VOLUME I
PAGE
Preface[iii]
1787
Easter Holidays. [MS. Letter, May 12, 1787.][1]
Dura Navis. [B. M. Add. MSS. 34,225][2]
Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitâ. [Boyer's Liber Aureus.][4]
1788
Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon[5]
1789
Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital. [MS. O.][5]
Julia. [Boyer's Liber Aureus.][6]
Quae Nocent Docent. [Boyer's Liber Aureus.][7]
The Nose. [MS. O.][8]
To the Muse. [MS. O.][9]
Destruction of the Bastile. [MS. O.][10]
Life. [MS. O.][11]
1790
Progress of Vice. [MS. O.: Boyer's Liber Aureus.][12]
Monody on the Death of Chatterton. (First version.) [MS. O.: Boyer's Liber Aureus.][13]
An Invocation. [J. D. C.][16]
Anna and Harland. [MS. J. D. C.][16]
To the Evening Star. [MS. O.][16]
Pain. [MS. O.][17]
On a Lady Weeping. [MS. O. (c).][17]
Monody on a Tea-kettle. [MSS. O., S. T. C.][18]
Genevieve. [MSS. O., E.][19]
1791
On receiving an Account that his Only Sister's Death was Inevitable. [MS. O.][20]
On seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister[21]
A Mathematical Problem. [MS. Letter, March 31, 1791: MS. O. (c).][21]
Honour. [MS. O.][24]
On Imitation. [MS. O.][26]
Inside the Coach. [MS. O.][26]
Devonshire Roads. [MS. O.][27]
Music. [MS. O.][28]
Sonnet: On quitting School for College. [MS. O.][29]
Absence. A Farewell Ode on quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge. [MS. E.][29]
Happiness. [MS. Letter, June 22, 1791: MS. O. (c).][30]
1792
A Wish. Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792. [MS. Letter, Feb. 13, [1792].][33]
An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon. [MS. Letter, Feb. 13, [1792].][33]
To Disappointment. [MS. Letter, Feb. 13, [1792].][34]
A Fragment found in a Lecture-room. [MS. Letter, April [1792], MS. E.][35]
Ode. ('Ye Gales,' &c.) [MS. E.][35]
A Lover's Complaint to his Mistress. [MS. Letter, Feb. 13, [1792].][36]
With Fielding's 'Amelia.' [MS. O.][37]
Written after a Walk before Supper. [MS. Letter, Aug. 9, [1792].][37]
1793
Imitated from Ossian. [MS. E.][38]
The Complaint of Ninathóma. [MS. Letter, Feb. 7, 1793.][39]
Songs of the Pixies. [MS. 4o: MS. E.][40]
The Rose. [MS. Letter, July 28, 1793: MS. (pencil) in Langhorne's Collins: MS. E.][45]
Kisses. [MS. Letter, Aug. 5, 1793: MS. (pencil) in Langhorne's Collins: MS. E.][46]
The Gentle Look. [MS. Letter, Dec. 11. 1794: MS. E.][47]
Sonnet: To the River Otter[48]
An Effusion at Evening. Written in August 1792. (First Draft.) [MS. E.][49]
Lines: On an Autumnal Evening[51]
To Fortune[54]
1794
Perspiration. A Travelling Eclogue. [MS. Letter, July 6, 1794.][56]
[Ave, atque Vale!] ('Vivit sed mihi,' &c.) [MS. Letter, July 13, [1794].][56]
On Bala Hill. [Morrison MSS.][56]
Lines: Written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the House of the 'Man of Ross'. [MS. Letter, July 13, 1794: MS. E: Morrison MSS: MS. 4o.][57]
Imitated from the Welsh. [MS. Letter, Dec. 11, 1794: MS. E.][58]
Lines: To a Beautiful Spring in a Village. [MS. E.][58]
Imitations: Ad Lyram. (Casimir, Book II, Ode 3.) [MS. E.][59]
To Lesbia. [Add. MSS. 27,702][60]
The Death of the Starling. [ibid.][61]
Moriens Superstiti. [ibid.][61]
Morienti Superstes. [ibid.][62]
The Sigh. [MS. Letter, Nov. 1794: Morrison MSS: MS. E.][62]
