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 lifeHartley 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.In the autumn of 1800 Samuel Taylor Coleridge moved his wife and young son Hartley to the Lake Distri...Read Full Biography of Hartley Coleridge
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....
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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.
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Friendsofstc: felicity james’ ‘the comforts of family,’ coleridge bulletin 2021: ‘coleridge‘s deep foreboding over hartley... might be seen in light of his own self-doubt, and perhaps his inability to console and comfort himself.’ read the article for free:Mosesreef: english poet hartley coleridge penned these insightful words about faith: ‘it is an affirmation and an act, that bids eternal truth be present fact.’the spoken word of god is powerful!so when you get up every morning, make this your affirmation: ‘today, god is my dwelling place!’
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Diddykeats: otd 1849, hartley coleridge, son of samuel taylor coleridge, dies aged 52. the year departs, a blessing on its head, we mourn not for it, for it is not dead: dead? what is that? a word to joy unknown, which love abhors, and faith will never own. - from hartley's "new year's day"
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