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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

including Poems and Versions of Poems now Published for the First Time: Edited with Textual and Bibliographical Notes by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

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VOL. I: POEMS
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VOL. II: DRAMATIC WORKS AND APPENDICES
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DRAMATIC WORKS
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EPIGRAMS
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1 EPIGRAM AN APOLOGY FOR SPENCERS
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2 EPIGRAM ON A LATE MARRIAGE BETWEEN AN OLD MAID AND FRENCH PETIT MAÎTRE
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3 EPIGRAM ON AN AMOROUS DOCTOR
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4 EPIGRAM
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5 ON DEPUTY---
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6 [EPIGRAM]
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7 ON MR. ROSS, USUALLY COGNOMINATED NOSY
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8 [EPIGRAM]
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9 [EPIGRAM]
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10 [ANOTHER VERSION]
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11 ON AN INSIGNIFICANT
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12 [EPIGRAM]
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13 ON A SLANDERER
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14 LINES IN A GERMAN STUDENT'S ALBUM
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15 [HIPPONA]
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16 ON A READER OF HIS OWN VERSES
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17 ON A REPORT OF A MINISTER'S DEATH WRITTEN IN GERMANY
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18 [DEAR BROTHER JEM]
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19 JOB'S LUCK
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20 ON THE SICKNESS OF A GREAT MINISTER
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21 [TO A VIRTUOUS OECONOMIST] Wernicke
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22 [L'ENFANT PRODIGUE]
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23 ON SIR RUBICUND NASO A COURT ALDERMAN AND WHISPERER OF SECRETS
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24 TO MR. PYE
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25 [NINETY-EIGHT]
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26 OCCASIONED BY THE FORMER
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27 [A LIAR BY PROFESSION]
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28 TO A PROUD PARENT
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29 RUFA
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30 ON A VOLUNTEER SINGER
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31 OCCASIONED BY THE LAST
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32 EPITAPH ON MAJOR DIEMAN
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33 ON THE ABOVE
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34 EPITAPH ON A BAD MAN
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35 TO A CERTAIN MODERN NARCISSUS
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36 TO A CRITIC
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37 ALWAYS AUDIBLE
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38 PONDERE NON NUMBERO
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39 THE COMPLIMENT QUALIFIED
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40
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41
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42
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43
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44 TO ONE WHO PUBLISHED IN PRINT
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45
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46
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47 TO A VAIN YOUNG LADY
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48 A HINT TO PREMIERS AND FIRST CONSULS
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49
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50 FOR A HOUSE-DOG'S COLLAR
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51
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52 EPITAPH ON A MERCENARY MISER
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53 A DIALOGUE BETWEEN AN AUTHOR AND HIS FRIEND
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54 Μωροσοφια OR WISDOM IN FOLLY
  
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56 FROM AN OLD GERMAN POET
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57 ON THE CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE,
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58 SPOTS IN THE SUN
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59
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60 TO MY CANDLE
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61 EPITAPH
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62 THE TASTE OF THE TIMES
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63 ON PITT AND FOX
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64
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65 COMPARATIVE BREVITY OF GREEK AND ENGLISH
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66 EPIGRAM ON THE SECRECY OF A CERTAIN LADY
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67 MOTTO
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68
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69 MODERN CRITICS
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70 WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM
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71 TO A LADY WHO REQUESTED ME TO WRITE A POEM UPON NOTHING
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72 SENTIMENTAL
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73
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74 AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS
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75 THE ALTERNATIVE
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76
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77 INSCRIPTION FOR A TIME-PIECE
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78 ON THE MOST VERACIOUS ANECDOTIST, AND SMALL-TALK MAN, THOMAS HILL, ESQ.
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79
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80 EPITAPH OF THE PRESENT YEAR ON THE MONUMENT OF THOMAS FULLER
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JEUX D'ESPRIT
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FRAGMENTS FROM A NOTEBOOK
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FRAGMENTS
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METRICAL EXPERIMENTS
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APPENDIX V

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ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG MAN OF FORTUNE
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[C. Lloyd]

WHO ABANDONED HIMSELF TO AN INDOLENT AND CAUSELESS MELANCHOLY

Hence that fantastic wantonness of woe,
O Youth to partial Fortune vainly dear!
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To plunder'd Want's half-shelter'd hovel go,
Go, and some hunger-bitten infant hear
Moan haply in a dying mother's ear:
Or when the cold and dismal fog-damps brood
O'er the rank church-yard with sear elm-leaves strew'd,
Pace round some widow's grave, whose dearer part
Was slaughter'd, where o'er his uncoffin'd limbs
The flocking flesh-birds scream'd! Then, while thy heart
Groans, and thine eye a fiercer sorrow dims,
Know (and the truth shall kindle thy young mind)
What Nature makes thee mourn, she bids thee heal!
O abject! if, to sickly dreams resign'd,
All effortless thou leave Life's commonweal
A prey to Tyrants, Murderers of Mankind.
1796.
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