early youth." In a note to this poem I had asserted that the tale of
Florio in Mr. Rogers' "Pleasures of Memory" was to be found in the
Lochleven of Bruce. I did (and still do) perceive a certain likeness
between the two stories; but certainly not a sufficient one to justify
my assertion. I feel it my duty, therefore, to apologize to the Author
and the Public, for this rashness; and my sense of honesty would not
have been satisfied by the bare omission of the note. No one can see
more clearly the _littleness_ and futility of imagining plagiarisms in
the works of men of Genius; but _nemo omnibus horis sapit_; and my mind,
at the time of writing that note, was sick and sore with anxiety, and
weakened through much suffering. I have not the most distant knowledge
of Mr. Rogers, except as a correct and elegant Poet. If any of my
readers should know him personally, they would oblige me by informing
him that I have expiated a sentence of unfounded detraction, by an
unsolicited and self-originating apology.
Having from these motives re-admitted two, and those the longest of the
poems I had omitted, I yielded a passport to the three others, [pp. 256,
262, 264] which were recommended by the greatest number of votes. There
are some lines too of Lloyd's and Lamb's in this Appendix. They had been
omitted in the former part of the volume, partly by accident; but I
have reason to believe that the Authors regard them, as of inferior
merit; and they are therefore rightly placed, where they will receive
some beauty from their vicinity to others much worse.
VI
FEARS IN SOLITUDE, / Written in 1798, during the Alarm of an Invasion. /
To which are added, / France, an Ode; / And / Frost at Midnight. / By S.
T. COLERIDGE. / London: / Printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's
Churchyard. / 1798. / [4{o}.
_Collation._--Half-title, Fears in Solitude, . . . Frost at Midnight,
(six lines) [Price ONE SHILLING and SIXPENCE.], one leaf, unpaged;
Title, one leaf, unpaged; Text, pp. [1]-23; Advertisement of 'Poems, by
W. Cowper', p. [24].
VII
The / PICCOLOMINI, / or the / First Part of WALLENSTEIN, / A Drama / In
Five Acts. / Translated From The German Of / Frederick Schiller / By /
S. T. COLERIDGE. / LONDON: / Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees,
Paternoster Row. / 1800. / [8{o}.
_Collation._--Half-title, Translation from a Manuscript Copy attested by
the Author / THE PICCOLOMINI, or the First Part of WALLENSTEIN. /
Printed by G. Woodfall, Pater-noster Row /, one leaf, unpaged; Title,
one leaf, unpaged; Preface of the Translator, pp. [i]-ii; two pages of
Advertisements commencing with: Plays just published, etc.; one leaf
unpaged; on the reverse Dramatis Personae; Text, pp. [1]-214; _In the
Press, and speedily will be published_, From the German of Schiller, THE
DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN; Also WALLENSTEIN'S CAMP, a Prelude of One Act to
the former Dramas; with an Essay on the GENIUS OF SCHILLER. By S. T.
COLERIDGE. N.B. The Drama will be embellished with an elegant Portrait
of WALLENSTEIN, engraved by CHAPMAN, pp. [215]-[216].
VIII
The / DEATH / of / WALLENSTEIN. A Tragedy / In Five Acts. / Translated
from the German of / FREDERICK SCHILLER, / By / S. T. COLERIDGE. /
LONDON: / Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster Row, / _By
G. Woodfall, No. 22, Paternoster-Row_. / 1800. / [8{o}.
_Collation._--Title, one leaf, unpaged; General Title, Wallenstein. / A
Drama / In Two Parts. / Translated, &c., _ut supra_, one leaf, unpaged;
Preface of the Translator, two leaves, unpaged; on reverse of second
leaf Dramatis Personae; Text, pp. [1]-157; The Imprint, _Printed by G.
Woodfall, No. 22, Paternoster-Row, London_, is at the foot of p. 157;
Advertisement of 'Books printed by T. N. Longman', &c., p. [158].
[The Frontispiece (sometimes attached to No. VII) is an engraving in
stipple of Wallenstein, by J. Chapman.]
IX
[=Poems=], / By / S. T. COLERIDGE. / Felix curarum, &c. (six lines as on
title of No. II). Third edition. / LONDON: / Printed by N. Biggs,
Crane-Court, Fleet-street, / For T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Pater- /
Noster-Row. / 1803. / [8{o}.
_Collation._--Title, one leaf, p. [i]; Contents, pp. [iii]-[iv];
Preface, pp. [v]-xi; Text, pp. [1]-202; The Imprint, Biggs, Printer,
Crane-Court, Fleet-street, is at the foot of p. 202.
[The Preface consists of the Preface to the First and Second Editions
as reprinted in No. IV, with the following omissions from that to the
Second Edition, viz. Lines 1-5, and Lines 37-45. The Preface to the
First Edition (pp. [v]-viii) is signed S. T. C. The Preface to the
Second Edition (pp. ix-xi) has no heading, but is marked off by a line
from the Preface to the First Edition.
The Third Edition contains all the poems published in the First and
Second Editions except (1) To the Rev. W. J. H. (1796); (2) Sonnet to
Kosciusko (1796); (8) Written after a Walk (1796); (4) From a Young Lady
(1796); (5) On the Christening of a Friend's Child (1797); (6)
Introductory Sonnet to C. Lloyd's 'Poems on the Death of Priscilla
Farmer' (1797). The half-title to the Sonnets, p. [79], omits the words
'Attempted in the Manner, &c. (see No. V).
The Introduction to the Sonnets is reprinted on pp. 81-4, verbatim from
the Second Edition.]
X
POEMS, / By / S. T. COLERIDGE, Esq. / [8{o}.
_Collation._--Half-title (as above), one leaf, p. [1]; The Imprint, Law
and Gilbert, Printers, St. John's Square, London, is at the foot of p.
[2]; Text, pp. [3]-16; The Imprint, Printed by Law and Gilbert, St.
John's Square, London, is at the foot of p. 16 [n. d. ? 1812].
_Contents._--
Fears in Solitude, pp. [3]-9: France, an Ode, pp. 10-13: Frost at
Midnight, pp. 14-16.
[The three poems which form the contents of the Pamphlet were included
in the _Poetical Register_ for 1808-1809 which was reissued in 1812. The
publishers were F. G. and S. Rivington, the printers Law and Gilbert,
St. John's Square, Clerkenwell. The type of the pamphlet is the type of
the _Poetical Register_, but the poems were set up and reprinted as a
distinct issue. There is no record of the transaction, or evidence that
the pamphlet was placed on the market. It was probably the outcome of a
private arrangement between the author and the publisher of the
_Poetical Register_.]
XI
REMORSE. / A Tragedy, / In Five Acts. / _By_ S. T. COLERIDGE. / Remorse
is as the heart, in which it grows: / If that be gentle, it drops balmy
dews / Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, / It is a
poison-tree, that pierced to the inmost / Weeps only tears of poison! /
Act I. Scene I. / LONDON: / Printed for W. Pople, 67, Chancery Lane. /
1813. / _Price Three Shillings._ / [8{o}.
_Collation._--Title, one leaf, pp. [i]-[ii]; The Imprint, _W. Pople,
Printer, 67, Chancery Lane_, is at the foot of the Reverse; Preface, pp.
[iii]-viii; Prologue, pp. [ix]-[x]; Dramatis Personae, p. [xi]; Text,
pp. [1]-72; The Imprint, W. Pople, Printer, 67, Chancery Lane, London,
is at the foot of p. 72.
XII
REMORSE, &c. (as in No. XI); [=Second Edition.=] / LONDON: / Printed for
W. Pople, 67, Chancery Lane. / 1813. / _Price Three Shillings._ / [8{o}.
_Collation._--Title, one leaf, pp. [i]-[ii]; The Imprint, _W. Pople,
Printer, 67, Chancery Lane_, is at the foot of p. [ii]; Preface, pp.
[iii]-vi; Prologue, pp. [vii]-[viii]; Dramatis Personae, p. [ix]; Text,
pp. [1]-73; Appendix, pp. [75]-78; The Imprint, W. Pople, Printer, 67,
Chancery Lane, London, is at the foot of p. 78.
XIII
_Remorse_, &c. (as in No. XI); [=Third Edition.=] / London: Printed for
W. Pople, 67, Chancery Lane. / 1813. / [8{o}.
For collation vide _supra_, No. XII.
XIV
SIBYLLINE LEAVES: / A / [=Collection of Poems.=] / By / S. T. COLERIDGE,
Esq. / LONDON: / Rest Fenner, 23, Paternoster Row. / 1817. / [8{o}.
_Collation._--Half-title, one leaf, [=Sibylline Leaves.=] / By / S. T.
Coleridge Esq. /, unpaged; Title, one leaf, unpaged; The Imprint, _S.
Curtis, Printer, Camberwell_, is at the foot of the Reverse of the
Title; Preface, pp. [i]-iii; 'Time, Real and Imaginary,' 'The Raven,'
'Mutual Passion,' pp. v-x; Errata, pp. [xi]-[xii]; Half-title, THE RIME
/ Of The / ANCIENT MARINER / In Seven Parts, p. [1]; Motto from T.
Burnet, _Archæol. Phil._, p. 68, p. [2]; Text, pp. 3-303; The Imprint,
Printed by John Evans & Co. St. John-Street, Bristol, is at the foot of
p. [304].
[Signatures B-U are marked Vol. ii, i. e. Vol. ii of the _Biographia
Literaria_. The printer's bills, which are in my possession, show that
in the first instance the Poems were reckoned as Volume ii, and that, in
1816, when the prose work had grown into a second volume, as Volume iii.
The entire text of the second volume, afterwards entitled _Sibylline
Leaves_, with the exception of the preliminary matter, pp. [i]-[xii],
was printed by John Evans & Co. of Bristol--signatures B-G in
November-December 1814, and signatures H-U between January and July
1815. The unbound sheets, which were held as a security for the cost of
printing &c., and for money advanced, by W. Hood of Bristol, John
Matthew Gutch, and others, were redeemed in May 1817 by a London
publisher, Rest Fenner, and his partner the Rev. Samuel Curtis of
Camberwell. The _Biographia Literaria_ was published in July and
_Sibylline Leaves_ in August, 1817. See note by J. D. Campbell in _P.
W._, 1893, pp. 551, 552.]
PREFACE
The following collection has been entitled SIBYLLINE LEAVES, in allusion
to the fragmentary and widely scattered state in which they have been
long suffered to remain. It contains the whole of the author's poetical
compositions, from 1793 to the present date, with the exception of a few
works not yet finished, and those published in the first edition of his
juvenile poems, over which he has no controul.[1150:1] They may be
divided into three classes: First, A selection from the Poems added to
the second and third editions, together with those originally published
in the LYRICAL BALLADS,[1150:2] which after having remained many years
out of print, have been omitted by Mr. Wordsworth in the recent
collection of all his minor poems, and of course revert to the author.
Second, Poems published at very different periods, in various obscure or
perishable journals, etc., some with, some without the writer's consent;
many imperfect, all incorrect. The third and last class is formed of
Poems which have hitherto remained in manuscript. The whole is now
presented to the reader collectively, with considerable additions and
alterations, and as perfect as the author's judgment and powers could
render them.
In my Literary _Life_, it has been mentioned that, with the exception of
this preface, the SIBYLLINE LEAVES have been printed almost two years;
and the necessity of troubling the reader with the list of
errata[1151:1] [forty-seven in number] which follows this preface, alone
induces me to refer again to the circumstances, at the risk of ungenial
feelings, from the recollection of its worthless causes.[1151:2] A few
corrections of later date have been added.--Henceforward the author must
be occupied by studies of a very different kind.
Ite hinc, CAMŒNÆ! Vos quoque ite, suaves,
Dulces CAMŒNÆ! Nam (fatebimur verum)
Dulces fuistis!--Et tamen meas chartas
Revisitote: sed pudenter et raro!
VIRGIL, _Catalect._ vii.[1151:3]
At the request of the friends of my youth, who still remain my friends,
and who were pleased with the wildness of the compositions, I have added
two school-boy poems--with a song modernized with some additions from
one of our elder poets.[1151:4] Surely, malice itself will scarcely
attribute their insertion to any other motive, than the wish to keep
alive the recollections from early life.--I scarcely knew what title I
should prefix to the first. By imaginary Time,[1151:5] I meant the state
of a school-boy's mind when, on his return to school, he projects his
being in his day dreams, and lives in his next holidays, six months
hence: and this I contrasted with real Time.
CONTENTS
[Poems first published in 1796 and in 1797 are marked with an asterisk.
Poems first published in 1817 are italicized. N.B. The volume was issued
without any Table of Contents or Index of First Lines.]
PAGE
_Time, Real and Imaginary: an Allegory_ v
The Raven vi
Mutual Passion ix
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [with the marginal glosses] 3
The Foster-Mother's Tale 41
Half-title
POEMS / OCCASIONED BY POLITICAL EVENTS / OR / FEELINGS CONNECTED
WITH THEM [47]
Wordsworth's sonnet beginning 'When I have borne in memory what
has tamed' is printed on [48]
*Ode to the Departing Year [Half-Title] [49]
France: _An Ode_ 59
Fears in Solitude 64
Recantation. _Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox_ 75
Parliamentary Oscillators 83
Half-title
[=Fire, Famine, and Slaughter.=] / A War Eclogue. / With / An
Apologetic Preface / [87]
Mottoes from _Claudian_ and _Ecclesiasticus_ [88]
[_AN APOLOGETIC PREFACE_] 89
Fire, Famine and Slaughter 111
Half-title
LOVE-POEMS [117]
Motto (eleven lines) from 'Petrarch' [118]
Love 119
Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chant 124
The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution 128
_The Night-Scene: A Dramatic Fragment_ 136
*To an Unfortunate Woman, _Whom the Author had known in the days
of her Innocence_ 141
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre 142
Lines composed in a Concert-room 144
The Keep-sake 146
_To a Lady, with Falconer's 'Shipwreck'_ 148
To a Young Lady, _On her Recovery from a Fever_ 150
Something Childish, but very Natural. _Written in Germany_ 152
Home-sick. _Written in Germany_ 153
Answer to a Child's Question 154
_The Visionary Hope_ 155
_The Happy Husband. A Fragment_ 157
_Recollections of Love_ 159
On Re-visiting the Sea-Shore, After Long Absence, _Under strong
medical recommendation not to bathe_ 161
Half-title
'MEDITATIVE POEMS / IN / BLANK VERSE' [163]
Motto (eight lines) from _Schiller_ [164]
Hymn _Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouny_ 165
Lines _Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest_ 170
*On observing a Blossom _On the 1st February, 1796_ 173
*The Eolian Harp, _Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire_ 175
*Reflections _On having left a Place of Retirement_ 178
*To the Rev. George Coleridge, _Of Ottery St. Mary, Devon_. With
some Poems 182
Inscription _For a Fountain on a Heath_ 186
A Tombless Epitaph 187
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison 189
To a Friend _Who had declared his intention of writing no more
Poetry_ 194
_TO A GENTLEMAN. Composed on the night after his recitation of a
Poem on the Growth of an Individual Mind_ 197
The Nightingale; a Conversation Poem 204
Frost at Midnight 210
Half-title
[=The=] / [=Three Graves=] / [215]
The Three Graves. A Fragment of a Sexton's Tale 217
Half-title
ODES / AND / MISCELLANEOUS POEMS [235]
Dejection: _An Ode_ 237
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, _On the 24th stanza in
her 'Passage over Mount Gothard'_ 244
Ode to Tranquillity 249
*To a Young Friend, _On his proposing to Domesticate with the
Author_ Composed in 1796 251
Lines _To W. L., Esq., while he sang a song to Purcell's Music_ 255
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune _Who abandoned himself to an
indolent and causeless Melancholy_ 256
*Sonnet to the River Otter 257
*Sonnet. _Composed on a journey homeward; the Author having
received intelligence of the birth of a Son, September 20,
1796_ 258
*Sonnet, _To a Friend who asked, how I felt when the Nurse first
presented my Infant to me_ 259
The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn. Copied from a Print of the Virgin, in a
Catholic village in Germany 260
Epitaph, on an Infant. ['Its balmy lips the Infant blest.'] 261
Melancholy. A Fragment 262
_Tell's Birth-place. Imitated from Stolberg_ 263
A Christmas Carol 265
_Human Life. On the Denial of Immortality. A Fragment_ 268
An Ode to the Rain. _Composed before daylight_ [etc.] 270
_The Visit of the Gods. Imitated from Schiller_ 274
America to Great Britain. _Written in America, in the year 1810._
[By Washington Allston, the Painter.] 276
Elegy, Imitated from one of Akenside's Blank-verse Inscriptions 279
The Destiny of Nations. A Vision 281
XV
קינת ישרון
A Hebrew Dirge, / Chaunted in the Great Synagogue, / St. James's Place,
Aldgate, / On the / Day of the Funeral of her Royal Highness / The /
Princess Charlotte. / By Hyman Hurwitz, / Master of the Royal Academy, /
Highgate: / With a Translation in / English Verse, By S. T. Coleridge,
Esq. / London: / _Printed by H. Barnett_, 2, _St. James's Place,
Aldgate_; / And Sold by T. Boosey, 4, Old Broad Street; / Lackington,
Allen, and Co. Finsbury Square; / Briggs and Burton, 156, Leadenhall
Street; and / H. Barnett, Hebrew Bookseller, 2, St. James's / Place,
Aldgate. / 1817. [8{o}.
_Collation._--Half-title, קינת ישרון / A Hebrew Dirge. /, pp. [1]-[2];
Title, p. [3]; Text, pp. [4]-13. The text of the translation is printed
on pp. 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13.
XVI
CHRISTABEL: / Kubla Khan, / A Vision; / The Pains of Sleep. / By / S. T.
