Coleridge: Poems - L. Adam Mekler

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The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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AMUEL AYLOR OLERIDGE
1787-1833
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Coleridge: Poems
Table of Contents
Easter Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Dura Navis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitæ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anthem for the Children of Christ’s Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Julia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Quae Nocent Docent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Nose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
To the Muse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Destruction of the Bastile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Progress of Vice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Monody on the Death of Chatterton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
An Invocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anna and Harland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
To the Evening Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
On a Lady Weeping: Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius . . . . . . 23
Monody on a Tea-kettle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Genevieve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
On Receiving an Account that his Only Sister’s Death was Inevitable . . . . . . 27
On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister . . . . . . . . . 28
A Mathematical Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Honour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
On Imitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Inside the Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Devonshire Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Sonnet: On Quitting School for College . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge . . . . 39
Happiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792 . . . . . . . . . . . 43
An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
To Disappointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Ode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
A Lover’s Complaint to his Mistress . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
With Fielding’s ‘‘Amelia’’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Written After a Walk Before Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Imitated from Ossian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
The Complaint of Ninathóma: From the same . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Songs of the Pixies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
The Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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Kisses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
The Gentle Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Sonnet: To the River Otter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
An Effusion at Evening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Lines: On an Autumnal Evening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
To Fortune: On buying a ticket in the Irish Lottery . . . . . . . . . . 66
Perspiration. A Travelling Eclogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
[Ave, Atque Vale!] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
On Bala Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Lines: Written at the King’s Arms, Ross, formerly the House of the ‘‘Man of Ross’’ . . 70
Imitated from the Welsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Lines: To a Beautiful Spring in a Village . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Imitations: Ad Lyram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
To Lesbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
The Death of the Starling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Moriens Superstiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Morienti Superstes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
The Sigh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
The Kiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
To a Young Lady: with a Poem on the French Revolution . . . . . . . . 80
Translation of Wrangham’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
To Miss Brunton: with the preceding Translation . . . . . . . . . . 83
Epitaph on an Infant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Pantisocracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America . . . . . . . . 86
Elegy: Imitated from one of Akenside’s Blank-verse Inscriptions . . . . . . . 87
The Faded Flower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
The Outcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Domestic Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
On a Discovery Made too Late . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
To the Author of ‘‘The Robbers’’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Melancholy: A Fragment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
To a Young Ass: Its Mother being tethered near it . . . . . . . . . . 94
Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever induced by Calumnious Reports . . . . 95
To a Friend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the ‘‘Morning Chronicle’’ in December 1794
and January 1795 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
To the Honourable Mr. Erskine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Burke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Priestley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
La Fayette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Koskiusko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Pitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
To the Rev W.L. Bowles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
To the Rev W.L. Bowles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Mrs Siddons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
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To William Godwin Author of ‘‘Political Justice’’ . . . . . . . . . 102
To Robert Southey of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of The ‘‘Retrospect’’, and other
Poems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
To Lord Stanhope on Reading his Late Protest in the House of Lords . . . . . 103
To Earl Stanhope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Lines: To a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter . . . . . . . . . 105
To an Infant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
To the Rev. W. J. Hort while teaching a Young Lady some Song-tunes on his Flute . . . 107
Pity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
To the Nightingale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Lines: Composed while climbing the Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May
1795 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Lines in the Manner of Spenser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
The Hour when we shall meet again . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Lines written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, September 1795, in Answer to a Letter from
Bristol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
The Eolian Harp Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire . . . . . . . . . 117
To the Author of Poems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
The Silver Thimble The production of a young lady, addressed to the Author of the poems
alluded to in the preceding epistle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement . . . . . . . . . . 123
Religious Musings A Desultory Poem, Written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 . . . . 125
Monody on the Death of Chatterton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
The Destiny of Nations. A Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Ver Perpetuum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796 . . . . . . . . . 151
To a Primrose. The First seen in the Season. . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Verses Addressed to J. Horne Tooke and the Company . . . . . . . . . 153
On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Sonnet: On receiving a Letter informing me of the Birth of a Son . . . . . . . 156
Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward; . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Sonnet: To a Friend who asked, how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me . 158
Sonnet: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
To a Young Friend on his proposing to domesticate with the Author . . . . . . 160
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
To a Friend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Ode to the Departing Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
The Raven A Christmas Tale, told by a School-boy to his Little Brothers and Sisters . . 169
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
To an Unfortunate Woman whom the Author had known in the days of her Innocence . . 172
To the Rev. George Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary, Devon . . . . . . . . 173
On the Christening of a Friend’s Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Translation of a Latin Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Nether-Stowey Church . . 177
This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
The Foster-mother’s Tale A dramatic fragment . . . . . . . . . . . 180
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The Dungeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts. . . . . . . . . . . 183
Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers . . . . . . . . 201
II To Simplicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
III On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country . . . . . . . . . . 201
Parliamentary Oscillators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Christabel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
THE CONCLUSION TO PART I . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
PART II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
THE CONCLUSION TO PART II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Lines to W. L. while he sang a Song to Purcell’s Music . . . . . . . . . 222
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter A War Eclogue . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Frost at Midnight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
France: An Ode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
The Old Man of the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
To a Young Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Fears in Solitude Written in April 1798, during the alarm of an invasion . . . . . 237
The Nightingale. A Conversation Poem, April, 1798. . . . . . . . . . 243
