The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ::

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)

NIL PEJUS EST CAELIBE VITÂ

SONNET TO THE AUTUMNAL MOON

ANTHEM FOR THE CHILDREN OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL

DESTRUCTION OF THE BASTILE

LIFE

PROGRESS OF VICE

MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON

MONODY ON A TEA-KETTLE

GENEVIEVE

ON RECEIVING AN ACCOUNT THAT HIS ONLY SISTER'S DEATH WAS INEVITABLE

ON SEEING A YOUTH AFFECTIONATELY WELCOMED BY A SISTER

A MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM

To the Rev. George Coleridge

[prologue]

II.

III.

IV.

SONNET ON QUITTING SCHOOL FOR COLLEGE

ABSENCE

HAPPINESS

A WISH

AN ODE IN THE MANNER OF ANACREON

TO DISAPPOINTMENT

A FRAGMENT FOUND IN A LECTURE-ROOM

ODE

A LOVER'S COMPLAINT TO HIS MISTRESS

WITH FIELDING'S ‘AMELIA’

WRITTEN AFTER A WALK BEFORE SUPPER

IMITATED FROM OSSIAN

THE COMPLAINT OF NINATHÓMA

SONNET TO THE RIVER OTTER

AN EFFUSION AT EVENING

LINES ON AN AUTUMNAL EVENING

TO FORTUNE

PERSPIRATION. A TRAVELLING ECLOGUE

ON BALA HILL

LINES WRITTEN AT THE KING'S ARMS, ROSS, FORMERLY THE HOUSE OF THE ‘MAN OF ROSS’

IMITATED FROM THE WELSH

LINES TO A BEAUTIFUL SPRING IN A VILLAGE

IMITATIONS

AD LYRAM

TO LESBIA

THE DEATH OF THE STARLING

TRANSLATION OF WRANGHAM'S ‘HENDECASYLLABI AD BRUNTONAM E GRANTA EXITURAM’ [KAL. OCT. MDCCXC]

TO MISS BRUNTON

EPITAPH ON AN INFANT

PANTISOCRACY

ON THE PROSPECT OF ESTABLISHING A PANTISOCRACY IN AMERICA

ON A DISCOVERY MADE TOO LATE

TO THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE ROBBERS’

MELANCHOLY

TO A YOUNG ASS

LINES ON A FRIEND WHO DIED OF A FRENZY FEVER INDUCED BY CALUMNIOUS REPORTS

TO A FRIEND

SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS

I TO THE HONOURABLE MR. ERSKINE

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VII TO THE REV. W. L. BOWLES

VII TO THE REV. W. L. BOWLES [SECOND VERSION]

VIII.

VIII MRS. SIDDONS

IX.

IX TO WILLIAM GODWIN AUTHOR OF ‘POLITICAL JUSTICE’

X TO ROBERT SOUTHEY OF BALIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD, AUTHOR OF THE ‘RETROSPECT’, AND OTHER POEMS

XI.

XI TO RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, ESQ.

XII.

[XII] TO LORD STANHOPE ON READING HIS LATE PROTEST IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS

TO EARL STANHOPE

LINES TO A FRIEND IN ANSWER TO A MELANCHOLY LETTER

TO AN INFANT

TO THE REV. W. J. HORT

PITY

TO THE NIGHTINGALE

LINES COMPOSED WHILE CLIMBING THE LEFT ASCENT OF BROCKLEY COOMB, SOMERSETSHIRE, MAY 1795

LINES IN THE MANNER OF SPENSER

THE HOUR WHEN WE SHALL MEET AGAIN

LINES WRITTEN AT SHURTON BARS, NEAR BRIDGEWATER, SEPTEMBER 1795, IN ANSWER TO A LETTER FROM BRISTOL

THE EOLIAN HARP

TO THE AUTHOR OF POEMS

THE SILVER THIMBLE

REFLECTIONS ON HAVING LEFT A PLACE OF RETIREMENT

RELIGIOUS MUSINGS

MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON

THE DESTINY OF NATIONS

VER PERPETUUM

ON OBSERVING A BLOSSOM ON THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY 1796

TO A PRIMROSE

VERSES ADDRESSED TO J. HORNE TOOKE AND THE COMPANY WHO MET ON JUNE 28TH, 1796, TO CELEBRATE HIS POLL AT THE WESTMINSTER ELECTION

ON A LATE CONNUBIAL RUPTURE IN HIGH LIFE

SONNET ON RECEIVING A LETTER INFORMING ME OF THE BIRTH OF A SON

SONNET COMPOSED ON A JOURNEY HOMEWARD; THE AUTHOR HAVING RECEIVED INTELLIGENCE OF THE BIRTH OF A SON, SEPT. 20, 1796

SONNET TO A FRIEND WHO ASKED, HOW I FELT WHEN THE NURSE FIRST PRESENTED MY INFANT TO ME

SONNET

TO A YOUNG FRIEND

ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG MAN OF FORTUNE

TO A FRIEND

ODE TO THE DEPARTING YEAR

THE RAVEN

TO AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN AT THE THEATRE

TO AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN

TO THE REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE

ON THE CHRISTENING OF A FRIEND'S CHILD

TRANSLATION OF A LATIN INSCRIPTION BY THE REV. W. L. BOWLES IN NETHER-STOWEY CHURCH

THIS LIME-TREE BOWER MY PRISON

THE FOSTER-MOTHER'S TALE

THE DUNGEON

THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS

II.

