The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 (of 2)

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ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE

PREFACE

CONTENTS OF THE TWO VOLUMES

ABBREVIATIONS

ERRATA

POEMS

EASTER HOLIDAYS [1:1]

DURA NAVIS [2:1]

NIL PEJUS EST CAELIBE VITa [4:1] [IN CHRIST'S HOSPITAL BOOK] I

SONNET [5:1] TO THE AUTUMNAL MOON Mild Splendour of the

ANTHEM [5:2] FOR THE CHILDREN OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL Seraphs!

JULIA [6:1] [IN CHRIST'S HOSPITAL BOOK] Medio de fonte leporum Surgit amari aliquid.

QUAE NOCENT DOCENT [7:1] [IN CHRIST'S HOSPITAL BOOK]

THE NOSE [8:1]

TO THE MUSE [9:1]

DESTRUCTION OF THE BASTILE [10:1]

LIFE [11:1]

PROGRESS OF VICE [12:1]

MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON [13:1] [FIRST VERSION, IN

AN INVOCATION [16:1]

ANNA AND HARLAND [16:2]

TO THE EVENING STAR [16:3]

PAIN [17:1]

ON A LADY WEEPING [17:2] IMITATION FROM THE LATIN OF NICOLAUS

MONODY ON A TEA-KETTLE [18:1]

GENEVIEVE [19:1]

ON RECEIVING AN ACCOUNT THAT HIS ONLY SISTER'S DEATH WAS INEVITABLE [20:1]

ON SEEING A YOUTH AFFECTIONATELY WELCOMED BY A SISTER [21:1]

A MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM [21:2]

HONOUR [24:1]

ON IMITATION [26:1]

INSIDE THE COACH [26:2]

DEVONSHIRE ROADS [27:1]

MUSIC [28:1]

SONNET [29:1] ON QUITTING SCHOOL FOR COLLEGE Farewell parental

ABSENCE [29:2] A FAREWELL ODE ON QUITTING SCHOOL FOR JESUS

HAPPINESS [30:1]

A WISH [33:1] WRITTEN IN JESUS WOOD, FEB. 10, 1792 Lo! through

AN ODE IN THE MANNER OF ANACREON [33:2]

TO DISAPPOINTMENT [34:1]

A FRAGMENT FOUND IN A LECTURE-ROOM [35:1]

ODE [35:2]

A LOVER'S COMPLAINT TO HIS MISTRESS [36:1] WHO DESERTED HIM IN

WITH FIELDING'S 'AMELIA' [37:1]

WRITTEN AFTER A WALK BEFORE SUPPER [37:3]

IMITATED FROM OSSIAN [38:1]

THE COMPLAINT OF NINATHOMA [39:1] FROM THE SAME How long will

SONGS OF THE PIXIES [40:1]

THE ROSE [45:1]

KISSES [46:2]

THE GENTLE LOOK [47:1]

SONNET [48:2] TO THE RIVER OTTER Dear native Brook! wild

AN EFFUSION AT EVENING WRITTEN IN AUGUST, 1792 Imagination,

LINES [51:1] ON AN AUTUMNAL EVENING O thou wild Fancy, check

TO FORTUNE [54:1]

PERSPIRATION. A TRAVELLING ECLOGUE [56:1]

[AVE, ATQUE VALE!] [56:2]

ON BALA HILL [56:3]

LINES [57:1] WRITTEN AT THE KING'S ARMS, ROSS, FORMERLY THE

IMITATED FROM THE WELSH [58:1]

LINES [58:2] TO A BEAUTIFUL SPRING IN A VILLAGE Once more!

IMITATIONS AD LYRAM [59:1] (CASIMIR, BOOK II. ODE 3) The

TO LESBIA [60:2]

THE DEATH OF THE STARLING [61:1]

MORIENS SUPERSTITI [61:2]

MORIENTI SUPERSTES

THE SIGH [62:1]

THE KISS [63:1]

TO A YOUNG LADY [64:1] WITH A POEM ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

TRANSLATION [66:1] OF WRANGHAM'S 'HENDECASYLLABI AD BRUNTONAM E

TO MISS BRUNTON [67:1] WITH THE PRECEDING TRANSLATION That

EPITAPH ON AN INFANT [68:1]

PANTISOCRACY [68:2]

ON THE PROSPECT OF ESTABLISHING A PANTISOCRACY IN AMERICA [69:1]

ELEGY [69:2] IMITATED FROM ONE OF AKENSIDE'S BLANK-VERSE

THE FADED FLOWER [70:1]

THE OUTCAST [71:1]

DOMESTIC PEACE [71:2] [FROM 'THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE', ACT I,

ON A DISCOVERY MADE TOO LATE [72:1]

TO THE AUTHOR OF 'THE ROBBERS' [72:2]

MELANCHOLY [73:1] A FRAGMENT Stretch'd on a moulder'd Abbey's

TO A YOUNG ASS [74:2] ITS MOTHER BEING TETHERED NEAR IT Poor

LINES ON A FRIEND [76:1] WHO DIED OF A FRENZY FEVER INDUCED BY

TO A FRIEND [78:1] [ Charles Lamb ] TOGETHER WITH AN UNFINISHED

SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS CONTRIBUTED TO THE 'MORNING CHRONICLE' IN DECEMBER 1794 AND JANUARY 1795

I [79:2] TO THE HONOURABLE MR. ERSKINE When British Freedom for

II [80:1] BURKE As late I lay in Slumber's shadowy vale, With

III [81:1] PRIESTLEY Though rous'd by that dark Vizir Riot rude

IV [82:1] LA FAYETTE As when far off the warbled strains are

V [82:3] KOSKIUSKO O what a loud and fearful shriek was there,

VI [83:1] PITT Not always should the Tear's ambrosial dew Roll

VII [84:1] TO THE REV. W. L. BOWLES [84:2] [FIRST VERSION,

VIII [85:2] MRS. SIDDONS As when a child on some long Winter's

IX TO WILLIAM GODWIN [86:1] AUTHOR OF 'POLITICAL JUSTICE'

