Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Keach, William

• ISBN13: 9780140423532
• ISBN10: 0140423532
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of Coleridge's best-known poems, from the nightmarish vision of the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and the opium-inspired 'Kubla Khan' to the sombre passion of 'Dejection: An Ode' and the medieval ballad 'Christabel'. His meditative 'conversation' poems, such as 'Frost at Midnight' and 'This Lime-Tree Bower Mr Prison', reflect on remembrance and solitude, while late works, such as 'Youth and Age' and 'Constancy to an Ideal Object', are haunting meditations on mortality and lost love.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
Acknowledgements	xix
Table of Dates	xx
Further Reading	xxvii
THE POEMS
Easter Holidays	3	(1)
Dura navis	4	(2)
Nil pejus est caelibe vita	6	(1)
Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon	6	(1)
Julia	7	(1)
Quae nocent docent	8	(1)
The Nose	8	(2)
Life	10	(1)
To the Muse	10	(1)
Destruction of the Bastile	11	(1)
Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital	12	(1)
Progress of Vice	13	(1)
Monody on the Death of Chatterton (first version)	14	(2)
Monody on the Death of Chatterton (second version)	16	(5)
An Invocation	21	(1)
Anna and Harland	21	(1)
To the Evening Star	21	(1)
Pain	22	(1)
On a Lady Weeping	22	(1)
Monody on a Tea-Kettle	23	(1)
Genevieve	24	(1)
On Receiving an Account that his Only Sister's Death Was Inevitable	24	(1)
On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister	25	(1)
A Mathematical Problem	25	(3)
Honour	28	(2)
On Imitation	30	(1)
Inside the Coach	31	(1)
Devonshire Roads	31	(1)
Music	32	(1)
Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge	33	(1)
Sonnet on the Same	34	(1)
Happiness	34	(3)
A Wish Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10th, 1792	37	(1)
An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon	37	(1)
To Disappointment	38	(1)
A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room	39	(1)
Ode	39	(1)
A Lover's Complaint to his Mistress	40	(1)
With Fielding's Amelia	41	(1)
Written After a Walk Before Supper	41	(1)
Imitated from Ossian	42	(1)
The Complaint of Ninathoma, from the Same	43	(1)
The Rose	43	(1)
Kisses	44	(1)
Sonnet (`Thou gentle look')	45	(1)
Sonnet to the River Otter	45	(1)
Lines on an Autumnal Evening	46	(3)
To Fortune: On Buying a Ticket in the Irish Lottery	49	(1)
Perspiration: A Travelling Eclogue	50	(1)
Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the House of the `Man of Ross'	50	(1)
Imitated from the Welsh	51	(1)
Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village	51	(1)
Imitations Ad Lyram	52	(1)
The Sigh	53	(1)
The Kiss	53	(1)
To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution	54	(2)
Translation of Wrangham's `Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam e Granta Exituram'	56	(1)
To Miss Brunton with the Preceding Translation	57	(1)
Epitaph on an Infant	57	(1)
[Pantisocracy]	57	(1)
On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America	58	(1)
Elegy, Imitated from One of Akenside's Blank-Verse Inscriptions	58	(1)
The Faded Flower	59	(1)
Sonnet (`Pale Roamer through the night!')	60	(1)
Domestic Peace	60	(1)
Sonnet (`Thou bleedest, my poor Heart!')	61	(1)
Sonnet to the Author of the `Robbers'	61	(1)
Melancholy: A Fragment	62	(1)
Songs of the Pixies	62	(4)
To a Young Ass, its Mother being Tethered Near it	66	(1)
Lines on a Friend Who Died of a Frenzy Fever Induced by Calumnious Reports	67	(1)
To a Friend, together with an Unfinished Poem	68	(8)
Sonnets on Eminent Characters:
To the Honourable Mr. Erskine	69	(1)
Burke	69	(1)
Priestley	70	(1)
La Fayette	70	(1)
Koskiusko	71	(1)
Pitt	71	(1)
To the Rev. W. L. Bowles (two versions)	72	(1)
Mrs Siddons	73	(1)
To William Godwin, Author of `Political Justice'	73	(1)
To Robert Southey, of Balliol College, Oxford, Author of the `Retrospect', and Other Poems	74	(1)
To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq.	74	(1)
To Lord Stanhope, on Reading his Late Protest in the House of Lords	75	(1)
To Earl Stanhope	76	(1)
Lines to a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter	76	(1)
To an Infant	77	(1)
To the Rev. W. J. Hort, while teaching a young lady some song-tunes on his flute	78	(1)
Sonnet (`Sweet Mercy! how my very heart has bled')	79	(1)
To the Nightingale	79	(1)
Lines composed while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May, 1795	80	(1)
Lines in the Manner of Spenser	81	(1)
To the Author of Poems published anonymously at Bristol in September 1795	82	(1)
The Production of a Young Lady, addressed to the author of the poems alluded to in the preceding epistle	83	(2)
Effusion XXXV. Composed August 20th, 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire	85	(2)
The Eolian Harp	87	(2)
Lines written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, September, 1795, in answer to a letter from Bristol	89	(3)
