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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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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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31 OCCASIONED BY THE LAST

A joke (cries Jack) without a sting—
Post obitum can no man sing.
And true, if Jack don't mend his manners
And quit the atheistic banners,
Post obitum will Jack run foul
Of such folks as can only howl.
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