Free to read

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

4 free books by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 4 you can read right here.

Born 1772 in Ottery St Mary · Died 1834 in London

writer, poet, autobiographer · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Notable works: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Lyrical Ballads, Christabel

More on Wikipedia →

Facts from Wikidata (Q82409), retrieved 2026-09-26.

Also by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: read here

Quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s books

Verified word for word in the text: each quote is copied exactly from the book’s text in this site’s reader (the Project Gutenberg e-text named under each book) and links to its passage; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against that text. How RedLectern is built.

Lyrical Ballads

From Project Gutenberg e-text #8905 (public domain in the USA).

In nature there is nothing melancholy.

The NightingaleAlso in Lyrical Ballads (another copy)Read in context →

All authors →