Anima Poetæ

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

INDEX

Abstruse Research, [53]-[55]
Face, the phantom of, [54]
Eye-spectra, [55]
Reluctance of mind to analyse, [53]
Soul within the body. Window at Keswick, [54]
A bliss, &c., [264]
Adam's death, [51]
Alas! they had been friends, &c., [62]
Allston, To, [169]
All thoughts, all passions, &c., [224]
A man's a man, &c., [51]
Analogy, [89]-[91]
Anecdote, a genuine, [218]
Anecdotes, a Sheaf of, [66]-[68]
Beaumont, Sir G., and gauze spectacles, [67]
Beaumont, Lady, her prayers, [67]
Göttingen and the hospes, [67]
Godwin, Holcroft, and Underwood, [68]
Holcroft and M. Wollstonecraft, [66]
Exeter, the organ pipe, [67]
Lamb, Charles, a call upon, [66]
Rickman and George Dyer, [67]
Anticipations in Nature, &c., [136]
Aphorisms and Adages, [300]-[301]
Aphorisms and Pithy Sentences, [253]-[256]
Bookmaking, [256]
Burdett, Sir Francis, [255]
Catamaran, man compared with, [253]
Convalescence without love, [254]
Half-reconciliation, [254]
Hunter, the light of his torch, [255]
Love, inspired by superiority, [253]
Money, the depreciation of, [254]
Peninsulating river, [255]
Philosophy, its plummet-line, [255]
Sun, the rosy fingers of, [254]
Vision and appetite, [255]
Architecture and Climate, [194]
Art, the pyramid in, [98]
An afterthought, [99]
As the sparks fly upward, [110]
Ascend a step, etc., [158]-[159]
Aspiration, a pious, [213]
Association, [226]
Association, of streamy, [55]
A time to cry out, [220]-[221]
Attention and sensation, [128]
Auri sacra fames, [44]
Ave Phœbe Imperator, [63]
Being, the three estates of, [294]
Bells, concerning, [210]-[212]
Clotharius, [211]
Latin distichs, [210]
Names of bells, [211]
Passing bells, [211]
Waggon-horse, &c., in the Hartz, [211]
Note on Schiller's 'Song of the Bell,' &c., [211]
Bibliological memoranda, [182]-[183]
Bird, the captive, [193]
Birds caged, especially the robin, [194]
Bliss, a land of, [286]-[287]
Book-knowledge and experience, [129]
Book-learning for legislators, [285]
Books in the air, [206]-[207]
Bright October, [34]
Browne, William, of Ottery and Note, [157]-[158]
Bruno, Giordano, [16], [17]
Bulls in action, [156]
But love is indestructible, [250]
Candour another name for cant, [75]
Catholic reunion, [215]
Cast not your pearls, &c., [80]-[81]
Ceres, the conversion of, [110]
C'est magnifique, etc., [258]
Children of a larger growth, [204]
Christabel, a hint for, [223]
Chymical analogies, [204]-[206]
Clerical errors, the psychology of, [181]-[182]
Cogitare est laborare, [66]
Communicable, the, [32]
Comparisons and Contrasts, [5]-[7]
Constitution, the, and rotten cheese, [6]
Eyes, meaning glances from, [6]
Genoa, "Liberty" on prisons of, [7]
Gratitude, the curse of, [7]
Intellect, snails of, [6]
Mackintosh, the style of, [6]
Malice, [6]
Minds, pygmy, [6]
Poetry, the effect of, [5]
Sot, the prayer of, [7]
Southey, an ostrich, [6]
Trout, his likeness to, [5]
Truth, the blindness of, [7]
Two dew-drops, [6]
Worldly-minded men, like owls, [7]
Columba, St., [129]
Conceits, verbal, [108]
Conscience and immortality, [201]-[3]
Constancy, etc., [304]
Conversation, his, a nimiety, &c., [103]-[104]
Converts, the intolerance of, [74]
Corruptio optimi pessima, [92], [263]
Cottle, an apology for, [86]
Cottle, free version of the Psalms, [235]
Country and Town, [28]-[29]
Calf-lowing, a reminiscence of Ottery, [29]
Coloured bottles, reflections of, [28]
Country, depraving effect of, [25]
Lecture, dream concerning a, [29]
Smiles on men and mountains, [29]
Stones like life, and life motionless as stones, [28]
Critics, immature, [128]
Criticism, a principle of, [30]
Criticism, minute, [167]
Darwin's "Botanical Garden," [280]
Death, the realisation of, [139]-[140]
Delusion, an optical, [47]
Devil, the, with a memory, [161]-[162]
Devil, the, a recantation, [259]-[260]
Distemper's worst calamity, [126]-[127]
Distinction in union, [184]
Document humain, [168]
Dream, a, and a parenthesis, [40]
Dreams, order in, [134]
Dreams and Shadows, [172]-[173]
Idea, the descent of, [172]
Taper's cone of flame, a simile, [172]
"As in life's noisiest hour," etc., [172]
"You mould my thoughts," etc., [173]
Drip, drip, drip, drip, [165]
Duty and Experience, [2], [3]
Human happiness, [3]
Chymistry, a noble, [3]
Metaphysical opinion in anguish, [3]
Misfortunes a fertilising rain, [2]
Pleasure and pain, [2]
Real pain a panacea, [2]
Duty and self-interest, [130]-[131]
Early death, [44], [45]
Easter, the Northern, [138]
Education, of, [227]-[228]
Ego, the, [15]
Egotism, [14]
Empyrean, the, [125]
England, the righteousness of, [284]
Enthusiasm, [139]

