Sara Coleridge:
(23 December 1802 – 3 May 1852).
English author and translator. She was the third child and only daughter of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his wife Sara Fricker.
Her first works were translations from Latin and medieval French. She then married and had several children for whom she wrote instructive verses. These were published as Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children in 1834 which included popular poems like The Months: “January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.” In 1837, she published her longest original work – Phantasmion, A Fairy Tale – which also started as a story for her son Herbert.
January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.
Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.
Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots, and gillyflowers.
March brings breezes loud and shrill, Stirs the dancing daffodil.
June brings tulips, lilies, roses, fills the children’s hands with posies.
