The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 2 (of 2) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poems, / By / S. T. Coleridge, / Second Edition. / To which are now added / Poems / By Charles Lamb, / And / Charles Lloyd. / Duplex nobis vinculum, et amicitiae et similium / junctarumque Camœnarum; quod utinam neque mors / solvat, neque temporis longinquitas! / Groscoll. Epist. ad Car. Utenhov. et Ptol. Lux. Tast. / Printed by N. Biggs, / For J. Cottle, Bristol, and Messrs. / Robinsons, London. / 1797. /

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Collation.—Title-page, one leaf, p. ; Half-title, one leaf, Poems / by / S. T. Coleridge / [followed by Motto as in No. II], pp. [iii]-[iv]; Contents, pp. [v]-vi; Dedication, To the Reverend George Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary, / Devon. Notus in frates animi paterni. Hor. Carm. Lib. II. 2. /, pp. [vii]-xii; Preface to the First Edition, pp. [xiii]-xvi; Preface to the Second Edition, pp. [xvii]-xx; Half-title, Ode / on the / Departing Year [with motto (5 lines) from Aeschy. Agamem. 1225], one leaf, pp. [1]-[2]; Argument, pp. [3]-[4]; Text, pp. [5]-278; Errata (four lines) at the foot of p. 278.

[Carolus Utenhovius (Utenhove, or Uyttenhove) and Ptolomœus Luxius Tasteus were scholar friends of the Scottish poet and historian George Buchanan (1506-1582), who prefixes some Iambics 'Carolo Utenhovio F. S.' to his Hexameters 'Franciscanus et Fratres'. In some Elegiacs addressed to Tasteus and Tevius, in which he complains of his sufferings from gout and kindred maladies, he tells them that Groscollius (Professor of Medicine at the University of Paris) was doctoring him with herbs and by suggestion:—'Et spe languentem consilioque juvat'. Hence the three names. In another set of Iambics entitled 'Mutuus Amor' in which he celebrates the alliance between Scotland and England he writes:—

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.]

[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

CONTENTS