Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

, by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Keach, William

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ISBN: 9780140423532 | 0140423532
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Copyright: 10/1/1997

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One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of Coleridge's best-known poems, from the nightmarish vision of the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and the opium-inspired 'Kubla Khan' to the sombre passion of 'Dejection: An Ode' and the medieval ballad 'Christabel'. His meditative 'conversation' poems, such as 'Frost at Midnight' and 'This Lime-Tree Bower Mr Prison', reflect on remembrance and solitude, while late works, such as 'Youth and Age' and 'Constancy to an Ideal Object', are haunting meditations on mortality and lost love.

Introduction

Acknowledgements

xix

Table of Dates

Further Reading

xxvii

THE POEMS

Easter Holidays

(1)

Dura navis

(2)

Nil pejus est caelibe vita

(1)

Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon

(1)

Julia

(1)

Quae nocent docent

(1)

The Nose

(2)

Life

(1)

To the Muse

(1)

Destruction of the Bastile

(1)

Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital

(1)

Progress of Vice

(1)

Monody on the Death of Chatterton (first version)

(2)

Monody on the Death of Chatterton (second version)

(5)

An Invocation

(1)

Anna and Harland

(1)

To the Evening Star

(1)

Pain

(1)

On a Lady Weeping

(1)

Monody on a Tea-Kettle

(1)

Genevieve

(1)

On Receiving an Account that his Only Sister's Death Was Inevitable

(1)

On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister

(1)

A Mathematical Problem

(3)

Honour

(2)

On Imitation

(1)

Inside the Coach

(1)

Devonshire Roads

(1)

Music

(1)

Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge

(1)

Sonnet on the Same

(1)

Happiness

(3)

A Wish Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10th, 1792

(1)

An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon

(1)

To Disappointment

(1)

A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room

(1)

Ode

(1)

A Lover's Complaint to his Mistress

(1)

With Fielding's Amelia

(1)

Written After a Walk Before Supper

(1)

Imitated from Ossian

(1)

The Complaint of Ninathoma, from the Same

(1)

The Rose

(1)

Kisses

(1)

Sonnet (`Thou gentle look')

(1)

Sonnet to the River Otter

(1)

Lines on an Autumnal Evening

(3)

To Fortune: On Buying a Ticket in the Irish Lottery

(1)

Perspiration: A Travelling Eclogue

(1)

Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the House of the `Man of Ross'

(1)

Imitated from the Welsh

(1)

Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village

(1)

Imitations Ad Lyram

(1)

The Sigh

(1)

The Kiss

(1)

To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution

(2)

Translation of Wrangham's `Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam e Granta Exituram'

(1)

To Miss Brunton with the Preceding Translation

(1)

Epitaph on an Infant

(1)

[Pantisocracy]

(1)

On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America

(1)

Elegy, Imitated from One of Akenside's Blank-Verse Inscriptions

(1)

The Faded Flower

(1)

Sonnet (`Pale Roamer through the night!')

(1)

Domestic Peace

(1)

Sonnet (`Thou bleedest, my poor Heart!')

(1)

Sonnet to the Author of the `Robbers'

(1)

Melancholy: A Fragment

(1)

Songs of the Pixies

(4)

To a Young Ass, its Mother being Tethered Near it

(1)

Lines on a Friend Who Died of a Frenzy Fever Induced by Calumnious Reports

(1)

To a Friend, together with an Unfinished Poem

(8)

Sonnets on Eminent Characters:

To the Honourable Mr. Erskine

(1)

Burke

(1)

Priestley

(1)

La Fayette

(1)

Koskiusko

(1)

Pitt

(1)

To the Rev. W. L. Bowles (two versions)

(1)

Mrs Siddons

(1)

To William Godwin, Author of `Political Justice'

(1)

To Robert Southey, of Balliol College, Oxford, Author of the `Retrospect', and Other Poems

(1)

To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq.

(1)

To Lord Stanhope, on Reading his Late Protest in the House of Lords

(1)

To Earl Stanhope

(1)

Lines to a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter

(1)

To an Infant

(1)

To the Rev. W. J. Hort, while teaching a young lady some song-tunes on his flute

(1)

Sonnet (`Sweet Mercy! how my very heart has bled')

(1)

To the Nightingale

(1)

Lines composed while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May, 1795

(1)

Lines in the Manner of Spenser

(1)

To the Author of Poems published anonymously at Bristol in September 1795

(1)

The Production of a Young Lady, addressed to the author of the poems alluded to in the preceding epistle

(2)

Effusion XXXV. Composed August 20th, 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire

(2)

The Eolian Harp

(2)

Lines written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, September, 1795, in answer to a letter from Bristol

(3)

Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement

(2)

On Donne's Poetry

(1)

The Hour When We Shall Meet Again

(1)

The Destiny of Nations

(12)

Religious Musings

107

(10)

From an Unpublished Poem

117

(1)