The Kiss. [MS. 4o: MS. E.][63]
To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French Revolution. [MS. Letter, Oct. 21, 1794: MS. 4o: MS. E.][64]
Translation of Wrangham's 'Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam e Granta Exituram' [Kal. Oct. MDCCXC][66]
To Miss Brunton with the preceding Translation[67]
Epitaph on an Infant. ('Ere Sin could blight.') [MS. E.][68]
Pantisocracy. [MSS. Letters, Sept. 18, Oct. 19, 1794: MS. E.][68]
On the Prospect of establishing a Pantisocracy in America[69]
Elegy: Imitated from one of Akenside's Blank-verse Inscriptions. [(No.) III.][69]
The Faded Flower[70]
The Outcast[71]
Domestic Peace. (From 'The Fall of Robespierre,' Act I, l. 210.)[71]
On a Discovery made too late. [MS. Letter, Oct. 21, 1794.][72]
To the Author of 'The Robbers'[72]
Melancholy. A Fragment. [MS. Letter, Aug. 26,1802.][73]
To a Young Ass: Its Mother being tethered near it. [MS. Oct. 24, 1794: MS. Letter, Dec. 17, 1794.][74]
Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever induced by Calumnious Reports. [MS. Letter, Nov. 6, 1794: MS. 4o: MS. E.][76]
To a Friend [Charles Lamb] together with an Unfinished Poem. [MS. Letter, Dec. 1794][78]
Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:—
I.To the Honourable Mr. Erskine[79]
II.Burke. [MS. Letter, Dec. 11, 1794.][80]
III.Priestley. [MS. Letter, Dec. 17, 1794.][81]
IV.La Fayette[82]
V.Koskiusko. [MS. Letter, Dec. 17, 1794.][82]
VI.Pitt[83]
VII.To the Rev. W. L. Bowles. (First Version, printed in Morning Chronicle, Dec. 26, 1794.) [MS. Letter, Dec. 11, 1794.][84]
(Second Version.)[85]
VIII.Mrs. Siddons[85]
1795.
IX.To William Godwin, Author of 'Political Justice.' [Lines 9-14, MS. Letter, Dec. 17, 1794.][86]
X.To Robert Southey of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of the 'Retrospect' and other Poems. [MS. Letter, Dec. 17, 1794.][87]
XI.To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. [MS. Letter, Dec. 9, 1794: MS. E.][87]
XII.To Lord Stanhope on reading his Late Protest in the House of Lords. [Morning Chronicle, Jan. 31, 1795.][89]
To Earl Stanhope[89]
Lines: To a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter[90]
To an Infant. [MS. E.][91]
To the Rev. W. J. Hort while teaching a Young Lady some Song-tunes on his Flute[92]
Pity. [MS. E.][93]
To the Nightingale[93]
Lines: Composed while climbing the Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May 1795[94]
Lines in the Manner of Spenser[94]
The Hour when we shall meet again. (Composed during Illness and in Absence.)[96]
Lines written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, September 1795, in Answer to a Letter from Bristol[96]
The Eolian Harp. Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire. [MS. R.][100]
To the Author of Poems [Joseph Cottle] published anonymously at Bristol in September 1795[102]
The Silver Thimble. The Production of a Young Lady, addressed to the Author of the Poems alluded to in the preceding Epistle. [MS. R.][104]
Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement[106]
Religious Musings. [1794-1796.][108]
Monody on the Death of Chatterton. [1790-1834.][125]
1796
The Destiny of Nations. A Vision[131]
Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an Unpublished Poem[148]
On observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796[148]
To a Primrose. The First seen in the Season[149]
Verses: Addressed to J. Horne Tooke and the Company who met on June 28, 1796, to celebrate his Poll at the Westminster Election[150]
On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life [Prince and Princess of Wales]. [MS Letter, July 4, 1796][152]
Sonnet: On receiving a Letter informing me of the Birth of a Son. [MS. Letter, Nov. 1, 1796.][152]
Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward; the Author having received Intelligence of the Birth of a Son, Sept. 20, 1796. [MS. Letter, Nov. 1, 1796.][153]
Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me. [MS. Letter, Nov. 1, 1796][154]
Sonnet: [To Charles Lloyd][155]
To a Young Friend on his proposing to domesticate with the Author. Composed in 1796[155]
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune [C. Lloyd][157]
To a Friend [Charles Lamb] who had declared his intention of writing no more Poetry[158]
Ode to the Departing Year[160]
1797
The Raven. [MS. S. T. C.][169]
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre[171]
To an Unfortunate Woman whom the Author had known in the days of her Innocence[172]
To the Rev. George Coleridge[173]
On the Christening of a Friend's Child[176]
Translation of a Latin Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Nether-Stowey Church[177]
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison[178]
The Foster-mother's Tale[182]
The Dungeon[185]
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner[186]
Sonnets attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers[209]
Parliamentary Oscillators[211]
Christabel. [For MSS. vide p. [214]][213]
Lines to W. L. while he sang a Song to Purcell's Music[236]
1798
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter[237]
Frost at Midnight[240]
France: An Ode.[243]
The Old Man of the Alps[248]
To a Young Lady on her Recovery from a Fever[252]
Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt. [For MSS. vide pp. [1049-62]][253]
Fears in Solitude. [MS. W.][256]
The Nightingale. A Conversation Poem[264]
The Three Graves. [Parts I, II. MS. S. T. C.][267]
The Wanderings of Cain. [MS. S. T. C.][285]
To ——[292]
The Ballad of the Dark Ladié[293]
Kubla Khan[295]
Recantation: Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox[299]
1799
Hexameters. ('William my teacher,' &c.)[304]
Translation of a Passage in Ottfried's Metrical Paraphrase of the Gospel[306]
Catullian Hendecasyllables[307]
The Homeric Hexameter described and exemplified[307]
The Ovidian Elegiac Metre described and exemplified[308]
On a Cataract. [MS. S. T. C.][308]
Tell's Birth-Place[309]
The Visit of the Gods[310]
From the German. ('Know'st thou the land,' &c.)[311]
Water Ballad. [From the French.][311]
On an Infant which died before Baptism. ('Be rather,' &c.) [MS. Letter, Apr. 8, 1799][312]
Something Childish, but very Natural. Written in Germany. [MS. Letter, April 23, 1799.][313]
Home-Sick. Written in Germany. [MS. Letter, May 6, 1799.][314]
Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode in the Hartz Forest. [MS. Letter, May 17, 1799.][315]
