Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Chronologically by Title

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This page is a work-in-progress.

The following chronology is largely determined from the 'Notes' section of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems (1997), edited by William Keach (Penguin Classics)

1782?

First Attempt at Making a Verse

1785?

Fragments of an Ode on Punning

1786?

Greek Epigram on Aphrodite and Athena

1787

1788

Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon

1789

1790

Progress of Vice
Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1790) (first version)
An Invocation
Anna and Harland
To the Evening Star
Pain: Composed in Sickness (aka Pain, Sonnet: Composed in Sickness, Sonnet, or Pain)
On a Lady Weeping
Monody on a Tea-kettle
Genevieve

1791

On receiving an Account that his Only Sister's Death was Inevitable
On seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister
A Mathematical Problem (A humorous student-days poem on geometry), in a letter to his brother George Coleridge
Honour
On Imitation
Inside the Coach
Devonshire Roads
Music
Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge
Sonnet: On quitting School for College
Happiness

1792

A Wish Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10th, 1792
An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon
To Disappointment
A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room
Ode (also 'A Morning Effusion')
A Lover's Complaint to his Mistress
With Fielding's Amelia
Written after a Walk Before Supper

1793

1794

Sonnet: 'Thou Gentle Look'
Perspiration. A Travelling Eclogue
Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the House of the 'Man of Ross'
Imitated from the Welsh
Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village
The Sigh
The Kiss
To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution
Epitaph on an Infant
Pantisocracy (attribution uncertain)
On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America (attribution uncertain)
Elegy, Imitated from One of Akenside's Blank-Verse Inscriptions
The Faded Flower
Sonnet: 'Pale Roamer through the Night!'
Domestic Peace
Sonnet: 'Though bleedest, my poor Heart!'
Sonnet to the Author of the 'Robbers'
Melancholy: A Fragment
To a Young Ass, its Mother beig Tethered Near it
Lines on a Friend Who Died of a Frenzy Fever Induced by Calumnious Reports
To a Friend, together with an Unfinished Poem
To the Honourable Mr. Erskine
Burke
Priestley
La Fayette
Koskiusko
Pitt
To the Rev. W. L. Bowles
Mrs. Siddons
To William Godwin, Author of 'Political Justice'
To Robert Southey, of Balliol College, Oxford, Author of the 'Retrospect', and Other Poems
To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq.
Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1794) (second version)

1795

Translation of Wrangham's 'Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam e Granta Exituram'
To Miss Brunton
To Earl Stanhope
To Lord Stanhope, on Reading his Late Protest in the House of Lords
Lines to a Friend in answer to a Melancholy Letter
To an Infant
To the Rev. W. J. Hort, while teaching a young lady some song-tunes on his flute
Sonnet: 'Sweet Mercy! how my very heart has bled'
To the Nightingale
Lines composed while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May, 1795
Lines in the Manner of Spenser
To the Author of Poems published anonymously at Bristol in September 1795
The Production of a Young Lady, addressed to the author of the poems alluded to in the preceding epistle
Effusion XXXV. Composed August 20th, 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire
The Eolian Harp
Lines written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, September, 1795, in answer to a letter from Bristol
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
On Donne's Poetry
The Hour When We shall Meet Again

1796

Imitations Ad Lyram
The Destiny of Nations
Religious Musings
From an Unpublished Poem
On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796
Verses addressed to J. Horne Tooke
On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life
Sonnet written on receiving letters informing me of the birth of a Son, I being at Birmingham
Sonnet composed on a journey homeward; the author having received intelligence of the birth of a son, Sept. 20th, 1796
Sonnet to a friend who asked, how I felt when the nurse first presented my infant to me
Sonnet [to Charles Lloyd]
To a Young Friend, on his Proposing to Domesticate with the Author. Composed in 1796
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune Who Abandoned Himself to an Indolent and Causeless Melancholy
To a Friend Who Had Declared his Intention of Writing No More Poetry
Ode to the Departing Year
Monody on the Death of Chatterton (third version)

