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

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

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

SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS

PARLIAMENTARY OSCILLATORS

CHRISTABEL

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

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

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

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

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SONG, ex improviso

ON HEARING A SONG IN PRAISE OF A LADY'S BEAUTY

'Tis not the lily-brow I prize,
Nor roseate cheeks, nor sunny eyes,
Enough of lilies and of roses!
A thousand-fold more dear to me
The gentle look that Love discloses,—
The look that Love alone can see!

Keepsake, 1830.

University of Virginia Library

SONG, ex improviso

ON HEARING A SONG IN PRAISE OF A LADY'S BEAUTY