The British Stripling's War-Song. [Add. MSS. 27,902][317]
Names. [From Lessing.][318]
The Devil's Thoughts. [MS. copy by Derwent Coleridge.][319]
Lines composed in a Concert-room[324]
Westphalian Song[326]
Hexameters. Paraphrase of Psalm xlvi. [MS. Letter, Sept. 29, 1799.][326]
Hymn to the Earth. [Imitated from Stolberg's Hymne an die Erde.] Hexameters[327]
Mahomet[329]
Love. [British Museum Add. MSS. No. 27,902: Wordsworth and Coleridge MSS.][330]
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, on the Twenty-fourth Stanza in her 'Passage over Mount Gothard'[335]
A Christmas Carol[338]
1800
Talleyrand to Lord Grenville. A Metrical Epistle[340]
Apologia pro Vita sua. ('The poet in his lone,' &c.) [MS. Notebook.][345]
The Keepsake[345]
A Thought suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland. [MS. Notebook.][347]
The Mad Monk[347]
Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side half-way up a Steep Hill facing South[349]
A Stranger Minstrel[350]
Alcaeus to Sappho. [MS. Letter, Oct. 7, 1800.][353]
The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone. [MS. Letter, Oct. 9, 1800: Add. MSS. 28,322][353]
The Snow-drop. [MS. S. T. C.][356]
1801
On Revisiting the Sea-shore. [MS. Letter, Aug. 15, 1801: MS. A.][359]
Ode to Tranquillity[360]
To Asra. [MS. (of Christabel) S. T. C. (c).][361]
The Second Birth. [MS. Notebook.][362]
Love's Sanctuary. [MS. Notebook.][362]
1802
Dejection: An Ode. [Written April 4, 1802.] [MS. Letter, July 19, 1802: Coleorton MSS.][362]
The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution[369]
To Matilda Betham from a Stranger[374]
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni. [MS. A. (1803): MS. B. (1809): MS. C. (1815).][376]
The Good, Great Man[381]
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath[381]
An Ode to the Rain[382]
A Day-dream. ('My eyes make pictures,' &c.)[385]
Answer to a Child's Question[386]
The Day-dream. From an Emigrant to his Absent Wife[386]
The Happy Husband. A Fragment[388]
1803
The Pains of Sleep. [MS. Letters, Sept. 11, Oct 3, 1803.][389]
1804
The Exchange[391]
1805
Ad Vilmum Axiologum. [To William Wordsworth.] [MS. Notebook.][391]
An Exile. [MS. Notebook.][392]
Sonnet. [Translated from Marini.] [MS. Notebook.][392]
Phantom. [MS. Notebook.][393]
A Sunset. [MS. Notebook.][393]
What is Life? [MS. Notebook.][394]
The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree[395]
Separation. [MS. Notebook.][397]
The Rash Conjurer. [MS. Notebook.][399]
1806
A Child's Evening Prayer. [MS. Mrs. S. T. C.][401]
Metrical Feet. Lesson for a Boy. [Lines 1-7, MS. Notebook.][401]
Farewell to Love[402]
To William Wordsworth. [Coleorton MS: MS. W.][403]
An Angel Visitant. [? 1801.] [MS. Notebook.][409]
1807
Recollections of Love. [MS. Notebook.][409]
To Two Sisters. [Mary Morgan and Charlotte Brent][410]
1808
Psyche. [MS. S. T. C.][412]
1809
A Tombless Epitaph[413]
For a Market-clock. (Impromptu.) [MS. Letter, Oct. 9, 1809: MS. Notebook.][414]
The Madman and the Lethargist. [MS. Notebook.][414]
1810
The Visionary Hope[416]
1811
Epitaph on an Infant. ('Its balmy lips,' &c.)[417]
The Virgin's Cradle-hymn[417]
To a Lady offended by a Sportive Observation that Women have no Souls[418]
Reason for Love's Blindness[418]