COLERIDGE, Esq. / LONDON: Printed For John Murray, Albemarle-Street, /
By William Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, / St. James's. / 1816. / [8{o}.
_Collation._--Half-title, one leaf, [=Christabel=], &c., pp. i-ii;
Title, one leaf, pp. iii-iv; Preface, pp. [v]-vii; Second half-title,
Christabel. / Part 1, pp. [1]-[2]; Text, pp. [3]-48; '[=Kubla Khan=] /
or / A Vision in a Dream': Half-title, one leaf, pp. [49]-[50]; 'Of the
/ Fragment of Kubla Khan', pp. [51]-54; Text, pp. [55]-58; '[=The Pains
of Sleep=]': Half-title, pp. [59]-[60]; Text, pp. 61-61; The Imprint,
LONDON: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. / Cleveland-row, St. James's /, is
at the foot of p. 64.
[The pamphlet (1816) was issued 'price 4_s._ 6_d._ _sewed_'. The cover
was of brown paper.]
XVII
CHRISTABEL, &c. / By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. / Second Edition. / LONDON: /
Printed For John Murray, Albemarle-Street, / By William Bulmer and Co.
Cleveland-Row, / St. James's. / 1816. / [8{o}.
_Collation._--_Vide_ No. XVI.
[The half-title, CHRISTABEL, is in Gothic Character.]
XVIII
CHRISTABEL, &c. / By / S. T. Coleridge, Esq. / Third Edition. / LONDON:
/ Printed For John Murray, Albemarle-Street, / By William Bulmer and Co.
Cleveland-Row, / St. James's. / 1816. / [8{o}.
_Collation._--_Vide_ No. XVI.
[The half-title, CHRISTABEL, is in Gothic Character.]
XIX
ZAPOLYA: A / Christmas tale, / In Two Parts: / [=The Prelude=] /
Entitled / "THE USURPERS' FORTUNE;" And / [=The Sequel=] / Entitled /
"THE USURPER'S FATE." / By / S. T. Coleridge, Esq. / _LONDON_: Printed
for Rest Fenner, Paternoster Row. / 1817. / [8{o}.
_Collation._--Half-title, ZAPOLYA, one leaf; Title, one leaf;
Advertisement, one leaf; Characters, one leaf; Four leaves unpaged;
Text, Prelude, pp. [1]-31; Additional Characters, p. [34]; ZAPOLYA
(headed, [=Usurpation Ended=]; / or / SHE COMES AGAIN. /), pp. [85]-128.
The imprint, S. Curtis, Camberwell Press, is at the foot of p. 128.
Eight pages of advertisements dated September, 1817, are bound up with
the volume as issued in a brown paper cover.
XX
The / Poetical Works / Of / S. T. Coleridge, / Including the Dramas of /
Wallenstein, Remorse, and Zapolya. / In three Volumes. / Vol. I. / [Vol.
II, &c.] London: / William Pickering. / MDCCCXXVIII. / [8{o}.
_Collation._--Vol. I. Half-title, one leaf, The / Poetical Works / of /
S. T. Coleridge. / Vol. I. /, p. [i]; Title, one leaf, p. [iii]; The
Imprint, Thomas White, Printer, / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of
p. [iv]; Contents, Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, pp. [v]-x; Preface,
To the First and Second Editions, pp. [1]-6; Half-title, one leaf,
Juvenile Poems, p. [7]; Text, pp. [9]-363; The Imprint, Thomas White,
Printer, / Crane Court. /, below the figure of a girl watering flowers
surmounted by the motto TE FAVENTE VIREBO, is in the centre of p. [554].
[A vignette and double wreath of oak and bay leaves is in the centre of
the title-page of Vols. I, II, III.]
Vol. II. Half-title, one leaf; Title, one leaf, with Imprint at the foot
of the Reverse, unpaged; Half-title, The Rime / Of / The Ancient
Mariner. / In Seven Parts. /, p. [1]; Motto from T. Burnet, in centre of
p. [2]; Text, pp. [3]-370; The Imprint, Thomas White, Printer, /
Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of p. 370.
Vol. III. Half-title, one leaf; Title, one leaf; The Imprint, Thomas
White, Printer, / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of the Reverse,
unpaged; Half-title, The / Piccolomini, / Or / The First Part of
Wallenstein. / A Drama. / Translated from the German of Schiller /, p.
[1]; Preface of the Translator, p. [3]; Text, pp. [5]-428; The Imprint
Thomas White, Printer / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of p. 428.
[Pp. [1]-6]
PREFACE
[The Preface is the same as that of 1803.]
CONTENTS
VOLUME I
PAGE
JUVENILE POEMS
Genevieve [9]
Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon 10
Time, Real and Imaginary. An Allegory 11
Monody on the Death of Chatterton 12
Songs of the Pixies 19
The Raven 25
Absence. A Farewell Ode 28
Lines on an Autumnal Evening 30
The Rose 35
The Kiss 37
To a Young Ass 39
Domestic Peace 41
The Sigh 42
Epitaph on an Infant ['Ere Sin could blight'] 43
Lines written at the King's-Arms, Ross 44
Lines to a beautiful Spring in a Village 46
On a Friend who died of a Frenzy-fever induced by calumnious
reports 48
To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French Revolution 51
Sonnet I. My heart has thanked thee, Bowles 54
" II. As late I lay in Slumber's Shadowy Vale 55
" III. Though roused by that dark Vizir Riot rude 56
" IV. When British Freedom for an happier land 57
" V. It was some Spirit, Sheridan! 58
" VI. O what a loud and fearful Shriek 59
" VII. As when far off 60
" VIII. Thou gentle Look 61
" IX. Pale Roamer through the Night 62
" X. Sweet Mercy! 63
" XI. Thou bleedest, my Poor Heart 64
" XII. To the Author of The Robbers 65
Lines, composed while climbing Brockley Coomb 66
Lines in the Manner of Spenser 67
Imitated from Ossian 70
The Complaint of Ninathoma 72
Imitated from the Welsh 73
To an Infant 74
Lines in answer to a Letter from Bristol 76
To a Friend in Answer to a melancholy Letter 82
Religious Musings 84
The Destiny of Nations. A Vision 104
SIBYLLINE LEAVES
Half-title
I. POEMS OCCASIONED BY POLITICAL EVENTS OR / FEELINGS CONNECTED
WITH THEM [127]
Motto--fourteen lines--'When I have borne in memory what has
tamed', Wordsworth [128]
Ode to the Departing Year 131
France, an Ode 139
Fears in Solitude 144
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter 155
Half-title
II. Love Poems [159]
Motto--eleven lines of a Latin Poem by Petrarch [160]
Love 161
Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt 167
The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution 171
The Night Scene, a Dramatic Fragment 179
To an Unfortunate Woman 184
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre 186
Lines composed in a Concert Room 188
The Keepsake 191
To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck 194
To a Young Lady on her recovery from a Fever 196
Something Childish, but very Natural 198
Home-sick: written in Germany 200
Answer to a Child's Question 202
The Visionary Hope 203
The Happy Husband 205
Recollections of Love 207
On revisiting the Sea-shore 209
Half-title
III. MEDITATIVE POEMS. / IN BLANK VERSE [211]
Motto--eight lines (translated) from Schiller [212]
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny 213
Lines written in an Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest 218
On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 221
The Eolian Harp 223
Reflections on having left a place of Retirement 227
To the Rev. George Coleridge 231
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath 235
A Tombless Epitaph 237
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison 239
To a Friend who had declared his intention of writing no more
Poetry 244
To a Gentleman [Wordsworth] composed on the night after his
recitation of a Poem on the growth of an individual mind 247
[The Nightingale; a Conversation Poem 253]
Frost at Midnight 261
Half-title [265]
THE THREE GRAVES [267]
Half-title
ODES / AND / MISCELLANEOUS POEMS [287]
Dejection, An Ode 289
Ode to Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire 296
Ode to Tranquillity 300
To a Young Friend, on his proposing to domesticate with the
Author 302
Lines to W. L., Esq., while he sang a song to Purcell's Music 306
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune 307
Sonnet To the River Otter 309
---- Composed on a journey homeward after hearing of the birth of
a Son 310
---- To a Friend 311
The Virgin's Cradle Hymn 312
Epitaph on an Infant. ['Its balmy lips the Infant blest'] 313
Melancholy, A Fragment 314
Tell's Birth-place 315
A Christmas Carol 317
Human Life 320
The Visit of the Gods 321
Elegy, imitated from Akenside 324
Half-title
Kubla Khan: / Or, / A Vision In A Dream [327]
Of The Fragment Of Kubla Khan [329]
Kubla Khan [332]
[The Pains of Sleep 334]
Apologetic Preface to "Fire, Famine, and Slaughter" 337
END OF VOL. I
VOLUME II
Half-title
The Rime / of / The Ancient Mariner. / In Seven Parts. / [1]
Motto (From T. Burnet, _Archæol. Phil._, p. 68) [2]
THE ANCIENT MARINER. Part I 3
Part II 8
Part III 12
Part IV 17
Part V 21
Part VI 27
Part VII 33
Half-title
CHRISTABEL [39]
Preface [41]
CHRISTABEL. Part I 43
Conclusion to Part I 56
Part II 59
Conclusion to Part II 73
Half-title
Prose in Rhyme: Or, / Epigrams, Moralities, and Things / Without
a Name [75]
Mottoes:--
Ἔρωϛ ἀεὶ λάληθρος ἑταῖρος.
In many ways does the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal;
But in far more th' estranged heart lets know,
The absence of the love, which yet it fain would shew.
Duty surviving Self-love [77]
Song. ['Tho' veiled in spires,' &c.] 78
Phantom or Fact? A Dialogue in Verse 79
Work without Hope 81
Youth and Age 82
A Day-dream. ['My eyes make pictures,' &c.] 84
To a Lady, offended by a sportive observation 86
Reason for Love's Blindness 86
Lines suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius 87
The Devil's Thoughts 89
The Alienated Mistress 93
Constancy to an Ideal Object 94
The Suicide's Argument 96
The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree 97
Fancy in Nubibus 102
The Two Founts 103
Prefatory Note to the Wanderings of Cain 105
The Wanderings of Cain 109
Half-title
Remorse. / A Tragedy. / In Five Acts. / [119]
Remorse. A TRAGEDY 121
Appendix [232]
Half-title
Zapolya: / A Christmas Tale. / In Two Parts. [237]
Πὰρ πυρὶ χρὴ τοιαῦτα λέγειν χειμῶνος ἐν ὥρᾳ
_Apud Athenæum._
Advertisement [238]
Part I. The Prelude / Entitled / "The Usurper's Fortune." / [241]
Part II. The Sequel / Entitled / "The Usurper's Fate" 274
VOLUME III
The Piccolomini, / Or / The First Part of Wallenstein. / A Drama. /
Translated from the German of Schiller / 1
The / Death of Wallenstein. / A Tragedy, / In Five Acts 249
XXI
THE / POETICAL WORKS / Of / S. T. COLERIDGE, / Including the Dramas of /
Wallenstein, Remorse, and Zapolya. / In Three Volumes. / Vol. I, Vol.
II, &c. / LONDON: William Pickering. / MDCCCXXIX. [8{o}.
_Collation._--Vol. I. Title, one leaf, p. [iii]; The Imprint, Thomas
White, Printer, / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of p. [iv];
Contents, pp. [v]-x; Preface, pp. [1]-7; Half-title, JUVENILE POEMS, p.
[9]; Text, pp. [11]-353; The Imprint, Thomas White, &c., below a figure
of a girl as in No. XX, is in the centre of p. 354.
[The Half-title and Mottoes are the same as in Vol. I of 1828, No. XX.]
Vol. II. Title, one leaf; The Imprint, Thomas White, Printer, /
Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of the Reverse, unpaged; Half-title,
The Rime / of / THE ANCIENT MARINER. / In Seven Parts. /, p. [1]; Motto
from T. Burnet, _Archæol. Phil._, p. 68, p. [2]; Text, pp. [3]-394; The
Imprint, Thomas White, &c., is at the foot of p. 394.
[The Half-titles and Mottoes are the same as in Vol. II of 1828, No.
XX.]
Vol. III. For Collation see Vol. III of 1828, No. XX.
[The Title-page of this edition (Vols. I, II, III) is ornamented with
the Aldine Device, and the Motto, Aldi / Discip. / Anglvs./]
PREFACE
The Preface is the same as that of 1808 and 1828, with the addition of
the following passage (quoted as a foot-note to the sentence:--'I have
pruned the double-epithets with no sparing hand; and used my best
efforts to tame the swell and glitter both of thought and
diction.')--'Without any feeling of anger, I may yet be allowed to
express some degree of surprize, that after having run the critical
gauntlet for a certain class of faults, which I had, viz. a too ornate,
and elaborately poetic diction, and nothing having come before the
judgement-seat of the Reviewers during the long interval, I should for
at least seventeen years, quarter after quarter, have been placed by
them in the foremost rank of the _proscribed_, and made to abide the
brunt of abuse and ridicule for faults directly opposite, viz. bald and
prosaic language, and an affected simplicity both of matter and
manner--faults which assuredly did not enter into the character of my
compositions.--LITERARY LIFE, i. 51. Published 1817.' In the _Biog.
Lit._ (loc. cit.) the last seven lines of the quotation read as
follows--'judgement-seat in the interim, I should, year after year,
quarter after quarter, month after month (not to mention sundry petty
periodicals of still quicker revolution, 'or weekly or diurnal') have
been for at least seventeen years consecutively dragged forth by these
into the foremost rank of the _proscribed_, and forced to abide the
brunt of abuse, for faults directly opposite, and which I certainly had
not. How shall I explain this?'
_Contents._--The Contents of Vols. I and III are identical with the
Contents of Vols. I and III of 1828 (No. XX): A 'Song' (Tho' veiled in
spires of myrtle wreath), p. 78, and 'The Alienated Mistress: A
Madrigal' (If Love be dead, &c.), p. 93 of Vol. II, 1828, are omitted in
Vol. II of 1829; and 'The Allegoric Vision,' 'The Improvisatore, or John
Anderson, My Jo, John' [New Thoughts on old Subjects], and 'The Garden
of Boccaccio' are inserted in Vol. II of 1829; between 'The Wanderings
of Cain' and 'Remorse', pp. 116-42. The text of 1829, which J. D.
Campbell followed in _P. W._, 1893, differs from that of 1828.
XXII
The / Poetical Works / Of / Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. / Complete in
One Volume. / Paris / Published by A. and W. Galignani / No. 18, Rue
Vivienne / 1829. / [8{o}.
_Collation._--General half-title, one leaf; The imprint, Printed by
Jules Didot Senior, / Printer to His Majesty, Rue du Pont-de-Lodi, No.
6, is on the reverse of the half-title; Title, one leaf, unpaged; Notice
of the Publishers, one leaf, unpaged; half-title, The / Poetical Works /
of / Samuel Taylor Coleridge. / pp. [i-ii]; Contents, pp. [iii]-iv;
Memoir of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, pp. [v]-xi; Text, pp. [1]-225.
[_Note._--A lithographed vignette of a Harp, &c., is in the centre of
the title-page. The frontispiece consists of three portraits of
Coleridge (Northcote), Shelley, and Keats, engraved by J. T. Wedgwood.
The contents are identical with those of 1829, with the following
additions: (1) 'Recantation--illustrated in the story of the Mad Ox';
(2) 'The Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie' (as published in
the _Morning Post_, Dec. 21, 1799); (3) 'The Composition of a Kiss'; (4)
'To a Friend together with an unpublished Poem'; (5) 'The Hour when we
shall meet again'; (6) 'Lines to Joseph Cottle'; (7) 'On the Christening
of a Friend's Child'; (8) 'The Fall of Robespierre'; (9) 'What is
Life?'; (10) 'The Exchange'; (11) Seven Epigrams, viz. (1) 'Names'; (2)
Job's Luck'; (3) 'Hoarse Maevius', &c.; (4) 'There comes from old
Avaro's', &c.; (5) 'Last Monday', &c.; (6) 'Your Poem ', &c. (7) 'Swans
sing', &c. ('Job's Luck' had been republished in _The Crypt_, 1827, and
the other six in _The Keepsake_, 1829.) 'Fancy in Nubibus, or the Poet
in the Clouds' (vide _ante_, p. 435), p. 216, was repeated on p. 217,
under the title 'Sonnet, composed by the Seaside, October 1817', with
two variants, 'yield' for 'let' in line 4, and 'To' for 'Own' in line 5.
'Love's Burial-Place', and Song, 'Tho' veiled', &c., which had appeared
in 1828, were not included in _Galignani_, 1829.]
XXIII
The Devil's Walk; / A Poem. / By / Professor Porson. / Edited with a
Biographical Memoir and Notes, By / H. W. Montagu, / Author of
Montmorency, Poems, etc. etc. etc. / Illustrated with Beautiful
Engravings on wood by Bonner and / Sladen, After the Designs of R.
Cruikshank. / Γνωθι σεαυτον / London: / Marsh and Miller, Oxford Street.
/ And Constable and Co. Edinburgh. [1830.] [12{o}.
_Collation._--Title, one leaf, p. [iii]; The Imprint, London: / Printed
by Samuel Bentley, / Dorset-Street, Fleet-Street, is in the centre of p.
[iv]; Preface, pp. [v]-viii; Text, pp. [9]-32; 'Variations', p. 33;
Advertisement of New Works Published by Marsh and Miller, p. [34]-[36].
[_Note._--The motto Γνωθι κ.τ.λ may have suggested Coleridge's lines
entitled 'Self-knowledge' (_ante_, p. 487). The Pamphlet is enclosed in
a paper cover, The Devil's Walk; / By / Professor Porson. / With
Illustrations by R. Cruikshank. / London: / Marsh and Miller. / 1830. /
_Price One Shilling._ / The Illustrations consist of a Frontispiece and
five others to face pp. 10, 14, 19, 24, and 31.]
