Non mortis hoc propinquitas
Non temporis longinquitas
Solvet, fides quod nexuit
Intaminata vinculum.
Hence the wording of the motto. Groscollius is, of course, a mot à double entente. It is a name and a nickname. The interpretation of the names and the reference to Buchanan's Hexameters were first pointed out by Mr. T. Hutchinson in the Athenaeum, Dec. 10, 1898.]
CONTENTS
[Titles of poems not in 1796 are printed in italics.]
Poems by S. T. Coleridge.
| PAGE |
| Dedication | vii |
| Preface to the First Edition | xiii |
| Preface to the Second Edition | xvii |
| Ode to the New Year | 1 |
| Monody on Chatterton | 17 |
| Songs of the Pixies | 29 |
| The Rose | 41 |
| The Kiss | 43 |
| To a young Ass | 45 |
| Domestic Peace | 48 |
| The Sigh | 49 |
| Epitaph on an Infant | 51 |
| Lines on the Man of Ross | 52 |
| —— to a beautiful Spring | 54 |
| —— on the Death of a Friend | 57 |
| To a Young Lady | 61 |
| To a Friend, with an unfinished Poem | 65 |
| Sonnets. |
| [Introduction to the Sonnets | 71-74] |
| To W. L. Bowles | 75 |
| On a Discovery made too late | 76 |
| On Hope | 77 |
| To the River Otter | 78 |
| On Brockly Comb | 79 |
| To an old Man | 81 |
| Sonnet | 82 |
| To Schiller | 83 |
| On the Birth of a Son | 85 |
| On first seeing my Infant | 87 |
| Ode to Sara | 88 |
| Composed at Clevedon | 96 |
| On leaving a Place of Residence | 100 |
| On an unfortunate Woman | 105 |
| On observing a Blossom | 107 |
| The Hour when we shall meet again | 109 |
| Lines to C. Lloyd | 110 |
| Religious Musings | 117 |
Poems by Charles Lloyd. pp. [151]-189. Second Edition.
Poems on The Death of Priscilla Farmer, By her Grandson Charles Lloyd, pp. [191]-213.
Sonnet ['The piteous sobs that choak the Virgin's breath', signed S. T. Coleridge], p. 193.
Poems by Charles Lamb of the India-House. pp. [215]-240.