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

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Vol. II. Half-title, one leaf; Title, one leaf, with Imprint at the foot of the Reverse, unpaged; Half-title, The Rime / Of / The Ancient Mariner. / In Seven Parts. /, p. [1]; Motto from T. Burnet, in centre of p. [2]; Text, pp. [3]-370; The Imprint, Thomas White, Printer, / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of p. 370.

Vol. III. Half-title, one leaf; Title, one leaf; The Imprint, Thomas White, Printer, / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of the Reverse, unpaged; Half-title, The / Piccolomini, / Or / The First Part of Wallenstein. / A Drama. / Translated from the German of Schiller /, p. [1]; Preface of the Translator, p. [3]; Text, pp. [5]-428; The Imprint Thomas White, Printer / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of p. 428.

[Pp. [1]-6]

PREFACE

[The Preface is the same as that of 1803.]

CONTENTS

Volume I

PAGE
Juvenile Poems
Genevieve			[9]
Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon			10
Time, Real and Imaginary. An Allegory			11
Monody on the Death of Chatterton			12
Songs of the Pixies			19
The Raven			25
Absence. A Farewell Ode			28
Lines on an Autumnal Evening			30
The Rose			35
The Kiss			37
To a Young Ass			39
Domestic Peace			41
The Sigh			42
Epitaph on an Infant ['Ere Sin could blight']			43
Lines written at the King's-Arms, Ross			44
Lines to a beautiful Spring in a Village			46
On a Friend who died of a Frenzy-fever induced by calumnious reports			48
To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French Revolution			51
Sonnet	I.	My heart has thanked thee, Bowles	54
"	II.	As late I lay in Slumber's Shadowy Vale	55
"	III.	Though roused by that dark Vizir Riot rude	56
"	IV.	When British Freedom for an happier land	57
"	V.	It was some Spirit, Sheridan!	58
"	VI.	O what a loud and fearful Shriek	59
"	VII.	As when far off	60
"	VIII.	Thou gentle Look	61
"	IX.	Pale Roamer through the Night	62
"	X.	Sweet Mercy!	63
"	XI.	Thou bleedest, my Poor Heart	64
"	XII.	To the Author of The Robbers	65
Lines, composed while climbing Brockley Coomb			66
Lines in the Manner of Spenser			67
Imitated from Ossian			70
The Complaint of Ninathoma			72
Imitated from the Welsh			73
To an Infant			74
Lines in answer to a Letter from Bristol			76
To a Friend in Answer to a melancholy Letter			82
Religious Musings			84
The Destiny of Nations. A Vision			104
Sibylline Leaves
Half-title
I. Poems Occasioned by Political Events or / Feelings Connected with Them			[127]
Motto—fourteen lines—'When I have borne in memory what has tamed', Wordsworth			[128]
Ode to the Departing Year			131
France, an Ode			139
Fears in Solitude			144
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter			155
Half-title
II. Love Poems			[159]
Motto—eleven lines of a Latin Poem by Petrarch			[160]
Love			161
Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt			167
The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution			171
The Night Scene, a Dramatic Fragment			179
To an Unfortunate Woman			184
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre			186
Lines composed in a Concert Room			188
The Keepsake			191
To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck			194
To a Young Lady on her recovery from a Fever			196
Something Childish, but very Natural			198
Home-sick: written in Germany			200
Answer to a Child's Question			202
The Visionary Hope			203
The Happy Husband			205
Recollections of Love			207
On revisiting the Sea-shore			209
Half-title
III. Meditative Poems. / In Blank Verse			[211]
Motto—eight lines (translated) from Schiller			[212]
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny			213
Lines written in an Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest			218
On Observing a Blossom on the First of February			221
The Eolian Harp			223
Reflections on having left a place of Retirement			227
To the Rev. George Coleridge			231
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath			235
A Tombless Epitaph			237
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison			239
To a Friend who had declared his intention of writing no more Poetry			244
To a Gentleman [Wordsworth] composed on the night after his recitation of a Poem on the growth of an individual mind			247
[The Nightingale; a Conversation Poem			253]
Frost at Midnight			261
Half-title			[265]
The Three Graves			[267]
Half-title
Odes / And / Miscellaneous Poems			[287]
Dejection, An Ode			289
Ode to Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire			296
Ode to Tranquillity			300
To a Young Friend, on his proposing to domesticate with the Author			302
Lines to W. L., Esq., while he sang a song to Purcell's Music			306
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune			307
Sonnet To the River Otter			309
—— Composed on a journey homeward after hearing of the birth of a Son			310
—— To a Friend			311
The Virgin's Cradle Hymn			312
Epitaph on an Infant. ['Its balmy lips the Infant blest']			313
Melancholy, A Fragment			314
Tell's Birth-place			315
A Christmas Carol			317
Human Life			320
The Visit of the Gods			321
Elegy, imitated from Akenside			324
Half-title
Kubla Khan: / Or, / A Vision In A Dream			[327]
Of The Fragment Of Kubla Khan			[329]
Kubla Khan			[332]
[The Pains of Sleep			334]
Apologetic Preface to "Fire, Famine, and Slaughter"			337
END OF VOL. I
Volume II
Half-title
The Rime / of / The Ancient Mariner. / In Seven Parts. /			[1]
Motto (From T. Burnet, Archæol. Phil., p. 68)			[2]
The Ancient Mariner.	Part I		3
	Part II		8
	Part III		12
	Part IV		17
	Part V		21
	Part VI		27
	Part VII		33
Half-title
Christabel			[39]
Preface			[41]
Christabel.	Part I		43
	Conclusion to Part I		56
	Part II		59
	Conclusion to Part II		73
Half-title
Prose in Rhyme: Or, / Epigrams, Moralities, and Things / Without a Name			[75]
Mottoes:—
Ἔρωϛ ἀεὶ λάληθρος ἑταῖρος.
In many ways does the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal;
But in far more th' estranged heart lets know,
The absence of the love, which yet it fain would shew.
Duty surviving Self-love			[77]
Song. ['Tho' veiled in spires,' &c.]			78
Phantom or Fact? A Dialogue in Verse			79
Work without Hope			81
Youth and Age			82
A Day-dream. ['My eyes make pictures,' &c.]			84
To a Lady, offended by a sportive observation			86
Reason for Love's Blindness			86
Lines suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius			87
The Devil's Thoughts			89
The Alienated Mistress			93
Constancy to an Ideal Object			94
The Suicide's Argument			96
The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree			97
Fancy in Nubibus			102
The Two Founts			103
Prefatory Note to the Wanderings of Cain			105
The Wanderings of Cain			109
Half-title
Remorse. / A Tragedy. / In Five Acts. /			[119]
Remorse. A Tragedy			121
Appendix			[232]
Half-title
Zapolya: / A Christmas Tale. / In Two Parts.			[237]
Πὰρ πυρὶ χρὴ τοιαῦτα λέγειν χειμῶνος ἐν ὥρᾳ
Apud Athenæum.
Advertisement			[238]
Part I. The Prelude / Entitled / "The Usurper's Fortune." /			[241]
Part II. The Sequel / Entitled / "The Usurper's Fate"			274
Volume III
The Piccolomini, / Or / The First Part of Wallenstein. / A Drama. /
Translated from the German of Schiller /			1
The / Death of Wallenstein. / A Tragedy, / In Five Acts			249

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