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Overall the poem wasn't well-received literary critics of the day considered it juvenile. O! I have woke at midnight, and have wept,īecause SHE WAS NOT! — Cheerily, dear CHARLES! That shrink asham'd from even Friendship's eye. To her I pour'd forth all my puny sorrows, The lines below were added and it was published as To a Friend in 1796: The work was later modified and sent to Charles Lamb to comfort him on the illness of his sister. Nor father, brother, sister meets its ken. Say, is this hollow eye, this heartless pain,įated to rove thro' Life's wide cheerless plain. Scarce had I lov'd you ere I mourn'd you lost How are ye gone, whom most by soul held dear! O'er infant Hope destroy'd by early frost!

O my sweet sister! and must thou too die?Īh! how has Disappointment pour'd the tear The tear which mourn'd a brother's fate scarce dry. Written as a reaction to the deaths of two of Coleridge's siblings (brother Luke in February 1790 and sister Ann, aka Nancy, in March 1791), this version wasn't published until 1834: The poem that is quoted in Toews' novel was first penned in 1794 and titled On Receiving an Account That His Only Sister's Death Was Inevitable. He met fellow poet Charles Lamb (1775-1834) at Christ's Church in 1782, and they developed a lifelong friendship. His primary interests were literature and poetry, and he began to compose his own verse at an early age, his first known work, Easter Holidays, included in a letter to his brother Luke dated May 12, 1787. His father was the local vicar and headmaster of the town's grammar school, and upon his sudden death in 1781, the eight-year-old Samuel was sent to study at Christ's Church, a charity school in Greyfriars, London, where he remained throughout his childhood. Mary in Devonshire, England, the youngest of fourteen children. Both his works and his literary criticism had huge influences on poets William Wordsworth (who was also a close friend) and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as on American transcendentalism.Ĭoleridge was born in the rural town of Otterly St. He is most famous for the poems Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. This article relates to All My Puny SorrowsĪll My Puny Sorrows takes its title from a line in a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), who is considered by many to be the founder of the Romantic Movement in poetry.