hexameter Described and Exemplified
The Ovidian Elegiac Metre Described and Exemplified
Catullian Hendecasyllables
To ----
Epitaph on a Bad Man
The Suicide's Argument
The Good, Great Man
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
Inscription for a Time-Piece
A Tombless Epitaph
Epitaph (Stop, Christian Passer-by)
Easter Holidays
Dura Navis
Nil Pejus Est Caelibe Vitâ
Sonnet: Mild Splendour of the various-vested Night
Anthem
Julia
Quae Nocent Docent
The Nose
To the Muse
Destruction of the Bastile
Life
Progress of Vice
Monody on the Death of Chatterton (First Version)
An Invocation: Sweet Muse! companion of my every hour
Anna and Harland
To the Evening Star
Pain
On a Lady Weeping
Monody on a Tea-Kettle
Genevieve
On Receiving an Account That His Only Sister's Death Was Inevitable
On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister
A Mathematical Problem
Honour
On Imitation
Inside the Coach
Devonshire Roads
Music
Sonnet: Farewell parental scenes! a sad farewell
Absence
Happiness
A Wish
An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon
To Disappointment
A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room
Ode: Ye Gales, that of the Lark's repose
A Lover's Complaint to His Mistress
With Fielding's 'Amelia'
Written after a Walk before Supper
Imitated from Ossian
The Complaint of Ninathóma
Songs of the Pixies
The Rose
Kisses
The Gentle Look
Sonnet: Dear native Brook! wild Streamlet of the West
Lines: O thou wild Fancy, check thy wing! No more
To Fortune
Perspiration: A Travelling Eclogue
Ave, Atque Vale!
On Bala Hill
Lines: Richer than Miser o'er his countless hoards
Imitated from the Welsh
Lines: Once more! sweet Stream! with slow foot wandering near
Ad Lyram
Moriens Superstiti
The Sigh
To a Young Lady: Much on my early youth I love to dwell
Translation: Maid of unboastful charms! whom white-robed Truth
To Miss Brunton
Pantisocracy
On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America
Elegy
The Faded Flower
The Outcast
On a Discovery Made Too Late
To the Author of 'the Robbers'
Melancholy
To a Young Ass
Lines on a Friend
To a Friend: Thus far my scanty brain hath built the rhyme
To the Honourable Mr. Erskine
Burke
Priestley
La Fayette
Koskiusko
Pitt
To the Rev. W. L. Bowles
To the Rev. W. L. Bowles (Second Version)
Mrs. Siddons
To William Godwin
To Robert Southey
To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq
To Lord Stanhope
To Earl Stanhope
Lines: Away, those cloudy looks, that labouring sigh
To an Infant
To the Rev. W. J. Hort
Pity
To the Nightingale
Lines: With many a pause and oft reverted eye
Lines in the Manner of Spenser
The Hour When We Shall Meet Again
Lines: Good verse most good, and bad verse then seems better
To the Author of Poems
The Silver Thimble
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
Religious Musings
Monody on the Death of Chatterton
The Destiny of Nations
Ver Perpetuum
On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796
To a Primrose
Verses: Britons! when last ye met, with distant streak
On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life
Sonnet: When they did greet me father, sudden awe
Sonnet: Oft o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll
Sonnet: The piteous sobs that choke the Virgin's breath
To a Young Friend
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune
To a Friend: Dear Charles! whilst yet thou wert a babe, I ween
Ode to the Departing Year
The Raven
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre
To an Unfortunate Woman
To the Rev. George Coleridge
On the Christening of a Friend's Child
Translation: Depart in joy from this world's noise and strife
The Foster-Mother's Tale
The Dungeon
Parliamentary Oscillators
The Old Man of the Alps
To a Young Lady: Why need I say, Louisa dear
Recantation
Hexameters: William, my teacher, my friend! dear William and dear…
Tell's Birth-Place
From the German: Know'st thou the land where the pale citrons grow
Water Ballad
On an Infant
Home-Sick
Lines: I stood on Brocken's sovran height, and saw
The British Stripling's War-Song
Lines Composed in a Concert-Room
Hexameters: Paraphrase of Psalm XLVI
Mahomet
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
A Christmas Carol
Talleyrand to Lord Grenville
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
The Keepsake
A Thought Suggested by a View
The Mad Monk
Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side Half-Way Up a Steep Hill Facing South
A Stranger Minstrel
Alcaeus to Sappho
The Snow-Drop
On Revisiting the Sea-Shore
To Asra
The Second Birth
Love's Sanctuary
To Matilda Betham from a Stranger
The Day-Dream
The Happy Husband
The Exchange
Ad Vilmum Axiologum
An Exile
Sonnet: Lady, to Death we're doom'd, our crime the same
A Sunset
What is Life?