The Suicide's Argument. [MS. Notebook.][419]
1812
Time, Real and Imaginary[419]
An Invocation. From Remorse [Act III, Scene i, ll. 69-82][420]
1813
The Night-scene. [Add. MSS. 34,225][421]
1814
A Hymn[423]
To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck[424]
1815
Human Life. On the Denial of Immortality[425]
Song. From Zapolya (Act II, Sc. i, ll. 65-80.)[426]
Hunting Song. From Zapolya (Act IV, Sc. ii, ll. 56-71)[427]
Faith, Hope, and Charity. From the Italian of Guarini[427]
To Nature [? 1820][429]
1817
Limbo. [MS. Notebook: MS. S. T. C.][429]
Ne Plus Ultra [? 1826]. [MS. Notebook.][431]
The Knight's Tomb[432]
On Donne's Poetry [? 1818][433]
Israel's Lament[433]
Fancy in Nubibus, or the Poet in the Clouds. [MS. S. T. C.][435]
1820
The Tears of a Grateful People[436]
1823
Youth and Age. [MS. S. T. C.: MSS. (1, 2) Notebook.][439]
The Reproof and Reply[441]
1824
First Advent of Love. [MS. Notebook.][443]
The Delinquent Travellers[443]
1825
Work without Hope. Lines composed 21st February, 1825[447]
Sancti Dominici Pallium. A Dialogue between Poet and Friend. [MS. S. T. C.][448]
Song. ('Though veiled,' &c.) [MS. Notebook.][450]
A Character. [Add. MSS. 34,225][451]
The Two Founts. [MS. S. T. C.][454]
Constancy to an Ideal Object[455]
The Pang more Sharp than All. An Allegory[457]
1826
Duty surviving Self-love. The only sure Friend of declining Life.[459]
Homeless[460]
Lines suggested by the last Words of Berengarius; ob. Anno Dom. 1088[460]
Epitaphium Testamentarium[462]
Ἔρως ἀεὶ λάληθρος ἑταῖρος[462]
1827
The Improvisatore; or, 'John Anderson, My Jo, John'[462]
To Mary Pridham [afterwards Mrs. Derwent Coleridge]. [MS. S. T. C.][468]
1828
Alice du Clos; or, The Forked Tongue. A Ballad. [MS. S. T. C.][469]
Love's Burial-place[475]
Lines: To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review [? 1825]. [Add. MSS. 34,225][476]
Cologne[477]
On my Joyful Departure from the same City[477]
The Garden of Boccaccio[478]
1829
Love, Hope, and Patience in Education. [MS. Letter, July 1, 1829: MS. S. T. C.][481]
To Miss A. T.[482]
Lines written in Commonplace Book of Miss Barbour, Daughter of the Minister of the U. S. A. to England[483]
1830
Song, ex improviso, on hearing a Song in praise of a Lady's Beauty[483]
Love and Friendship Opposite[484]
Not at Home[484]
Phantom or Fact. A Dialogue in Verse[484]
Desire. [MS. S. T. C.][485]
Charity in Thought[486]
Humility the Mother of Charity[486]
[Coeli Enarrant.] [MS. S. T. C.][486]
Reason[487]
1832
Self-knowledge[487]
Forbearance[488]
1833
Love's Apparition and Evanishment[488]
To the Young Artist Kayser of Kaserwerth[490]
My Baptismal Birth-day[490]
Epitaph. [For six MS. versions vide [Note], p. 491].[491]
End of the Poems
VOLUME II
DRAMATIC WORKS
1794
The Fall of Robespierre. An Historic Drama[495]
1797
Osorio. A Tragedy[518]
1800
The Piccolomini; or, The First Part of Wallenstein. A Drama translated from the German of Schiller.
Preface to the First Edition[598]
The Piccolomini[600]
The Death of Wallenstein. A Tragedy in Five Acts.
Preface of the Translator to the First Edition[724]
The Death of Wallenstein[726]
1812
Remorse.
Preface[812]
Prologue[816]
Epilogue[817]
Remorse. A Tragedy in Five Acts[819]
1815
Zapolya. A Christmas Tale in Two Parts.
