16
And Pity's sigh shall answer thy tale of Anguish
Like the faint echo of a distant valley.
First published in Notizbuch, 1896, p. 350.
17
A DUNGEON
In darkness I remain'd—the neighb'ring clock
Told me that now the rising sun shone lovely
On my garden.
First published in Lit. Rem., i. 279. Compare Osorio, Act I, lines [219-21] (ante, p. [528]), and Remorse, Act I, Scene ii, lines [218-20] (ante, p. [830]).
LINENOTES:
[2]
sun at dawn L. R.
18
The Sun (for now his orb 'gan slowly sink)
Shot half his rays aslant the heath whose flowers
Purpled the mountain's broad and level top;
Rich was his bed of clouds, and wide beneath
Expecting Ocean smiled with dimpled face.
First published in Lit. Rem., i. 278. Compare This Lime-Tree Bower (1797), lines 32-7 (ante, pp. 179, 180).
19
Leanness, disquietude, and secret Pangs.
First published in Notizbuch, p. 351.
20
Smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin Ice.
First published in Notizbuch, p. 355.
21
Wisdom, Mother of retired Thought.
First published in 1893.
22
Nature wrote Rascal on his face,
By chalcographic art!
First published in 1893.
23
In this world we dwell among the tombs
And touch the pollutions of the Dead.
First published in 1893. Compare Destiny of Nations, ll. 177-8 (ante, p. 137).
24
The mild despairing of a Heart resigned.
First published in Lit. Rem., i. 278.
25
Such fierce vivacity as fires the eye
Of Genius fancy-craz'd.
First published in Lit. Rem., i. 278. Compare Destiny of Nations, ll. 257, 258 (ante, p. 139).
26
——like a mighty Giantess
Seiz'd in sore travail and prodigious birth
Sick Nature struggled: long and strange her pangs;
Her groans were horrible, but O! most fair
The Twins she bore—Equality and Peace!
First published in Lit. Rem., i. 278. Compare concluding lines of the second strophe of Ode to the Departing Year, 4o, 1796.
27
Discontent
Mild as an infant low-plaining in its sleep.
First published in 1893.
28
——terrible and loud,
As the strong Voice that from the Thunder-cloud
Speaks to the startled Midnight.
First published in Lit. Rem., i. 278.
[29]
The swallows
Interweaving there, mid the pair'd sea-mews
At distance wildly-wailing!
First published in 1893.
30
The Brook runs over sea-weeds.
Sabbath day—from the Miller's merry wheel
The water-drops dripp'd leisurely.
First published in 1893. It is possible the Fragments were some of the 'studies' for The Brook. See Biog. Lit., Cap. X, ed. 1907, i. 129.
31
On the broad mountain-top
The neighing wild-colt races with the wind
O'er fern and heath-flowers.
First published in Lit. Rem., i. 278.
32
A long deep lane
So overshadow'd, it might seem one bower—
The damp clay-banks were furr'd with mouldy moss.
First published in 1893.
33
Broad-breasted Pollards, with broad-branching heads.
First published in 1893.
34
'Twas sweet to know it only possible—
Some wishes cross'd my mind and dimly cheer'd it—
And one or two poor melancholy Pleasures—
In these, the pale unwarming light of Hope
Silv'ring their flimsy wing, flew silent by,
Moths in the Moonlight.
First published in Lit. Rem., i. 277, 278.
LINENOTES:
[4]
In these] Each in L. R.
[5]
their] its L. R.
35
Behind the thin
Grey cloud that cover'd but not hid the sky
The round full moon look'd small.
First published in Lit. Rem., i. 277. Compare Christabel, ll. 16, 17 (ante, p. 216).
36
The subtle snow
In every breeze rose curling from the Grove
Like pillars of cottage smoke.
First published in Lit. Rem., i. 278.
LINENOTES:
The Subtle snow in every passing breeze
Rose curling from the grove like shafts of smoke.
