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
Dedicationvii
Preface to the First Editionxiii
Preface to the Second Editionxvii
Ode to the New Year1
Monody on Chatterton17
Songs of the Pixies29
The Rose41
The Kiss43
To a young Ass45
Domestic Peace48
The Sigh49
Epitaph on an Infant51
Lines on the Man of Ross52
—— to a beautiful Spring54
—— on the Death of a Friend57
To a Young Lady61
To a Friend, with an unfinished Poem65
Sonnets.
[Introduction to the Sonnets71-74]
To W. L. Bowles75
On a Discovery made too late76
On Hope77
To the River Otter78
On Brockly Comb79
To an old Man81
Sonnet82
To Schiller83
On the Birth of a Son85
On first seeing my Infant87
Ode to Sara88
Composed at Clevedon96
On leaving a Place of Residence100
On an unfortunate Woman105
On observing a Blossom107
The Hour when we shall meet again109
Lines to C. Lloyd110
Religious Musings117

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.