XXIV
The Devil's Walk; / a Poem. / By / S. T. Coleridge, Esq. / And / Robert
Southey, Esq. L.L. D. etc. / Edited with a Biographical Memoir, &c.
(five lines as in No. XXIII). Γνωθι σεαυτον / Second Edition. / London:
Alfred Miller, 137, Oxford Street; / And Constable, Edinburgh; /
Griffin, Glasgow; and Milliken, Dublin. / [1830]. [12{o}.
_Collation._--Title, one leaf, p. [iii]; The Imprint, as in No. XXIII,
is in the centre of p. [iv]; Advertisement, pp. [v]-vi; Preface, pp.
[vii]-x; Text, pp. 11-32; Variations, p. 33; Advertisement (as in No.
XXIII), p. [34].
[_Note._--The Advertisement, which is dated _October, 1830_, states that
the 'Devil's Walk' 'has now put forth its fifteen thousandth copy', and
apologizes for 'an error respecting its authorship'. The Second edition
forms part of a volume entitled Facetiae, Being a General Collection of
the Jeux d' Esprit which have been illustrated by Robert Cruikshank.
London: William Kidd, 6, Old Bond Street. MDCCCXXXI. It is followed by
the 'Devil's Visit', and 'The Real Devil's Walk.']
XXV
Ten Etchings, / Illustrations of the / Devil's Walk. / By / Thomas
Landseer. / London: / Published by R. G. Standing, / 24, Cornhill. /
1831. / [Folio.
_Collation._--Title, one leaf, unpaged; The imprint, London: / Henry
Baylis, Johnson's Court, Fleet-Street. /, is at the foot of the Reverse.
The Devil's Walk. A Word at Starting, pp. 1-14, is followed by the
illustrations, unpaged, with a single stanza at the foot of each
illustration.
XXVI
THE POETICAL WORKS Of / S. T. COLERIDGE / Vol. I, Vol. II, &c. / LONDON
/ William Pickering / 1834 / [8{o}.
_Collation._--Vol. I. Half-title, The Poetical Works Of / S. T.
Coleridge / In Three Volumes / Vol. I, one leaf, p. [i]; Title, one
leaf, pp. [iii]-[iv]; The Imprint, Charles Whittingham / London /, is at
the foot of p. [iv]; Preface, pp. [v]-x; Contents, pp. [xi]-xiv; Text,
pp. [1]-288; The Imprint, London: / Printed by C. Whittingham, Tooks
Court. /, is at the foot of p. 288.
Vol. II. Half-title (as in Vol. I), Vol. II, one leaf, pp. [i]-[ii];
Title, one leaf, pp. [iii]-[iv]; The Imprint (as in Vol. I) is at the
foot of p. iv: Contents, pp. [v]-vi; Text, pp. [1]-338; The Imprint (as
in Vol. I) is at the foot of p. 338.
Vol. III. Half-title (as in Vol. I), pp. [i]-[ii]; Title, one leaf, pp.
[iii]-[iv]; The Imprint (as in Vol. I) is at the foot of p. [iv];
Half-title, The Piccolomini, &c., p. [1]; Preface to the First Edition,
p. [3]; Text, pp. [5]-330; 'Love, Hope, and Patience in Education', p.
331; Erratum, p. [332]; The Imprint (as in Vol. I) is at the foot of p.
[332].
[_Note._--This edition, the last printed in the lifetime of the author,
was reprinted in 1835, 1840, 1844, 1847, &c. The Title-page is
ornamented with the Aldine device and motto as in No. XXI.]
CONTENTS
[Preface, same as 1829, No. XXI, pp. [v]-x; the titles of Poems not
published or collected before 1834 are italicized.]
Page Page of the
Half-title 1834 present
edition
JUVENILE POEMS [1]
Genevieve 3 19
Sonnet. To the Autumnal Moon 3 5
_Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital_ 4 5
Time, real and imaginary 5 419
Monody on the Death of Chatterton 6 13
Songs of the Pixies 13 40
The Raven 18 169
_Music_ 20 28
_Devonshire Roads_ 21 27
_Inside the Coach_ 22 26
_Mathematical Problem_ 23 21
_The Nose_ 27 8
_Monody on a Tea-Kettle_ 29 18
_Absence, a Farewell Ode_ 30 29
_Sonnet. On Leaving School_ 31 29
_To the Muse_ 32 9
_With Fielding's Amelia_ 33 37
_Sonnet. On hearing that his Sister's Death was
inevitable_ 33 20
_On Seeing a Youth affectionately welcomed by a
Sister_ 34 21
_The same_ 35 78
_Pain_ 35 17
_Life_ 36 11
Lines on an Autumnal Evening 36 51
The Rose 40 45
The Kiss 41 63
To a Young Ass 43 74
_Happiness_ 44 30
Domestic Peace 48 71
The Sigh 48 62
Epitaph on an Infant 49 68
_On Imitation_ 50 26
_Honor_ 50 24
_Progress of Vice_ 53 12
Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross 54 57
_Destruction of the Bastile_ 55 10
Lines to a beautiful Spring in a Village 57 58
On a Friend who died of a Frenzy Fever induced by
calumnious reports 58 76
To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French
Revolution 60 64
Sonnet I. "My Heart has thanked thee, Bowles" 62 84
---- II. "As late I lay in Slumber's Shadowy
Vale." 63 80
---- III. "Though roused by that dark vizir Riot
rude" 64 81
---- IV. "When British Freedom for a happier
land" 64 79
---- V. "It was some Spirit, Sheridan!" 65 87
---- VI. "O what a loud and fearful shriek" 66 82
---- VII. "As when far off" 66 82
---- VIII. "Thou gentle look" 67 47
---- IX. "Pale Roamer through the Night!" 68 71
---- X. "Sweet Mercy!" 68 93
---- XI. "Thou Bleedest, my Poor Heart!". 69 72
---- XII. To the Author of the Robbers. 70 72
Lines composed while climbing Brockley Coomb 70 94
Lines in the Manner of Spenser 71 94
Imitated from Ossian 73 38
The Complaint of Ninathoma 74 39
Imitated from the Welsh 75 58
To an Infant 75 91
Lines in Answer to a Letter from Bristol 76 96
To a Friend in Answer to a melancholy Letter 80 90
Religious Musings 82 108
The Destiny of Nations, a Vision 98 131
Half-title
Sibylline Leaves. / I. Poems occasioned by Political
Events / Or Feelings Connected / With
them. / [119]
Motto--When I have borne in memory, &c. (fourteen
lines), Wordsworth [120]
Ode to the Departing Year [121] 160
France, an Ode 128 243
Fears in Solitude 132 256
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter 141 237
II. LOVE POEMS [145]
Motto--eleven lines from a Latin poem of Petrarch [145]
Love [145] 330
_The Ballad of the Dark Ladie. A Fragment_ 150 293
Lewti, or the Circassian Love Chaunt 152 253
The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution 155 369
The Night Scene, a Dramatic Fragment 162 421
To an Unfortunate Woman 166 172
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre 167 171
Lines Composed in a Concert Room 168 324
The Keepsake 170 345
To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck 172 424
To a Young Lady on her recovery from a Fever 173 252
Something Childish, but very Natural 174 313
Home-sick: written in Germany 175 314
Answer to a Child's Question 176 386
A Child's Evening Prayer 176 401
The Visionary Hope 177 416
The Happy Husband 178 388
Recollections of Love 179 409
On revisiting the Sea-Shore 181 359
III. MEDITATIVE POEMS. / In Blank Verse [183]
Motto--eight lines translated from Schiller [183]
Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni 183 376
Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode in
the Hartz Forest 187 315
On observing a Blossom on the First of February 189 148
The Æolian Harp 190 100
Reflections on having left a place of
Retirement 393 106
To the Rev. George Coleridge 196 173
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath 199 381
A Tombless Epitaph 200 413
This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison 201 178
To a Friend, who had declared his intention of
writing no more Poetry 205 158
To William Wordsworth, composed on the night
after his recitation of a Poem on the growth
of an individual mind 206 403
The Nightingale 211 264
Frost at Midnight 216 240
The Three Graves 219 267
ODES AND MISCELLANEOUS POEMS 235
Dejection, an Ode 235 362
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 241 335
Ode to Tranquillity 244 360
To a Young Friend, on his proposing to
domesticate with the Author 246
Lines to W. L. while he sang a song to
Purcell's Music 249 286
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune 249 157
Sonnet. To the River Otter 250 48
---- Composed on a journey homeward after
hearing of the birth of a son 251 153
---- To a Friend 252 154
The Virgin's Cradle Hymn 252 417
Epitaph on an Infant 253 417
Melancholy, a Fragment 253 73
Tell's Birth Place 254 309
A Christmas Carol 256 338
Human Life 258 425
_Moles_ 259 430
The Visit of the Gods 259 310
Elegy, imitated from Akenside 261 69
_Separation_ 262 397
_On Taking Leave of ----_ 263 410
The Pang more sharp than all 263 457
Kubla Khan 266 295
The Pains of Sleep 270 389
_Limbo_ 272 429
_Ne plus ultra_ 273 431
Apologetic Preface to Fire, Famine, and
Slaughter 274
END OF VOL. I
VOLUME II
THE ANCIENT MARINER.
Part I. 1 187
" II. 5 189
" III. 7 192
" IV. 10 196
" V. 13 198
" VI. 18 202
" VII. 23 206
CHRISTABEL, Part I 28 213
Conclusion to Part I 39 225
Part II 41 227
Conclusion to Part II 53 235
Half-title
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS [55]
Motto Ἔρωϛ ἀεί, &c. In many ways, &c. (four lines)
_Alice du Clos; or, the Forked Tongue. A
Ballad_ 57 469
_The Knight's Tomb_ 64 432
_Hymn to the Earth_ 65 327
_Written during a temporary blindness, 1799_ 67 305
_Mahomet_ 68 329
_Catullian Hendecasyllables_ 69 307
Duty surviving Self-Love 69 459
Phantom or Fact? a dialogue in Verse 70 484
_Phantom_ 71 393
Work without Hope 71 447
Youth and Age 72 439
A Day Dream 74 385
First Advent of Love 76 443
_Names_ 76 318
_Desire_ 77 485
_Love and Friendship opposite_ 77 484
_Not at home_ 77 484
To a Lady offended by a sportive observation 78 418
Lines suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius 79 460
_Sancti Dominici Pallium_ 80 448
The Devil's Thoughts 83 319
_The two round Spaces on the Tombstone_ 87 353
_Lines to a Comic Author_ 89 476
Constancy to an Ideal Object 90 455
The Suicide's Argument 91 419
The Blossoming of the Solitary Date Tree 92 395
_From the German_ 95 311
Fancy in Nubibus 96 435
The Two Founts 96 454
The Wanderings of Cain 99 288
Allegoric Vision 109 1091
New Thoughts on Old Subjects 117 462
The Garden of Boccaccio 127 478
_On a Cataract_ 131 308
_Love's Apparition and Evanishment_ 132 488
_Morning Invitation to a Child_ 133
_Consolation of a Maniac_ 135
_A Character_ 137 451
_The Reproof and Reply_ 140 441
_Cholera Cured beforehand_ 142
_Cologne_ 144 477
_On my joyful departure from the same City_ 144 477
_Written in an Album_ 145
_To the Author of the Ancient Mariner_ 145
_Metrical Feet. Lesson for a Boy_ 145 401
_The Homeric Hexameter described and
exemplified_ 146 307
_The Ovidian Hexameter described and
exemplified_ 146 308
_To the Young Artist, Kayser of Kayserworth_ 147 490
_Job's Luck_ 147
_On a Volunteer Singer_ 148
_On an Insignificant_ 148
_Profuse Kindness_ 148
_Charity in Thought_ 148 486
_Humility the Mother of Charity_ 149 486
_On an Infant which died before Baptism_ 149 312
_On Berkeley and Florence Coleridge_ 149
""Γνῶθι σεαυτόν, _&c._ 150 487
"_Gently I took_," _&c._ 151 488
_My Baptismal Birthday_ 151 490
_Epitaph_ 152 491
Half-title
Remorse! / A Tragedy. / In Five Acts. / [153]
Dramatis Personae. [154] 819
Remorse. 155 820
Appendix. [237] 881
Half-title, Motto, &c.
Zapolya: / A Christmas Tale / In Two Parts / [241]
Advertisement. [242] 883
Zapolya. [243] 884
END OF VOL. II
VOLUME III
Half-title
The Piccolomini; / Or, the First Part of
Wallenstein. / A Drama. /Translated from
the German of Schiller. / [1]
Preface to the First edition [3] 598
The Piccolomini [5] 600
Half-title
The / Death of Wallenstein. / A Tragedy. / In Five
Acts: / [193]
Preface of The Translator / To the First
Edition. / [195] 724
Dramatis Personae [198] 726
The Death of Wallenstein [199] 726
Love, Hope, and Patience in Education 331 481
Erratum [332]
XXVII
THE POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; With a Life
of the Author. London: John Thomas Cox, 84 High Holborn. MDCCCXXXVI.
[8{o}, pp. lxxviii + 403.
The Life of the Author is followed by an Appendix containing
'Coleridge's Will', and 'Contemporary Notices of the Writings and
Character of Coleridge'.
The Contents consist of the Poems published in 1797, together with 'The
Nightingale'; 'Love'; 'The Ancient Mariner'; 'The Foster Mother's Tale';
four poems and seven sonnets reprinted from 1796; 'On a late Connubial
Rupture'; and the 'Three Sonnets . . . in the manner of Contemporary
Writers' reprinted from the _Poetical Register_. The Poems conclude with
'A Couplet, written in a volume of Poems presented by Mr. Coleridge to
Dr. A.'--a highly respected friend, the loss of whose society he deeply
regretted--
To meet, to know, to love--and then to part,
Is the sad tale of many a human heart.
For the 'Couplet', vide _ante_, p. 410, 'To Two Sisters', ll. 1, 2. Dr.
A. was probably John Anster, LL.D., the translator of Goethe's _Faust_.
The Dramatic Works consist of 'The Piccolomini' and 'The Death of
Wallenstein'.
XXVIII
THE POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with a Life
of the Author. London: Tho{s}. Allman 42 Holborn Hill 1837.
[16{mo}, pp. viii + 392.
_Note._--The 'Life of the Author' does not form part of this edition.
The Contents are identical with those of No. XXVII. The frontispiece
depicts the 'Ancient Mariner' and the 'Wedding Guest'. The title-page,
'Drawn and Engraved by J. Romney,' is embellished with a curious
vignette depicting a man in a night-cap lying in bed. A wife, or
daughter, is in attendance. The vignette was probably designed to
illustrate some other work.
XXIX
THE POETICAL WORKS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge with Life of the Author.
London: Charles Daly, 14, Leicester Street, Leicester Square, _n. d._
[16{mo}, pp. xxxii + [35]-384.
The Contents consist of 'The Ancient Mariner' (with the marginal glosses
printed at the end of the poem); the Poems of 1796, 1797, with a few
exceptions: 'The Piccolomini'; 'The Death of Wallenstein'; 'The Dark
Ladié'; 'The Raven'; 'A Christmas Carol'; and 'Fire, Famine, and
Slaughter'--i. e. of poems then out of copyright, or reprinted from the
_Morning Post_.
XXX
The Ancient Mariner, and other Poems. By S. T. Coleridge. Price
Sixpence. London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-Row.
MDCCCXLIII. J. Scott, Printer, 50, Hatfield Street.
[16{mo}, pp. iv + 148.
_Note._--This edition formed one of the 'Pocket English Classics'. An
illustrated title-page depicts the 'skiff-boat' with its crew of the
Ancient Mariner, the Holy Hermit, the Pilot, and the Pilot's boy, who is
jumping overboard. The flag bears the legend 'The Antient Mariner and
Minor Poems By S. T. Coleridge'. The Contents include 'The Ancient
Mariner', with the marginal glosses printed at the end of the poem; and
a selection of poems published in 1796, 1797.
XXXI
THE POEMS of S. T. Coleridge [Aldine device and motto] London William
Pickering 1844. [8{o}, pp. xvi + 372.
_Note._--The Contents of this volume, issued by Mrs. H. N. Coleridge as
sole editress, consist of the Poems (not the Dramatic Works) included in
1834, with the following omissions, (1) Music, (2) Devonshire Roads, (3)
Inside the Coach, (4) Mathematical Problem, (5) The Nose, (6) Monody on
a Tea-kettle, (7) 'The Same,' 'I too a sister had', &c., (8) On
Imitation, (9) Honor, (10) Progress of Vice, (11) The Two round spaces
on the Tombstone; and the following additions, already republished in
_Lit. Remains_, 1836, Vol. I, (1) Epigram, 'Hoarse Mævius', &c., (2)
Casimir ad Lyram, (3) On the Christening of a Friend's Child, (4)
Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie, (5) An Ode to the Rain, (6)
The Exchange, (7) Complaint, 'How seldom, Friend', &c., (8) 'What is
Life', (9) Inscription for a Time-Piece, (10) Ἐπιτάφιον αὐτόγραπτον. Four
songs from the dramas were also included. The German originals of (1)
Schiller's 'Lines on a Cataract', (2) Friederike Brun's 'Chamouny at
Sunrise', and (3) Schiller's distiches on the 'Homeric Hexameter' and
the 'Ovidian Elegiac Metre' are printed on pp. 371, 372.
XXXII
THE POEMS of S. T. Coleridge [Aldine device and motto] London William
Pickering 1848. [8{o}, pp. xvi + 372.
