Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridgewas an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases,...
crawl legs
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / Upon the slimy sea.
apple bare branch general seasons shall sing sit snow summer sweet therefore whether
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,/ Whether the summer clothe the general earth/ With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing / Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch / Of mossy apple tree.
blind deaf happy imagine man marriage union
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
hidden month night noise quiet sleeping woods
A noise like of a hidden brook. / In the leafy month of June, / That to the sleeping woods all night / Singeth a quiet tune.
beneath demon haunted holy moon savage woman
A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing for her demon lover!
friend friends-or-friendship maid wept woo
Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo
moon moving nowhere softly star
The moving moon went up the sky, / And nowhere did abide: / Softly she was going up, / And a star or two beside.
advice deeper dwells falls longer softer
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
advice deeper dwells longer softer
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
dances hanging last looks red twig
The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, and hanging so high, / On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
ancient
It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three.
abstract ancestors claiming ground growth history inherent miserable nowhere occasion records rights whatever
Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.
bad certain die persons sing swans
Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
bones good soul sword
The Knight's bones are dust, / And his good sword rust; - / His soul is with the saints, I trust.