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, L. 210]
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' O
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
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