The Contents are identical with those of No. XXXI, with the exception of
two additional 'Notes' (pp. 371, 372) containing the German original of
Matthisson's _Milesisches Märchen_, and two stanzas of Cotton's
_Chlorinda_, of which 'Separation' (_ante_, p. 397) is an adaptation.
XXXIII
THE RAVEN, A Christmas Tale, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Esq.
Illustrated with Eight Plates, By an Old Traveller. [_n. d._]
_Collation._--Oblong folio, pp. i-vi + eight scenes unpaged, faced by
eight lithographs.
XXXIV
THE POEMS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent and Sara
Coleridge. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1852.
[8{o}, pp. xxvii ('Advertisement', and 'Editors' Preface to the
Present Edition', pp. [v]-xiv) + 378 + 'Notes', pp. [379]-388.
_ADVERTISEMENT_
This volume was prepared for the press by my lamented sister, Mrs. H. N.
Coleridge, and will have an additional interest to many readers as the
last monument of her highly-gifted mind. At her earnest request, my name
appears with hers on the title-page, but the assistance rendered by me
has been, in fact, little more than mechanical. The preface, and the
greater part of the notes, are her composition:--the selection and
arrangement have been determined almost exclusively by her critical
judgment, or from records in her possession. A few slight corrections
and unimportant additions are all that have been found necessary, the
first and last sheets not having had the benefit of her own revision.
DERWENT COLERIDGE.
ST. MARK'S COLLEGE, CHELSEA,
_May_ 1852.
PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION [1852]
As a chronological arrangement of Poetry in completed collections is now
beginning to find general favour, pains have been taken to follow this
method in the present Edition of S. T. Coleridge's Poetical and Dramatic
Works, as far as circumstances permitted--that is to say, as far as the
date of composition of each poem was ascertainable, and as far as the
plan could be carried out without effacing the classes into which the
Author had himself distributed his most important poetical publication,
the 'Sibylline Leaves,' namely, POEMS OCCASIONED BY POLITICAL EVENTS, OR
FEELINGS CONNECTED WITH THEM; LOVE POEMS; MEDITATIVE POEMS IN BLANK
VERSE; ODES AND MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. On account of these impediments,
together with the fact, that many a poem, such as it appears in its
ultimate form, is the growth of different periods, the agreement with
chronology in this Edition is approximative rather than perfect: yet in
the majority of instances the date of each piece has been made out, and
its place fixed accordingly.
In another point of view also, the Poems have been distributed with
relation to time: they are thrown into three broad groups, representing,
first the Youth,--secondly, the Early Manhood and Middle Life,--thirdly,
the Declining Age of the Poet; and it will be readily perceived that
each division has its own distinct tone and colour, corresponding to the
period of life in which it was composed. It has been suggested, indeed,
that Coleridge had four poetical epochs, more or less diversely
characterised,--that there is a discernible difference betwixt the
productions of his Early Manhood and of his Middle Age, the latter being
distinguished from those of his Stowey life, which may be considered as
his poetic prime, by a less buoyant spirit. Fire they have; but it is
not the clear, bright, mounting fire of his earlier poetry, conceived
and executed when 'he and youth were house-mates still.' In the course
of a very few years after three-and-twenty all his very finest poems
were produced; his twenty-fifth year has been called his _annus
mirabilis_. To be a 'Prodigal's favourite--[1169:1]then, worse truth! a
Miser's pensioner,' is the lot of Man. In respect of poetry, Coleridge
was a 'Prodigal's favourite,' more, perhaps, than ever Poet was before.
* * * * *
[The poems] produced before the Author's twenty-fourth year [1796],
devoted as he was to the 'soft strains' of Bowles, have more in common
with the passionate lyrics of Collins and the picturesque wildness of
the pretended Ossian, than with the well-tuned sentimentality of that
Muse which the overgrateful poet has represented as his earliest
inspirer. For the young they will ever retain a peculiar charm, because
so fraught with the joyous spirit of youth; and in the minds of all
readers that feeling which disposes men 'to set the bud above the rose
full-blown' would secure them an interest, even if their intrinsic
beauty and sweetness were less adequate to obtain it.
* * * * *
The present Editors have been guided in the general arrangement of this
edition by those of 1817 and 1828, which may be held to represent the
author's matured judgment upon the larger and more important part of
his poetical productions. They have reason, indeed, to believe, that the
edition of 1828 was the last upon which he was able to bestow personal
care and attention. That of 1834, the last year of his earthly
sojourning, a period when his thoughts were wholly engrossed, so far as
the decays of his frail outward part left them free for intellectual
pursuits and speculations, by a grand scheme of Christian Philosophy, to
the enunciation of which in a long projected work his chief thoughts and
aspirations had for many years been directed, was arranged mainly, if
not entirely, at the discretion of his earliest Editor, H. N.
Coleridge. . . Such alterations only have been made in this final
arrangement of the Poetical and Dramatic Works of S. T. Coleridge, by
those into whose charge they have devolved, as they feel assured, both
the Author himself and his earliest Editor would at this time find to be
either necessary or desirable. The observations and experience of
eighteen years, a period long enough to bring about many changes in
literary opinion, have satisfied them that the immature essays of
boyhood and adolescence, not marked with any such prophetic note of
genius as certainly does belong to the four school-boy poems they have
retained, tend to injure the general effect of a body of poetry. That a
writer, especially a writer of verse, should keep out of sight his
third-rate performances, is now become a maxim with critics; for they
are not, at the worst, effectless: they have an effect, that of diluting
and weakening, to the reader's feelings, the general power of the
collection. Mr. Coleridge himself constantly, after 1796, rejected a
certain portion of his earliest published _Juvenilia_: never printed any
attempts of his boyhood, except those four with which the present
publication commences, and there can be no doubt that the Editor of 1834
would ere now have come to the conclusion, that only such of the
Author's early performances as were sealed by his own approval ought to
form a permanent part of the body of his poetical works.
* * * * *
It must be added, that time has robbed of their charm certain sportive
effusions of Mr. Coleridge's later years, which were given to the public
in the first gloss and glow of novelty in 1834, and has proved that,
though not devoid of the quality of genius, they possess upon the whole,
not more than an ephemeral interest. These the Editors have not scrupled
to omit on the same grounds and in the same confidence that has been
already explained.
* * * * *
S. C.
CHESTER PLACE, REGENT'S PARK.
_March_, 1852.
The Contents of 1852 correspond with those of 1844, 1848, with the
following omissions: (1) Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital;
(2) Sonnet, 'Farewell, parental scenes', &c.; (3) To the Muse; (4) With
Fielding's Amelia; (5) Sonnet, 'On receiving an account', &c.; (6)
Sonnet, 'On seeing a Youth', &c.; (7) Pain; (8) Epigram, 'Hoarse
Mævius', &c.; (9) Casimir ad Lyram; (10) 'On the Christening', &c.; (11)
Elegy imitated from Akenside; (12) Phantom; (13) Allegoric Vision; (14)
Reproof and Reply; (15) Written in an Album, 'Parry', &c.; (16) To the
Author of the Ancient Mariner; (17) Job's Luck; (18) On a Volunteer
Singer; together with four songs from the dramas.
The additions were (1) Sonnet to Pitt, 'Not always', &c.; (2) Sonnet,
'Not Stanhope', &c.; (3) To the Author of Poems published anonymously at
Bristol; (4) The Day-Dream, 'If thou wert here', &c.; (5) The
Foster-Mother's Tale; (6) A Hymn; (7) The Alienated Mistress. A
Madrigal; (8) To a Lady, 'Tis not the lily brow', &c.; (9) Song, 'Tho'
veiled', &c.; (10) L'envoy. 'In vain we supplicate', &c.
The Notes, pp. 379-88, contain, _inter alia_, the Latin original of
'Kisses' (vide _ante_, p. 46), and the Sonnet, 'No more my visionary
Soul shall dwell', attributed by Southey to Favell (vide _ante_, p. 68).
XXXV
THE DRAMATIC WORKS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent
Coleridge. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1852.
[8{o}, pp. xvi + 427.
CONTENTS
Remorse. A Tragedy in Five Acts.
Zapolya. A Christmas Tale. In two Parts. Part I. The Prelude, &c.
Zapolya. Part II. The Sequel, entitled 'The Usurper's Fate.'
The Piccolomini; or the first part of 'Wallenstein.' A Drama.
Translated from Schiller.
The Death of Wallenstein. A Tragedy. In Five Acts.
Notes.
_Note._--The Preface contains a critical estimate of _Remorse_ and
_Zapolya_, and of the translation of Schiller's _Wallenstein_. At the
close of the Preface [pp. xii-xiv] the Editor comments on the strictures
of a writer in the _Westminster Review_, Art. 3 July 1850 (vide _ante_,
p. 811), and upholds the merits of the Translation as a whole. The
Preface is dated 'St. Mark's College, Chelsea, _July_, 1852'.
XXXVI
THE COMPLETE WORKS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With an Introductory
Essay upon his Philosophical and Theological opinions. Edited by
Professor Shedd. In Seven Volumes. Vol. vii. New York: Harper &
Brothers, Publishers, Nos. 329 and 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square.
1853.
Second Title.--The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1853. [8{o}, pp. xiv + 15-702.
The Contents are identical with those of 1834, with ten additions first
collected in 1844. The Fall of Robespierre is included in the Dramatic
Works. 'Lines in Answer to a Letter from Bristol', pp. 67-70, are
reprinted as 'Lines Written at Shurton Bars near Bridgewater', pp. 103-5
(vide _ante_, p. 96). Vol. vii was republished with an Index to the
preceding six volumes in 1854.
XXXVII
THE POEMS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent and Sara
Coleridge. With a Biographical Memoir By Ferdinand Freiligrath.
Copyright Edition. Leipzig Bernhard Tauchnitz 1860.
_Collation._--General Half-title, one leaf, Collection of British
Authors. Vol. 512. The Poems, &c. (4 lines). In One Volume, p. [i];
Title, p. [iii]; Half-title, Biographical Memoir of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge. By Ferdinand Freiligrath, p. [iv]; Advertisements, p. [v];
Biographical Memoir, pp. [vi]-xxviii; Advertisement (to ed. of 1852),
p. xxix; Preface, pp. [xxxi]-xl; Contents, pp. [xli]-xlv. Text, pp.
[1]-336; Notes, pp. [337]-344.
XXXVIII
THE POEMS of S. T. Coleridge. London: Bell and Daldy. 1862.
[16{mo}, pp. xiii + 299.
XXXIX
THE POEMS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent and Sara
Coleridge. With an Appendix. A New Edition. London: Edward Moxon & Co.,
Dover Street. 1863.
[8{o}, pp. xxvii + [1]-378 + Notes, pp. [379]-388 + Appendix, pp.
[391]-404.
The text of the Poems is identical with that of 1852, but a fresh
'Advertisement', pp. [iii]-iv, is prefixed to the 'Advertisement' dated
May, 1852.
_ADVERTISEMENT_
The last authorised edition of S. T. Coleridge's Poems, published by Mr.
Moxon in 1852, bears the names of Derwent and Sara Coleridge, as joint
editors. In writing my name with my sister's, I yielded to her
particular desire and request, but the work was performed almost
entirely by herself. My opinion was consulted as to the general
arrangement, and more especially as to the choice or rejection of
particular pieces. Even here I had no occasion to do more than confirm
the conclusions to which she had herself arrived, and sanction the
course which she had herself adopted. I shared in the responsibility,
but cannot claim any share in the credit of the undertaking. This
edition I propose to leave intact as it came from her own hands. I wish
it to remain as one among other monuments of her fine taste, her solid
judgment, and her scrupulous conscientiousness.
A few pieces of some interest appear, however, to have been overlooked.
Two characteristic sonnets, not included in any former edition of the
Poems, have been preserved in an anonymous work, entitled 'Letters,
Recollections, and Conversations of S. T. Coleridge.' These with a
further selection from the omitted pieces, principally from the Juvenile
Poems, have been added in an Appendix. So placed, they will not at any
rate interfere with the general effect of the collection, while they add
to its completeness.
All these buds of promise were once withdrawn, and, afterwards
reproduced by the Author. It is not easy now to draw a line of
separation, which shall not be deemed either too indulgent, or too
severe. [The concluding lines of the 'Advertisement' dealt with
questions of copyright].
DERWENT COLERIDGE.
APPENDIX
[First printed in 1863.]
1. To Nature. [_Letters, Conversations_, &c., 1836, i. 144.]
2. Farewell to Love. [Ibid., i. 143.]
3. 'I yet remain', &c. [First six lines by W. L. Bowles.]
4. Count Rumford's Essays. [By W. L. Bowles.]
5. 'The early Year's', &c. [Ver perpetuum, _ante_, p. 148.]
6. To the Rev. W. J. H. [1796.]
7. To a Primrose. [_The Watchman_.]
8. On the Christening of a Friend's Child. [1797.]
9. Mutual Passion. [_Sibylline Leaves._]
10. From a Young Lady. [The Silver Thimble, _ante_, p. 104.]
11. Translation of a Paraphrase of the Gospels. [_Biog. Lit._, 1807,
i. 203, 204.]
12. Israel's Lament. [_Ante_, pp. 433, 434.]
_Notes._--(1) No. 4 forms part of a Poem 'On Mr. Howard's Account of
Lazarettos,' _Sonnets, with other Poems_, 1794, pp. 52, 53. See Mr. T.
Hutchinson's note in the _Athenæum_, May 3, 1902.
(2) An MS. of No. 10, 'From a Young Lady', is preserved in the library
of Rugby School. The poem is dated August, 1795, and is partly in the
'Young Lady's' handwriting. It is signed 'Sara[*h*] Fricker', a proof
that her future husband meant from the first to alter the spelling of
her name.
(3) The frontispiece of this edition is a lithograph by W. Hall of a
portrait of Coleridge, aet. 26, formerly in the possession of Thomas
Poole.
XL
THE POEMS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by Derwent and Sara
Coleridge. With an Appendix. A new and enlarged edition, with a brief
Life of the author. London: E. Moxon and Co., 44 Dover Street. [1870.]
[8{o}, pp. lxvii + 429.
_Note._--The Contents of 1870 are identical with those of 1863, with the
addition of an Introductory Essay (i. e. a Critical Memoir) by Derwent
Coleridge, pp. xxiii-lix. 'The Rime of the Ancyent Mariner,' in Seven
Parts, was reprinted verbatim from the original as it appeared in
_Lyrical Ballads_, 1798. The Introductory Memoir (an 'Essay in a Brief
Model') has never been reprinted.
XLI
THE RAVEN. A Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Illustrated by Ella
Hallward With an Introduction by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge. H. S.
Nichols L{td}, 39 Charing Cross Road London W.C. MDCCCXCVIII. [4{o}.
_Note._--The text is printed on 14 sheets, unpaged. There are thirteen
illustrations and other embellishments.
XLII
OSORIO A Tragedy _As originally written in_ 1797 By Samuel Taylor
Coleridge Now first printed from a Copy recently discovered by the
Publisher with the Variorum Readings of 'Remorse' and a Monograph on The
History of the Play in its earlier and later form by the Author of
'Tennysoniana' London John Pearson York Street Covent Garden 1873.
[8{o}, pp. xxii + 204.
XLIII
THE POETICAL WORKS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edited with an
Introductory Memoir and Illustrations by William B. Scott. London.
George Routledge and Sons. [1874.] [8{o}, pp. xxviii + 420.
XLIV
THE POETICAL WORKS OF COLERIDGE AND KEATS With a Memoir of Each Four
Volumes in Two. New York Published by Hurd and Houghton Boston: H. O.
Houghton and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1878. [8{o}.
Vol. I, pp. cxl + 372.
Vol. II, pp. vi + 331 + pp. xxxvi + 438 (Life and Poetical Works of
Keats).
_Note._--This edition was a reprint of the 'Poetical and Dramatic Works'
of 1852.
XLV
THE POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. FOUNDED ON
THE AUTHOR'S LATEST EDITION OF 1834 WITH MANY ADDITIONAL PIECES NOW
FIRST INCLUDED, AND A COLLECTION OF VARIOUS READINGS Volume the First
[Volume the Second, &c.] [The Aldine device and motto.] London Basil
Montagu Pickering 196 Piccadilly 1877. [Reissued, with additions and
with the imprint of London Macmillan and Co. 1880.]
_Contents._--Vol. I. Contents, &c., pp. viii; Memoir of S. T. Coleridge,
pp. [ix]-cxviii; Poems, pp. [1]-217; Appendix (including Southey's
Translation of a 'Greek Ode on Astronomy', &c.), pp. 219-224.
Vol. II. Contents, &c., pp. xii; Poems, pp. [1]-352; Supplement, pp.
355*-364*; Appendix, pp. 353-381.
Vol. III. Remorse, and Zapolya, pp. 290.
Vol. IV. Fall of Robespierre, and _Translation of Schiller's
'Wallenstein'_, pp. 413.
_Note._--The Editor, Richard Herne Shepherd, included in the first two
volumes the poems published by Coleridge in 1796, 1797, _An. Anth._,
1800, 1803, _Sibylline Leaves_ (1817), 1828, 1829, 1834, together with
those published by H. N. Coleridge in _Literary Remains_, 1836, by Sara
and Derwent Coleridge in 1844, 1852 (with the exception of the Hymn,
1814), and by Derwent Coleridge in the Appendix of 1863.
The following poems collected from various sources were reprinted for
the first time:--
Vol. I. (1) Julia; (2) First version of the Sonnet to the Rev. W. L.
Bowles; (3) On a late Connubial Rupture; (4) Sonnets signed Nehemiah
Higginbottom.