1797

The Raven
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre
To an Unfortunate Woman
To the Rev. George Coleridge
On the Christening of a Friend's Child
Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Nether Stowey Church
This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison
The Foster-mother's Tale
The Dungeon
Sonnets attempted in the manner of Contemporary Writers
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet II: To Simplicity
- Sonnet III: On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country
Parliamentary Oscillators

1798

The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere
Christabel {{media|type = spoken}
Lines to W. L. while he Sang a Song to Purcell's Music
The Three Graves
The Wanderings of Cain
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. A War Eclogue. With an Apologetic Preface
The Old Man of the Alps
The Apotheosis, or the Snow-Drop
Frost at Midnight
France: An Ode
Lewti
To a Young Lady on her Recovery from a Fever
Fears in Solitude
The Nightingale
The Ballad of the Dark Ladie
Khubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream
[Lines from a notebook-September 1798]
Hexameters: William, My Teacher, My Friend

1799

ITranslation of a passage in Ottfried's metrical paraphrase of the Gospel]
[Fragmentary translation of the Song of Deborah]
Catullian Hendecasyllables
The Homeric Hexameter Described and Exemplified
The Ovidian Elegiac Metre Described and Exemplified
On a Cataract
Tell's Birth-place
The Visit of the Gods
On an Infant which Died before Baptism
Something Childish, but Very Natural
Home-Sick, Written in Germany
The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn
Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest
The British Stripling's War-Song
Names
The Devil's Thoughts
Lines Composed in a Concert-Room
The Exchange
[Paraphase on Psalm 46. Hexameters]
[Hymn to the Earth. Hexameters.]
Mahomet
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
A Christmas Carol
On an Insignificant
Job's Luck
Love
The Madman and the Lethargist, an Example
On a Volunteer Singer

1800

Talleyrand to Lord Grenville
The Two Round Spaces on the Tomb-Stone
The Mad Monk
A Stranger Minstrel
Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side Half-Way Up a Steep Hill Facing South
Apologia pro Vita Sua
The Night Scene: A Dramatic Fragment

1801

1802

An Ode to the Rain
The Wills of the Wisp
Ode to Tranquillity
A Letter to ———, April 4, 1802. — Sunday Evening (a precursor to Dejection: An Ode)
Dejection: An Ode
A Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad Passion
Answer to a Child's Question
A Day Dream
The Day-Dream
To Asra
The Happy Husband
A Thought Suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland
[Untitled]
The Keepsake
The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
"The Good Great Man" in Littell's Living Age, 137 (1772) (1878)
The Knight's Tomb
To Matilda Betham from a Stranger
Westphalian Song

1803

The Pains of Sleep
[Lines from a notebook - September 1803]

1804

[Lines from a notebook - February-March 1804]
What Is Life?

1805

[Lines from a notebook - April 1805]
[Lines from a notebook - May-June 1805]
Phantom
[An Angel Visitant]
Reasons for Love's Blindness
[Untitled]

1806

Constancy to an Ideal Object
[Lines from a notebook - March 1806]
[Lines from a notebook - June 1806]
Farewell to Love
Time, Real and Imaginary
[Lines from a notebook - 1806]
[Lines from a notebook - October-November 1806]
[Lines from a notebook - 1806]
[Lines from a notebook - November-December 1806]

1807

[Lines from a notebook - February 1807] "As some vast tropic Tree,, itself a Wood"
[Lines from a notebook - February 1807] "And in Life's noisiest hour"
[Lines from a manuscript - 1807-8]
[Lines from a notebook - July 1807]; includes lines previously published separately as 'Coeli enarrant']
To William Wordsworth
Metrical Feet. Lessons for a Boy
Recollections of Love
The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-Tree
The Two Sisters
On Taking Leave of ———, 1817 (a shortened and altered version of the preceding}
A Child's Evening Prayer
Ad Vilmum Axiologum
Psyche