The Poems of Sara Coleridge

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Introduction	p. 1
Note on the Text	p. 15
List of Abbreviations	p. 17
Guide to Further Reading	p. 19
Early Poems 1815-1829
Valentine written in girlhood - perhaps at 13 years of age	p. 25
Translated from Horace in early youth	p. 26
Praises of a Country Life	p. 27
'I dolci colli, ov'io lasciai me stesso' ('Those pleasant hills high towering into air')	p. 29
'Vago augelletto, che cantando vai' ('Sweet little bird, that in such piteous strains')	p. 30
Extract from an Epistle from Emma to Henry	p. 30
To Elizabeth S.K. Poole	p. 32
To Zoe King	p. 32
To Edith May Southey during absence on the Lily of the Nile	p. 33
[Valentine to Rose Lynn]	p. 34
My dear dear Henry!	p. 34
To the tune of 'When icicles hang by the wall'	p. 35
Sequel	p. 35
'Let it not a Lover pique'	p. 36
'How now, dear suspicious Lover!'	p. 36
'Now to bed will I fly'	p. 37
'They tell me that my eye is dim, my cheek is lily pale'	p. 38
Go, you may call it madness, folly - &c.	p. 39
'O! once again good night!'	p. 39
'Art thou too at this hour awake'	p. 40
To Louisa and Emma Powles	p. 41
'Yes! With fond eye my Henry will peruse'	p. 42
"'How swift is a thought of the mind'"	p. 43
Verses to my Beloved with an empty purse	p. 44
'My Henry, like a modest youth'	p. 47
To Mrs Whitbread	p. 48
'O, how, Love, must I fill'	p. 49
'When this you see'	p. 50
'"I am wreathing a garland for wintry hours"'	p. 50
'Henry comes! No sweeter music'	p. 51
To Susan Patteson with a purse	p. 52
'Th'enamour'd Nymph, whose faithful voice'	p. 53
Epistle from Sara to her sister Mary whom she has never yet seen, her 'Yarrow Unvisited'	p. 53
'The Rose of Love my Henry sends'	p. 58
''Mid blooming fields I daily rove'	p. 58
Those parched lips I'd rather press'	p. 59
Poems 1829-1843
Sickness	p. 60
Written in my Illness at Hampstead during Edith's Infancy	p. 61
Verses written in sickness 1833, before the Birth of Berkeley and Florence	p. 62
To Herbert Coleridge. Feb 13 1834	p. 63
Benoni. Dedication	p. 64
The Months	p. 65
Trees	p. 66
What Makes a Noise	p. 66
The Nightingale	p. 66
Foolish Interference	p. 67
Fine Names for Fine Things	p. 68
The Seasons	p. 68
The Squirrel	p. 69
Poppies	p. 70
The Usurping Bird	p. 71
Edith Asleep	p. 73
The Blessing of Health	p. 74
The Humming-Birds	p. 75
Childish Tears	p. 77
Providence	p. 78
'Nox is the night'	p. 79
'A father's brother, mother's brother, are not called the same'	p. 79
The Celandine	p. 80
'January is the first month in the year'	p. 80
'January brings the blast'	p. 82
'Little Sister Edith now'	p. 85
'Why those tears my little treasure'	p. 86
Sara Coleridge for Herbert and Edith. April 19th 1834	p. 87
Eye has not seen nor can the heart of man conceive the blessedness of Heaven	p. 87
Consolation in Trouble	p. 88
Silence and attention at Church	p. 90
'Grief's heavy hand hath swayed the lute'	p. 90
The Little Invalid	p. 91
The mansion of Peace	p. 92
'My friends in vain you chide my tears'	p. 92
The Crag-fast sheep	p. 93
'Bindweed whiter e'en than lilies'	p. 93
'The hart delights in cooling streams'	p. 93
The birth of purple Columbine	p. 94
Forget me not	p. 94
The Staining of the Rose	p. 95
'No joy have I in passing themes'	p. 96
'When Herbert's Mama was a slim little Maid'	p. 97
Summer	p. 98
The lamb in the Slough	p. 99
The Water Lily	p. 99
The Pair that will not meet	p. 100
Written on a blank leaf of 'Naturalist's' Magazine	p. 101
Young Days of Edith and Sara	p. 101
The Plunge	p. 102
The narrow Escape	p. 103
'See the Halcyon fishing'	p. 105
Daffodil or King's Spear	p. 105
Fine birds and their plain wives	p. 106
The Glow-worm ('Glow-worm lights her starry lamp')	p. 106
The Glow-worm ("Mid the silent murky dell')	p. 107
Herbert looking at the Moon	p. 108
Game	p. 109
'From Isles far over the sea'	p. 110
Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven	p. 110
A Sister's Love	p. 112
From Petrarch	p. 113
Poems from Phantasmion
'See the bright stranger!'	p. 114