The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-Tree
Separation
The Rash Conjurer
Metrical Feet
Farewell to Love
An Angel Visitant
Recollections of Love
To Two Sisters
For a Market-Clock
The Madman and the Lethargist
To a Lady: Nay, dearest Anna! why so grave
Reason for Love's Blindness
An Invocation: Hear, sweet Spirit, hear the spell
A Hymn: My Maker! of thy power the trace
To a Lady: Ah! not by Cam or Isis, famous streams
Faith, Hope, and Charity
Israel's Lament
The Tears of a Grateful People
The Reproof and Reply
The Delinquent Travellers
A Character
Homeless
Epitaphium Testamentarium
Ἔρως ἀεὶ λάληθρος ἑταῖρος
The Improvisatore
To Mary Pridham
Alice Du Clos
Lines: What though the chilly wide-mouth'd quacking chorus
On My Joyful Departure
To Miss A. T
Lines: Child of my muse! in Barbour's gentle hand
Song, ex improviso
Love and Friendship Opposite
Desire
Charity in Thought
Humility the Mother of Charity
Coeli Enarrant
Reason
Self-Knowledge
To the Young Artist
My Baptismal Birth-Day
An Apology for Spencers
On a Late Marriage Between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître
On an Amorous Doctor
Epigram: Of smart pretty Fellows in Bristol are numbers, some
On Deputy ----
Epigram: To be ruled like a Frenchman the Briton is loth
On Mr. Ross, Usually Cognominated Nosy
Epigram: Bob now resolves on marriage schemes to trample
Epigram: Say what you will, Ingenious Youth
Epigram: Say what you will, Ingenious Youth (Another Version)
On an Insignificant
Epigram: There comes from old Avaro's grave
On a Slanderer
Lines in a German Student's Album
Hippona
On a Reader of His Own Verses
On a Report of a Minister's Death Written in Germany
Dear Brother Jem
Job's Luck
On the Sickness of a Great Minister
To a Virtuous Oeconomist
L'enfant Prodigue
On Sir Rubicund Naso
To Mr. Pye
Ninety-Eight
Occasioned by the Former
A Liar by Profession
To a Proud Parent
Rufa
Occasioned by the Last
Epitaph on Major Dieman
On the Above
On a Bad Man
To a Certain Modern Narcissus
To a Critic
Always Audible
Pondere Non Numero
The Compliment Qualified
Epigram: What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole
Epigram: Charles, grave or merry, at no lie would stick
Epigram: An evil spirit's on thee, friend! of late
Epigram: Here lies the Devil--ask no other name
To One who Published in Print What Had Been Entrusted to Him by My Fireside
Epigram: Scarce any scandal, but has a handle
Epigram: Old Harpy jeers at castles in the air
To a Vain Young Lady
A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls
Epigram: From me, Aurelia! you desired
For a House-Dog's Collar
Epigram: In vain I praise thee, Zoilus
Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser
A Dialogue Between an Author and His Friend
Epigram: Tom Slothful talks, as slothful Tom beseems
Epigram: Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf
From an Old German Poet
On the Curious Circumstance That in the German Language the Sun Is Feminine and the Moon Masculine
Spots in the Sun
Epigram: When Surface talks of other people's worth
To My Candle
On Himself
The Taste of the Times
On Pitt and Fox
Epigram: An excellent adage commands that we should
Comparative Brevity of Greek and English
Epigram on the Secrecy of a Certain Lady
Motto
Epigram: Money, I've heard a wise man say
Modern Critics
Written in an Album
To a Lady who Requested Me to Write a Poem upon Nothing
Sentimental
Epigram: So Mr. Baker heart did pluck
Authors and Publishers
The Alternative
Epigram: In Spain, that land of Monks and Apes
On the Most Veracious Anecdotist, and Small-Talk Man, Thomas Hill, Esq
Epigram: Nothing speaks our mind so well
Epitaph of the Present Year on the Monument of Thomas Fuller
My Godmother's Beard
Lines to Thomas Poole
To a Well-Known Musical Critic, Remarkable for His Ears Sticking Through His Hair
To T. Poole
To Be Sung by the Lovers of All the Noble Liquors Comprised Under the Name of Ale
Drinking Versus Thinking
The Wills of the Wisp
To Captain Findlay
On Donne's Poem 'to a Flea'
Ex Libris S. T. C
Egôenkaipan
The Bridge Street Committee
Nonsense Sapphics
To Susan Steele on Receiving the Purse
Association of Ideas
Verses Trivocular
Cholera Cured before-Hand
To Baby Bates
To a Child
Fragment: Light cargoes waft of modulated Sound
Fragment: Broad-breasted rock--hanging cliff that glasses
Fragment: Where Cam his stealthy flowings most dissembles
Fragment: With secret hand heal the conjectur'd wound
Fragment: Outmalic'd Calumny's imposthum'd Tongue
Fragment: And write Impromptus
Fragment: Due to the Staggerers, that made drunk by Power
Fragment: Perish warmth
Fragment: Old age, 'the shape and messenger of Death,'
Fragment: God no distance knows
Fragment: Wherefore art thou come? doth not the Creator of all things
Fragment: And cauldrons the scoop'd earth, a boiling sea
