CONTENTS
LIST OF POEMS VII
INTRODUCTION Xi THE POET ' S CHRONOLOGY xxi
NOTE ON THE TEXT xxxi
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY xxxiii
Sonnets
II Conversation Poems 29
III Ballads 63 Iv Hill Walking Poems 133 V Asra Poems 157 VI Confessional Poems 193
Vu Visionary Fragments 223
Vu Political, Ideological and Topical 26 1 Poems
NOTES 29
INDEX OF 1 ITLES AND FIRST LINES 353 LIST OF POEMS
I SONNETS I. To the Autumnal Moon 7 2. Life 8 3. On Receiving an Account that his drdy Sister's Death
was Inevitable 9
4. On Quitting School for College 10
S. To the River Otter II 6. To the Author of The Robbers 12
7. To the Rev. W. L. Bowles '3
8. Pantisocracy 14
9. Pity 15 10. On Receiving a Letter Infonning me of the Birth of
a Son 16 ii. Composed on a Journey Homeward 17 12. To a Friend who Asked, How I Felt
On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country 19
14. To Asra 20
IS. Lady, to Death we're Doomed 21 16. Farewell to Love
17. Fancy in Nuhibus 23 is. To Nature 24
19. Work Without Hope 25
20. Duty Surviving Self-Love 26
21. To the Young Artist 27
CONVF.RSA NON POEMS '3 To a Friend (Charles Lamb)
23. The Eolian Harp 36
24. Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement 38 25. To the Rev. George Coleridge 40
26. Ths Lime-Tree Bower My Prison 43
27. Frost at Midnight 46
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28. Fears in Solitude 49 56 29. The Nightingale 30. To William Wordsworth 59
III - BALLADS 69 t. The Three Graves The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 81 101 3 . Christabel The Balladofthel- )arkLadié 121
Love 123
36. Alice Du Cbs 127
IV HILL WALKING POEMS Lines Composed while Climbing the Left Ascent of
Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May 1795 139 38. To a Young Friend on his Proposing to
Domesticate with the Author 140 Lines Written in the Albuin at Elbingerode, in
the Hartz Forest 143 A Thought Suggested by a View of Saddleback in 40. 145 Cumberland 41. Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath 146
149 43 . Hymn before Sun-Rise, in the Vale of Chamouni 152 4. The Picture, or The Lover's Resolution V - ASRA POEMS
The Keepsake 163
46. The Language of Birds 165
A Day-Dream: My Eyes Make Pictures 166
48. The Day-Dream: If Thou Wert Here 168
A Letter to Sara Hutchinson 169
o. Dejection: An Ode 179
Si. Separation 184
52. Phantom 185
0 Sara! Never Rashly Let Me Go ,86
Ad Vilmum Axiologiini 187
55. You Mould My Hopes 188
jó. An Angel Visitant 189
Recollections of Love 190 5 . 8. Constancy to an Ideal Object 192
MR Vi CONFESSIONAL POEMS An Ode to the Rain '99 The Pains of Sleep 202 To Two Sisters 204 A Tombless Epitaph 206 The Pang More Sharp Than All 208 Hope and Time 210 The Suicide's Argument 211 The Visionary Hope 212 Human Life 213 Limbo 214 Youth and Age 215 The Garden of Boccaccio 217 Phantom or Fact 220 Love's Apparition and Evanishment 221 Epitaph 222
VII VISIONARY FRAGMENTS Kubla Kisan 229 The Wanderings of Cain 232 The Mad Monk 239 The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-Tree 241 A Sunset 244 A Dark Sky 245 The Tropic Tree 246 Psyche 247 The Sea Mew 248 The Yellow Hammer 249 On Donne's Poetry 250 The Knight's Tomb 251 Four Metrical Experiments 252 Song from Remorse 254 Song from Zapolya 255 Ars Poetica 256 Aria Spontanea 257 The World That Spidery Witch 258 The Netherlands 260
'A VIII POLITICAL, IDEOLOGICAL AND TOPICAL POEMS
An Ode on the Destruction of the Bastille 265 93. 94. To a Young Ass 267 The Present State of Society (Extract from "Religious 95. Musings") 269 Invisible Powers (Extract from "The Destiny of 96 Nations") 273
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter 277 97. 98. France: An Ode 280
The Devil's Thoughts 284 99. 100. A Chracter 287
105. The Delinquent Travellers 290