II TO SIMPLICITY

III.

III ON A RUINED HOUSE IN A ROMANTIC COUNTRY

PARLIAMENTARY OSCILLATORS

The Conclusion to Part I

II.

Part II

LINES TO W. L. WHILE HE SANG A SONG TO PURCELL'S MUSIC

FIRE, FAMINE, AND SLAUGHTER

FROST AT MIDNIGHT

FRANCE: AN ODE

THE OLD MAN OF THE ALPS

III.

IV.

THE BALLAD OF THE DARK LADIE

KUBLA KHAN:

RECANTATION

HEXAMETERS

TRANSLATION OF A PASSAGE IN OTTFRIED'S METRICAL PARAPHRASE OF THE GOSPEL

CATULLIAN HENDECASYLLABLES

THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER

THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE

ON A CATARACT

TELL'S BIRTH-PLACE

THE VISIT OF THE GODS

FROM THE GERMAN

WATER BALLAD

ON AN INFANT

SOMETHING CHILDISH, BUT VERY NATURAL

HOME-SICK

LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM AT ELBINGERODE, IN THE HARTZ FOREST

THE BRITISH STRIPLING'S WAR-SONG

NAMES

THE DEVIL'S THOUGHTS

LINES COMPOSED IN A CONCERT-ROOM

ODE TO GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

TALLEYRAND TO LORD GRENVILLE

APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA

THE KEEPSAKE

A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW

THE MAD MONK

INSCRIPTION FOR A SEAT BY THE ROAD SIDE HALF-WAY UP A STEEP HILL FACING SOUTH

A STRANGER MINSTREL

ALCAEUS TO SAPPHO

THE TWO ROUND SPACES ON THE TOMBSTONE

THE SNOW-DROP

ON REVISITING THE SEA-SHORE

TO MATILDA BETHAM FROM A STRANGER

HYMN BEFORE SUN-RISE, IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI

THE GOOD, GREAT MAN

INSCRIPTION FOR A FOUNTAIN ON A HEATH

AN ODE TO THE RAIN

A DAY-DREAM

ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION

THE BLOSSOMING OF THE SOLITARY DATE-TREE

[preface]

SEPARATION

THE RASH CONJURER

A CHILD'S EVENING PRAYER

METRICAL FEET

FAREWELL TO LOVE

TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

AN ANGEL VISITANT

RECOLLECTIONS OF LOVE

THE MADMAN AND THE LETHARGIST

THE VISIONARY HOPE

EPITAPH ON AN INFANT

THE VIRGIN'S CRADLE-HYMN

TO A LADY

REASON FOR LOVE'S BLINDNESS

THE SUICIDE'S ARGUMENT

TIME, REAL AND IMAGINARY

FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY

THE TEARS OF A GRATEFUL PEOPLE

YOUTH AND AGE

THE REPROOF AND REPLY

FIRST ADVENT OF LOVE

THE DELINQUENT TRAVELLERS

WORK WITHOUT HOPE

SANCTI DOMINICI PALLIUM

SONG

A CHARACTER

THE TWO FOUNTS

CONSTANCY TO AN IDEAL OBJECT

THE PANG MORE SHARP THAN ALL

DUTY SURVIVING SELF-LOVE

HOMELESS

[section]

REFLECTION ON THE ABOVE

EPITAPHIUM TESTAMENTARIUM

Ερως αει λαληθρος εταιρος

LINES TO A COMIC AUTHOR, ON AN ABUSIVE REVIEW

COLOGNE

ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE

THE GARDEN OF BOCCACCIO

LOVE, HOPE, AND PATIENCE IN EDUCATION

TO MISS A. T.

LINES WRITTEN IN COMMONPLACE BOOK OF MISS BARBOUR, DAUGHTER OF THE MINISTER OF THE U.S.A. TO ENGLAND

SONG, ex improviso

LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP OPPOSITE

HUMILITY THE MOTHER OF CHARITY

LOVE'S APPARITION AND EVANISHMENT

TO THE YOUNG ARTIST

MY BAPTISMAL BIRTH-DAY

EPITAPH

II.

