Something childish, but very natural
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Something Childish, But Very Natural” was first published in 1800 in “The Annual Anthology”.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 in Ottery St Mary, Devon, England, and he died on 25 July 1834 in Highgate, Middlesex, England, at the age of 61.Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. His major works include the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking cultures.
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Written in Germany If I had but two little wings And were a little feathery bird, To you I’d fly, my dear! But thoughts like these are idle things, And I stay here. But in my sleep to you I fly: I’m always with you in my sleep! The world is all one’s own. But then one wakes, and where am I? All, all alone. Sleep stays not, though a monarch bids: So I love to wake ere break of day: For though my sleep be gone, Yet while ’tis dark, one shuts one’s lids, And still dreams on.