On Observing a Blossom on the First of February, 1796

118

(1)

Verses addressed to J. Horne Tooke

118

(2)

On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life

120

(1)

Sonnet written on receiving letters informing me of the birth of a Son, I being at Birmingham

121

(1)

Sonnet composed on a journey homeward; the author having received intelligence of the birth of a son, Sept. 20th, 1796

121

(1)

Sonnet to a friend who asked, how I felt when the nurse first presented my infant to me

122

(1)

Sonnet [to Charles Lloyd]

122

(1)

To a Young Friend, on his Proposing to Domesticate with the Author. Composed in 1796

123

(2)

Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune Who Abandoned Himself to an Indolent and Causeless Melancholy

125

(1)

To a Friend Who Had Declared his Intention of Writing No More Poetry

125

(1)

Ode to the Departing Year

126

(5)

The Raven

131

(2)

To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre

133

(1)

To an Unfortunate Woman

134

(1)

To the Rev. George Coleridge

134

(2)

On the Christening of a Friend's Child

136

(2)

Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Nether Stowey Church

138

(1)

This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison

138

(2)

The Foster-Mother's Tale

140

(3)

The Dungeon

143

(2)

Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers:

Sonnet I

144

(1)

Sonnet II

144

(1)

Sonnet III

145

(1)

Parliamentary Oscillators

145

(2)

The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)

147

(20)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)

167

(20)

Christabel

187

(19)

Lines to W. L. while he Sang a Song to Purcell's Music

206

(1)

The Three Graves

206

(12)

The Wanderings of Cain

218

(5)

Fire, Famine, and Slaughter

223

(2)

The Old Man of the Alps

225

(4)

The Apotheosis, or The Snow-Drop

229

(2)

Frost at Midnight

231

(2)

France. An Ode

233

(3)

Lewti, or the Circassian Love-Chaunt

236

(2)

To a Young Lady on her Recovery from a Fever

238

(1)

Fears in Solitude

239

(5)

The Nightingale

244

(3)

The Ballad of the Dark Ladie

247

(2)

Kubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream

249

(3)

[Lines from a notebook -- September 1798]

252

(1)

[Hexameters:] William, My Teacher, My Friend!

252

(2)

[Translation of a passage in Ottfried's metrical paraphrase of the Gospel]

254

(1)

[Fragmentary translation of the Song of Deborah]

254

(2)

Catullian Hendecasyllables

256

(1)

The Homeric Hexameter Described and Exemplified

256

(1)

The Ovidian Elegiac Metre Described and Exemplified

257

(1)

On a Cataract

257

(1)

Tell's Birth-Place

258

(1)

The Visit of the Gods

259

(1)

On an Infant which Died before Baptism

260

(1)

Something Childish, but Very Natural

260

(1)

Home-Sick, Written in Germany

260

(1)

The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn

261

(1)

Lines written in the album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest

262

(1)

The British Stripling's War-Song

263

(1)

Names

264

(1)

The Devil's Thoughts

264

(3)

Lines Composed in a Concert-Room

267

(1)

The Exchange

268

(1)

[Paraphrase of Psalm 46. Hexameters]

268

(1)

Hymn to the Earth. Hexameters

269

(1)

Mahomet

270

(1)

Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

271

(2)

A Christmas Carol

273

(2)

On an Insignificant

275

(1)

Job's Luck

275

(1)

Love

275

(3)

The Madman and the Lethargist, an Example

278

(2)

On a Volunteer Singer

280

(1)

Talleyrand to Lord Grenville

280

(4)

The Two Round Spaces on the Tomb-Stone

284

(1)

The Mad Monk

285

(2)

A Stranger Minstrel

287

(2)

Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side Half-Way Up a Steep Hill Facing South

289

(1)

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

290

(1)

The Night-Scene: A Dramatic Fragment

290

(2)

On Revisiting the Sea-Shore

292

(1)

Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath

293

(1)

Drinking versus Thinking

294

(1)

An Ode to the Rain

295

(2)

The Wills of the Wisp

297

(1)

Ode to Tranquillity

297

(1)

A Letter to-----, April 4, 1802. -- Sunday Evening

298

(9)

Dejection: An Ode

307

(4)

[A Soliloquy of the full Moon, She being in a Mad Passion--]

311

(2)

Answer to a Child's Question

313

(1)

A Day-Dream

314

(1)

To Asra

315

(1)

The Happy Husband

316

(1)

A Thought Suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland

316

(1)

[Untitled]

317

(1)

The Keepsake

317

(1)

The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution

318

(5)

Hymn before Sun-Rise, in the Vale of Chamouni

323

(2)

The Good, Great Man

325

(1)

The Knight's Tomb

326

(1)

To Matilda Betham from a Stranger

326

(2)

Westphalian Song

328

(1)

The Pains of Sleep

328

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- September 1803]

329

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- February -- March 1804]

330

(1)

[What is Life?]