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement	92	(2)
On Donne's Poetry	94	(1)
The Hour When We Shall Meet Again	94	(1)
The Destiny of Nations	95	(12)
Religious Musings	107	(10)
From an Unpublished Poem	117	(1)
On Observing a Blossom on the First of February, 1796	118	(1)
Verses addressed to J. Horne Tooke	118	(2)
On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life	120	(1)
Sonnet written on receiving letters informing me of the birth of a Son, I being at Birmingham	121	(1)
Sonnet composed on a journey homeward; the author having received intelligence of the birth of a son, Sept. 20th, 1796	121	(1)
Sonnet to a friend who asked, how I felt when the nurse first presented my infant to me	122	(1)
Sonnet [to Charles Lloyd]	122	(1)
To a Young Friend, on his Proposing to Domesticate with the Author. Composed in 1796	123	(2)
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune Who Abandoned Himself to an Indolent and Causeless Melancholy	125	(1)
To a Friend Who Had Declared his Intention of Writing No More Poetry	125	(1)
Ode to the Departing Year	126	(5)
The Raven	131	(2)
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre	133	(1)
To an Unfortunate Woman	134	(1)
To the Rev. George Coleridge	134	(2)
On the Christening of a Friend's Child	136	(2)
Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Nether Stowey Church	138	(1)
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison	138	(2)
The Foster-Mother's Tale	140	(3)
The Dungeon	143	(2)
Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers:
Sonnet I	144	(1)
Sonnet II	144	(1)
Sonnet III	145	(1)
Parliamentary Oscillators	145	(2)
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)	147	(20)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)	167	(20)
Christabel	187	(19)
Lines to W. L. while he Sang a Song to Purcell's Music	206	(1)
The Three Graves	206	(12)
The Wanderings of Cain	218	(5)
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter	223	(2)
The Old Man of the Alps	225	(4)
The Apotheosis, or The Snow-Drop	229	(2)
Frost at Midnight	231	(2)
France. An Ode	233	(3)
Lewti, or the Circassian Love-Chaunt	236	(2)
To a Young Lady on her Recovery from a Fever	238	(1)
Fears in Solitude	239	(5)
The Nightingale	244	(3)
The Ballad of the Dark Ladie	247	(2)
Kubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream	249	(3)
[Lines from a notebook -- September 1798]	252	(1)
[Hexameters:] William, My Teacher, My Friend!	252	(2)
[Translation of a passage in Ottfried's metrical paraphrase of the Gospel]	254	(1)
[Fragmentary translation of the Song of Deborah]	254	(2)
Catullian Hendecasyllables	256	(1)
The Homeric Hexameter Described and Exemplified	256	(1)
The Ovidian Elegiac Metre Described and Exemplified	257	(1)
On a Cataract	257	(1)
Tell's Birth-Place	258	(1)
The Visit of the Gods	259	(1)
On an Infant which Died before Baptism	260	(1)
Something Childish, but Very Natural	260	(1)
Home-Sick, Written in Germany	260	(1)
The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn	261	(1)
Lines written in the album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest	262	(1)
The British Stripling's War-Song	263	(1)
Names	264	(1)
The Devil's Thoughts	264	(3)
Lines Composed in a Concert-Room	267	(1)
The Exchange	268	(1)
[Paraphrase of Psalm 46. Hexameters]	268	(1)
Hymn to the Earth. Hexameters	269	(1)
Mahomet	270	(1)
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire	271	(2)
A Christmas Carol	273	(2)
On an Insignificant	275	(1)
Job's Luck	275	(1)
Love	275	(3)
The Madman and the Lethargist, an Example	278	(2)
On a Volunteer Singer	280	(1)
Talleyrand to Lord Grenville	280	(4)
The Two Round Spaces on the Tomb-Stone	284	(1)
The Mad Monk	285	(2)
A Stranger Minstrel	287	(2)
Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side Half-Way Up a Steep Hill Facing South	289	(1)
Apologia Pro Vita Sua	290	(1)
The Night-Scene: A Dramatic Fragment	290	(2)
On Revisiting the Sea-Shore	292	(1)
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath	293	(1)
Drinking versus Thinking	294	(1)
An Ode to the Rain	295	(2)
The Wills of the Wisp	297	(1)
Ode to Tranquillity	297	(1)
A Letter to-----, April 4, 1802. -- Sunday Evening	298	(9)
Dejection: An Ode	307	(4)
[A Soliloquy of the full Moon, She being in a Mad Passion--]	311	(2)
Answer to a Child's Question	313	(1)
A Day-Dream	314	(1)
To Asra	315	(1)
The Happy Husband	316	(1)
A Thought Suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland	316	(1)
[Untitled]	317	(1)
The Keepsake	317	(1)
The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution	318	(5)
Hymn before Sun-Rise, in the Vale of Chamouni	323	(2)
The Good, Great Man	325	(1)
The Knight's Tomb	326	(1)
To Matilda Betham from a Stranger	326	(2)
Westphalian Song	328	(1)
The Pains of Sleep	328	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- September 1803]	329	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- February -- March 1804]	330	(1)
