Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes about Death

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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Death, Nature, Swans

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The ancient mariner. Christabel. Miscellaneous poems. Remorse. Zapolya”, p.148

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Death, Oil, Lamps

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “Notes: Theological, Political and Miscellaneous”, p.357

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Death, Men, Blood

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 190 (1798)

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Death, Eye, Men

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.237