The Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Date of birth: October 21,1772 born at: Ottery St Mary, United Kingdom

Education: Jesus College, Cambridge
Christ’s Hospital Poems from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
● a broken friendship
● a day dream
● a mathematical problem
● cologne
● a christmas carol

constancy to an ideal object by samuel taylor coleridge

Since all, that beat about in Nature's range,

Or veer or vanish ; why should'st thou remain

The only constant in a world of change,

O yearning THOUGHT ! that liv'st but in the brain ?

Call to the HOURS, that in the distance play,

The faery people of the future day­­ ­­

Fond THOUGHT ! not one of all that shining swarm

Will breathe on thee with life­enkindling breath,

Till when, like strangers shelt'ring from a storm,

Hope and Despair meet in the porch of Death !

Yet still thou haunt'st me ; and though well I see,

She is not thou, and only thou art she,

Still, still as though some dear embodied Good,

Some living Love before my eyes there stood

With answering look a ready ear to lend,

I mourn to thee and say­­`Ah ! loveliest Friend !

That this the meed of all my toils might be,

To have a home, an English home, and thee !'

Vain repetition ! Home and Thou are one.

The peacefull'st cot, the moon shall shine upon,

Lulled by the Thrush and wakened by the Lark,

Without thee were but a becalméd Bark,

Whose Helmsman on an Ocean waste and wide

Sits mute and pale his mouldering helm beside.

And art thou nothing ? Such thou art, as when

The woodman winding westward up the glen

At wintry dawn, where o'er the sheep­track's maze

The viewless snow­mist weaves a glist'ning haze,

Sees full before him, gliding without tread,

An image with a glory round its head ;

The enamoured rustic worships its fair hues,

Nor knows he makes the shadw, hoe pursues !

biography
Samuel taylor coleridge was born october 12,1772. He was friends with William Wordsworth. Samuel was the founder of the English
Romantic Movement. Some of his most famous poems are “
The Rime of

the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan,". Unforchantly samuel had died
July 25, 1834.

meaning of the poem constancy to an ideal object by samuel taylor coleridge the meaning of the whole poem is his confession of something that he loved and was passionate for.

the type of poem: copplet

bibliography

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173228 date: 2/8/15

http://www.poemhunter.com/samuel­taylor­coleridge/poems/ Date:
2/8/15

constancy to an ideal object by samuel taylor coleridge

Since all, that beat about in Nature's range,

Or veer or vanish ; why should'st thou remain

The only constant in a world of change,

O yearning THOUGHT ! that liv'st but in the brain ?

Call to the HOURS, that in the distance play,

The faery people of the future day­­ ­­

Fond THOUGHT ! not one of all that shining swarm

Will breathe on thee with life­enkindling breath,

Till when, like strangers shelt'ring from a storm,

Hope and Despair meet in the porch of Death !

Yet still thou haunt'st me ; and though well I see,

She is not thou, and only thou art she,

Still, still as though some dear embodied Good,

Some living Love before my eyes there stood

With answering look a ready ear to lend,

I mourn to thee and say­­`Ah ! loveliest Friend !

That this the meed of all my toils might be,

To have a home, an English home, and thee !'

Vain repetition ! Home and Thou are one.

The peacefull'st cot, the moon shall shine upon,

Lulled by the Thrush and wakened by the Lark,

Without thee were but a becalméd Bark,

Whose Helmsman on an Ocean waste and wide

Sits mute and pale his mouldering helm beside.

And art thou nothing ? Such thou art, as when

The woodman winding westward up the glen

At wintry dawn, where o'er the sheep­track's maze

The viewless snow­mist weaves a glist'ning haze,

Sees full before him, gliding without tread,

An image with a glory round its head ;

The enamoured rustic worships its fair hues,

Nor knows he makes the shadw, hoe pursues !