Vol. II. (1) Talleyrand to Lord Granville; (2) A Stranger Minstrel; (3)
To Two Sisters, &c.; (4) Water Ballad; (5) Modern Critics; (6) 'The Poet
in his lone', &c. [Apologia, &c., _ante_, p. 345]; (7) Song, ex
improviso, &c.; (8) The Old Man of the Alps; (9) Three Epigrams from
_The Watchman_; (10) Sonnet on the birth of a son; (11) On Deputy
----; (12) To a Musical Critic; (13) Εγωενκαιπαν; (14) The Bridge-street
Committee; (15) 'What boots to tell', &c.; (16) Mr. Baker's Courtship;
(17) Lines in a German Student's Album; (18) On Kepler; (19) Distich
from the Greek.
The Supplement published in 1880 (Vol. II, pp. 355*-364*) contains (1)
Monody on Chatterton [First Version]; (2) To the Evening Star; (3) Anna
and Harland; (4) Translation of Wrangham's _Hendecasyllabi_, &c.; (5) To
Miss Brunton; (6) The Mad Monk. Bibliographical matter of interest and
importance is contained in the Memoir, and in the Notes to Vol. II, pp.
375-381. Variants of the text, derived from the _Morning Post_, and from
earlier editions, are printed as footnotes to the text. In Vol. III. the
Editor supplies a collation of the text of _Remorse_ as published in
1852 with that of _Osorio_ [London: John Pearson, 1873] and with that of
the First and Second Editions of _Remorse_ published in 1813.
XLVI
The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With Life. Engravings on
Steel. Gale and Inglis. Edinburgh: Bernard Terrace. London: 26
Paternoster Square. [1881.] [8{o}, pp. xxviii + 420.
_Note._--This edition includes the _Fall of Robespierre_, and
_Christobell_. _A Gothic Tale_ as published in the _European Magazine_,
April, 1815.
XLVII
THE POETICAL WORKS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edited with Introduction
and Notes by T. Ashe, B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge In Two
Volumes. London George Bell and Sons, York Street Covent Garden 1885.
[The Frontispiece of Vol. I is a portrait of S. T. Coleridge, aet. 23,
from a crayon drawing by Robert Hancock: of Vol. II, a view of Greta
Hall, Keswick.] [8{o}.
Vol. I. Title, &c., pp. [iii]-xiv; Introduction, &c., pp. [xv]-clxxxvi;
Poems, pp. 1-212.
Vol. II. Contents, &c., pp. [v]-xiii; Poems, pp. 1-409.
_Note._--Section 3 of the Introduction, pp. cxxxviii-clxxxvi, supplies a
Bibliography of the Poems. The Dramas are not included in the _Poetical
Works_. In the 'Table of Contents' poems not included in 1834 are marked
by an asterisk, but of these only three, (1) 'The Tears of a Grateful
People'; (2) 'The Humour of Pallas' ['My Godmother's Beard'], and (3)
'Lines written in the Common Place Book of Miss Barbour', were collected
for the first time. The 'Introduction', the work of a genuine poet,
contains much that is valuable and interesting, but the edition as a
whole is by no means an advancement on _P. and D. W._, 1877-1880.
XLVIII
THE POETICAL WORKS of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edited with a Biographical
Introduction by James Dykes Campbell [=London=] Macmillan and Co. And
New York 1893 _All rights reserved._ [8{o}, pp. cxxiv + 667.
_Contents._--Authorities cited in the Introduction--Corrigenda, p. vi;
Preface, pp. [vii]-x; Introduction, pp. [xi]-cxxiv; Poems, pp. [1]-210;
Dramatic Works, pp. [211]-442; Addenda, (i) Epigrams, pp. [443]-453,
(ii) Fragments from a Common Place Book, pp. 453-458, (iii) Fragments
from various sources, pp. [459]-470; (iv) Adaptations, pp. [471]-474;
Appendix A. The Raven, pp. [475]-476; Appendix B. Greek Prize Ode, &c.
[from MS.], pp. 476-477; Appendix C. To a Young Ass [from MS.], pp.
477-478; Appendix D. Osorio [from MSS.], pp. 479-512; Appendix E. The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner [1798], pp. 512-520; Appendix F. Mont Blanc.
The Summit of the Vale of Chamouny, an Hour before Sunrise--An Hymn
(_Coleorton Letters_, 1887, i. 26-29), pp. 521-522; Appendix G.
Dejection: An Ode (_M. P._, Oct. 4, 1802), pp. 522-524; Appendix H. To a
Gentleman [W. Wordsworth] (_Coleorton Letters_, i. 213-218), pp.
525-526; Appendix I. Apologetic Preface to 'Fire, Famine and Slaughter',
pp. 527-533; Appendix J. Allegoric Verses, pp. 534-537; Appendix K.
Titles, Prefaces, and Contents, &c., pp. 537-559; Notes, pp. [561]-654;
Index to the Poems, &c., pp. [655]-659; Index to First Lines, pp.
[661]-667.
The Poems include all those published in 1877-1880 with the addition of
the _Hymn_, first published in 1852, and the omission of 'The Old Man of
the Alps' (_M. P._, Apr. 13, 1798) together with the following pieces
collected for the first time (*), or printed for the first time from
MSS. (MS.):--(1) Dura Navis (MS.); (2) Nil pejus, &c. (MS.); (3) Quae
nocent, &c. (MS.); (4) Invocation (MS.); (5) On a Lady Weeping (MS.);
(6) A Wish written, &c. (MS.); (7) An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon
(MS.); (8) A Lover's Complaint, &c.; (9) To Fortune (*); (10) The Faded
Flower (*); (11) On Bala Hill [by R. Southey] (MS.); (12) Count Rumford
[by W. L. Bowles] (*); (13) Verses to J. Horne Tooke (*); (14) Ad
Vilmum Axiologum (MS.); (15) The Snowdrop (MS.); (16) To Matilda Betham,
&c. (*); (17) Homeless (*); (18) Sonnet. Translated from Marini (MS.)
(19) A Sunset (MS.); (20) Tears of a Grateful People (*); (21) To Mary
Pridham (MS.).
Of the Epigrams, pp. 443-455, the following were first printed from MS.,
(1) 'You're careful', &c.; (2) 'Say what you will', &c.; (3) On an
Insignificant 'No doleful', &c.; (4) On a Slanderer 'From yonder tomb',
&c.; (5) 'Money I've heard', &c.
Of fifty-four Fragments from a Common Place Book eighteen were first
printed in _Literary Remains_, i. 277-281, and the rest were published
or collected for the first time: of sixty-six Fragments from Various
Sources thirty-three were first published from MSS., and others were
collected for the first time.
Much had been accomplished by the Editor of _P. and D. W._, 1877-1880,
but the excellence of the critical apparatus, the style and substance of
the critical and explanatory notes, and the amount and quality of fresh
material have made and must continue to make the Edition of 1893 the
standard edition of Coleridge's _Poetical Works_. The 'Introductory
Memoir' was republished as 'A Narrative of the Life of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge', Macmillan, 1894.
XLIX
COLERIDGE'S POEMS _A Facsimile Reproduction Of The Proofs And MSS. Of
Some_ OF THE POEMS EDITED BY THE LATE JAMES DYKES CAMPBELL _Author of
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Narrative of the Events of his Life"; and
Editor of "The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge."_ With Preface
and Notes By W. Hale White Westminster Archibald Constable and Co. 1899.
_Note._--This volume contains a reprint of a volume of proofs endorsed
'Coleridge's MSS. Corrected Copy of a Work'--'Mr. Cottle's', and a
facsimile reproduction of three MSS., with the original erasures and
alternative readings. The volume of proofs formerly in the possession of
J. Dykes Campbell was reproduced by him, and he added the facsimile of
the MSS. in the British Museum which he had deciphered and prepared for
publication. Four years after his death the sheets were bound up and
published with an elucidatory preface by Mr. W. Hale White. A copy of
this literary curiosity as it was left by Mr. Campbell, without the
Preface, is in the possession of the Editor.
L
CHRISTABEL By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Illustrated by a Facsimile of the
Manuscript And by Textual and other Notes By Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Hon. F.R.S.L. London: Henry Frowde MCMVII. [8{o}, pp. ix + 113.
_Note._--The Frontispiece is a photogravure (by Emery Walker) of a
pastel drawing of S. T. Coleridge aet. 26. The Collotype Facsimile
(thirty-eight leaves unpaged) is inserted between pp. 53 and 54. The
text, as collated with three MSS., two transcriptions, and the First
Edition, &c., is on pp. 61-96; a Bibliographical Index [Appendix IV] on
pp. 111-113. This Edition (dedicated to the Poet's grand-daughters Edith
and Christabel Rose Coleridge) was issued by Henry Frowde at the expense
of the Royal Society of Literature.
LI
THE POEMS OF COLERIDGE With An Introduction By Ernest Hartley Coleridge
And Illustrations By Gerald Metcalfe John Lane The Bodley Head London,
W. John Lane Company New York.
[8{o}, pp. xxxi + 460 + Index to the Poems [461]-466 + Index to First
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were not subject to the law of copyright:--'The Walk Before Supper',
'The Reproof and Reply', and 'Sancti Dominici Pallium' were printed for
the first time from the original MSS.
LII
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by Twenty-Five Poetic and Dramatic Scenes, Designed and Etched By David
Scott, Member of the Scottish Academy of Painting. Edinburgh: Alexander
Hill, 50, Princes Street; Ackermann & Co. London. M. DCCC. XXXVII.
[Folio.
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title-page. Scenes from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, By
David Scott, S.A. [Etching of the Ancient Mariner on a storm-tost coast
ringing a bell, with a motto (_from Kubla Khan_) "All who saw would cry
Beware", COLERIDGE.] Edinburgh Published By Alex{r}. Hill, 50 Princes
Street 1837. The cloth binding is embellished with a vignette--a lyre
encircled by a winged serpent.
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[Oblong Folio.
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illustrations. The title-page and cloth binding are embellished with a
symbolic vignette--a cross-bow, with twisted snake, resting on a cross
encircled with stars.
LIV
THE POETICAL WORKS of Samuel T. Coleridge Edited, with a Critical
Memoir, By William Michael Rossetti. Illustrated By Thomas Seccombe.
London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co., Dover Street. [8{o}, pp. xxxii + 424.
_Note._--In a Note affixed to the 'Prefatory Notice' the Editor states
that this edition includes all Coleridge's 'Dramas . . . with the
exception of _Zapolya_. In lieu of this _The Fall of Robespierre_, which
has never as yet been reprinted in England, is introduced.'
FOOTNOTES:
[1135:1]
Felix curarum &c.
. . . . . . . . . . . . Nos otia vitae
Solamur cantu, ventosaque gaudia famae
Quaerimus.
STATIUS, _Silvarum_ lib. iv, iv, ll. 46-51.
[1135:2] The following Advertisement was issued on a separate sheet:--
London, April 16. / _This day was Published._ / Printed on Wove Paper,
and Hot-Pressed, / Price 5_s._ in Boards,--Fools-cap 8 vo. / POEMS / ON
VARIOUS SUBJECTS, by / S. T. COLERIDGE, / Late of Jesus College,
Cambridge. / [=London=]: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinsons,
Pater-Noster Row, and / J. Cottle, Bookseller, Bristol; and to be had of
the / PUBLISHERS of the WATCHMAN / 1796. /
[1136:1] From 'An Evening Address to a Nightingale', by Cuthbert
Shaw--Anderson's _British Poets_, xi. 564.
[1136:2]
'Why may not LANGHORNE, simple in his lay,
_Effusion_ on _Effusion_, pour away?'
_The Candidate_, ll. 41-2.
[1140:1] The ancient little Wits wrote many poems in the shape of Eggs,
Altars, and Axes. (_MS. Note by S. T. C._)
[1140:2] The title of the volume is 'Sonnets and Odes, by Henry Francis
Cary. Author of an Irregular Ode to General Elliot. London 1787.'
Lines 6-9 of the Sonnet read thus:--
From him deriv'd who shun'd and spurn'd the throng
And warbled sweet, thy Brooks and streams among,
Lonely Valclusa! and that heir of Fame
Our English Milton--
Line 14 reads:--
A grandeur, grace and spirit all their own.
The Poems were the first publication of 'Dante' Cary, then a boy of
fifteen, whom Coleridge first met at Muddiford in October, 1816, and
whose translation of the _Divina Commedia_ he helped to make famous.
[1141:1] The three Sonnets of Bowles are not in any Edition since the
last quarto pamphlet of his Sonnets. (_MS. Note by S. T. C._)
[1144:1] Ossian.
[1146:1] Compare _The Pursuits of Literature_, Dialogue 1, lines 50, 55,
56.
The self-supported melancholy Gray
* * * * *
With his high spirit strove the master bard,
And was his own _exceeding great_ reward.
The first Dialogue was published in May 1794. The lines on Gray may have
suggested Coleridge's quotation from Genesis, chap. xv, ver. 1, which is
supplied in a footnote to line 56.
[1150:1] The 'Eolian Harp', with the title 'Effusion xxxv. Composed
August 20, 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire', was first published in
1796, and included as 'Composed at Clevedon' in 1797 and 1803. It is
possible that it may have been originally printed in a newspaper.
[1150:2] The fourth and last edition of the _Lyrical Ballads_ was issued
in 1805.
[1151:1] The List numbers thirty, and of these not more than twenty are
strictly speaking _Errata_. Of the remainder the greater number are
textual corrections, emendations, and afterthoughts.
[1151:2] The allusion is to the prolonged and embittered controversy
between Coleridge and his friends at Bristol, who had printed his works
and advanced him various sums of money on the security of the sheets as
printed and the future sale of the works when published. They were angry
with him for postponing completion of these works, and keeping them out
of their money, and he was naturally and reasonably indignant at the
excessive sum charged for paper and printing. The fact was that they had
done and intended to do him a kindness, but that in so far as it was a
business transaction he suffered at their hands.
[1151:3] The title of these Iambic lines is 'Relictis Aliis Studiis
Philosophiam Epicuream amplectitur'.
[1151:4] Ben Jonson, vide _ante_, p. 1118.
[1151:5] Vide _ante_, pp. 419, 420.
[1169:1] See Wordsworth's _P. W._ 1896, in. 21: _The Small Celandine_,
ll. 21, 22.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
No. I
POEMS FIRST PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS
OR PERIODICALS
_The Cambridge Intelligencer._
Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the
House of the Man of Ross Sept. 27, 1794
Absence Oct. 11, 1794
Sonnet [Anna and Harland] Oct. 25, 1794
Sonnet [Genevieve] Nov. 1, 1794
To a Young Man of Fortune, &c. Dec. 17, 1796
Ode for the Last Day of the Year, 1796 Dec. 31, 1796
Parliamentary Oscillators Jan. 6, 1798
_The Morning Chronicle._
To Fortune Nov. 7, 1793
Elegy [Elegy imitated from Akenside] Sept. 23, 1794
Epitaph on an Infant. 'Ere sin could blight', &c. Sept. 23, 1794
_Sonnets on Eminent Characters._
I. To the Honourable Mr. Erskine Dec. 1, 1794
II. Burke Dec. 9, 1794
III. Priestley Dec. 11, 1794
IV. La Fayette Dec. 15, 1794
V. Kosciusko Dec. 16, 1794
VI. Pitt Dec. 23, 1794
VII. To the Rev. W. L. Bowles Dec. 26, 1794
VIII. Mrs. Siddons Dec. 29, 1794
IX. To William Godwin Jan. 10, 1795
X. To Robert Southey Jan. 14, 1795
XI. To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. Jan. 29, 1795
To Lord Stanhope Jan. 31, 1795
Address to a Young Jack Ass and its tethered Mother,
In Familiar Verse Dec. 30, 1794
_The Watchman._
No. 1. To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French
Revolution Mar. 1, 1796
No. 2. Casimir. Ad Lyram. Imitation. 'The solemn-breathing
air', &c. Mar. 9, 1796
No. 3. Elegy. 'Near the lone Pile', &c. Mar. 17, 1796
The Hour when we shall meet again. 'Dim hour',
&c. Mar. 17, 1796
No. 4. 'The early Year's fast-flying Vapours stray' Mar. 25, 1796
A Morning Effusion. 'Ye Gales', &c. Mar. 25, 1796
No. 5. To Mercy. 'Not always should the Tears', &c. Apr. 2, 1796
Recollection. 'As the tir'd savage', &c. Apr. 2, 1796
No. 6. Lines on Observing a Blossom on the First of
February, 1796. 'Sweet Flower that peeping',
&c. Apr. 11, 1796
No. 8. To a Primrose. 'Thy smiles I note', &c. Apr. 27, 1796
No. 9. Epitaph on an Infant. [Reprinted from the
_Morning Chronicle_, Sept. 23, 1794.] 'Ere
Sin could blight', &c. May 5, 1796
_The Monthly Magazine._
On a Late Connubial Rupture, (ii, p. 647) Sept. 1796
Reflections on Entering into Active Life, (ii, p. 732.)