[What is Life?]	330	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- April 1805]	330	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- May -- June 1805]	331	(1)
Phantom	331	(1)
[An Angel Visitant]	331	(1)
Reason for Love's Blindness	332	(1)
[Untitled]	332	(1)
Constancy to an Ideal Object	332	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- March 1806]	333	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- June 1806]	333	(1)
Farewell to Love	334	(1)
Time, Real and Imaginary	334	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- 1806]	335	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- October -- November 1806]	335	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- 1806]	335	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- November -- December 1806]	336	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- February 1807]	336	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- February 1807]	336	(1)
[Lines from a manuscript -- 1807--8]	337	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- July 1807; includes lines previously published separately as `Coeli enarrant']	337	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- January 1808]	338	(1)
To William Wordsworth	339	(3)
Metrical Feet. Lesson for a Boy	342	(1)
Recollections of Love	342	(2)
The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-Tree. A Lament	344	(2)
To Two Sisters	346	(1)
On Taking Leave of-----, 1817	347	(1)
A Child's Evening Prayer	348	(1)
Ad Vilmum Axiologum	348	(1)
Psyche	349	(1)
[Sonnet -- translated from Marino]	349	(1)
[Fragment: `Two wedded Hearts']	350	(1)
A Tombless Epitaph	350	(1)
On a Clock in a Market-Place	351	(1)
Separation	351	(1)
The Visionary Hope	352	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- March 1810]	353	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- April -- June 1810]	353	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- May 1810]	353	(1)
Epitaph on an Infant	354	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- 1811]	354	(1)
[Fragment of an ode on Napoleon]	354	(1)
[Lines inscribed on the fly-leaf of Benedetto Menzini's `Poesie' (1782)]	355	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- May -- June 1811]	355	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- May -- July 1811]	355	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- May 1814?]	356	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- 1815 -- 16]	356	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- 1815 -- 16]	356	(1)
On Donne's First Poem	356	(1)
Limbo	357	(1)
Moles	358	(1)
Ne plus ultra	358	(1)
The Suicide's Argument	359	(1)
[An Invocation: from `Remorse']	359	(1)
God's Omnipresence, a Hymn	360	(1)
To a Lady. With Falconer's `Shipwreck'	361	(1)
Human Life, On the Denial of Immortality	362	(1)
[Song from `Zapolya']	362	(1)
[Hunting Song from `Zapolya']	363	(1)
[Faith, Hope, and Charity. From the Italian of Guarini]	364	(1)
Fancy in Nubibus	365	(1)
Israel's Lament	366	(2)
A Character	368	(2)
Lines to a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review	370	(1)
To Nature	370	(1)
The Tears of a Grateful People	371	(4)
First Advent of Love	375	(1)
[Reason]	375	(1)
[Lines from a notebook -- 1822]	375	(1)
From the German	376	(1)
The Reproof and Reply	376	(2)
Youth and Age	378	(1)
Desire	379	(1)
The Delinquent Travellers	379	(3)
Song, ex improviso	382	(1)
Work Without Hope	383	(1)
The Two Founts	383	(2)
The Pang More Sharp Than All	385	(2)
Sancti Dominici Pallium	387	(2)
The Improvisatore	389	(5)
Love's Burial-Place: A Madrigal	394	(1)
Lines Suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius	394	(2)
Epitaphium testamentarium	396	(1)
Duty Surviving Self-Love	396	(1)
[Homeless]	396	(1)
'E ρωζ αειλαλη&thetas;ρoζ εταιρoζ	397	(1)
Song	397	(1)
Profuse Kindness	397	(1)
Written in an Album	397	(1)
To Mary Pridham	398	(1)
Verses Trivocular	398	(1)
Water Ballad	398	(1)
Cologne	399	(1)
On my Joyful Departure from the Same City	400	(1)
[The Netherlands]	400	(1)
The Garden of Boccaccio	400	(3)
Alice du Clos: Or The Forked Tongue. A Ballad	403	(6)
Love, Hope, and Patience in Education	409	(1)
[Lines written in commonplace book of Miss Barbour]	409	(1)
To Miss A. T.	410	(1)
Love and Friendship Opposite	410	(1)
Not at Home	410	(1)
W. H. Eheu!	411	(1)
Phantom or Fact?	411	(1)
Charity in Thought	412	(1)
Humility the Mother of Charity	412	(1)
[`Gently I took that which ungently came']	412	(1)
Cholera Cured Before Hand	413	(1)
Love's Apparition and Evanishment	414	(1)
To the Young Artist, Kayser of Kaserwerth	415	(1)
Know Thyself	415	(1)
My Baptismal Birth-Day	416	(1)
Epitaph	416	(9)
Appendices:
1: On the Wretched Lot of the Slaves in the Isles of Western India	419	(3)
2: [Notebook draft of an essay on punctuation]	422	(3)
Notes	425	(186)
Index of Titles	611	(8)
Index of First Lines	619