The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 1787-1833 DjVu Editions E-books © 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Coleridge: Poems Table of Contents Easter Holidays . 1 Dura Navis . 2 Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitæ . 4 Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon . 5 Anthem for the Children of Christ’s Hospital . 6 Julia . 7 Quae Nocent Docent . 8 The Nose . 9 To the Muse . 11 Destruction of the Bastile . 12 Life . 14 Progress of Vice . 15 Monody on the Death of Chatterton . 16 An Invocation . 19 Anna and Harland . 20 To the Evening Star . 21 Pain . 22 On a Lady Weeping: Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius . 23 Monody on a Tea-kettle . 24 Genevieve . 26 On Receiving an Account that his Only Sister’s Death was Inevitable . 27 On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister . 28 A Mathematical Problem . 29 Honour . 32 On Imitation . 34 Inside the Coach . 35 Devonshire Roads . 36 Music . 37 Sonnet: On Quitting School for College . 38 Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge . 39 Happiness . 40 A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792 . 43 An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon . 44 To Disappointment . 45 A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room . 46 Ode . 47 A Lover’s Complaint to his Mistress . 49 With Fielding’s ‘‘Amelia’’ . 50 Written After a Walk Before Supper . 51 Imitated from Ossian . 52 The Complaint of Ninathóma: From the same . 53 Songs of the Pixies . 54 The Rose . 57 - i - Kisses . 58 The Gentle Look . 59 Sonnet: To the River Otter . 60 An Effusion at Evening . 61 Lines: On an Autumnal Evening . 63 To Fortune: On buying a ticket in the Irish Lottery . 66 Perspiration. A Travelling Eclogue . 67 [Ave, Atque Vale!] . 68 On Bala Hill . 69 Lines: Written at the King’s Arms, Ross, formerly the House of the ‘‘Man of Ross’’ . 70 Imitated from the Welsh . 71 Lines: To a Beautiful Spring in a Village . 72 Imitations: Ad Lyram . 73 To Lesbia . 74 The Death of the Starling . 75 Moriens Superstiti . 76 Morienti Superstes . 77 The Sigh . 78 The Kiss . 79 To a Young Lady: with a Poem on the French Revolution . 80 Translation of Wrangham’s . 82 To Miss Brunton: with the preceding Translation . 83 Epitaph on an Infant . 84 Pantisocracy . 85 On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America . 86 Elegy: Imitated from one of Akenside’s Blank-verse Inscriptions . 87 The Faded Flower . 88 The Outcast . 89 Domestic Peace . 90 On a Discovery Made too Late . 91 To the Author of ‘‘The Robbers’’ . 92 Melancholy: A Fragment . 93 To a Young Ass: Its Mother being tethered near it . 94 Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever induced by Calumnious Reports . 95 To a Friend . 97 Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the ‘‘Morning Chronicle’’ in December 1794 and January 1795 . 98 To the Honourable Mr. Erskine . 98 Burke . 98 Priestley . 99 La Fayette . 99 Koskiusko . 100 Pitt . 100 To the Rev W.L. Bowles . 100 To the Rev W.L. Bowles . 101 Mrs Siddons . 101 - ii - To William Godwin Author of ‘‘Political Justice’’ . 102 To Robert Southey of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of The ‘‘Retrospect’’, and other Poems . 102 To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. 103 To Lord Stanhope on Reading his Late Protest in the House of Lords . 103 To Earl Stanhope . 104 Lines: To a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter . 105 To an Infant . 106 To the Rev. W. J. Hort while teaching a Young Lady some Song-tunes on his Flute . 107 Pity . 108 To the Nightingale . 109 Lines: Composed while climbing the Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May 1795 . 110 Lines in the Manner of Spenser . 111 The Hour when we shall meet again . 113 Lines written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, September 1795, in Answer to a Letter from Bristol . 114 The Eolian Harp Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire . 117 To the Author of Poems . 119 The Silver Thimble The production of a young lady, addressed to the Author of the poems alluded to in the preceding epistle . 121 Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement . 123 Religious Musings A Desultory Poem, Written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 . 125 Monody on the Death of Chatterton . 135 The Destiny of Nations. A Vision . 139 Ver Perpetuum . 150 On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796 . 151 To a Primrose. The First seen in the Season . 152 Verses Addressed to J. Horne Tooke and the Company . 153 On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life . 155 Sonnet: On receiving a Letter informing me of the Birth of a Son . 156 Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward; . 157 Sonnet: To a Friend who asked, how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me . 158 Sonnet: . 159 To a Young Friend on his proposing to domesticate with the Author . 160 Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune . 162 To a Friend . 163 Ode to the Departing Year . 164 The Raven A Christmas Tale, told by a School-boy to his Little Brothers and Sisters . 169 To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre . 171 To an Unfortunate Woman whom the Author had known in the days of her Innocence . 172 To the Rev. George Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary, Devon . 173 On the Christening of a Friend’s Child . 175 Translation of a Latin Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Nether-Stowey Church . 177 This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison . 178 The Foster-mother’s Tale A dramatic fragment . 180 - iii - The Dungeon . 182 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts . 183 Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers . 201 II To Simplicity . 201 III On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country . 201 Parliamentary Oscillators . 203 Christabel . 205 Part 1 . 205 THE CONCLUSION TO PART I . 211 PART II . 213 THE CONCLUSION TO PART II . 220 Lines to W. L. while he sang a Song to Purcell’s Music . 222 Fire, Famine, and Slaughter A War Eclogue . 223 Frost at Midnight . 225 France: An Ode . 227 The Old Man of the Alps . 230 To a Young Lady . 234 Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt . 235 Fears in Solitude Written in April 1798, during the alarm of an invasion . 237 The Nightingale. A Conversation Poem, April, 1798 . 243 The Three Graves. A fragment of a sexton’s tale . 246 PART I . 246 PART II . 247 PART III . 252 PART IV . 256 The Wanderings of Cain Canto 2 . 261 To — . 264 The Ballad of the Dark Ladié A Fragment . 265 Kubla Khan Or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment . 267 Recantation: Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox . 270 Hexameters . 274 Translation of a Passage in Ottfried’s Metrical Paraphrase of the Gospel . 276 Catullian Hendecasyllables . 277 The Homeric Hexameter described and exemplified . 278 The Ovidian Elegiac Metre described and exemplified . 279 On a Cataract. From a cavern near the summit of a mountain precipice . 280 Strophe . 280 Antistrophe . 280 Tell’s Birth-Place. Imitated from Stolberg . 281 The Visit of the Gods. Imitated from Schiller . 282 From the German . 283 Water Ballad. ..