Fragment: Rush on my ear, a cataract of sound
Fragment: The guilty pomp, consuming while it flares
Fragment: My heart seraglios a whole host of Joys
Fragment: And Pity's sigh shall answer thy tale of Anguish
A Dungeon
Fragment: The Sun (for now his orb 'gan slowly sink)
Fragment: Leanness, disquietude, and secret Pangs
Fragment: Smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin Ice
Fragment: Wisdom, Mother of retired Thought
Fragment: Nature wrote Rascal on his face
Fragment: In this world we dwell among the tombs
Fragment: The mild despairing of a Heart resigned
Fragment: Such fierce vivacity as fires the eye
Fragment: ----like a mighty Giantess
Fragment: Discontent
Fragment: ----terrible and loud
Fragment: The swallows
Fragment: The Brook runs over sea-weeds
Fragment: On the broad mountain-top
Fragment: A long deep lane
Fragment: Broad-breasted Pollards, with broad-branching heads
Fragment: 'Twas sweet to know it only possible
Fragment: Behind the thin
Fragment: The subtle snow
Fragment: The sunshine lies on the cottage-wall
Fragment: A MANIAC in the woods--She crosses heedlessly the woodman's
Hymns--Moon
Fragment: The tongue can't speak when the mouth is cramm'd with earth
Fragment: And with my whole heart sing the stately song
Fragment: God's Image, Sister of the Cherubim
Fragment: And re-implace God's Image in the Soul
Fragment: And arrows steeled with wrath
Fragment: Lov'd the same Love, and hated the same hate
Fragment: O man! thou half-dead Angel
Fragment: Thy stern and sullen eye, and thy dark brow
Fragment: With skill that never Alchemist yet told
Fragment: Grant me a Patron, gracious Heaven! whene'er
Fragment: O'er the raised earth the gales of evening sigh
Fragment: Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud
Over My Cottage
Fragment: Est meum et est tuum, amice! at si amborum nequit esse
Fragment: Names do not always meet with LOVE
Fragment: The Moon, how definite its orb
Fragment: Such love as mourning Husbands have
The Night-Mare Death in Life
Fragment: Bright clouds of reverence, sufferably bright
A Beck in Winter
Fragment: I from the influence of thy Looks receive
Fragment: What never is, but only is to be
Fragment: The silence of a City, how awful at Midnight
Fragment: O beauty in a beauteous body dight
Fragment: O th' Oppressive, irksome weight
Fragment: 'Twas not a mist, nor was it quite a cloud
Not a Critic--but a Judge
Fragment: A sumptuous and magnificent Revenge
De Profundis Clamavi
Fragment: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
Fragment: Let Eagle bid the Tortoise sunward soar
Fragment: The body
Fragment: Or Wren or Linnet
Fragment: The reed roof'd village still bepatch'd with snow
Fragment: And in Life's noisiest hour
Fragment: You mould my Hopes you fashion me within
Fragment: And my heart mantles in its own delight
Fragment: The spruce and limber yellow-hammer
Fragment of an Ode on Napoleon
Fragment: The singing Kettle and the purring Cat
Fragment: Two wedded hearts, if ere were such
Fragment: Sole Maid, associate sole, to me beyond
Epigram on Kepler
Fragment: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt
Fragment: I have experienced
Fragment: As when the new or full Moon urges
Fragment: O mercy, O me, miserable man
Fragment: A low dead Thunder mutter'd thro' the night
Fragment: His own fair countenance, his kingly forehead
Ars Poetica
Translation of the First Strophe of Pindar's Second Olympic
Fragment: O! Superstition is the giant shadow
Translation of a Fragment of Heraclitus
Fragment: Truth I pursued, as Fancy sketch'd the way
Imitated from Aristophanes
Fragment: Let clumps of earth, however glorified
To Edward Irving
Luther--De Dæmonibus
The Netherlands
Elisa
Profuse Kindness
Fragment: I stand alone, nor tho' my heart should break
Napoleon
Fragment: Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn
Fragment: His native accents to her stranger's ear
Fragment: Each crime that once estranges from the virtues
Fragment: Where'er I find the Good, the True, the Fair
Fragment: A wind that with Aurora hath abiding
Fragment: What boots to tell how o'er his grave
The Three Sorts of Friends
Fragment: If fair by Nature
Bo-Peep and I Spy--
A Simile
Baron Guelph of Adelstan. a Fragment
An Experiment for a Metre: I heard a voice pealing loud triumph to-day
Trochaics
The Proper Unmodified Dochmius
Iambics
Nonsense: Sing impassionate Soul! of Mohammed the…
A Plaintive Movement
An Experiment for a Metre: When thy Beauty appears
Nonsense Verses
Nonsense: I wish on earth to sing
Experiments in Metre
Once again, sweet Willow, wave thee
Songs of Shepherds and rustical Roundelays
A Metrical Accident
An Effusion at Evening (First Draft)
Morienti Superstes
A Child's Evening Prayer
What? rise again with all one's bones

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