Entity, a superfluous, [217]
Entomology v. ontology, [94]
Epigram, a divine, [273]
Error, a life-long (his age), [295]
Etymology, [123]-[124]
Evil, the origin of, [36]-[42]
Evil produces evil, [131]
Experience and book knowledge, [129]-[130]
Experiment, a doubtful, [56]
Extremes meet, [52], [53]
Facts and Fiction, [75]
Fallings from us vanishings, [180]-[181]
"Floods and general inundations," [282]
First thoughts and friendship, [251], [252]
Flowers and light, [304], [305]
Flowers of speech, [269], [270]
Form and feeling, [101]
Formula, a comprehensive, [306]-[307]
"For compassion a human heart," [282]
For the soother in absence, [84]-[85]
Dreams and reveries, [85]
Dresden, the engraved cherry-stone, [85]
Mediterranean, the white sails on, [85]
Outwardly happy but no joy within, [84]
Sunset in winter, and summer-set, [84]
For the soother in absence, [86]-[87]
Caracciolo and his floating corse, [87]
Final causes, [87]
Moonlight, crinkled circles on the sea, [87]
Religion repels the gay, [86]
Vicious thoughts and rhyme-terminations, [86]
Diogenes, why not? [97]
Interest and satisfaction, [97]
For the soother in absence, [95]-[97]
Language, its growth, etc., [95]
Medical romance—a title, [96]
Mylius, [96]
Poets the bridlers of delight, [96]
Quintetta, the, in the Syracuse Opera, [95]
Recollections of pre-existent state, [96]
Tarantula dance of argumentation, [97]
For the soother in absence, [99]-[100]
Quisque sui faber, [99]
Nature a Penelope, [100]
Root to the crown—growth of the flower, [99]
For the soother in absence, [115]-[118]
Admiralty Court maxims, [116]
Convoy from England, [115]
Cyphers, [118]
Death and the sleeping baby, [118]
Faults and forewarnings, Miss Edgeworth, [117]
Johnson, Dr., and Shakspere, [115]
Pen-slit, the action of, [118]
Sealing-wax—where was it? [116]
Totalising, disease of, [116]
Voice and eye—precedence and sequence, [118]
Wafers, Maltese, [115]
For the soother in absence, [147]-[150]
Conscience and watches, [150]
Contra-reasoning and controversy, [149]
Earthly losses and heaven, [150]
Eye, the twofold power of, [149]
Facts and the relation of them, [148]
Metaphor and reality, [149]
Negation begets errors, [147]
Speculative men not unpractical, [148]
War, the weariness of, no excuse for peace, [148]
Word-play a cat's cradle, [149]
Worldly men, their belief in sincerity, [149]
For the soother in absence, [159]-[161]
Co-arctation, [161]
Dull souls may become great poet's bodies, [161]
Judgment compared to Belgic towns, [160]
Lover married, a frog in a well, [160]
Music and the genus and particular, [160]
Originality not claimed by the original, [160]
Shorthandists for the House of Commons, [161]
Stiletto and the rosary, [159]
Water-lily and the sponge, [160]