VOL. II: DRAMATIC WORKS AND APPENDICES

DRAMATIC WORKS

THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE

ACT I

Scene

Scene changes to the house of Adelaide.

II.

III.

Scene changes to the court before the Castle of Velez.

[Scene changes to the mountains by moonlight.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

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VII.

VIII.

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XI.

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VIII.

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XI.

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VII.

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VI.

THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN

PREFACE OF THE TRANSLATOR TO THE FIRST EDITION

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VII.

VIII.

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XI.

XII.

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III.

Part I THE PRELUDE, ENTITLED ‘THE USURPER'S FORTUNE’

Scene I

Scene changes to the back of the Palace—a Wooded Park, and Mountains. Enter Zapolya, with an infant in arms.

II.

Part II THE SEQUEL, ENTITLED ‘THE USURPER'S FATE’ USURPATION ENDED; OR, SHE COMES AGAIN

II.

III.

IV.

1 EPIGRAM AN APOLOGY FOR SPENCERS

2 EPIGRAM ON A LATE MARRIAGE BETWEEN AN OLD MAID AND FRENCH PETIT MAÎTRE

3 EPIGRAM ON AN AMOROUS DOCTOR

4 EPIGRAM

5 ON DEPUTY---

6 [EPIGRAM]

7 ON MR. ROSS, USUALLY COGNOMINATED NOSY

8 [EPIGRAM]

9 [EPIGRAM]

10.

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

15.

15 [HIPPONA]

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16 ON A READER OF HIS OWN VERSES

17.

17 ON A REPORT OF A MINISTER'S DEATH WRITTEN IN GERMANY

18.

18 [DEAR BROTHER JEM]

19.

19 JOB'S LUCK

20.

20 ON THE SICKNESS OF A GREAT MINISTER

21.

21 [TO A VIRTUOUS OECONOMIST] Wernicke

22.

22 [L'ENFANT PRODIGUE]

23.

23 ON SIR RUBICUND NASO A COURT ALDERMAN AND WHISPERER OF SECRETS

24.

24 TO MR. PYE

25.

25 [NINETY-EIGHT]

26.

26 OCCASIONED BY THE FORMER

27.

27 [A LIAR BY PROFESSION]

28.

28 TO A PROUD PARENT

29.

29 RUFA

30.

30 ON A VOLUNTEER SINGER

31.

31 OCCASIONED BY THE LAST

32.

32 EPITAPH ON MAJOR DIEMAN

33.

33 ON THE ABOVE

34.

34 EPITAPH ON A BAD MAN

[section]

ANOTHER VERSION

35.

35 TO A CERTAIN MODERN NARCISSUS

36.

36 TO A CRITIC

37.

37 ALWAYS AUDIBLE

38.

38 PONDERE NON NUMBERO

39.

39 THE COMPLIMENT QUALIFIED

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41.

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43.

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44 TO ONE WHO PUBLISHED IN PRINT

45.

46.

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47 TO A VAIN YOUNG LADY

48.

48 A HINT TO PREMIERS AND FIRST CONSULS

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50.

50 FOR A HOUSE-DOG'S COLLAR

51.

52.

52 EPITAPH ON A MERCENARY MISER

53.

53 A DIALOGUE BETWEEN AN AUTHOR AND HIS FRIEND

54.

54 Μωροσοφια OR WISDOM IN FOLLY

56.

56 FROM AN OLD GERMAN POET

57.

57 ON THE CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE,

58.

58 SPOTS IN THE SUN

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60.

60 TO MY CANDLE

61.

61 EPITAPH

62.

62 THE TASTE OF THE TIMES

63.

63 ON PITT AND FOX

64.

65.

65 COMPARATIVE BREVITY OF GREEK AND ENGLISH

66.

66 EPIGRAM ON THE SECRECY OF A CERTAIN LADY

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67 MOTTO

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69.

69 MODERN CRITICS

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70 WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM

71.

71 TO A LADY WHO REQUESTED ME TO WRITE A POEM UPON NOTHING

72.

72 SENTIMENTAL

73.

74.

74 AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS

75.

75 THE ALTERNATIVE

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77.

77 INSCRIPTION FOR A TIME-PIECE

78.

78 ON THE MOST VERACIOUS ANECDOTIST, AND SMALL-TALK MAN, THOMAS HILL, ESQ.

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80.

80 EPITAPH OF THE PRESENT YEAR ON THE MONUMENT OF THOMAS FULLER

JEUX D'ESPRIT

1 MY GODMOTHER'S BEARD

2 LINES TO THOMAS POOLE

3 TO A WELL-KNOWN MUSICAL CRITIC, REMARKABLE FOR HIS EARS STICKING THROUGH HIS HAIR.

4 TO T. POOLE

5 SONG

6 DRINKING versus THINKING

7 THE WILLS OF THE WISP

8 TO CAPTAIN FINDLAY

9 ON DONNE'S POEM ‘TO A FLEA’

10.

