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Poems by Hartley Coleridge

With a Memoir of his Life by his Brother. In Two Volumes

Coleridge, Hartley (1796-1849)

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I.

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DEDICATORY SONNET, TO S. T. COLERIDGE.

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THOUGHTS AND FANCIES.

A TASK AD LIBITUM.

A BROTHER'S LOVE TO HIS SISTER.

“OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD.”

WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER, 1820.

EPIGRAM.

IN THE MANNER OF A CHILD OF SEVEN YEARS OLD.

SENSE, IF YOU CAN FIND IT.

NEW-YEAR'S DAY.

ON A YOUNG MAN DYING ON THE EVE OF MARRIAGE.

TO THE NAUTILUS.

[Sweet Love, the shadow of thy parting wings]

LEONARD AND SUSAN.

AN OLD MAN'S WISH.

THE SABBATH-DAY'S CHILD.

EXPERTUS LOQUITUR.

HORACE. Book I., Ode 38.

TO MY UNKNOWN SISTER-IN-LAW.

ADDRESS TO CERTAIN GOLD FISHES.

WHAT I HAVE HEARD.

POLETES APOIETES.

[Bandusian spring, more gaily bright]

WRITTEN IN JANUARY, 1833.

TO A POSTHUMOUS INFANT.

THE FORSAKEN TO THE FAITHLESS.

TO THE MEMORY OF CANNING.

WHO IS THE POET?

THE USE OF A POET.

DEATH-BED REFLECTIONS OF MICHELANGELO.

II.

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EPIGRAM.

They say Despair has power to kill
With her bleak frown; but I say No:
If life did hang upon her will,
Then Hope had perish'd long ago:
Yet still the twain keep up their “barful strife,”
For Hope Love's leman is, Despair his wife.