Advertisement[883]
Part I. The Prelude, entitled 'The Usurper's Fortune'[884]
Part II. The Sequel, entitled 'The Usurper's Fate'[901]
Epigrams
An Apology for Spencers[951]
On a Late Marriage between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître[952]
On an Amorous Doctor[952]
'Of smart pretty Fellows,' &c.[952]
On Deputy ——[953]
'To be ruled like a Frenchman,' &c.[953]
On Mr. Ross, usually Cognominated Nosy[953]
'Bob now resolves,' &c.[953]
'Say what you will, Ingenious Youth'[954]
'If the guilt of all lying,' &c.[954]
On an Insignificant[954]
'There comes from old Avaro's grave'[954]
On a Slanderer[955]
Lines in a German Student's Album[955]
[Hippona][955]
On a Reader of His Own Verses[955]
On a Report of a Minister's Death[956]
[Dear Brother Jem][956]
Job's Luck[957]
On the Sickness of a Great Minister[957]
[To a Virtuous Oeconomist][958]
[L'Enfant Prodigue][958]
On Sir Rubicund Naso[958]
To Mr. Pye[959]
[Ninety-Eight][959]
Occasioned by the Former[959]
[A Liar by Profession][960]
To a Proud Parent[960]
Rufa[960]
On a Volunteer Singer[960]
Occasioned by the Last[961]
Epitaph on Major Dieman[961]
On the Above[961]
Epitaph on a Bad Man (Three Versions)[961]
To a Certain Modern Narcissus[962]
To a Critic[962]
Always Audible[963]
Pondere non Numero[963]
The Compliment Qualified[963]
'What is an Epigram,' &c.[963]
'Charles, grave or merry,' &c.[964]
'An evil spirit's on thee, friend,' &c.[964]
'Here lies the Devil,' &c.[964]
To One Who Published in Print, &c.[964]
'Scarce any scandal,' &c.[965]
'Old Harpy,' &c.[965]
To a Vain Young Lady[965]
A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls[966]
'From me, Aurelia,' &c.[966]
For a House-Dog's Collar[966]
'In vain I praise thee, Zoilus'[966]
Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser[967]
A Dialogue between an Author and his Friend[967]
Μωροσοφία, or Wisdom in Folly[967]
'Each Bond-street buck,' &c.[968]
From an Old German Poet[968]
On the Curious Circumstance, That in the German, &c.[968]
Spots in the Sun[969]
'When Surface talks,' &c.[969]
To my Candle[969]
Epitaph on Himself[970]
The Taste of the Times[970]
On Pitt and Fox[970]
'An excellent adage,' &c.[971]
Comparative Brevity of Greek and English[971]
On the Secrecy of a Certain Lady[971]
Motto for a Transparency, &c. (Two Versions)[972]
'Money, I've heard,' &c.[972]
Modern Critics[972]
Written in an Album[972]
To a Lady who requested me to Write a Poem upon Nothing[973]
Sentimental[973]
'So Mr. Baker,' &c.[973]
Authors and Publishers[973]
The Alternative[974]
'In Spain, that land,' &c.[974]
Inscription for a Time-piece[974]
On the Most Veracious Anecdotist, &c.[974]
'Nothing speaks our mind,' &c.[975]
Epitaph of the Present Year on the Monument of Thomas Fuller[975]
Jeux d'Esprit[976]
My Godmother's Beard[976]
Lines to Thomas Poole[976]
To a Well-known Musical Critic, &c.[977]
To T. Poole: An Invitation[978]
Song, To be Sung by the Lovers of all the noble liquors, &c.[978]
Drinking versus Thinking[979]
The Wills of the Wisp[979]
To Captain Findlay[980]
On Donne's Poem 'To a Flea'[980]
[Ex Libris S. T. C.][981]
ΕΓΩΕΝΚΑΙΠΑΝ[981]
The Bridge Street Committee[982]
Nonsense Sapphics[983]
To Susan Steele, &c.[984]
Association of Ideas[984]
Verses Trivocular[985]
Cholera Cured Before-hand[985]
To Baby Bates[987]
To a Child[987]
Fragments from a Notebook. (circa 1796-1798)[988]
Fragments. (For unnamed Fragments see [Index of First Lines].)[996]
Over my Cottage[997]
[The Night-Mare Death in Life][998]
A Beck in Winter[998]
[Not a Critic—But a Judge][1000]
[De Profundis Clamavi][1001]
Fragment of an Ode on Napoleon[1003]
Epigram on Kepler[1004]
[Ars Poetica][1006]
Translation of the First Strophe of Pindar's Second Olympic[1006]
Translation of a Fragment of Heraclitus[1007]
Imitated from Aristophanes[1008]
To Edward Irving[1008]
[Luther—De Dæmonibus][1009]
The Netherlands[1009]
Elisa: Translated from Claudian[1009]
Profuse Kindness[1010]
Napoleon[1010]
The Three Sorts of Friends[1012]
Bo-Peep and I Spy—[1012]
A Simile[1013]
Baron Guelph of Adelstan. A Fragment[1013]
Metrical Experiments[1014]
An Experiment for a Metre ('I heard a Voice,' &c.)[1014]
Trochaics[1015]
The Proper Unmodified Dochmius[1015]
Iambics[1015]
Nonsense ('Sing, impassionate Soul,' &c.)[1015]
A Plaintive Movement[1016]
An Experiment for a Metre ('When thy Beauty appears')[1016]
Nonsense Verses ('Ye fowls of ill presage')[1017]
Nonsense ('I wish on earth to sing')[1017]
'There in some darksome shade'[1018]
'Once again, sweet Willow, wave thee'[1018]
'Songs of Shepherds, and rustical Roundelays'[1018]
A Metrical Accident[1019]
Notes by Professor Saintsbury[1019]
APPENDIX I
First Drafts, Early Versions, etc.