10 [EX LIBRIS S. T. C.]

11.

11 ΕΓΩΕΝΚΑΙΠΑΝ

12.

12 THE BRIDGE STREET COMMITTEE

13.

13 NONSENSE SAPPHICS

14.

14 TO SUSAN STEELE ON RECEIVING THE PURSE

15 ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS

I.—By Likeness

II.

II.—Association by Contrast

III.

III.—Association by Time

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16 VERSES TRIVOCULAR

17.

17 CHOLERA CURED BEFORE-HAND

18.

18 TO BABY BATES

19.

19 TO A CHILD

FRAGMENTS FROM A NOTEBOOK

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17 A DUNGEON

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FRAGMENTS

3 OVER MY COTTAGE

8 [THE NIGHT-MARE DEATH IN LIFE]

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10 A BECK IN WINTER

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17 [NOT A CRITIC—BUT A JUDGE]

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19 [DE PROFUNDIS CLAMAVI]

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29 FRAGMENT OF AN ODE ON NAPOLEON

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33 EPIGRAM ON KEPLER

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40 [ARS POETICA]

41.

41 TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST STROPHE OF PINDAR'S SECOND OLYMPIC

42.

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43 TRANSLATION OF A FRAGMENT OF HERACLITUS

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45.

45 IMITATED FROM ARISTOPHANES

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47 TO EDWARD IRVING

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48 [LUTHER—DE DÆMONIBUS]

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49 THE NETHERLANDS

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50 ELISA

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51 PROFUSE KINDNESS

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53 NAPOLEON

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60 THE THREE SORTS OF FRIENDS

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62 BO-PEEP AND I SPY—

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63 A SIMILE

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64 BARON GUELPH OF ADELSTAN. A FRAGMENT

METRICAL EXPERIMENTS

1 AN EXPERIMENT FOR A METRE

2 TROCHAICS

3 THE PROPER UNMODIFIED DOCHMIUS

4 IAMBICS

5 NONSENSE

6 A PLAINTIVE MOVEMENT

7 AN EXPERIMENT FOR A METRE

8 NONSENSE VERSES

9 NONSENSE

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10 EXPERIMENTS IN METRE

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13 A METRICAL ACCIDENT

APPENDIX V

FULKE GREVILLE. LORD BROOKE

[1] Motto to ‘A Lay Sermon’, 1817

2 Sonnet XCIV [Coelica]

3 Of Humane Learning Stanza CLX

SIR JOHN DAVIES

4 On the Immortality of the Soul (Sect. iv. Stanzas 12-14.)

DONNE

5 Eclogue. ‘On Unworthy Wisdom’

6 Letter to Sir Henry Goodyere

BEN JONSON

7 Mutual Passion

8 The Hour-Glass

9 The Poetaster. Act I, Scene 1.

SAMUEL DANIEL

10.

10 Epistle to Sir Thomas Egerton, Knight

11.

11 Musophilus. Stanza cxlvii.

12.

12 Musophilus. Stanzas xxvii, xxix, xxx.

CHRISTOPHER HARVEY

13.

13 The Synagogue THE NATIVITY OR CHRISTMAS DAY.

MARK AKENSIDE

14.

14 Blank Verse Inscriptions No. III.

W. L. BOWLES

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16 NAPOLEON

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CONSTANCY TO AN IDEAL OBJECT

Since all that beat about in Nature's range,
Or veer or vanish; why should'st thou remain
The only constant in a world of change,
O yearning Thought! that liv'st but in the brain?
Call to the Hours, that in the distance play,
The faery people of the future day—

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Fond Thought! not one of all that shining swarm
Will breathe on thee with life-enkindling breath,
Till when, like strangers shelt'ring from a storm,
Hope and Despair meet in the porch of Death!
Yet still thou haunt'st me; and though well I see,
She is not thou, and only thou art she,
Still, still as though some dear embodied Good,
Some living Love before my eyes there stood
With answering look a ready ear to lend,
I mourn to thee and say—‘Ah! loveliest friend!
That this the meed of all my toils might be,
To have a home, an English home, and thee!’
Vain repetition! Home and Thou are one.
The peacefull'st cot, the moon shall shine upon,
Lulled by the thrush and wakened by the lark,
Without thee were but a becalméd bark,
Whose Helmsman on an ocean waste and wide
Sits mute and pale his mouldering helm beside.

And art thou nothing? Such thou art, as when
The woodman winding westward up the glen
At wintry dawn, where o'er the sheep-track's maze
The viewless snow-mist weaves a glist'ning haze,
Sees full before him, gliding without tread,
An image with a glory round its head;
The enamoured rustic worships its fair hues,
Nor knows he makes the shadow, he pursues!

?1826.

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