Henceforth I shall know
That Nature ne'er deserts the wise and pure;
No plot so narrow, be but Nature there,
No waste so vacant, but may well employ
Each faculty of sense, and keep the heart
Awake to Love and Beauty!
        (This Lime-tree Bower my Prison, 61-66)

1. Christabel
2. Constancy to an Ideal Object
3. Dejection: An Ode
4. The Eolian Harp
5. Fragment 1: Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud
6. Fragment 10: The Three Sorts of Friends
7. Fragment 2: I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish
8. Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind
9. Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
10. Fragment 5: Whom should I choose for my Judge?
11. Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb!
12. Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt
13. Fragment 8: Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn
14. Fragment 9: The Netherlands
15. France: An Ode
16. Frost at Midnight
17. The Good, Great Man
18. Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
19. Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
20. The Knight's Tomb
21. Kubla Khan
22. Love
23. Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance
24. Lyrical Ballads (1798) (co-authored with William Wordsworth)
25. The Nightingale
26. On Donne's Poetry
27. The Pains of Sleep
28. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
29. Something Childish, but Very Natural
30. This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
31. To Asra
32. Work without Hope
33. Youth and Age

1. Biographia Literaria. Vol. I (1817)

Notes on Life and Works

• Beer, John. “Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Biographical information

Given name: Samuel Taylor
Family name: Coleridge
Birth date: 21 October 1772
Death date: 25 July 1834
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: John Coleridge
          mother: Anne Coleridge
          wife: Sara Coleridge (from 4 October 1795)
          brother: Edward Coleridge
          brother: George Coleridge
          brother: James Coleridge
          brother: Luke Herman Coleridge
          son: Berkeley Coleridge
          son: Derwent Coleridge
          son: Hartley Coleridge (poet)
          daughter: Sara Coleridge
Languages
          English
          German
          Greek
Education
          Christ's Hospital: 18 July 1782 to 7 September 1790
          Jesus College, Cambridge: 5 February 1791 to 1794
Religion: Unitarian
Politics: Liberal
Honours
          Browne medal for Greek ode: 1792
          Foundation scholar: 5 June 1793
Literary period: Romantic
Residences
          Ottery St. Mary: 21 October 1772
          London: 1793
          Bristol: 1795
          Nether Stowey: 1796 to 1797
          Hamburg: 1798
          Gottingen: 1799
          Greta Hall, Keswick: 1800
          Malta: 1804 to 1805
          Grasmere: 1808
          Bristol: 1813
Illnesses
          Neuralgia
          Jaundice: 1789
          Rheumatic fever: 1789
Buried at: formerly Highgate churchyard, now St. Michaels' Church
First RPO edition: 1997