Poetry Codex

Victorian

Sara Coleridge

1802–1852

Sara Coleridge (1802–1852) was the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sara Fricker, and the wife of her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge. She was a translator and editor of her father's work, and published Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children (1834).

Her fairy romance Phantasmion (1837), a prose tale threaded with songs, is the source of several of the lyrics Elizabeth A. Sharp chose for Women Poets of the Victorian Era (1890).

Poems (10)

  1. Song from “Phantasmion”
  2. Zelneth's Lament
  3. Phantasmion's Quest of Iarine
  4. Lines on the Common Saying that Love is Blind
  5. The Mother
  6. Song
  7. O Sleep, My Babe
  8. The Child
  9. One Face Alone
  10. The Garden Year

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