For the Soother in Absence, [162]-[164]
Death and the tree of life, [163]
Grave, our growth in, [163]
Irish architect, [164]
Scopæ viarum, [164]
Shooting stars and bedtime, [162]
Sleep, the lovers', [164]
Swift and the pine-tree, [164]
Truth and action, [164]
Wordsworth, an aspiration, [163]
Yellowing leaflets, [163]
For the Soother in Absence, [175]-[180]
Affliction and adversity, [176]
Allapse of serpents, [176]
Atmosphere, every man his own, [176]
Augustine, St., and a friend's misjudgment, [179]
Blast, the, [178]
Blue sky, yellow green at twilight, [175]
Greece, the genius of, [177]
Hayfield and still life, [175]
Heu! quam miserum, [177]
Indian fig and death of an immortal, [177]
Kings, what kind of gods? [176]
Love, the mighty works of, [178]
Metallic pencils, [175]
Parisatis, and the poisoned knife, [176]
Peacock moulting, [178]
Shadow, [177]
Sheridan, and Bacon, [177]
Sunflowers, [175]
Strabo Geographicus on genius, [179]
Two faces, etc., [176]-[177]
Tycho Brahe, a subject for Allston, [175]
Water-wagtails, [178]
Woman, a passionate, a simile, [178]
French language and poetry, [118]-[120]
Friendship and marriage, [235]-[236]
Genius, [233]
Genius, his own, [197]-[198]

