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,...
contrary dialects dreams far images language less various
The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.
breeze burst fair followed silent white
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, / The furrow followed free; / We were the first that ever burst / Into that silent sea.
caves miracle rare sunny
It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
bones good soul sword
The Knight's bones are dust, / And his good sword rust; - / His soul is with the saints, I trust.
dreams substances tale
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life.
carried however itself minds weak
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
beautiful
I see them all so excellently fair, / I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!
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.
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
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!
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.