'Low was our pretty Cot', &c. Oct. 1796
Sonnets attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers,
(iv, p. 374) Nov. 1797
_The Annual Register._
Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village, (xxxviii, pp. 494-5) 1796
Tranquillity, An Ode. (xliii, pp. 525-6) 1801
Stanzas Addressed to a Lady on Her Recovery from a severe attack
of Pain. (The Two Founts.) (lxix, pp. 537-8) 1827
_The Morning Post._
To an Unfortunate Woman in the Back Seats of the Boxes
at the Theatre. 'Maiden that with sullen brow' Dec. 7, 1797
Melancholy: A Fragment Dec. 12, 1797
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter: A War Eclogue Jan. 8, 1798
The Old Man of the Alps. Mar. 8, 1798
The Raven Mar. 10, 1798
Lines Imitated from Catullus. 'My Lesbia', &c. Apr. 11, 1798
Lewti, or the Circassian Love Chaunt Apr. 13, 1798
The Recantation: An Ode Apr. 16, 1798
Moriens Superstiti. 'The hour-bell sounds', &c. May 10, 1798
A Tale. [Recantation. Illustrated in the Story of the
Mad Ox] July 30, 1798
The British Stripling's War-Song Aug. 24, 1799
The Devil's Thoughts Sept. 6, 1799
Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode Sept. 17, 1799
Lines Composed in a Concert Room Sept. 24, 1799
To a Young Lady. 'Why need I say', &c. Dec. 9, 1799
Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladié Dec. 21, 1799
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire Dec. 24, 1799
A Christmas Carol Dec. 25, 1799
Talleyrand to Lord Granville Jan. 10, 1800
The Mad Monk Oct. 13, 1800
Inscription for a Seat by the Road-side, &c. Oct. 21, 1800
Alcaeus to Sappho Nov. 24, 1800
The Two Round Spaces: A Skeltoniad Dec. 4, 1800
On Revisiting the Sea Shore Sept. 15, 1801
Tranquillity, An Ode Dec. 4, 1801
The Picture, or The Lover's Resolution Sept. 6, 1802
Chamouni. The Hour before Sunrise. A Hymn Sept. 11, 1802
The Keepsake Sept. 17, 1802
How seldom Friend, &c. [The Good Great Man] Sept. 23, 1802
Inscription on a Jutting Stone over a Spring Sept. 24, 1802
Dejection: An Ode Oct. 4, 1802
Ode to the Rain Oct. 7, 1802
France: An Ode Oct. 14, 1802
The Language of Birds. 'Do you ask, what the Birds
say?' &c. Oct. 16, 1802
The Day-dream. From an Emigrant to his Absent Wife Oct. 19, 1802
_The Courier._
The Exchange of Hearts Apr. 16, 1804
Lines on a King-and-Emperor-making Emperor and King
(Adaptation) Sept. 12, 1806
Farewell to Love. [_Morning Herald_, Oct. 11,
1806] Sept. 27, 1806
To Two Sisters Dec. 10, 1807
Epitaph on an Infant. 'Its milky lips', &c. Mar. 20, 1811
The Hour Glass (Adaptation) Aug. 30, 1811
The Virgin's Cradle Hymn Aug. 30, 1811
Mutual Passion (Adaptation) Sept. 21, 1811
_The Friend._
[Ode to Tranquillity] No. 1, June 1, 1809
The Three Graves, A Sexton's Tale No. 6, Sept. 21, 1809
Hymn. _Before Sun-rise, in the Vale of
Chamouny_ No. 11, Oct. 26, 1809
Tis True, IDOLOCLASTES SATYRANE No. 14, Nov. 23, 1809
_The Gentleman's Magazine._
Farewell to Love. (lxxxv, p. 448) 1815
Overlooked Poem by Coleridge. The Volunteer Stripling. (xxix,
p. 160, N. S.) 1848
_Felix Farley's Bristol Journal._
Fancy in Nubibus, or The Poet in the Clouds Feb. 7, 1818
Written on a Blank Leaf of Faulkner's Shipwreck,
presented by a friend to Miss K Feb. 21, 1818
_Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine._
Fancy in Nubibus. (Vol. vi, p. 196) Nov. 1819
The poet in his lone, &c. [Apologia, &c.] (Vol. xi, p. 12) Jan. 1822
The Old Man's Sigh: A Sonnet. (Vol. xxxi, p. 956) June, 1832
_Co-operative Magazine and Monthly Herald._
On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in
America Apr. 6, 1826
_Literary Magnet._
An Impromptu on Christmas Day, &c. N. S., Vol. iii, 1827, p. 71
_The Evening Standard._
Sancti Dominici Pallium May 21, 1827
_The Crypt, a Receptacle for Things Past._
Job's Luck 1827, pp. 30, 31
_The Literary Souvenir._
The Exchange 1826, p. 408
Lines Suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius 1827, p. 17
[Epitaphium Testamentarium] 1827, p. 17
Youth and Age 1828, p. 1
What is Life? 1829, p. 346
_The Bijou, 1828._
The Wanderings of Cain. A Fragment p. 17
Work without Hope 28
Youth and Age 144
A Day Dream. 'My eyes make pictures' 146
The Two Founts 202
_The Amulet._
New Thoughts on Old Subjects. The Improvisatore 1828, pp. 37-47
Three Scraps 1833, pp. 31, 32
(i) Love's Burial Place.
(ii) The Butterfly.
(iii) A Thought suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland.
_New York Mirror._
Lines written in Miss Barbour's Common Place Book Dec. 19, 1829
_The Keepsake._
The Garden of Boccaccio 1829, p. 282
Song, Ex Improviso, &c. 1830, p. 264
The Poet's Answer to a Lady's Question, &c. 'O'er
wayward Childhood', &c. 1830, p. 279
_The Athenæum._
Water Ballad Oct. 29, 1831
_Friendship's Offering, 1834._
PAGE
My Baptismal Birthday 163
Fragments from the Wreck of Memory, &c.--
I. Hymn to the Earth 165
II. English Hexameters, written during a temporary Blindness,
in the Year 1799 167
III. The Homeric Hexameter, &c. 168
IV. The Ovidian Elegiac Metre, &c. 168
V. A Versified Reflection. 'On stern BLENCARTHUR'S', &c. 168
Love's Apparition and Evanishment 355
Lightheartednesses in Rhyme--
I. The Reproof and Reply 356
II. In Answer to a Friend's Question. 'Her attachment may
differ', &c. 359
III. Lines to a Comic Author, on an abusive Review 359
IV. An Expectoration, &c. 'As I am (_sic_) Rhymer', &c. 360
Expectoration the Second. 'In COLN, a town of monks and bones' 360
_The New Monthly Magazine._
The Faded Flower Aug. 1836
_Dublin University Magazine._
A Stranger Minstrel 1845, xxvi, 112-13
No. II
EPIGRAMS AND JEUX D'ESPRIT FIRST PUBLISHED IN
NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
1. An Apology for Spencers. _Watchman_, No. 4, Mar. 25, 1796.
2. On a Late Marriage between an Old Maid, &c. Ibid., No. 5, April 2,
1796.
3. On an Amorous Doctor. Ibid., ibid.
4. 'Of smart pretty Fellows', &c. Ibid., p. 159.
5. On Deputy ----. _M. P._, Jan. 2, 1798.
6. To a Well-known Musical Critic, &c. _M. P._, Jan. 4, 1798.
7. Hippona. _M. P._, Aug. 29, 1799.
8. On a Reader of His Own Verses. _M. P._, Sept. 7, 1799.
9. On a Report of a Minister's Death. 'Last Monday', &c. _M. P._,
Sept. 18, 1799.
10. 'Jem writes his Verses', &c. _M. P._, Sept. 23, 1799.
11. On Sir Rubicund Naso. _M. P._, Dec. 7, 1799.
12. Job's Luck, 1799. _M. P._, Sept. 26, 1801.
13. On the Sickness of a Great Minister. _M. P._, Oct. 1, 1799.
14. To a Virtuous Oeconomist. _M. P._, Oct. 28, 1799.
15. 'Jack drinks fine wines', &c. _M. P._, Nov. 16, 1799.
16. To Mr. Pye. _M. P._, Jan. 24, 1800.
17. 'If the guilt of all lying', &c. _An. Anth._, 1800.
18. 'O would the Baptist', &c. _An. Anth._, 1800.
19. Occasioned by the Former. 'I hold of all', &c. _An. Anth._, 1800.
20. 'As Dick and I at Charing Cross', &c. _An. Anth._, 1800.
21. To a Proud Parent. _An. Anth._, 1800.
22. Rufa. _An. Anth._, 1800.
23. On a Volunteer Singer. _An. Anth._, 1800.
24. Occasioned by the Last. 'A joke (cries Jack)', &c. _An. Anth._,
1800.
25. Song to be Sung by the Lovers of all the Noble Liquors, &c.
_M. P._, Sept. 18, 1801.
26. Epitaph on a Bad Man. _M. P._, Sept. 22, 1801.
27. Drinking _versus_ Thinking. _M. P._, Sept. 25, 1801.
28. The Wills of the Wisp. _M. P._, Dec. 1, 1801.
29. To a Certain Modern Narcissus. _M. P._, Dec. 16, 1801.
30. To a Critic. _M. P._, Dec. 16, 1801.
31. Always Audible. _M. P._, Dec. 19, 1801.
32. Pondere non Numero. _M. P._, Dec. 26, 1801.
33. 'To Wed a fool'. _M. P._, Dec. 26, 1801.
34. What is an Epigram? _M. P._, Sept. 23, 1802.
35. 'Charles, grave or merry', &c. Sept. 23, 1802.
36. 'An Evil Spirit's on thee, friend '. _M. P._, Sept. 23, 1802.
37. 'Here lies the Devil', &c. _M. P._, Sept. 23, 1802.
38. To One who Published in Print. _M. P._, Sept. 23, 1802.
39. 'Scarce any scandal', &c. _M. P._, Sept. 23, 1802.
40. 'Old Harpy jeers', &c. _M. P._, Sept. 23, 1802.
41. To a Vain Young Lady. _M. P._, Sept. 23, 1802.
42. A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls. _M. P._, Sept. 27, 1802.
43. 'From me, Aurelia', &c. _M. P._, Oct. 2, 1802.
44. For a House-dog's Collar. _M. P._, Oct. 2, 1802.
45. 'In vain I praise thee', &c. _M. P._, Oct. 2, 1802.
46. Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser. _M. P._, Oct. 9, 1802.
47. A Dialogue between an Author and his Friend. _M. P._, Oct. 11,
1802.
48. Μωροσοφία or Wisdom in Folly. _M. P._, Oct. 11, 1802.
49. 'Each Bond-street buck', &c. _M. P._, Oct. 11, 1802.
50. From an old German Poet. _M. P._, Oct. 11, 1802.
51. On the Curious Circumstance, that in the German, &c. _M. P._, Oct.
11, 1802.
52. Spots in the Sun. _M. P._, Oct. 11, 1802.
53. 'When Surface talks', &c. _M. P._, Oct. 11, 1802.
54. To my Candle. The Farewell Epigram. _M. P._, Oct. 11, 1802.
55. The Taste of the Times. _Athenæum_, Jan. 9, 1904.
56. 'An Excellent Adage', &c. _The Friend_, No. 12, Nov. 9, 1809.
57. Epigram on the Secrecy of a Certain Lady. _The Courier_, Jan. 3,
1814.
58. To a Lady who requested me to write a Poem on Nothing. _Gazette of
Fashion_, Feb. 2, 1822.
59. Authors and Publishers. _News of Literature_, Dec. 10, 1825.
60. Association of Ideas. _Fraser's Magazine_, Jan. 1835.
61. To a Child. 'Little Miss Fanny'. _Athenæum_, Jan. 28, 1888.
No. III
POEMS INCLUDED IN ANTHOLOGIES AND OTHER WORKS
PAGE
1. _Poems, supposed to have been written..._ By Thomas
Rowley,... 1794.
Monody on the Death of Chatterton xxv
2. _Poems by Francis Wrangham, M.A._, 1795.
Translation of Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam, &c. 79
To Miss Brunton with the Preceding Translation.
3. _Poems on the Death of Priscilla Farmer._ By her grandson
Charles Lloyd, 1796.
Sonnet. 'The Piteous sobs', &c.
4. _Lyrical Ballads_, 1798.
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere 1
The Foster Mother's Tale 53
The Nightingale 63
The Dungeon 139
5. _Lyrical Ballads_ (in two volumes), 1800.
Vol. I. Love [with the four poems published in 1798] 138
6. _Annual Anthology_, 1800.
*Lewti, or The Circassian Love-Chant 23
*To a Young Lady, on her first Appearance after a Dangerous
Illness. 32
*Recantation, Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox 59
*Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz
Forest 74
*A Christmas Carol 79
To a Friend, who had declared his intention of writing no
more Poetry 103
This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison. A Poem, addressed to
CHARLES LAMB, of the India House, London 140
To W. L. Esq. while he sung a Song to Purcell's Music. 156
*The British Stripling's War-Song 173
Something childish, but very natural. Written in Germany 192
Home-Sick. Written in Germany 193
*Ode to GEORGIANA, Dutchess of Devonshire 212
*Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. A War Eclogue 231
*The Raven 240
*To an unfortunate Woman. 'Sufferer, that with sullen brow' 291
[_Note._ Poems marked with an asterisk were reprinted from the _Morning
Post_.]
7. _Memoirs of the late Mrs. Robinson_, &c. Four
volumes, 1801.
A Stranger Minstrel Vol. iv, p. 141
8. _Melmoth's Beauties of British Poets_, 1801.
To a Young Ass 21
To a Spring in a beautiful Village 119
The Sigh 167
The Kiss 201
9. _The Wild Wreath._ Edited by M. E. Robinson, 1804.
The Mad Monk 142
10. _The Poetical Register and Repository of the Fine Arts._
Vol. II. For 1802 (1803).
*Chamouny. The Hour before Sunrise. A Hymn 308
*Inscription on a Jutting Stone over a Spring 338
*The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution 354
Vol. III. For 1803 (1805).
From the German of Leasing. 'I ask'd my fair', &c. [Signed
'Harley Philadelphia'.] 274
Sonnets, Attempted in the Manner of 'Contemporary
Writers' 346
Vol. IV. For 1804 (1805).
The Exchange.
Vol. VI. For 1806, 1807 (1811).
On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life 365
Vol. VII. For 1808, 1809 (1812).
Fears in Solitude. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. 227
France, An Ode. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. 332
Frost at Midnight. By S. T. Coleridge Esq. 530
[_Note._ Sonnets Attempted, &c., in Vol. III, and On a Late, &c., in
Vol. VI, were reprinted from the _Monthly Magazine_: the three poems in
Vol. VII were reprinted from the quarto pamphlet of 1798, and were again
set up as a small octavo pamphlet by Law & Gilbert, the printers of the
_Poetical Register_. Vide Bibliography, No. X.]
11. _Selection of Poems for Young Persons_, by J. Cottle.
Third edition, n. d.
Epitaph on an Infant 129
Sonnet to the River Otter 155
Domestic Peace 157
12. _English Minstrelsy_; being a Selection of Fugitive Poetry from
the Best English Authors. Two volumes, 1810.
Vol. II.
Fragment. S. T. Coleridge ['Introduction to the Tale of the
dark Ladie' as published in the Morning Post] 131
13. _Poetical Class-Book._ Edited by W. F. Mylius, 1810.
This Lime Tree Bower my Prison.
14. _Nugæ Canoræ_. Poems by Charles Lloyd, 1819.
Sonnet. 'The piteous sobs ', &c. 145
15. _The British Minstrel._ Glasgow, 1821.
The Three Graves
16. _Castle Dangerous._ By Sir W. Scott, 1832. Notes by J. G.
Lockhart. Galignani, 1834.
The Knight's Tomb. 'Where is the grave', &c. 10
17. _A History of . . . Christ's Hospital._ By the Rev. W.
Trollope, 1834.
Julia 192
18. _Letters, Conversations_, &c., of S. T. Coleridge. In
two volumes, 1836.
Vol. I.
Farewell to Love 143
To Nature. 144
Sonnet. To Lord Stanhope 217
Vol II.
'What boots to tell how o'er his grave' 75
19. _Early Recollections_, &c. By Joseph Cottle, 1837.
Vol. I.
Monody on . . . Chatterton, ll. 137-54 32
To W. J. H. While playing on his flute 33
The Fox and Statesman, &c. 172
Sonnet. To Lord Stanhope 203
Written After a Walk Before Supper 209
To an unfortunate Young Woman, Whom I had known in the days
of her Innocence. 'Maiden! that with sullen brow'. 213
Allegorical Lines on the same subject. 'Myrtle Leaf, that
ill besped' 214
On an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre 216
On an Unfortunate, &c. 217
EXAMPLES. 'O what a life', &c. 226
Another Specimen, describing Hexameters, &c. 226
Another Specimen. 'In the Hexameter', &c. 227
The English Duodecasyllable. 'Hear my beloved', &c. 227
Foster-Mother's Tale 235
To a Friend, [Charles Lloyd (_sic_)] who had declared
his intention, &c., ll. 17-35 245
Lines Addressed to Joseph Cottle 283
'As oft mine eye', &c. [The Silver Thimble] 236
Sonnets, Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers 290
To the Author of the Ancient Mariner 293
Vol. II.
Five 'Epigrams, translated . . . from the German' 65-6
My Love. 'I ask'd my love', &c. 67
_Joan of Arc_, Book the Second. 4{o}, 1796 (including the
lines claimed by S. T. C.) 241-52
20. _The Book of Gems._ Edited by S. C. Hall, 1838.
The Garden of Boccaccio 51
Love 52
The Nightingale 53
Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode, &c. 58
Recollections of Love 59
21. _Memoirs of William Wordsworth._ In two volumes, 1851.
Vol. I.
English Hexameters. 'William, my teacher', &c. 139
22. _An Old Man's Diary._ By J. Payne Collier, 1871, 2.
My Godmother's Beard Part I, pp. 34, 35.
Epigram. 'A very old proverb commands', &c.
Epitaph on Sir James Mackintosh. [The Two Round
Spaces on the Tombstone] Part I, pp. 61, 62.
A Character. 'A Bird who for his other sins'
(15 lines) Part IV, p. 57.
23. _Unpublished letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to the Rev.
John Prior Estlin_: Communicated to the Philobiblon Society.
To An Unfortunate Princess. [On a Late Connubial, &c.] 20
Lines Addressed to J. Horne Tooke. 'Britons! when last', &c. 22
24. _Letters from the Lake Poets. . . To Daniel Stuart_, 1889.