German philosophy, his indebtedness to, [106]
God, the idea of, [300]
Great and little minds, [293]
Great men and national worth, [150]-[152]
Hail and farewell, [218]
Halfway house, the, [195]-[197]
Happiness made perfect, [142]
Hazlitt, W., [36]
Health, independence, and friendship, [248]
Heart, a broken, [303]
Heaviness, may endure, &c., [239], [240]
Hesperus, [247], [248]
Hinc illa marginalia, [91]-[92]
Hints for the Friend, [209], [210]
Authors and Buffon's fan, [209]
Conscience good, and fine weather, [209]
Great deeds, great hearts, and great states, [209]
Hypocrisy, [210]
Massy misery, [210]
Mystery from wilful deafness, [210]
No glory and no Christianity, a total eclipse, [210]
Proud ignorance, [210]
Reformers like scourers of silver plate, [209]
Hints for the Friend, [221]-[223]
Conscience, a pure, like a life-boat, [221]
Dame Quickly on parties, [222]
Duns Scotus on faith, [222]
Foliage, not the trunk, [223]
Helvetius, his selenography, [221]
Lavater and Narcissus, [223]
Pope, the, a simile, [233]
Reliance on God and man, [222]
Reviewers like jurymen, [223]
Hints for the Friend, [230]-[233]
Amboynese, and their clove trees, [232]
Eloign, a word of Queen Elizabeth's, [231]
Esoteric Christianity, [231]
Mathematics and metaphysics, [230]
Monsoon, the Chinese elephant, [232]
Nature, the perception of, a comparison, [232]
Paracelsus, on new words, [232]
Partisans or opponents, how to address them, [231]
Hope, the moon's halo an emblem of, [238]
Humanity, the hope of, [137], [138]
Humility, the lover's, [188]
Hypothesis, of a new, [105]
I will lift up, etc., [101]
Idea, the birth of, [109]
Idealist, the, at bay, [277]-[279]
"If a man could pass through paradise," [282]
Ignore thyself, [301]
Illusion (Mr. Dennison and the "bottle man"), [144]-[147]
Imagination 'eisenoplasy,' [236]
In a twinkling of an eye, [185]-[186]
In wonder all philosophy began, [185]
Incommunicable, the, [31]
Infancy and infants, [3], [4]
Infinite, the, and the finite, [81]
Inopem me copia fecit, [189]
Insects, [271]
Spiders' webs in Java, [271]
Libellulidæ, [271]
Tipulidæ minimæ, [271]
Islamism, [287], [288]
"Kingdom of Heavenite," a, [273]
Knave, a treacherous, [28]
Knowledge, a royal road to, [298]-[300]
Knowledge and Understanding, [173]
Landing places, [157]
Law and gospel, [214]
Liberty, the cap of, [203]
Life, the idea of, [305]
Light, the inward, [48]
Litera scripta manet, [121]
Love, [1]-[2]
Affected by jealousy, [1]
soother of misfortune, [2]
Disappointed, [2]
The transformer, [2]
Love, [233]-[235]
Love, the adolescence of, [68]
Love, the divine essence, [133]-[134]
Love and duty, [140]-[142]
Love, the ineffable, [191]-[192]
Love and music, [200]-[201]
Lover, the humble complaint of, [190]
Loves, of first, [153]-[154]
Lucus a non lucendo, [200]
Magnitude, the sense of, [112]-[115]
Maiden's primer, [195]
Marriage, the ideal, [216]
Mean, the danger of, [62]
Means to ends, [107]
Mediterranean, the, [100]
"A brisk gale and the foam," [100]
Memorandum, a serious, [79]
Metaphysic, a defence of, [42]
Metaphysician, the, at bay, [106]
Metaphysic, the aim of his, [42]
Milton's blank verse, [253]
Milton and Shakspere, [296]-[8]
Mohammed, the flight of, [290]-[291]
Moment, a, and a magic mirror, [245]-[246]
Monition, the rage for, [68]-[70]
Moonlight gleams and massy glories, [171]
Moonset, a, [50]
Morning, a gem of, [187]
Mot propre, the passion for, [155]
Mother wit, [226]
Motion, the psychology of, [56]-[57]
Multum in parvo, [85]
Name it and you break it, [198]
Nature, the night side of, [45]-[47]
Ne quid nimis, [89]

Nefas est ab hoste doceri, [76]
Neither bond nor free, [195]
Neutral pronoun, a, [190]
Night, in the visions of, [43], [44]
Nightmare, the hag, [243]-[245]
Noscitur a sociis, [32]
Not the beautiful, etc., [49]-[50]
Obductâ fronte senectus, [272]-[273]
Observations and Reflections, [17]-[21]
Ashes in autumn, [19]
Citizens eat, rustics drink, [19]
Definition hostile to images, [19]
First cause and source of the Nile, [20]
Love poems, a scheme of, [20]
Moon, the setting, [18]
My birthday, [19]
Northern Lights, Derwent's birthday, [18]
Shakspere and Naucratius, [21]
Soul the mummy, an emblem, [20]
Spring with cone of sand, [17]
Stability and Instability, the cause of, [19]
State, the eye of, [18]
Superiors and inferiors, [20]
Truths and feelings, [18]
Two moon-rainbows, [19]
Of a too witty book, [280]-[281]
Official distrust, [83]
O star benign! [76]
O thou whose fancies, etc., [15]-[16]
Omniscient, the comforter, [127]
One music as before, etc. [168]
One, the, and the good, [63]
One, the many and the, [77]
Opera, the, [82]
Orange blossom, [134]-[136]
Over-blaming, the danger of, [198]
ΠΑΝΤΑ ΡἙΙ, [183]-[184]
Pars altera mei, [49]

