[This acknowledgement, which was omitted from the Preface to the First Edition, was rewritten and included in the 'Advertisement' to the 'Supplement' to the Second Edition.]
(ii)
To Earl Stanhope
A man beloved of Science and of Freedom, these Poems are
respectfully inscribed by
The Author.
[In a letter to Miss Cruikshank (? 1807) (Early Recollections, 1837, i. 201), Coleridge maintains that the 'Sonnet to Earl Stanhope', which was published in Poems, 1796 (vide ante, pp. 89, 90), 'was inserted by the fool of a publisher [Cottle prints 'inserted by Biggs, the fool of a printer'] in order, forsooth, that he might send the book and a letter to Earl Stanhope; who (to prove that he is not mad in all things) treated both book and letter with silent contempt.' In a note Cottle denies this statement, and maintains that the 'book (handsomely bound) and the letter were sent to Lord S. by Mr. C. himself'. It is possible that before the book was published Coleridge had repented of Sonnet, Dedication, and Letter, and that the 'handsomely bound' volume was sent by Cottle and not by Coleridge, but the 'Dedication' is in his own handwriting and proves that he was, in the first instance at least, particeps criminis. See Note by J. D. Campbell, P. W., 1893, pp. 575, 576.]
CONTENTS
| PAGE |
| Monody to Chatterton | 1 |
| To the Rev. W. J. H. | 12 |
| Songs of the Pixies | 15 |
| Lines on the Man of Ross | 26 |
| Lines to a beautiful Spring | 28 |
| Epitaph on an Infant | 31 |
| Lines on a Friend | 32 |
| To a Young Lady with a Poem | 36 |
| Absence, a Farewell Ode | 40 |
| Effusion 1, to Bowles | 45 |
| Effusion 2, to Burke | 46 |
| Effusion 3, to Mercy | 47 |
| Effusion 4, to Priestley | 48 |
| Effusion 5, to Erskine | 49 |
| Effusion 6, to Sheridan | 50 |
| Effusion 7, to Siddons [signed 'C. L.'] | 51 |
| Effusion 8, to Kosciusco | 52 |
| Effusion 9, to Fayette | 53 |
| Effusion 10, to Earl Stanhope | 54 |
| Effusion 11 ['Was it some sweet device'—'C. L.'] | 55 |
| Effusion 12 ['Methinks how dainty sweet'—'C. L.'] | 56 |
| Effusion 13, written at Midnight ['C. L.'] | 57 |
| Effusion 14 | 59 |
| Effusion 15 | 60 |
| Effusion 16, to an Old Man | 61 |
| Effusion 17, to Genevieve | 62 |
| Effusion 18, to the Autumnal Moon | 63 |
| Effusion 19, to my own heart | 64 |
| Effusion 20, to Schiller | 65 |
| Effusion 21, on Brockley Coomb | 66 |
| [Effusion 22,] To a Friend with an unfinished Poem | 68 |
| Effusion 23, to the Nightingale | 71 |
| Effusion 24, in the manner of Spencer | 73 |
| Effusion 25, to Domestic Peace | 77 |
| Effusion 26, on a Kiss | 78 |
| Effusion 27 | 80 |
| Effusion 28 | 82 |
| Effusion 29, Imitated from Ossian | 84 |
| Effusion 30, Complaint of Ninathoma | 86 |
| Effusion 31, from the Welsh | 88 |
| Effusion 32, The Sigh | 89 |
| Effusion 33, to a Young Ass | 91 |
| Effusion 34, to an Infant | 94 |
| Effusion 35, written at Clevedon | 96 |
| Effusion 36, written in Early Youth | 101 |
| Epistle 1, written at Shurton Bars | 111 |
| Epistle 2, to a Friend in answer to a Melancholy Letter | 119 |
| Epistle 3, written after a Walk | 122 |
| Epistle 4, to the Author of Poems published in Bristol | 125 |
| Epistle 5, from a Young Lady | 129 |
| Religious Musings | 139 |
III
[A Sheet Of Sonnets.]
Collation.—No title; Introduction, pp. [1]-2; Text (of Sonnets Nos. i-xxviii), pp. 3-16. Signatures A. B. B2. [1796.]
