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.

Supplement.
Advertisement243
Lines to Joseph Cottle, by S. T. Coleridge246
On an Autumnal Evening, by ditto,249
In the manner of Spencer (sic), by ditto,256
The Composition of a Kiss, by ditto,260
To an Infant, by Ditto264
On the Christening of a Friend's Child, by ditto,264
To the Genius of Shakespeare, by Charles Lloyd,267
Written after a Journey into North Wales, by ditto,270
A Vision of Repentance, by Charles Lamb,273

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

[Pp. [xiii]-xvi.]

Compositions resembling those of the present volume are not
unfrequently condemned for their querulous Egotism. But Egotism is to be
condemned then only when it offends against Time and Place, as in an
History or an Epic Poem. To censure it in a Monody or Sonnet is almost
as absurd as to dislike a circle for being round. Why then write Sonnets 5
or Monodies? Because they give me pleasure when perhaps nothing else
could. After the more violent emotions of Sorrow, the mind demands
amusement, and can find it in employment alone; but full of its late
sufferings, it can endure no employment not in some measure connected
with them. Forcibly to turn away our attention to general subjects is 10
a painful and most often an unavailing effort:

But O! how grateful to a wounded heart
The tale of Misery to impart—
From others' eyes bid artless sorrows flow,
And raise esteem upon the base of woe! 15