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The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by S T C AMUEL AYLOR OLERIDGE 1787-1833 DjVu Editions E-books © 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. 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 - i - 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 - ii - 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 - iii - 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 - iv - 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 - v - 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 - vi - 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 - vii -

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