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Hartley Coleridge's poetry, often reflective and melancholic, explores themes of nature, love, loss, and the human condition. His style, reminiscent of the Romantic era, employs vivid imagery and a musicality reminiscent of his father's work.
1796–1849. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Hartley Coleridge was the oldest son of Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Although he was the subject of two of his father’s poems—“ Frost at Midnight ” and “The Nightingale”—Coleridge was nonetheless estranged from his parents in his youth and raised by the poet Robert Southey.
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Sonnet VII. Hartley Coleridge. Is love a fancy, or a feeling? No. It is immortal as immaculate Truth, 'Tis not a blossom shed as soon as youth, Drops from the stem of life—for it will grow, In barren regions, where no waters flow, Nor rays of promise cheats the pensive gloom.
Hartley Coleridge Poems. 1. 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. ... Read Poem. 2. 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.
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.
To a Deaf and Dumb Little Girl. By Hartley Coleridge. Like a loose island on the wide expanse, Unconscious floating on the fickle sea, Herself her all, she lives in privacy; Her waking life as lonely as a trance, Doom’d to behold the universal dance, And never hear the music which expounds. The solemn step, coy slide, the merry bounds.
Hartley Coleridge | Poems Now. Home / poet / Hartley Coleridge. Hartley Coleridge Biography. Born in 1796 near Bristol, Harley Coleridge is probably best known through association with his more famous father Samuel Taylor Coleridge, author of the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.
