Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (23 September 1861 – 25 August 1907) was a British novelist and poet, who also wrote essays and reviews. She taught at the London Working Women's College for twelve years from 1895 to 1907. She wrote poetry under the pseudonym Anodos, taken from George MacDonald; other influences on her were Richard Watson Dixon and Christina Rossetti.

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge in 1883

Quotes

• Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,
  To honied phrases set!
  Into the land of dreams I long to go.
  Bid me forget!
  • Mandragora, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?—
  Moths that a garment fret.
  The world is turned memorial, crying, "Thou
  Shalt not forget!"
  • Mandragora, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,
  Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?
  Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,
  Thou little heart?
  • Self-Question, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

External links

• The Genealogy of Coleridge Family and Coleridge links