330

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- April 1805]

330

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- May -- June 1805]

331

(1)

Phantom

331

(1)

[An Angel Visitant]

331

(1)

Reason for Love's Blindness

332

(1)

[Untitled]

332

(1)

Constancy to an Ideal Object

332

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- March 1806]

333

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- June 1806]

333

(1)

Farewell to Love

334

(1)

Time, Real and Imaginary

334

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- 1806]

335

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- October -- November 1806]

335

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- 1806]

335

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- November -- December 1806]

336

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- February 1807]

336

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- February 1807]

336

(1)

[Lines from a manuscript -- 1807--8]

337

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- July 1807; includes lines previously published separately as `Coeli enarrant']

337

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- January 1808]

338

(1)

To William Wordsworth

339

(3)

Metrical Feet. Lesson for a Boy

342

(1)

Recollections of Love

342

(2)

The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-Tree. A Lament

344

(2)

To Two Sisters

346

(1)

On Taking Leave of-----, 1817

347

(1)

A Child's Evening Prayer

348

(1)

Ad Vilmum Axiologum

348

(1)

Psyche

349

(1)

[Sonnet -- translated from Marino]

349

(1)

[Fragment: `Two wedded Hearts']

350

(1)

A Tombless Epitaph

350

(1)

On a Clock in a Market-Place

351

(1)

Separation

351

(1)

The Visionary Hope

352

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- March 1810]

353

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- April -- June 1810]

353

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- May 1810]

353

(1)

Epitaph on an Infant

354

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- 1811]

354

(1)

[Fragment of an ode on Napoleon]

354

(1)

[Lines inscribed on the fly-leaf of Benedetto Menzini's `Poesie' (1782)]

355

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- May -- June 1811]

355

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- May -- July 1811]

355

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- May 1814?]

356

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- 1815 -- 16]

356

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- 1815 -- 16]

356

(1)

On Donne's First Poem

356

(1)

Limbo

357

(1)

Moles

358

(1)

Ne plus ultra

358

(1)

The Suicide's Argument

359

(1)

[An Invocation: from `Remorse']

359

(1)

God's Omnipresence, a Hymn

360

(1)

To a Lady. With Falconer's `Shipwreck'

361

(1)

Human Life, On the Denial of Immortality

362

(1)

[Song from `Zapolya']

362

(1)

[Hunting Song from `Zapolya']

363

(1)

[Faith, Hope, and Charity. From the Italian of Guarini]

364

(1)

Fancy in Nubibus

365

(1)

Israel's Lament

366

(2)

A Character

368

(2)

Lines to a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review

370

(1)

To Nature

370

(1)

The Tears of a Grateful People

371

(4)

First Advent of Love

375

(1)

[Reason]

375

(1)

[Lines from a notebook -- 1822]

375

(1)

From the German

376

(1)

The Reproof and Reply

376

(2)

Youth and Age

378

(1)

Desire

379

(1)

The Delinquent Travellers

379

(3)

Song, ex improviso

382

(1)

Work Without Hope

383

(1)

The Two Founts

383

(2)

The Pang More Sharp Than All

385

(2)

Sancti Dominici Pallium

387

(2)

The Improvisatore

389

(5)

Love's Burial-Place: A Madrigal

394

(1)

Lines Suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius

394

(2)

Epitaphium testamentarium

396

(1)

Duty Surviving Self-Love

396

(1)

[Homeless]

396

(1)

'E ρωζ αειλαλη&thetas;ρoζ εταιρoζ

397

(1)

Song

397

(1)

Profuse Kindness

397

(1)

Written in an Album

397

(1)

To Mary Pridham

398

(1)

Verses Trivocular

398

(1)

Water Ballad

398

(1)

Cologne

399

(1)

On my Joyful Departure from the Same City

400

(1)

[The Netherlands]

400

(1)

The Garden of Boccaccio

400

(3)

Alice du Clos: Or The Forked Tongue. A Ballad

403

(6)

Love, Hope, and Patience in Education

409

(1)

[Lines written in commonplace book of Miss Barbour]

409

(1)

To Miss A. T.

410

(1)

Love and Friendship Opposite

410

(1)

Not at Home

410

(1)

W. H. Eheu!

411

(1)

Phantom or Fact?

411

(1)

Charity in Thought

412

(1)

Humility the Mother of Charity

412

(1)

[`Gently I took that which ungently came']

412

(1)

Cholera Cured Before Hand

413

(1)

Love's Apparition and Evanishment

414

(1)

To the Young Artist, Kayser of Kaserwerth

415

(1)

Know Thyself

415

(1)

My Baptismal Birth-Day

416

(1)

Epitaph

416

(9)

Appendices:

1: On the Wretched Lot of the Slaves in the Isles of Western India

419

(3)

2: [Notebook draft of an essay on punctuation]

422

(3)

Notes

425

(186)

Index of Titles

611

(8)

Index of First Lines

619

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Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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