Frost at Midnight

Frost at Midnight is Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s meditative poem spoken beside a sleeping infant. The stillness of the room releases memories of the speaker’s schooldays and the distance he felt from the natural world. Looking towards his child’s future, he imagines an education shaped by seasons, landscapes, and living observation. The poem’s movement from solitude to affection gives its religious sense of nature an intimate setting, returning at the close to frost and quiet.