Who is Hartley Coleridge
Hartley Coleridge, possibly David Hartley Coleridge, (19 September 1796 – 6 January 1849) was an English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher. He was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His sister Sara Coleridge was a poet and translator, and his brother Derwent Coleridge was a scholar and author. Hartley was named after the philosopher David Hartley.BiographyEarly life Hartley was born in Clevedon, a small village near Bristol. His father mentions Hartley in several poems, including the well known Frost at Midnight, where he addresses him as his "babe so beautiful", and in his The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, both of which are concerned with young Hartley's future.
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Hartley Coleridge Poems
- The Solitary-hearted
She was a queen of noble Nature's crowning,
A smile of hers was like an act of grace;
She had no winsome looks, no pretty frowning,
Like daily beauties of the vulgar race:... - Song
She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be,
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me;... - Friendship
When we were idlers with the loitering rills,
The need of human love we little noted:
Our love was nature; and the peace that floated
On the white mist, and dwelt upon the hills,... - Early Death
She pass'd away like morning dew
Before the sun was high;
So brief her time, she scarcely knew
The meaning of a sigh....
Top 10 most used topics by Hartley Coleridge
Love 4 I Love You 4 Sweet 3 Away 2 Soul 2 Nature 2 Human 2 Joy 2 Heart 2 Light 2Hartley Coleridge Quotes
- She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.
- She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.
Comments about Hartley Coleridge
- Violent_mango: update on my sad little life nobody asked for: coleridge the monstera had a child this weekend via propagation and i called it hartley.
- Dehgani1: each one his objects seeks with anxious chase, and i have not a common hope with any: thus, like one drop of oil upon a flood, in uncommunicating solitude, single am i amid the countless many. hartley coleridge
- Ronjohncares: "a baffled despot is the vulgarest of dirty wretches no matter whether he be the despot of a nation vindicating its rights or of a donkey sinking under its load .(hartley coleridge.1796-1845)
- Anicolson: coleridge watches little hartley:
- Kl_elliott: but what is freedom? rightly understood, a universal license to be good. -david hartley coleridge (1833)