Partisans and renegades, [173]-[174]
Past and present, [1]
People, the spirit of a, [288]-[290]
Petrarch's epistles, [262], [263]
Phantoms of sublimity, [170]
Philanthropy and self-advertisement, [249], [250]
Philosophy the friend of poetry, [78]
Pindar, [168]
Places and persons, [70]-[74]
Poet, a, on poetry, [294]
Poet, the, and the spider, [32]
Poetic licence, a plea for, [165]-[166]
Poetry, [4]
Correction of, [4]
Dr. Darwin, [5]
Elder languages, the fitter for, [5]
Ode, definition of, [4]
Poetry and prose, [229]-[230]
Poets as critics of poets, [127]-[128]
Populace and people, [174]
Posterity, a caution to, [159]
Practical man, a, [199]-[200]
Praise, the meed of, [284]
Presentiments, [256]-[257]
Price, Dr., [167]-[168]
Prophecy, the manufacture of, [192]-[193]
Prudence versus friendship, [291]-[293]
Pseudo-poets, [156]
Psychology in youth and maturity, [218]
Public opinion and the services, [237]
Purgatory, an intellectual, [152]-[153]
Rain, the maddening, [154]
Recollection and remembrance, [57]
Reimarus and the instinct of animals, [92]-[95]
Religion, spiritual, [138], [218]-[219]
Remedium amoris, [266]
Richardson, [166]-[167]
Righteousness, the sun of, [162]
Rugit leo, [301]-[303]

Save me from my friends, [264]-[265]
Science and philosophy, [261]-[262]
Scholastic terms, a plea for, [274]-[275]
Schoolman, a Unitarian, [58]
Sea, the bright blue, [109]
Self, the abstract, [120]
Self-absorption and selfishness, [249]
Self-esteem, excess of, [198], [199]
Self-esteem, defect of, [199]
Self-reproof, a measure in, [81]-[82]
Sensations, the continuity of, [102], [103]
Sentiment an antidote to casuistry, [124]-[125]
Sentiment, morbid, [169]-[170]
Sentiments below morals, [154]
Seriores Rosæ, [274]
"Lie with the ear," [274]
"Like some spendthrift lord," [274]
"On the same man as in a vineyard," [274]
"The blossom gives not only," [274]
"We all look up," [274]
Sermons, ancient and modern, [237]-[239]
Seventeen hundred and sixty yards, etc., [280]
Shakspere and Malone, [88]
Subject and object, [294]
Silence is golden, [259]
Simile, a, [76]
Sine qua non, [186]
Sleepless, the feint of the, [251]
Solace, external, his need of, [167]
Solvitur suspiciendo, [187]
Sonnet, an unwritten, [295]
Soul, the embryonic, [104]
Spinoza, a poem on spirit or on, [61]
Spinoza, the ethics of, [57]
Spiritual blindness, [270]
Spiritualism and mysticism, [276]-[277]
Spooks, [281]
Spring, the breath of, [305]
Square, the, the circle, the pyramid, [97]
Star, to the evening, [247]

