greykit.poetry — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• 1816 [samuel-taylor-coleridge] Kubla Khan
  Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep

  A poet recalls a vision of the great Khan’s pleasure-dome in Xanadu, and laments the faded trance that would have let him rebuild it in song.

  #ode#dream#supernatural#1810s
• 1802 [samuel-taylor-coleridge] Dejection: An Ode
  Sibylline Leaves

  Wrestling with creative paralysis and emotional deadness, Coleridge addresses an unnamed Lady, lamenting that joy must come from within the soul before it can be found in nature.

  #ode#meditation#grief#nature#1800s
• 1798 [samuel-taylor-coleridge] Frost at Midnight
  Fears in Solitude

  Alone with his sleeping infant at midnight, Coleridge meditates on frost, childhood memory, and the life of open wonder he wishes for his son.

  #conversation-poem#meditation#nature#1790s
• 1798 [samuel-taylor-coleridge] The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  Lyrical Ballads

  A mariner shoots an albatross and is cursed to wander the earth, telling his tale of guilt, penance, and hard-won grace.

  #ballad#narrative#sea#supernatural#1790s