L. R.
37
The sunshine lies on the cottage-wall,
A-shining thro' the snow.
First published in 1893.
38
A maniac in the woods—She crosses heedlessly the woodman's path—scourg'd by rebounding boughs.
First published in 1893.
Compare this with discarded stanza in 'Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladié' as printed in the Morning Post, Dec. 21, 1799 (vide ante, p. [333]).
And how he cross'd the woodman's paths,
Thro' briars and swampy mosses beat;
How boughs rebounding scourg'd his limbs,
And low stubs gor'd his feet.
Note by J. D. Campbell, P. W., 1893, p. 456.
39
HYMNS—MOON
In a cave in the mountains of Cashmeer, an image of ice, which makes its appearance thus: Two days before the new moon there appears a bubble of ice, which increases in size every day till the fifteenth day, at which it is an ell or more in height;—then, as the moon decreases the Image does also till it vanishes. Mem. Read the whole 107th page of Maurice's Indostan.
First published in 1893. 'Hymns to the Sun, the Moon, and the Elements' are included in a list of projected works enumerated in the Gutch Notebook. The 'caves of ice' in Kubla Khan may have been a reminiscence of the 107th page of Maurice's Hindostan.
40
The tongue can't speak when the mouth is cramm'd with earth—
A little mould fills up most eloquent mouths,
And a square stone with a few pious texts
Cut neatly on it, keeps the mould down tight.
First published in 1893. Compare Osorio, Act III, lines [259-62] (ante, p. [560]).
41
And with my whole heart sing the stately song,
Loving the God that made me.
First published in 1893. Compare Fears in Solitude, ll. 196-7 (ante, p. 263).
42
God's Image, Sister of the Cherubim!
First published in 1893. Compare the last line of The Ode to the Departing Year (ante, p. 168).
43
And re-implace God's Image in the Soul.
First published in 1893.
44
And arrows steeled with wrath.
First published in 1893.
45
Lov'd the same Love, and hated the same hate,
Breath'd in his soul! etc. etc.
First published in 1893.
46
O man! thou half-dead Angel!
First published in 1893.
47
Thy stern and sullen eye, and thy dark brow
Chill me, like dew-damps of th' unwholesome Night.
My Love, a timorous and tender flower,
Closes beneath thy Touch, unkindly man!
Breath'd on by gentle gales of Courtesy
And cheer'd by sunshine of impassion'd look—
Then opes its petals of no vulgar hues.
First published in 1893. See Remorse, Act I, Sc. ii, ll. [81-4] (ante, p. [826]). Compare Osorio, Act. I, ll. [80-3] (ante, p. [522]).
48
With skill that never Alchemist yet told,
Made drossy Lead as ductile as pure Gold.
First published in 1893.
49
Grant me a Patron, gracious Heaven! whene'er
My unwash'd follies call for Penance drear:
But when more hideous guilt this heart infests
Instead of fiery coals upon my Pate,
O let a titled Patron be my Fate;—
That fierce Compendium of Ægyptian Pests!
Right reverend Dean, right honourable Squire,
Lord, Marquis, Earl, Duke, Prince,—or if aught higher,
However proudly nicknamed, he shall be
Anathema Maránatha to me!
First published, Lit. Rem., i. 281.
FOOTNOTES:
[988:1] One of the earliest of Coleridge's Notebooks, which fell into the hands of his old schoolfellow, John Mathew Gutch, the printer and proprietor of Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, was purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1868, and is now included in Add. MSS. as No. 27901. The fragments of verse contained in the notebook are included in P. W. 1893, pp. 453-8. The notebook as a whole was published by Professor A. Brandl in 1896 (S. T. Coleridge's Notizbuch aus den Jahren 1795-1798). Nineteen entries are included by H. N. Coleridge in Poems and Poetical Fragments published in Literary Remains, 1836, i. 277-80.
[988:2] An incorrect version of the lines was published in Lit. Rem., ii. 280.