Alcaeus to Sappho 16
25. _Memorials of Coleorton._ Edited by W. Knight. Two vols., 1887.
Vol. I.
Mont Blanc, The Summit of the Vale of Chamouny, An Hour
before Sunrise--A Hymn. [As sent to Sir George
Beaumont.] 26
To WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Composed for the greater part
on the same night after the finishing of his recitation
of the Poem in thirteen Books, on the Growth of his
own Mind. [As sent to Sir G. Beaumont, Jan. 1807.]
26. _Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics._ Edited by F. T. Palgrave
1896.
Love 199
Kubla Khan 308
Youth and Age 323
No. IV
POEMS FIRST PRINTED OR REPRINTED IN _Literary Remains_, 1836.
Vol. I.
The Fall or Robespierre 1
Julia 33
'--I yet remain' (By W. L. Bowles) 34
To the Rev W. J. Hort 35
To Charles Lamb ('Thus far my scanty brain', &c.) 36
To the Nightingale 38
To Sara ('The stream', &c.) 39
To Joseph Cottle 40
Casimir ('The solemn-breathing air', &c.) 41
Darwiniana ('Dim Hour', &c.) 43
'The Early Year's fast-flying', &c. [Ver perpetuum]. 44
To a Primrose 47
On the Christening of a Friend's Child 48
Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles, &c. 50
Translation 50
Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie 50
Epilogue to the Rash Conjuror 52
Psyche 53
Complaint ('How seldom Friend', &c.) 53
An Ode to the Rain 54
Translation of a Passage in Ottfried's . . . Paraphrase of the
Gospels 56
Israel's Lament, &c. 57
Sentimental 59
The Alternative 59
The Exchange 59
What is Life! 60
Inscription for a Time-Piece 60
Επιτάφιον αὐτογραπτόν 60
POEMS AND POETICAL FRAGMENTS.
'My Lesbia', &c. 274
'Pity, mourn in plaintive tones' 274
Moriens superstiti 275
Morienti superstes 275
The Stripling's War Song. Imitated from Stolberg 276
Eighteen Fragments from Note book (1795-8) 277-81
'I mix in life, and labour to seem free.' [To ----] 280
Farewell to Love 280
'Within these circling hollies', &c. [An Angel Visitant] 280
Grant me a Patron 281
POEMS FIRST PRINTED OR REPRINTED IN _Essays on His Own Times_, 1850.
Vol. III.
Recantation. Illustrated in the story of the Mad Ox 963
Parliamentary Oscillators 969
The Devil's Thoughts 972
The British Stripling's War Song 988
Tranquillity. An Ode 991
The Day Dream. _From an Emigrant to his absent Wife_ 993
Mutual Passion 995
The Alienated Mistress ('If love be dead', &c.) 997
To a lady (''Tis not the lily', &c.) 997
A Thought suggested by the View of Saddleback, &c. 997
L'Envoy to 'Like a Lone Arab' ('In vain we', &c.) 998
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
PAGE
A bird, who for his other sins 451
A blesséd lot hath he, who having passed 173
A green and silent spot, amid the hills 256
'A heavy wit shall hang at every lord' 973
A joke (cries Jack) without a sting 961
A little further, O my father 288
A long deep lane 992
A lovely form there sate beside my bed 484
A low dead Thunder mutter'd thro' the night 1005
A Lutheran stout, I hold for Goose-and-Gaundry 975
A maniac in the woods 993
A mount, not wearisome and bare and steep 155
A poor benighted Pedlar knock'd 967
A sumptuous and magnificent Revenge 1000
A sunny shaft did I behold 426, 919
A sworded man whose trade is blood 397
A wind that with Aurora hath abiding 1011
Ah! cease thy tears and sobs, my little Life 91
Ah! not by Cam or Isis, famous streams 424
All are not born to soar--and ah! how few 26
All look and likeness caught from earth 393
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair 447, 1111
All thoughts, all passions, all delights 330
Almost awake? Why, what is this, and whence 211
An evil spirit's on thee, friend! of late! 964
An excellent adage commands that we should 971
An Ox, long fed with musty hay 299
And arrows steeled with wrath 994
And cauldrons the scoop'd earth, a boiling sea 989
And in Life's noisiest hour 1002
And my heart mantles in its own delight 1002
And Pity's sigh shall answer thy tale of Anguish 990
And re-implace God's Image of the Soul 994
And this place our forefathers made for man 185
And this reft house is that the which he built 211
And with my whole heart sing the stately song 994
And write Impromptus 989
Are there two things, of all which men possess 361
As Dick and I at Charing Cross were walking 960
As I am a Rhymer 477
As late each flower that sweetest blows 45
As late I journey'd o'er the extensive plain 11
As late I lay in Slumber's shadowy vale 80
As late, in wreaths, gay flowers I bound 33
As late on Skiddaw's mount I lay supine 350
As long as ere the life-blood's running 961
As oft mine eye with careless glance 104
As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood 1001
As the shy hind, the soft-eyed gentle Brute 1013
As the tir'd savage, who his drowsy frame 1023
As when a child on some long Winter's night 85
As when far off the warbled strains are heard 82
As when the new or full Moon urges 1005
At midnight by the stream I roved 253
Auspicious Reverence! Hush all meaner song 131, 1024
Away, those cloudy looks, that labouring sigh 90
Be proud as Spaniards! Leap for pride ye Fleas! 980
'Be, rather than be called, a child of God' 312
Behind the thin Grey cloud 992
Behold yon row of pines, that shorn and bow'd 1006
Beneath the blaze of a tropical sun 396
Beneath this stone does William Hazlitt lie 962
Beneath this thorn when I was young 269
Beneath yon birch with silver bark 293
Benign shooting stars, ecstatic delight 1015
Bob now resolves on marriage schemes to trample 953
Bright cloud of reverence, sufferably bright 998
Britannia's boast, her glory and her pride 970
Britons! when last ye met, with distant streak 150
Broad-breasted Pollards, with broad-branching heads 992
Broad-breasted rook-hanging cliff that glasses 988
By many a booby's vengeance bit 953
Charles, grave or merry, at no lie would stick 964
Charles! my slow heart was only sad, when first 154
Child of my muse! in Barbour's gentle hand 483
Come, come thou bleak December wind 1001
Come hither, gently rowing 311
Come; your opinion of my manuscript 967
Cupid, if storying Legends tell aright 46
Dear Charles! whilst yet thou wert a babe, I ween 158
Dear native Brook! wild Streamlet of the West 48
Dear tho' unseen! tho' I have left behind 468
Deep in the gulph of Vice and Woe 12
Depart in joy from this world's noise and strife 177
Didst thou think less of thy dear self 965
Dim Hour! that sleep'st on pillowing clouds afar 96
Discontent mild as an infant 991
Do call, dear Jess, whene'er my way you come 962
Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove 386
Dormi, Jesu! Mater ridet 417
Due to the Staggerers, that made drunk by Power 989
Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf 968
Each crime that once estranges from the virtues 1011
Earth! thou mother of numberless children, the nurse and the
mother 327
Edmund! thy grave with aching eye I scan 76
Encinctured with a twine of leaves 287
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay (1803) 389
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay (1806) 401
Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade 68
Ere the birth of my life, if I wished it or no 419
Eu! Dei vices gerens, ipse Divus 981
Farewell, parental scenes! a sad farewell 29
Farewell, sweet Love! yet blame you not my truth 402
Fear no more, thou timid Flower 356
'Fie, Mr. Coleridge!--and can this be you? 441
Flowers are lovely, Love is flower-like 1085, 1086
Fond, peevish, wedded pair! why all this rant? 984
For ever in the world of Fame 1013
Frail creatures are we all! To be the best 486
Friend, Lover, Husband, Sister, Brother 392
Friend of the wise! and Teacher of the Good 403
Friend pure of heart and fervent! we have learnt 1008
Friends should be _weigh'd_, not _told_; who boasts to have won 963
From his brimstone bed at break of day 319
From me, Aurelia! you desired 966
From Rufa's eye sly Cupid shot his dart 952
From yonder tomb of recent date 955
Gently I took that which ungently came 488
Γνῶθι σεαυτόν!--and is this the prime 487
Go little Pipe! for ever I must leave thee 1016
God be with thee, gladsome Ocean 359
Gōd ĭs oŭr Strēngth ănd oŭr Rēfŭge 326
God no distance knows 989
God's child in Christ adopted,--Christ my all 490
God's Image, Sister of the Cherubim 994
Good Candle, thou that with thy brother, Fire 969
Good verse most good, and bad verse then seems better 96
Grant me a Patron, gracious Heaven! whene'er 995
Great goddesses are they to lazy folks 1008
Hail! festal Easter that dost bring 1
Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star 376, 1074
He too has flitted from his secret nest 457
Hear, my belovéd, an old Milesian story 307
Hear, sweet Spirit, hear the spell 420, 552, 849
Heard'st thou yon universal cry 10
Hence, soul-dissolving Harmony 28
Hence that fantastic wantonness of woe 157
Hence! thou fiend of gloomy sway 34
Her attachment may differ from yours in degree 484
Here's Jem's first copy of nonsense verses 983
Here lies a Poet; or what once was he 1089
Here lies the Devil--ask no other name 964
Here sleeps at length, poor Col., and without screaming 970
High o'er the rocks at night I rov'd 1050, 1051
High o'er the silver rocks I rov'd 1049
Hippona lets no silly flush 955
His native accents to her stranger's ear 1011
His own fair countenance, his kingly forehead 1005
Hoarse Maevius reads his hobbling verse 955
How long will ye round me be swelling 39
How seldom, friend! a good great man inherits 381
'How sweet, when crimson colours dart 353
How warm this woodland wild Recess 409
Hush! ye clamorous Cares! be mute 92
I ask'd my fair one happy day 318
I fancy whenever I spy Nosy 953
I from the influence of thy Looks receive 999
I have experienced the worst the world can wreak on me 1004
I have heard of reasons manifold 418
I heard a voice from Etna's side 347
I heard a voice pealing loud triumph to-day 1014
I hold of all our viperous race 959
I know it is dark; and though I have lain 382
I know 'tis but a dream, yet feel more anguish 998
I love, and he loves me again 1118
I mix in life, and labour to seem free 292
I never saw the man whom you describe 182
I note the moods and feelings men betray 448
I sigh, fair injur'd stranger! for thy fate 152
I stand alone, nor tho' my heart should break 1010
I stood on Brocken's sovran height, and saw 315
I too a sister had! too cruel Death 21
I touch this scar upon my skull behind 984
I wish on earth to sing 1017
I yet remain To mourn 1124
If dead, we cease to be; if total gloom 425
If fair by Nature 1012
If I had but two little wings 313
If Love be dead 475
If Pegasus will let _thee_ only ride him 21
If the guilt of all lying consists in deceit 954
If thou wert here, these tears were tears of light 386
If while my passion I impart 58
Imagination, honourable aims 396
Imagination, Mistress of my Love 49
In a cave in the mountains of Cashmeer 993
In darkness I remain'd--the neighbour's clock 990
In Köhln, a town of monks and bones 477
In many ways does the full heart reveal 462
In Spain, that land of Monks and Apes 974
In the corner _one_ 1012
In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column 308
In this world we dwell among the tombs 991
In vain I praise thee, Zoilus 966
In vain I supplicate the Powers above 1087
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan 297
It is an ancient Mariner 187
It is an ancyent Marinere 1030
It may indeed be phantasy, when I 429
It was some Spirit, Sheridan! that breath'd 87
Its balmy lips the infant blest 417
Jack drinks fine wines, wears modish clothing 958
Jack finding gold left a rope on the ground 971
Jack Snipe 982
Jem writes his verses with more speed 956
Julia was blest with beauty, wit, and grace 6
Kayser! to whom, as to a second self 490
Know thou who walk'st by, Man! that wrapp'd up in lead, man 961
Know'st thou the land where the pale citrons grow 311
Lady, to Death we're doom'd, our crime the same 392
Last Monday all the Papers said 956
Leanness, disquietude, and secret Pangs 990
Lest after this life it should prove my sad story 1090
Let clumps of earth, however glorified 1008
Let Eagle bid the Tortoise sunward soar 1001
Let those whose low delights to Earth are given 427
Light cargoes waft of modulated Sound 988
Like a lone Arab, old and blind 488
Like a mighty Giantess 991
Little Miss Fanny 987
Lo! through the dusky silence of the groves 33
Lov'd the same Love, and hated the same hate 994
Lovely gems of radiance meek 17
Low was our pretty Cot! our tallest Rose 106
Lunatic Witch-fires! Ghosts of Light and Motion! 979
Maid of my Love, sweet Genevieve 19
Maid of unboastful charms! whom white-robed Truth 66
Maiden, that with sullen brow 171
Mark this holy chapel well 309
Matilda! I have heard a sweet tune played 374
Mild Splendour of the various-vested Night 5
Money, I've heard a wise man say 972
Most candid critic, what if I 962
Mourn, Israel! Sons of Israel, mourn 433
Much on my early youth I love to dwell 64
My dearest Dawtie 984
My eyes make pictures, when they are shut 385
My father confessor is strict and holy 969
My heart has thanked thee, Bowles! for those soft strains 84, 85
My heart seraglios a whole host of Joys 990
My Lesbia, let us love and live 60
My Lord! though your Lordship repel deviation 341
My Maker! of thy power the trace 423
My Merry men all, that drink with glee 979
My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined 100, 1021
Myrtle-leaf that, ill besped 172
Names do not always meet with Love 997
Nature wrote Rascal on his face 991
Nay, dearest Anna! why so grave? 418
Near the lone pile with ivy overspread 69
Never, believe me 310
No cloud, no relique of the sunken day 264
No cold shall thee benumb 1015
No doleful faces here, no sighing 954
No more my visionary soul shall dwell 68
No more 'twixt conscience staggering and the Pope 460
No mortal spirit yet had clomb so high 1004
No private grudge they need, no personal spite 972
Nor cold, nor stern, my soul! yet I detest 824
Nor travels my meandering eye 97
Not always should the Tear's ambrosial dew 83
Not hers To win the sense by words of rhetoric 1007
Not, Stanhope! with the Patriot's doubtful name 89
Nothing speaks our mind so well 975
Now! It is gone--our brief hours travel post 974
Now prompts the Muse poetic lays 13
O ----! O ----! of you we complain 977
O beauty in a beauteous body dight 999
O! Christmas Day, Oh! happy day! 460
O fair is Love's first hope to gentle mind 443
O form'd t'illume a sunless world forlorn 86
O Friend! O Teacher! God's great Gift to me 1081
O! I do love thee, meek _Simplicity_ 210
O! it is pleasant, with a heart at ease 435
O leave the Lily on its stem 1053
O man! thou half-dead Angel! 994
O meek attendant of Sol's setting blaze 16
O mercy, O me, miserable man 1005
O Muse who sangest late another's pain 18
O Peace, that on a lilied bank dost love 94
O! Superstition is the giant shadow 1007
O th' Oppressive, irksome weight 1000
O thou wild Fancy, check thy wing! No more 51
O thron'd in Heav'n! Sole King of kings 438
O what a loud and fearful shriek was there 82
O what a wonder seems the fear of death 125
O would the Baptist come again 959
O'er the raised earth the gales of evening sigh 996
O'er wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule 481
O'erhung with yew, midway the Muses mount 1003
Of him that in this gorgeous tomb doth lie 961
Of late, in one of those most weary hours 478
Of one scrap of science I've evidence ocular 985
Of smart pretty Fellows in Bristol are numbers, some 952
Oft o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll 153
Oft, oft methinks, the while with thee 388
Oh! might my ill-past hours return again 7
Oh! the procrastinating idle rogue 817
Old age, 'the shape and messenger of Death' 989
Old Harpy jeers at castles in the air 965
On nothing, Fanny, shall I write? 973
On stern Blencartha's perilous height 347
On the broad mountain-top 992
On the sky with liquid openings of Blue 1109
On the tenth day of September 1084
On the wide level of a mountain's head 419
On wide or narrow scale shall Man 30
Or Wren or Linnet 1002
Once again, sweet Willow, wave thee 1018
Once could the Morn's first beams, the healthful breeze 17
Once more! sweet Stream! with slow foot wandering near 58
One kiss, dear Maid! I said and sigh'd 63
Oppress'd, confused, with grief and pain 436
Our English poets, bad and good, agree 968
Outmalic'd Calumny's imposthum'd Tongue 989
Over the broad, the shallow, rapid stream 998
Pains ventral, subventral 985
Pale Roamer through the night! thou poor Forlorn 71
Parry seeks the Polar ridge 972
Pass under Jack's window at twelve at night 963
Pensive at eve on the _hard_ world I mus'd 209
Perish warmth 989
Phidias changed marble into feet and legs 984
Pity! mourn in plaintive tone 61
Plucking flowers from the Galaxy 978
Pluto commanded death to take away 957
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race 74
Promptress of unnumber'd sighs 55
Quae linquam, aut nihil, aut nihili, aut vix sunt mea. Sordes 462
Quoth Dick to me, as once at College 414
Repeating Such verse as Bowles 977
Resembles life what once was deem'd of light 394
Richer than Miser o'er his countless hoards 57
Rush on my ear, a cataract of sound 990
Sad lot, to have no Hope! Though lowly kneeling 416
Said William to Edmund I can't guess the reason 951
Say what you will, Ingenious Youth 954
Scarce any scandal, but has a handle 965
Schiller! that hour I would have wish'd to die 72
Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud 997
Semper Elisa! mihi tu suaveolentia donas 1010
Seraphs! around th' Eternal's seat who throng 5
She gave with joy her virgin breast 306
'She's secret as the grave, allow!' 971
Since all that beat about in Nature's range 455
Sing, impassionate Soul! of Mohammed the complicate story 1016
Sister of love-lorn Poets, Philomel 93
Sisters! sisters! who sent you here? 237
Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling 417
Sly Beelzebub took all occasions 957
Smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin Ice 990
