Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Chronologically by Title

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
 * Easter Holidays
 * Dura Navis
 * Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vita


 * 1788
 * Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon


 * 1789
 * Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital
 * Julia
 * Quae Nocent Docent
 * The Nose
 * To the Muse
 * Destruction of the Bastille
 * Life


 * 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
 * Imitated from Ossian
 * The Complaint of Ninathoma
 * The Rose
 * Kisses
 * Songs of the Pixies
 * Sonnet: To the River Otter
 * Lines: On an Autumnal Evening
 * To Fortune


 * 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
 * On Revisiting the Sea-shore
 * Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
 * Drinking versus Thinking


 * 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
 * (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


 * 1808
 * [Lines from a notebook - January 1808]
 * [Sonnet — translated from Marino]
 * [Fragment: 'Two Wedded Hearts]


 * 1809
 * A Tombless Epitaph
 * A Clock in the Market-Place
 * Separation


 * 1810
 * The Visionary Hope
 * [Lines from a notebook - March 1810]
 * [Lines from a notebook - April-June 1810] "The body"
 * [Lines from a notebook - May 1810], "I have experienc'd"
 * Epitaph on an Infant


 * 1811
 * [Lines from a notebook - 1811]
 * [Fragment of an ode on Napoleon]
 * [Lines inscribed on the fly-leaf of Benedetto Menzini's 'Poesie' (1782)]
 * [Lines from a notebook - May-June 1811]
 * [Lines from a notebook - May-July 1811]
 * On Donne's First Poem
 * Limbo
 * Moles
 * Ne Plus Ultra
 * The Suicide's Argument


 * 1813
 * [An Invocation: the 'Remorse']


 * 1814
 * [Lines from a notebook - May 1814?]
 * God's Omnipresence, a Hymn
 * To a Lady, With Falconer's 'Shipwreck'


 * 1815
 * [Lines from a notebook - 1815-1816]
 * [Lines from a notebook - 1815-1816]
 * Human Life, On the Denial of Immortality
 * Songs from Zapolya
 * [Faith, Hope, and Charity. From the Italian of Guarini]
 * The Rime of the Ancient Mariner


 * 1817
 * Fancy in Nubibus
 * Israel's Lament


 * 1819
 * A Character
 * Lines to a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review


 * 1820
 * To Nature
 * The Tears of a Grateful People


 * 1823
 * Youth and Age


 * 1825
 * Constancy to an Ideal Object
 * Work without Hope
 * Song


 * 1826
 * Duty surviving Self-Love


 * 1827
 * The Improvisatore, or, 'John Anderson, My Jo, John'


 * 1828
 * Cologne
 * On my Joyful Departure from the same City
 * The Garden of Boccaccio
 * Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1829) (sixth version)


 * 1830
 * Desire
 * Charity in Thought
 * Humility the Mother of Charity
 * Reason


 * 1833
 * Epitaph
 * My Baptismal Birth-day


 * 1834
 * Forebearance'
 * Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1834) (final version)


 * Attributed
 * Epigram