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,...
greater ideas mankind possess possessed wise
Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
carried however itself minds weak
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
certainly good house palace poetry
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house
anchors april clearing happiness health monday sail sound voices
Signals, Drums, Guns, Bells, & the sound of Voices weighing up & clearing Anchors ... Monday April 9th, 1804, really set sail ... No health or Happiness without Work.
house life mates youth
Life is but thought; so think I will, That youth and I are house mates still
discovers hasten heart
Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it
heavy wolf
When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.
bad certain die persons sing swans
Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
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.
fall frost hang heard ministry quietly secret shall shining silent whether
Whether the eave-drops fall / Heard only in the trances of the blast, / Or if the secret ministry of frost / Shall hang them up in silent icicles, / Quietly shining to the quiet moon.
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.
crawl legs
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / Upon the slimy sea.
harbour ship
The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,/ Merrily did we drop.