Ode on the Departing Year was composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1796. The poem describes Coleridge's feelings on politics and religion, and it emphasises an idyllic lifestyle as an optimal way of living. Warning: template has been deprecated.
It was first published in 1796 in a pamphlet and, in a shorter version, in the Cambridge Intelligencer, 31st December, 1796. At some point between 1796 and 1817 Coleridge changed the title from Ode on the ... to Ode to the ...
