In spring 1796, on Southey recommendation to 'come and live up on the hill', with him, Coleridge moved to Kingsdown to nurse an ailing Sara. The house was on a road, no longer in existence, somewhere between Clarence Place and High Kingsdown. From here he edited, corrected and despatched each edition of The Watchman, which contained political articles and poetic contributions from Lovell. His first volume of poetry, Poems, was published on the 16th of April 1796. The volume contained 51 pieces, beginning with 'Monodony of the Death of Chatterton', concluding with 'Religious Musings'. May saw the tenth and final edition of The Watchman, which bid farewell with the phrase: 'O Watchman! Thou hast watched in vain!'
Coleridge's first child, Hartley, was born here in September 1796. After this, Coleridge abandoned his plans of political lecturing and activism, in favour of retirement into the Quantock Hills, near Nether Stowey.