'Tho' I be young - ah well-a-day!'	p. 114
'Sylvan stag, securely play'	p. 116
'Bound along or else be still'	p. 117
'Milk-white doe, 'tis but the breeze'	p. 117
'One face alone, one face alone'	p. 118
'Deem not that our eldest heir'	p. 119
'While the storm her bosom scourges'	p. 120
'Many a fountain cool and shady'	p. 121
'The captive bird with ardour sings'	p. 121
'The sun may speed or loiter on his way'	p. 122
'Grief's heavy hand hath swayed the lute'	p. 123
'Life and light, Anthemna bright'	p. 123
'O sleep, my babe, hear not the rippling wave'	p. 124
'How gladsome is a child, and how perfect is his mirth'	p. 125
'I tremble when with look benign'	p. 125
'Ne'er ask where knaves are mining'	p. 126
'How high yon lark is heavenward borne!'	p. 127
'Newts and blindworms do no wrong'	p. 128
'The winds were whispering, the waters glistering'	p. 128
'False Love, too long thou hast delayed'	p. 129
'He came unlooked for, undesired'	p. 129
'Yon changeful cloud will soon thy aspect wear'	p. 130
'I was a brook in straitest channel pent'	p. 131
'By the storm invaded'	p. 131
'I thought by tears thy soul to move'	p. 132
'Blest is the tarn which towering cliffs o'ershade'	p. 133
'What means that darkly-working brow'	p. 133
'Methought I wandered dimly on'	p. 134
'"The spring returns, and balmy budding flow'rs'	p. 135
'Full oft before some gorgeous fane'	p. 136
'See yon blithe child that dances in our sight!'	p. 136
'Their armour is flashing'	p. 137
'Ah, where lie now those locks that lately streamed'	p. 139
'Poor is the portrait that one look portrays'	p. 140
The Three Humpbacked Brothers	p. 141
Reflections on Reading Lucretius	p. 145
from 'Kings of England from the Conquest'	p. 149
Receipt for a Cake	p. 153
Lines on the Death of-	p. 155
Poems 1843-1852
For my Father on his lines called 'Work Without Hope'	p. 156
'Friend, thou hast been a traveller bold'	p. 157
To a fair young Lady who declared that she and I were coevals	p. 158
To a Fair Friend arguing in support of the theory of the renovation in a literal sense of the material system	p. 159
Dreams
The Lilies	p. 160
Time's Acquittal	p. 160
To a Friend	p. 162
Asceticism	p. 164
Blanco White	p. 165
To a Friend who wished to give me half her sleep	p. 165
To a Friend who prayed, that my heart might still be young	p. 166
On reading my Father's 'Youth and Age'	p. 167
To a little weanling Babe, who returned a kiss with great eagerness	p. 168
Dream-love	p. 168
To my Son	p. 169
Tennyson's 'Lotos Eaters' with a new conclusion	p. 171
Crashaw's Poetry	p. 173
'On the same'	p. 174
'Toil not for burnished gold that poorly shines'	p. 175
Sketch from Life. Morning Scene. Sept 22 1845	p. 176
A Boy's complaint of Dr Blimber	p. 177
L'Envoy to 'Phantasmion'	p. 177
Feydeleen to Zelneth	p. 178
Song of Leucoia	p. 179
Song for 'Phantasmion'	p. 180
Zelneth. Love unreturned	p. 180
Matthew VI.28-9	p. 181
Prayer for Tranquillity	p. 183
The melancholy Prince	p. 183
Zelneth's Song in Magnart's Garden	p. 184
Children	p. 185
'Passion is blind not Love: her wondrous might'	p. 186
'O change that strain with man's best hopes at strife'	p. 187
'O vain expenditure! unhallowed waste!'	p. 188
Darling Edith	p. 189
First chorus in 'The Agamemnon' of Aeschylus	p. 190
Poems written for a book of Dialogues on the Doctrines of grace
'While disputants for victory fight'	p. 192
Water can but rise to its own level	p. 192
Reason	p. 193
Mystic Doctrine of Baptism	p. 193
Baptism	p. 194
[Verses from 'Regeneration'] ('This is a giddy world of chance and changing')	p. 195
Missionary Poem	p. 195
[From Sara Coleridge's Journal, September 1850] ('Danced forty times? We know full well')	p. 196
[From a letter to Mrs Derwent Coleridge, 16 January 1852] ('Sing hey diddle diddle')	p. 196
[From a letter to Derwent Coleridge, 22 January 1852] ('Darran was a bold man')	p. 197
Doggrel Charm	p. 198
'Howithorn'	p. 199
Notes on the Poems	p. 212
Index of First Lines	p. 246
Index of Titles	p. 252
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