Style of Milton, Smectymnuus, etc., [271]
Subject and object, [294]
Sundog, a, [97]
Sunset, a, [52]
Superstition, [143]-[144]
Supposition, a, [138]
Syracuse, [78]
Taste, an ethical quality, [165]
Teleology and nature worship, [35]
Temperament and morals, [33]
That inward eye, etc., [246], [247]
The body of this death, [276]
The conclusion of the whole matter, [266]
The greater damnation, [279]
The mind's eye, [286]
"The more exquisite," etc., [282]
The night is at hand, [307]
"The sunny mist," etc., [31]
The tender mercies of the good, [208]-[209]
"The tree or sea-weed like," etc., [31]
Theism and Atheism, [285]-[286]
Things Visible and Invisible, [7]-[14]
Anthropomorphism and the Trinity, [14]
Anti-optimism, [13]
Babe, its sole notion of cruelty, [13]
Cairns, J., on the Nazarites, [9]
Child scolding a flower, [10]
Children's words, analogous, [11]
Dandelions, beards of, note, [10]
Dyer, George, and poets' throttles, [9]
Fisherman, the idle, note, [10]
Friends' friends, reception by, note, [8]
Godwin, a definition of, [13]
Hartley's fire-place of stones, [13]
Hazlitt's theory of picture and palette, [9]
"Hot-headed men confuse," [11]
"How," the substratum of philosophy, [13]
Kingfishers' flight, [7]
"Little Daisy," etc., [7]
London and Nature, [8]
Luther, his prejudices, [11]
Comment, [11]
Materialists and mystery, [14]
Nightingale and frogs in Germany, note, [7]
Quotations, rage for, [9]
Reproaches and remorse, [12]
Sickbed and prison, [12]
"Slanting pillars of misty light," [9]
Space a perception of additional magnitude, [12]
Taylor, Jeremy, quotation from Via Pacis, [12]
"The thin scattered rain-clouds," [12]
Things perishable, thoughts imperishable, [8]
Thinking and perceiving, [12]
Time and likeness, [13]
Upturned leaves, [10]
Thoughts, a Crowd of, [58]-[61]
Children and hard-skinned ass, [59]
Ghost of a mountain, [60]
Light as lovers love, [59]
Man, epitheton of, [58]
Palm, the, [61]
Place and time, [59]
Poets' bad and beautiful expressions, [59]
Public schools, advantage of, [60]
Rainbows stedfast in mist, [61]
Rosemary tree, a, [59]
Slang, religious, [60]
Sopha of sods, note, [60]
Stump of a tree, [61]
Thought, a mortal agony of, [63]
Thought and attention, [213]-[214]
Thoughts and Fancies, [22]-[25]
Achilles and his heel, [25]
Devil at the very end of hell, [23]
Dimness and numbness, [23]
Friendship and comprehension, [24]
Green fields after the city, [25]
Happiness and paradise, [25]
Hartley and the "seems," [24]
Kind-hearted men refuse roughly, [23]
Limbo, [22]
Metaphysics, their effect on the thoughts, [23]
Nature for likeness, men for difference, [25]
Old world, the, and the new year, [22]
Opposite talents not incompatible, [24]
Poets and death, [22]
Poets, his rank among, [25]
Sounds and outness, [23]
Swift and Socinianism, [24]
Time as threefold, [22]
Thought and things, [143]
Thoughts-how like music at times! [139]
Through doubt to faith, [85]
Time an element of grief, [31]
Time and eternity, [155]
Time, real and imaginary, note, [241]-[243]
Transcripts from my velvet pocket-books, [26]-[28]
Action, the meanness of, [27]
Barrow and the verbal imagination, [26]
Candle-snuffers not discoverers, [26]
Falling asleep, [27]
New play compared to toy ship, [27]
Plagiarist, a thief in the candle, [26]
Post, its influence, [26]
Quotation and conversation, [26]
Repose after agitation, [27]
Socinianism and methodism, [26]
Teme, the valley of, [26]
Universe, the federal republic of, [27]
Wedgwood, T., and thoughts and things, [27]
Transubstantiation, [61]-[62]
Truth, [191], [220]
Truth, the danger of adapting, &c., [228]
Truth, the fixed stars of, [257]
Turtle-shell, a, for household tub, [207]-[208]
Unwin, Mrs., Cowper's lines to, [121]-[123]
Unknown, the great, [284]

Vain Glory, [203]-[204]
Verbum sapientibus, [102]
Ver, zer, and al, [187]
Vexation, a complex, [283]
Vox hiemalis, [303]-[304]
We ask not whence, etc., [89]
Wedgwood, T., and Reimarus, [91]
What man has made of man, [264]-[265]
Will, the undisciplined, [64]-[66]
Windmill and its shadow, [77]-[78]
Winter, a mild, [170]
Woman's frowardness, [89]
Words and things, [225]
Words, creative power of, and images, [87]
Words, the power of, [266]-[269]
Wordsworth and The Prelude, [30]
Wordsworth, John, [132]
Worldly wise, [230]
Wounded vanity, a salve for, [82]-[83]