The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Virgil, Catalect. vii.[1151:3]

At the request of the friends of my youth, who still remain my friends, and who were pleased with the wildness of the compositions, I have added two school-boy poems—with a song modernized with some additions from one of our elder poets.[1151:4] Surely, malice itself will scarcely attribute their insertion to any other motive, than the wish to keep alive the recollections from early life.—I scarcely knew what title I should prefix to the first. By imaginary Time,[1151:5] I meant the state of a school-boy's mind when, on his return to school, he projects his being in his day dreams, and lives in his next holidays, six months hence: and this I contrasted with real Time.

CONTENTS

[Poems first published in 1796 and in 1797 are marked with an asterisk. Poems first published in 1817 are italicized. N.B. The volume was issued without any Table of Contents or Index of First Lines.]

PAGE
Time, Real and Imaginary: an Allegory	v
The Raven	vi
Mutual Passion	ix
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [with the marginal glosses]	3
The Foster-Mother's Tale	41
Half-title
Poems / Occasioned By Political Events / Or / Feelings Connected With Them	[47]
Wordsworth's sonnet beginning 'When I have borne in memory what has tamed' is printed on	[48]
*Ode to the Departing Year [Half-Title]	[49]
France: An Ode	59
Fears in Solitude	64
Recantation. Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox	75
Parliamentary Oscillators	83
Half-title
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. / A War Eclogue. / With / An Apologetic Preface /	[87]
Mottoes from Claudian and Ecclesiasticus	[88]
[An Apologetic Preface]	89
Fire, Famine and Slaughter	111
Half-title
Love-Poems	[117]
Motto (eleven lines) from 'Petrarch'	[118]
Love	119
Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chant	124
The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution	128
The Night-Scene: A Dramatic Fragment	136
*To an Unfortunate Woman, Whom the Author had known in the days of her Innocence	141
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre	142
Lines composed in a Concert-room	144
The Keep-sake	146
To a Lady, with Falconer's 'Shipwreck'	148
To a Young Lady, On her Recovery from a Fever	150
Something Childish, but very Natural. Written in Germany	152
Home-sick. Written in Germany	153
Answer to a Child's Question	154
The Visionary Hope	155
The Happy Husband. A Fragment	157
Recollections of Love	159
On Re-visiting the Sea-Shore, After Long Absence, Under strong medical recommendation not to bathe	161
Half-title
'Meditative Poems / in / Blank Verse'	[163]
Motto (eight lines) from Schiller	[164]
Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouny	165
Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest	170
*On observing a Blossom On the 1st February, 1796	173
*The Eolian Harp, Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire	175
*Reflections On having left a Place of Retirement	178
*To the Rev. George Coleridge, Of Ottery St. Mary, Devon. With some Poems	182
Inscription For a Fountain on a Heath	186
A Tombless Epitaph	187
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison	189
To a Friend Who had declared his intention of writing no more Poetry	194
To A Gentleman. Composed on the night after his recitation of a Poem on the Growth of an Individual Mind	197
The Nightingale; a Conversation Poem	204
Frost at Midnight	210
Half-title
The / Three Graves /	[215]
The Three Graves. A Fragment of a Sexton's Tale	217
Half-title
Odes / and / Miscellaneous Poems	[235]
Dejection: An Ode	237
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, On the 24th stanza in her 'Passage over Mount Gothard'	244
Ode to Tranquillity	249
*To a Young Friend, On his proposing to Domesticate with the Author Composed in 1796	251
Lines To W. L., Esq., while he sang a song to Purcell's Music	255
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune Who abandoned himself to an indolent and causeless Melancholy	256
*Sonnet to the River Otter	257
*Sonnet. Composed on a journey homeward; the Author having received intelligence of the birth of a Son, September 20, 1796	258
*Sonnet, To a Friend who asked, how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me	259
The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn. Copied from a Print of the Virgin, in a Catholic village in Germany	260
Epitaph, on an Infant. ['Its balmy lips the Infant blest.']	261
Melancholy. A Fragment	262
Tell's Birth-place. Imitated from Stolberg	263
A Christmas Carol	265
Human Life. On the Denial of Immortality. A Fragment	268
An Ode to the Rain. Composed before daylight [etc.]	270
The Visit of the Gods. Imitated from Schiller	274
America to Great Britain. Written in America, in the year 1810. [By Washington Allston, the Painter.]	276
Elegy, Imitated from one of Akenside's Blank-verse Inscriptions	279
The Destiny of Nations. A Vision	281

XV

קינת ישרון

A Hebrew Dirge, / Chaunted in the Great Synagogue, / St. James's Place, Aldgate, / On the / Day of the Funeral of her Royal Highness / The / Princess Charlotte. / By Hyman Hurwitz, / Master of the Royal Academy, / Highgate: / With a Translation in / English Verse, By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. / London: / Printed by H. Barnett, 2, St. James's Place, Aldgate; / And Sold by T. Boosey, 4, Old Broad Street; / Lackington, Allen, and Co. Finsbury Square; / Briggs and Burton, 156, Leadenhall Street; and / H. Barnett, Hebrew Bookseller, 2, St. James's / Place, Aldgate. / 1817.

[8^o.

Collation.—Half-title, קינת ישרון / A Hebrew Dirge. /, pp. [1]-[2]; Title, p. [3]; Text, pp. [4]-13. The text of the translation is printed on pp. 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13.