So great the charms of Mrs. Mundy 976
So Mr. Baker heart did pluck 973
Sole maid, associate sole, to me beyond 1004
Sole Positive of Night 431
Some are home-sick--some two or three 443
Some, Thelwall! to the Patriot's meed aspire 1090
Some whim or fancy pleases every eye 970
Songs of Shepherds and rustical Roundelays 1018
Southey! thy melodies steal o'er mine ear 87
Speak out, Sir! you're safe, for so ruddy your nose 958
Spirit who sweepest the wild Harp of Time 160
Splendour's fondly-fostered child 335
Stanhope! I hail, with ardent Hymn, thy name 89
Stop, Christian passer-by!--Stop, child of God 491, 1088
Stranger! whose eyes a look of pity shew 248
Stretch'd on a moulder'd Abbey's broadest wall 73
Strong spirit-bidding sounds 399
Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows 307
Such fierce vivacity as fires the eye 991
Such love as mourning Husbands have 998
Swans sing before they die--'twere no bad thing 960
Sweet flower! that peeping from thy russet stem 148
Sweet Gift! and always doth Elisa send 1009
Sweet Mercy! how my very heart has bled 93
Sweet Muse! companion of my every hour 16
Tell me, on what holy ground 71, 501
Terrible and loud 991
That darling of the Tragic Muse 67
That France has put us oft to rout 968
That Jealousy may rule a mind 484
The angel's like a flea 1009
The body, Eternal Shadow of the finite Soul 1001
The Brook runs over sea-weeds 992
The builder left one narrow rent 1003
The butterfly the ancient Grecians made 412
The cloud doth gather, the greenwood roar 653
The Devil believes that the Lord will come 353
The dubious light sad glimmers o'er the sky 36
The dust flies smothering, as on clatt'ring wheel 56
The early Year's fast-flying vapours stray 148
The fervid Sun had more than halv'd the day 24
The Fox, and Statesman subtile wiles ensure 1089
The Frost performs its secret ministry 240
The grapes upon the Vicar's wall 276
The guilty pomp, consuming while it flares 990
The hour-bell sounds, and I must go 61
The indignant Bard composed this furious ode 27
The mild despairing of a Heart resigned 991
The Moon, how definite its orb 997
The piteous sobs that choke the Virgin's breath 155
The Pleasures sport beneath the thatch 997
The poet in his lone yet genial hour 345
The reed roof'd village still bepatch'd with snow 1002
The rose that blushes like the morn 973
The shepherds went their hasty way 338
The silence of a City, how awful at Midnight 999
The singing Kettle and the purring Cat 1003
The sole true Something--This! In Limbo's Den 429
The solemn-breathing air is ended 59
The spruce and limber yellow-hammer 1002
The stars that wont to start, as on a chace 486
The stream with languid murmur creeps 38
The subtle snow 993
The Sun (for now his orb 'gan slowly sink) 990
'The Sun is not yet risen 469
The Sun with gentle beams his rage disguises 1010
The sunshine lies on the cottage-wall 993
The swallows Interweaving there 992
The tear which mourn'd a brother's fate scarce dry 20
The tedded hay, the first fruits of the soil 345
The tongue can't speak when the mouth is cramm'd with earth 994
Then Jerome did call 1019
There are, I am told, who sharply criticise 816
There are two births, the one when Light 362
There comes from old Avaro's grave 954
There in some darksome shade 1018
Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn 1010
This be the meed, that thy song creates a thousand-fold echo 391
This day among the faithful plac'd 176
This, Hannah Scollock! may have been the case 981
This is now--this was erst 22
This is the time, when most divine to hear 108
This Sycamore, oft musical with bees 381
This way or that, ye Powers above me 974
This yearning heart (Love! witness what I say) 362
Thou bleedest, my poor Heart! and thy distress 72
Thou gentle Look, that didst my soul beguile 47
Thou who in youthful vigour rich, and light 349
Though friendships differ endless _in degree_ 1012
Tho' Miss ----'s match is a subject of mirth 952
Tho' much averse, dear Jack, to flicker 37
Tho' no bold flights to thee belong 9
Though rous'd by that dark Vizir Riot rude 81
Though veiled in spires of myrtle-wreath 450
Three truths should make thee often think and pause 966
Through weeds and thorns, and matted underwood 369
Thus far my scanty brain hath built the rhyme 78
Thus she said, and all around 1015
Thy babes ne'er greet thee with the father's name 960
Thy lap-dog, Rufa, is a dainty beast 960
Thy smiles I note, sweet early Flower 149
Thy stern and sullen eye, and thy dark brow 994
'Tis hard on Bagshot Heath to try 26
'Tis mine and it is likewise yours 997
'Tis not the lily-brow I prize 483
'Tis sweet to him who all the week 314
'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock 215
'Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane 413
To be ruled like a Frenchman the Briton is both 953
To know, to esteem, to love,--and then to part 410
To praise men as good, and to take them for such 486
To tempt the dangerous deep, too venturous youth 2
To wed a fool, I really cannot see 963
Tom Hill, who laughs at Cares and Woes 974
Tom Slothful talks, as slothful Tom beseems 967
Tranquillity! thou better name 360
Trōchĕe trīps frŏm long tŏ shōrt 401
Truth I pursued, as Fancy sketch'd the way 1008
'Twas my last waking thought, how it could be 454
'Twas not a mist, nor was it quite a cloud 1000
'Twas sweet to know it only possible 992
Two things hast thou made known to half the nation 964
Two wedded hearts, if ere were such 1003
Unboastful Bard! whose verse concise yet clear 102
Unchanged within, to see all changed without 459
Under the arms of a goodly oak-tree 1048
Under this stone does Walter Harcourt lie 962
Underneath an old oak tree 169
Ungrateful he, who pluck'd thee from thy stalk 70
Unperishing youth 308
Up, up! ye dames, and lasses gay 427
Up, up! ye dames, ye lasses gay 942
Upon the mountain's edge with light touch resting 393
Utter the song, O my soul! the flight and return of Mohammed 329
Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying 439
Verse, pictures, music, thoughts both grave and gay 482
Verse, that Breeze mid blossoms straying 1085
Virtues and Woes alike too great for man 37
Vivit sed mihi non vivit--nova forte marita 56
Water and windmills, greenness, Islets green 1009
We both attended the same College 955
We pledged our hearts, my love and I 391
Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made 362, 1076
Well, they are gone, and here must I remain 178
We've conquer'd us a Peace, like lads true metalled 972
We've fought for Peace, and conquer'd it at last 972
What a spring-tide of Love to dear friends in a shoal 1010
What boots to tell how o'er his grave 1011
What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole 963
What never is, but only is to be 999
What now, O Man! thou dost or mean'st to do 414
What pleasures shall he ever find 4
What though the chilly wide-mouth'd quacking chorus 476
Whate'er thou giv'st, it still is sweet to me 1010
When British Freedom for an happier land 79
When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt 1004
When Surface talks of other people's worth 969
When the squalls were flitting and fleering 980
When they did greet me father, sudden awe 152
When thieves come, I bark: when gallants, I am still 966
When thou to my true-love com'st 326
When thy Beauty appears 1016
When Youth his faery reign began 62
Whene'er the mist, that stands 'twixt God and thee 487
Where Cam his stealthy flowings most dissembles 988
Where deep in mud Cam rolls his slumbrous stream 35
Where graced with many a classic spoil 29
Where is the grave of Sir Arthur O'Kellyn 432
Where true Love burns Desire is love's pure flame 485
Where'er I find the Good, the True, the Fair 1011
Wherefore art thou come? 989
While my young cheek retains its healthful hues 236
Whilst pale Anxiety, corrosive Care 69
Whom should I choose for my Judge? 1000
Whom the untaught Shepherds call 40
Why is my Love like the Sun? 1109
Why need I say, Louisa dear 252
William, my teacher, my friend 304
Wisdom, Mother of retired Thought 991
With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots 433
With many a pause and oft reverted eye 94
With many a weary step at length I gain 56
With secret hand heal the conjectur'd wound 988
With skill that never Alchemist yet told 995
Within these circling hollies woodbine-clad 409
Within these wilds was Anna wont to rove 16
Ye Clouds! that far above me float and pause 243
Ye drinkers of Stingo and Nappy so free 978
Ye fowls of ill presage 1017
Ye Gales, that of the Lark's repose 35
Ye harp-controlling hymns 1006
Ye souls unus'd to lofty verse 8
Yes, noble old Warrior! this heart has beat high 317
Yes, yes! that boon, life's richest treat 466
Yet art thou happier far than she 62
Yon row of bleak and visionary pines 1006
You're careful o'er your wealth 'tis true 958
You come from o'er the waters 987
You loved the daughter of Don Manrique? 421
You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within 1002
Your Poem must _eternal_ be 959
Oxford: Horace Hart, Printer to the University
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Ellipses in the text are represented as in the original. Ellipses in
poetry are indicated by a row of asterisks.
The quotation marks in THE RIME OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE are exactly as
printed in the original.
Changes have been made to the text to reflect the corrections mentioned
in the Errata of both volumes. The Errata are included for completeness.
Inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and accents have been left as
in the original.
Some corrections have been made to the text. A list follows.
Volume I:
page xiii: V. Koskiusko. [MS. _Letter_, Dec. 17, 1794.]
{original is missing period and has closing parenthesis
instead of bracket}
page xvii: Youth and Age. [MS. S. T. C.:{original is missing
period after C} MSS. (1, 2) Notebook.]
page 51: 28 gleam] gleams _1796_, _1797_, _1803_{original has
11803}, _1893_.
page 207: When the ivy-tod{original has ivv-tod} is heavy
page 218: [Lines 82, 83, . . . palfrey white.]{ending bracket
is missing in original}
page 237: 20 _Both_] FAMINE _M.{period missing in original} P._
page 256: Title] Fears &c. Written, April 1798, during the
Alarms of an Invasion _MS.{original has extraneous comma} W._
page 328: Deep was the shudder, O Earth!{exclamation point
missing in original}
page 368: Dear Lady!{exclamation point missing in original}
friend devoutest
page 376: (1) _MS. A_, sent to Sir George Beaumont, Oct. 1803
(see _Coleorton Letters_){ending parenthesis is missing in
original}, 1886, i. 26;
page 442: "{quotation mark missing in original}Thus, long
accustom'd
page 445: 'I guess we shall have rain to-day!'{quotation mark
missing in original}
Footnote [133:1] Balda-Zhiok, i. e.{period missing in
original} mons altitudinis
Footnote [256:1] alarm respecting the threatened invasion.
{original has extraneous quotation mark}
Footnote [293:1] Coleridge synchronizes the _Dark Ladié_ (a
poem which he was 'preparing' with the _Christabel_){ending
parenthesis is missing in original}].
Volume II:
page 564: [Between 19 and 31] And marking that the moonlight
came from thence,{original has period}
page 607 (line 137): The soldier's boldness
constitutes{original has constitues} his freedom.
page 718: [56] _Octavio (coldly)._ _1800_, _1828_,
_1829_.{Note removed as a duplicate of [55].}
page 731: [_Before_ 72] _Duchess (anxiously)._ _1800_,{comma
is missing in original} _1828_
page 741: [39] _Wallenstein (with eager expectation)._{period
is missing in original} Well?
page 754: [117{original has 17}] _thou_
page 765: _BUTLER and GORDON._{period is missing in original}
page 771: [_After_ 9] [_WALLENSTEIN shudders and turns
pale{original has extraneous closing parenthesis}._
page 850 (line 91): What if{original has opening parenthesis
followed by the word if} (his stedfast eye still beaming pity
page 868: removed superscripted 1 at the end of line 1 as
there is no footnote
page 879: [255] and suddenly stabs ORDONIO.{period is missing
in original}
page 879: [Note. In his.... [For MS. version of this variant
see note on p. 597.]]{original is missing second closing
bracket}
page 906 (line 181): added the word "Is" at the beginning of
the line--verified in The Poetical and Dramatic Works of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published by Harper Brothers, New
York, 1854
page 929: [112] _Laska (recovering himself)._{period is
missing in original}
page 934 (line 292): devotion is akin to love,{original has
period after the comma}
page 982: First collected _P. and D. W.{period is missing in
original}_
page 1146: {original has unmatched opening bracket}For lines
1-63 vide _ante_, No. III
page 1158: _Apud Athenæum.{original has a comma}_
Footnote [598:1] (an undramatic superstition ... pleasing
associations, as the Sun and Moon) {original has duplicate
word Astrology before and after the material in parentheses}
To maintain consistency, initials referring to manuscripts are spaced
throughout the text.
Dates and manuscript references in the linenotes are in italics in the
original. Italics markup has been removed to make reading easier.
When there is more than one poem on a page, the linenotes in the
original repeat the title. This title has been removed. When there is
more than one scene on a page, the linenotes in the original repeat the
scene number. This number has been removed.
In "The Piccolomini," some of the drama is written in prose. The lines
are numbered. Where words are hyphenated in the original, the parts have
been rejoined and the first part of the word moved down to the beginning
of the following line. In the list below, the slash indicates where the
hyphen occurs in the original.
Act I, Scene VI:
lines 5-6 orders/--no
lines 7-8 counter/manded
Act II, Scene VIII:
lines 23-24 determina/tion
Act II, Scene XII:
lines 5-6 splen/did
lines 15-16 Tie/fenbach
lines 31-32 tale-/bearers
lines 34-35 gold.--/And
lines 58-59 Rudolph--/a [moved up]
lines 99-100 Fron/tignac!--Snapped
lines 111-112 con/fidentially
Act II, Scene XIII:
lines 11-12 me--/talk
lines 23-24 pre/cedence
lines 25-26 permission--/Good
lines 44-45 com/plaint
lines 46-47 Chaly/beate
lines 59-60 Mara/das
lines 65-66 com/pliment!--For
lines 66-67 re/maining
lines 68-69 Lieutenant-/General
Act II, Scene XIV:
lines 22-23 brother!--/Hast
lines 72-73 over-scrupu/lously
lines 76-77 army-/purveyancer
In the Preface to "The Death of Wallenstein," the lines are numbered.
Where words are hyphenated in the original, the parts have been rejoined
and the first part of the word moved down to the beginning of the
following line. In the list below, the slash indicates where the hyphen
occurs in the original.
lines 1-2 Wallen/stein
lines 10-11 trans/lated
lines 12-13 com/parative
lines 28-29 His/tory
lines 47-48 Piccolo/mini [moved up]
lines 61-62 Trans/lator
lines 68-69 com/pensation
In Act I, Scene I of "The Triumph of Loyalty," the lines are numbered.
Where words are hyphenated in the original, the parts have been rejoined
and the first part of the word moved down to the beginning of the
following line. In the list below, the slash indicates where the hyphen
occurs in the original.
lines 5-6 Cas/tilian
lines 60-61 judge/ment--she
In Appendix I, part of the poem "Youth and Age" has numbered lines.
Where words are hyphenated in the original, the parts have been rejoined
and the first part of the word moved down to the beginning of the
following line. In the list below, the slash indicates where the hyphen
occurs in the original.
lines 13-14 spark/ling
lines 16-17 side/--out
In Appendix II, the "Allegoric Vision" has numbered lines. Where words
are hyphenated in the original, the parts have been rejoined and the
first part of the word moved down to the beginning of the following
line. In the list below, the slash indicates where the hyphen occurs in
the original.
lines 26-27 disap/pointments
lines 59-60 im/mediately
lines 74-75 pin/ing
lines 77-78 move/ments
lines 91-91 sprink/lings
lines 106-107 extre/mity
lines 123-124 some/thing
lines 127-128 uncer/tainty
lines 148-149 over/taken [moved up]
lines 161-162 demean/our [moved up]
lines 170-171 dim-/eyed [moved up]
lines 181-182 mys/teries
In Appendix III, the "Apologetic Preface to 'Fire, Famine, and
Slaughter'" has numbered lines. Where words are hyphenated in the
original, the parts have been rejoined and the first part of the word
moved down to the beginning of the following line. In the list below,
the slash indicates where the hyphen occurs in the original.
lines 2-3 cul/tivated
lines 25-26 Anti-/Gallican
lines 34-35 com/pensated
lines 38-39 illus/trious
lines 147-148 appari/tions
lines 157-158 imagina/tion [moved up]
lines 170-171 con/cluded
lines 174-175 epigram/matic [moved up]
lines 193-194 occa/sion
lines 207-208 re/published
lines 251-252 pass/age [moved up]
lines 267-268 com/pared
lines 278-279 tran/scendant
lines 285-286 wil/fully
lines 301-302 disposi/tions
lines 302-303 punish/ment
lines 308-309 hypotheti/cally
lines 315-316 calum/niators
lines 319-320 anti-/prelatist [moved up]
lines 339-340 per/secution
lines 353-354 con/tented
lines 359-360 tempta/tion
lines 361-362 tolera/tion
lines 370-371 sup/port
lines 378-379 Church-anti/quity [moved up]
lines 381-382 church-/communion [moved up]
lines 394-395 ex/pressed
lines 399-400 inter/misceant
lines 408-409 alle/gorical [moved up]
lines 437-438 dun/geoning
lines 439-440 con/cerning [moved up]
lines 454-455 charac/ters
lines 464-465 truth,--/when
lines 467-468 main/taining
lines 472-473 primi/tive
lines 478-479 reli/gious
In the Bibliography, the following items have line numbers in the
original:
III. Introduction to "A Sheet of Sonnets",
V. "Preface to the First Editon" and "Preface to the Second Edition"
The line numbers have been removed from the prose paragraphs. To
indicate where the lines end in the original, a / slash mark has been
used.