A. Effusion 35, August 20th, 1795. (First Draft.) [MS. R.][1021]
Effusion, p. 96 [1797]. (Second Draft.) [MS. R.][1021]
B. Recollection[1023]
C. The Destiny of Nations. (Draft I.) [Add. MSS. 34,225][1024]
The Destiny of Nations. (Draft II.) [ibid.][1026]
The Destiny of Nations. (Draft III.) [ibid.][1027]
D. Passages in Southey's Joan of Arc (First Edition, 1796) contributed by S. T. Coleridge[1027]
E. The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere [1798][1030]
F. The Raven. [M. P. March 10, 1798.][1048]
G. Lewti; or, The Circassian's Love-Chant. (1.) [B. M. Add. MSS. 27,902.][1049]
The Circassian's Love-Chaunt. (2.) [Add. MSS. 35,343.][1050]
Lewti; or, The Circassian's Love-Chant. (3.) [Add. MSS. 35,343.][1051]
H. Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie. [M. P. Dec. 21, 1799.][1052]
I. The Triumph of Loyalty. An Historic Drama. [Add. MSS. 34,225.][1060]
J. Chamouny; The Hour before Sunrise. A Hymn. [M. P. Sept. 11, 1802.][1074]
K. Dejection: An Ode. [M. P. Oct. 4, 1802.][1076]
L. To W. Wordsworth. January 1807[1081]
M. Youth and Age. (MS. I, Sept. 10, 1823.)[1084]
Youth and Age. (MS. II. 1.)[1085]
Youth and Age. (MS. II. 2.)[1086]
N. Love's Apparition and Evanishment. (First Draft.)[1087]
O. Two Versions of the Epitaph. ('Stop, Christian,' &c.)[1088]
P. [Habent sua Fata—Poetae.] ('The Fox, and Statesman,' &c.)[1089]
Q. To John Thelwall[1090]
R. [Lines to T. Poole.] [1807.][1090]
APPENDIX II
Allegoric Vision[1091]
APPENDIX III
Apologetic Preface to 'Fire, Famine, And Slaughter'[1097]
APPENDIX IV
Prose Versions of Poems, etc.
