Where is the grave of Sir Arthur O'Kellyn?
Where may the grave of that good man be?—
By the side of a spring, on the breast of Helvellyn,
Under the twigs of a young birch tree!
The oak that in summer was sweet to hear,
And rustled its leaves in the fall of the year,
And whistled and roared in the winter alone,
Is gone,—and the birch in its stead is grown.—
The Knight's bones are dust,
And his good sword rust;—
His soul is with the saints, I trust.
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Poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772–1834
POET’S REGION
England
SCHOOL / PERIOD
Romantic
Subjects
Fall,
Trees & Flowers,
Winter,
Heroes & Patriotism,
Nature,
The Body,
Landscapes & Pastorals,
Social Commentaries,
Living,
Summer,
Religion,
Spring,
Christianity,
Death,
The Mind,
Mythology & Folklore,
Fairy-tales & Legends
Poetic Terms
Imagery,
Rhymed Stanza,
Couplet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the premier poet-critic of modern English tradition, distinguished for the scope and influence of his thinking about literature as much as for his innovative verse. Active in the wake of the French Revolution as a dissenting pamphleteer and lay preacher, he inspired a brilliant generation of writers and attracted the patronage of progressive men of the rising middle class. As William Wordsworth’s . . .
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Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT
Fall,
Trees & Flowers,
Winter,
Heroes & Patriotism,
Nature,
The Body,
Landscapes & Pastorals,
Social Commentaries,
Living,
Summer,
Religion,
Spring,
Christianity,
Death,
The Mind,
Mythology & Folklore,
Fairy-tales & Legends
POET’S REGION
England
SCHOOL / PERIOD
Romantic
Poetic Terms
Imagery,
Rhymed Stanza,
Couplet
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