greykit.poetry — #1790s

• 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 [william-wordsworth] Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798
  Lyrical Ballads

  Revisiting the Wye valley after five years, Wordsworth traces how nature's forms have sustained him in absence and shaped his moral being, closing with a prayer for his sister Dorothy.

  #blank-verse#meditation#nature#memory#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
• 1794 [william-blake] The Tyger
  Songs of Innocence and of Experience

  A series of unanswerable questions addressed to the tiger — what immortal daring could have created so fearful and beautiful a creature?

  #lyric#nature#creation#1790s