Shortly after 1800 S. T. Coleridge gradually developed a set of personal symbols which he used thereafter in poetry and prose, sometimes consciously, to symbolize great turnings in his life and great, steady longings. The number of symbols seems rather limited; the referents lead mainly toward his love for Sara Hutchinson. It is possible that symbols for other important elements of Coleridge's experience will yet come to light. So far as I have been able to discover, there is nothing “universal” in the symbols which I have identified: they are specifically, and of course connotatively, allusive to events in his past life.