The Three Graves. A fragment of a sexton’s tale . . . . . . . . . . 246
PART I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
PART II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
PART III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
PART IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
The Wanderings of Cain Canto 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
To — . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
The Ballad of the Dark Ladié A Fragment . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Kubla Khan Or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment . . . . . . . . . . 267
Recantation: Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox . . . . . . . . . . 270
Hexameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Translation of a Passage in Ottfried’s Metrical Paraphrase of the Gospel . . . . . 276
Catullian Hendecasyllables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
The Homeric Hexameter described and exemplified . . . . . . . . . . 278
The Ovidian Elegiac Metre described and exemplified . . . . . . . . . 279
On a Cataract. From a cavern near the summit of a mountain precipice. . . . . . 280
Strophe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Antistrophe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Tell’s Birth-Place. Imitated from Stolberg . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
The Visit of the Gods. Imitated from Schiller . . . . . . . . . . . 282
From the German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Water Ballad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
On an Infant which died before Baptism . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Something Childish, but very Natural. Written in Germany . . . . . . . . 286
Home-Sick. Written in Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest . . . . . . . 288
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The British Stripling’s War-Song. Imitated from Stolberg . . . . . . . . 289
Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
The Devil’s Thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Lines Composed in a Concert-room . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Westphalian Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Hexameters: Paraphrase of Psalm xlvi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Hymn to the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Mahomet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
A Christmas Carol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Talleyrand to Lord Grenville. A Metrical Epistle . . . . . . . . . . 307
Apologia pro Vita sua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
The Keepsake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
A Thought Suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland . . . . . . . 313
The Mad Monk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side half-way up a Steep Hill facing South . . . . 316
A Stranger Minstrel. Written . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Alcaeus to Sappho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
The Snow-drop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
On Revisiting the Sea-shore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Ode to Tranquillity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
To Asra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
The Second Birth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Love’s Sanctuary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Dejection: An Ode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
The Picture, or the Lover’s Resolutionh . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
To Matilda Betham from a Stranger . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni . . . . . . . . . . . 339
The Good, Great Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Reply to the above . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
An Ode to the Rain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
A Day-dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Answer to a Child’s Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
The Day-dream. From an Emigrant to his Absent Wife . . . . . . . . . 348
The Happy Husband. A Fragment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
The Pains of Sleep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
The Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Ad Vilmum Axiologum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
An Exile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Sonnet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Phantom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
A Sunset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
What is Life? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
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The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree. A Lament . . . . . . . . . 359
Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
The Rash Conjurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
A Child’s Evening Prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Metrical Feet. Lesson for a Boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Farewell to Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
To William Wordsworth.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
An Angel Visitant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Recollections of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
To Two Sisters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Psyche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
A Tombless Epitaph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
For a Market-Clock (Impromptu) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
The Madman and the Lethargist. An Example . . . . . . . . . . . 377
The Visionary Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Epitaph on an Infant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
The Virgin’s Cradle-hymn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
To a Lady offended by a Sportive Observation that Women have no Souls . . . . . 382
Reason for Love’s Blindness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
The Suicide’s Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Nature’s Answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Time, Real and Imaginary. An Allegory . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
An Invocation. From Remorse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
The Night-scene: A Dramatic Fragment . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
A Hymn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
To a Lady, with Falconer’s Shipwreck . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Human Life. On the Denial of Immortality . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Song. From Zapolya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Hunting Song. From Zapolya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
Faith, Hope, and Charity. From the Italian of Guarini . . . . . . . . . 395
To Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Limbo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Ne Plus Ultra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
The Knight’s Tomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
On Donne’s Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Israel’s Lament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Fancy in Nubibus, or the Poet in the Clouds . . . . . . . . . . . 403
The Tears of a Grateful People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Hymn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Youth and Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
The Reproof and Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
First Advent of Love. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
The Delinquent Travellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Work Without Hope. Lines composed 21st February 1825 . . . . . . . . 415
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Sancti Dominici Pallium. A Dialogue between Poet and Friend . . . . . . . 416
Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
A Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
The Two Founts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Constancy to an Ideal Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
The Pang More Sharp than All. An Allegory . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Duty Surviving Self-love. The only sure Friend of declining Life. A Soliloquy . . . . 427
Homeless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
Lines Suggested by the last Words of Berengarius . . . . . . . . . . 429
Reflection on the above . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Epitaphium Testamentarium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
The Improvisatore; or ‘‘John Anderson, My Jo, John’’ . . . . . . . . . 431
Answer, ex improviso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
To Mary Pridham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
Alice du Clos; or the Forked-Tongue. A Ballad . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Love’s Burial-place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
Lines: To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review . . . . . . . . . . 443
Cologne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
On My Joyful Departure from the same City . . . . . . . . . . . 445
The Garden of Boccaccio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
Love, Hope, and Patience in Education . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
To Miss A. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
Lines written in Commonplace Book of Miss Barbour, . . . . . . . . . 451
Song, ex improviso, on hearing a Song in praise of a Lady’s Beauty . . . . . . 452
Love and Friendship Opposite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Not at Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Phantom or Fact. A Dialogue in Verse . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Desire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Charity in Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Humility the Mother of Charity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
[Coeli Enarrant] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Reason. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Self-knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Forbearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
Love’s Apparition and Evanishment. An Allegorical Romance . . . . . . . 463
L’envoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
To the Young Artist Kayser of Kaserwerth . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
My Baptismal Birth-day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Epitaph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
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