5 Famous Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poems
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
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Kubla Khan
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
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Frost at Midnight
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. The owlet’s cry
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He Prayeth Best Who Loveth Best
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
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Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Come, come thou bleak December wind,
And blow the dry leaves from the tree!
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Youth and Age
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Coleridge Cottage, 1797-1799
Much of the work for which Samuel Taylor Coleridge is most famous for was produced during his 3 year stay renting the Coleridge Cottage from 1797 to 1799. Such works as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment, This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, Frost at Midnight, The Nightingale, and part of Christabel were written during his time there.