X [87:1] TO ROBERT SOUTHEY OF BALIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD, AUTHOR OF

XI [87:2] TO RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, ESQ. It was some

TO LORD STANHOPE [89:1] ON READING HIS LATE PROTEST IN THE

TO EARL STANHOPE [89:2]

LINES [90:2] TO A FRIEND IN ANSWER TO A MELANCHOLY LETTER Away,

TO AN INFANT [91:1]

TO THE REV. W. J. HORT [92:1] WHILE TEACHING A YOUNG LADY SOME

PITY [93:1]

TO THE NIGHTINGALE [93:2]

LINES [94:1] COMPOSED WHILE CLIMBING THE LEFT ASCENT OF

LINES IN THE MANNER OF SPENSER [94:2]

THE HOUR WHEN WE SHALL MEET AGAIN [96:1]

LINES [96:2] WRITTEN AT SHURTON BARS, NEAR BRIDGEWATER,

THE EOLIAN HARP [100:1] COMPOSED AT CLEVEDON, SOMERSETSHIRE My

TO THE AUTHOR OF POEMS [102:2] [ Joseph Cottle ] PUBLISHED

THE SILVER THIMBLE [104:1] THE PRODUCTION OF A YOUNG LADY,

REFLECTIONS ON HAVING LEFT A PLACE OF RETIREMENT [106:1]

RELIGIOUS MUSINGS [108:1] A DESULTORY POEM, WRITTEN ON THE

MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON [125:1]

THE DESTINY OF NATIONS [131:1] A VISION Auspicious Reverence!

VER PERPETUUM [148:1] FRAGMENT From an unpublished poem. The

ON OBSERVING A BLOSSOM ON THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY 1796 [148:2]

TO A PRIMROSE [149:2] THE FIRST SEEN IN THE SEASON Nitens et

VERSES [150:1] ADDRESSED TO J. HORNE TOOKE AND THE COMPANY WHO

ON A LATE CONNUBIAL RUPTURE IN HIGH LIFE [152:1] [PRINCE AND

SONNET [152:2] ON RECEIVING A LETTER INFORMING ME OF THE BIRTH

SONNET [153:1] COMPOSED ON A JOURNEY HOMEWARD; THE AUTHOR

SONNET [154:2] TO A FRIEND WHO ASKED, HOW I FELT WHEN THE NURSE

SONNET [155:1] [TO CHARLES LLOYD] The piteous sobs that choke

TO A YOUNG FRIEND [155:2] ON HIS PROPOSING TO DOMESTICATE WITH

ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG MAN OF FORTUNE [157:1] [ C. Lloyd ] WHO

TO A FRIEND [158:1] [ Charles Lamb ] WHO HAD DECLARED HIS

ODE TO THE DEPARTING YEAR [160:1]

THE RAVEN [169:1] A CHRISTMAS TALE, TOLD BY A SCHOOL-BOY TO HIS

TO AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN AT THE THEATRE [171:1]

TO AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN [172:1] WHOM THE AUTHOR HAD KNOWN IN

TO THE REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE [173:1] OF OTTERY ST. MARY, DEVON

ON THE CHRISTENING OF A FRIEND'S CHILD [176:1]

TRANSLATION [177:1] OF A LATIN INSCRIPTION BY THE REV. W. L.

THIS LIME-TREE BOWER MY PRISON [178:1] [ADDRESSED TO CHARLES LAMB, OF THE INDIA HOUSE, LONDON]

THE FOSTER-MOTHER'S TALE [182:1] A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT

THE DUNGEON [185:1]

THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER [186:1] IN SEVEN PARTS

SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS [209:1]

PARLIAMENTARY OSCILLATORS [211:1]

CHRISTABEL [213:1] PREFACE

LINES TO W. L. [236:1] WHILE HE SANG A SONG TO PURCELL'S MUSIC

FIRE, FAMINE, AND SLAUGHTER [237:1] A WAR ECLOGUE

FROST AT MIDNIGHT [240:1]

FRANCE: AN ODE [243:1]

THE OLD MAN OF THE ALPS [248:1]

TO A YOUNG LADY [252:1] [ Miss Lavinia Poole ] ON HER RECOVERY

LEWTI [253:1] OR THE CIRCASSIAN LOVE-CHAUNT At midnight by the

FEARS IN SOLITUDE [256:1] WRITTEN IN APRIL 1798, DURING THE

THE NIGHTINGALE [264:1] A CONVERSATION POEM, APRIL, 1798 No

THE THREE GRAVES [267:1] A FRAGMENT OF A SEXTON'S TALE

THE WANDERINGS OF CAIN [285:1] PREFATORY NOTE

THE WANDERINGS OF CAIN CANTO II

TO [292:1]

THE BALLAD OF THE DARK LADIE [293:1] A FRAGMENT Beneath yon

KUBLA KHAN [295:1] : Or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment.

KUBLA KHAN

RECANTATION [299:1] ILLUSTRATED IN THE STORY OF THE MAD OX I An

HEXAMETERS [304:1]

TRANSLATION OF A PASSAGE IN OTTFRIED'S METRICAL PARAPHRASE OF THE GOSPEL

CATULLIAN HENDECASYLLABLES [307:1]

THE HOMERIC HEXAMET

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge from a drawing by G. R. Leslie Samuel Taylor Coleridge caption

THE

COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS

OF

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

 

INCLUDING

POEMS AND VERSIONS OF POEMS NOW

PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME

 

EDITED

WITH TEXTUAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

 

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