A. Questions and Answers in the Court of Love[1109]
B. Prose Version of Glycine's Song in Zapolya[1109]
C. Work without Hope. (First Draft.)[1110]
D. Note to Line 34 of the Joan of Arc Book II. [4o 1796.][1112]
E. Dedication. Ode on the Departing Year. [4o 1796.][1113]
F. Preface to the MS. of Osorio[1114]
APPENDIX V
Adaptations
From Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke:
God and the World we worship still together[1115]
The Augurs we of all the world admir'd[1116]
Of Humane Learning[1116]
From Sir John Davies: On the Immortality of the Soul[1116]
From Donne: Eclogue. 'On Unworthy Wisdom'[1117]
Letter to Sir Henry Goodyere.[1117]
From Ben Jonson: A Nymph's Passion (Mutual Passion)[1118]
Underwoods, No. VI. The Hour-glass[1119]
The Poetaster, Act I, Scene i.[1120]
From Samuel Daniel: Epistle to Sir Thomas Egerton, Knight[1120]
Musophilus, Stanza CXLVII[1121]
Musophilus, Stanzas XXVII, XXIX, XXX[1122]
From Christopher Harvey: The Synagogue (The Nativity, or Christmas Day.)[1122]
From Mark Akenside: Blank Verse Inscriptions[1123]
From W. L. Bowles:—'I yet remain'[1124]
From an old Play: Napoleon[1124]
APPENDIX VI
Originals of Translations
F. von Matthison: Ein milesisches Mährchen, Adonide[1125]
Schiller: Schwindelnd trägt er dich fort auf rastlos strömenden Wogen[1125]
Im Hexameter steigt des Springquells flüssige Säule[1125]
Stolberg: Unsterblicher Jüngling![1126]
Seht diese heilige Kapell![1126]
Schiller: Nimmer, das glaubt mir[1127]
Goethe: Kennst du das Land, wo die Citronen blühn[1128]
François-Antoine-Eugène de Planard: 'Batelier, dit Lisette'[1128]
German Folk Song: Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär[1129]
Stolberg: Mein Arm wird stark und gross mein Muth[1129]
Lessing: Ich fragte meine Schöne[1130]
Stolberg: Erde, du Mutter zahlloser Kinder, Mutter und Amme![1130]
Friederike Brun: Aus tiefem Schatten des schweigenden Tannenhains[1131]
Giambattista Marino: Donna, siam rei di morte. Errasti, errai[1131]
MS. Notebook: In diesem Wald, in diesen Gründen[1132]
Anthologia Graeca: Κοινῇ πὰρ κλισίῃ ληθαργικὸς ἠδὲ φρενοπλὴξ[1132]
Battista Guarini: Canti terreni amori[1132]
Stolberg: Der blinde Sänger stand am Meer[1134]
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE POETICAL WORKS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE[1135]
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
No. I. Poems first published in Newspapers or Periodicals[1178]
No. II. Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit first published in Newspapers and Periodicals[1182]
No. III. Poems included in Anthologies and other Works[1183]
No. IV. Poems first printed or reprinted in Literary Remains, 1836, &c.[1187]
Poems first printed or reprinted in Essays on His Own Times, 1850[1188]
INDEX OF FIRST LINES[1189]

ABBREVIATIONS

MS. B. M.=MS. preserved in the British Museum.
MS. O.=MS. Ottery: i. e. a collection of juvenile poems in the handwriting of S. T. Coleridge (circ. 1793).
MS. O. (c.)=MS. Ottery, No. 3: a transcript (circ. 1823) of a collection of juvenile poems by S. T. Coleridge.
MS. S. T. C.=A single MS. poem in the handwriting of S. T. Coleridge.
MS. E.=MS. Estlin: i. e. a collection of juvenile poems in the handwriting of S. T. Coleridge presented to Mrs. Estlin of Bristol circ. 1795.
MS. 4o=A collection of early poems in the handwriting of S. T. Coleridge (circ. 1796).
MS. W.=An MS. in the handwriting of S. T. Coleridge, now in the possession of Mr. Gordon Wordsworth.
MS. R.=MS. Rugby: i. e. in the possession of the Governors of Rugby School.
An. Anth.=Annual Anthology of 1800.
B. L.=Biographia Literaria.
C. I.=Cambridge Intelligencer.
E. M.=English Minstrelsy.
F. F.=Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 1818.
F. O.=Friendship's Offering, 1834.
L. A.=Liber Aureus.
L. B.=Lyrical Ballads.
L. R.=Literary Remains.
M. C.=Morning Chronicle.
M. M.=Monthly Magazine.
M. P.=Morning Post.
P. R.=Poetical Register, 1802.
P. & D. W.=Poetical and Dramatic Works.
P. W.=Poetical Works.
S. L.=Sibylline Leaves (1817).
S. S.=Selection of Sonnets.

ERRATA

On p. 16, n. 2, line 1, for Oct. 15, read Oct. 25.

On p. 68, line 6, for 1795 read 1794, and n. 1, line 1, for September 24, read September 23.