The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

THE

PO E M S

OP

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ;

WITH AN

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND

WRITINGS.

NEW YORK:

C. S. FRANCIS & CO., 252 BROADWAY.

BOSTON:
J. H. FRANCIS, 128 WASHINGTON STREET.

18 +8.

19474,848,5

HARVARD COLLEGE LIARY

FROM THE LICTARY OF
GAMALIEL BRADFORD VI

MAY 24, 1942

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1818,

BY C. S. FRANCIS & CO.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Cirri for the Southern District

of New York.

Printed by
MUNROE AND FRANCIS,

Boston.

CONTENTS.

page

Introductory Essay

ix

: : :

Preface

:

JUVENILE POEMS.

Genevieve

13

Sonnet To the Autumnal Moon

13

Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital

14

Time, Real and Imaginary

15

Monody on the death of Chatterton

Absence. A Farewell Ode

Sonnet.

On the same

To the Muse

With Fielding's Amelia

29

On hearing that his only Sister's death was inevitable 30

On seeing a Youth welcomed by a Sister -

30

Pain

31

Lines on an Autumnal Evening

Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross

Epigram

43

Lines to a beautiful Spring in a Village

43

Lines on a Friend who died of a Frenzy Fever

45

To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution 46

Sonnet I." My heart has thanked thee, Bowles !"

48

II. "Aš late I lay in slumber's shadowy vale"

49

III. “Though roused by that dark Vizier Riot rude” 50

IV. “When British Freedom for a happier land" 50

V. “It was some Spirit, Sheridan!"

50

VI. “O what a loud and fearful shriek"

VII. “As when far off”

52

VIII. “Thou gentle look"

52

IX. “Pale Roamer through the ht!"

53

X. “Sweet Mercy !"

53

XI. "Thou bleedest, my poor Heart!"

54

XII. To the Author of the “Robbers”

54

Lines composed while climbing Brockley Coomb

55

42

51

.

Lines in the manner of Spencer

Imitated from Ossian

The Complaint of Ninathoma

Casimir au Lyram

Imitated from the Welsh

Darwiniana

To an Infant.

On the Christening of a Friend's Child

Lines written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater

Lines to a friend, in answer to a Melancholy Letter

Religious Musings

The Destiny of Nations, a Vision

SIBYLLINE LEAVES.

Ode to the Departing Year

France : an Ode

Fears in Solitude

Fire, Famine, and Slaughter

Love

Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie

The Ballad of the Dark Ladie. A Fragment

Lewti, or the Circasssian Love-chaunt

The Picture; or the Lover's Resolution

The Night Scene. A Dramatic Fragment •

To an Unfortunate Woman -

To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre

Lines composed in a Concert Room

The Keepsake

To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck

To a Young Lady on her Recovery from a Fever

Something Childish, but very Natural

Home-sick

Answer to a Child's Question

A Child's Evening Prayer

The Visionary Hope

The Happy Husband

Recollections of Love

On Revisiting the Sea-shore

The Exchange

Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni

Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode

On observing a Blossom in February

The Eolian Harp

Reflections on having left a place of Retirement

To the Rev. George Coleridge

Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath

A Tombless Epitaph

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison

To a Friend

To William Wordsworth

The Nightingale. A Conversation Poem

Frost at Midnight.

The Three Graves'

Dejection. An Ode

Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

Ode to Tranquillity

To a Young Friend

Lines to W. L.

Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune

Sonnet. To the River Otter

On the Birth of a Son -

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