DEDICATION OF KEBLE'S LECTURES ON POETRY : “PRÆLECTIONES ACADEMICÆ, OXONII HABITÆ,

SONNET

BY THE LATE HARTLEY COLERIDGE:

TO

WORDS WORTH.

THERE have been poets that in verse display
The elemental forms of human passions :
Poets have been, to whom the fickle fashions
And all the wilful humours of the day
Have furnished matter for a polished lay:
And many are the smooth elaborate tribe
Who, emulous of thee, the shape describe,
And fain would every shifting hue pourtray
Of restless Nature. But, thou mighty Seer!
'Tis thine to celebrate the thoughts that make
The life of souls, the truths for whose sweet sake
We to ourselves and to our God are dear.
Of Nature's inner shrine thou art the priest,
Where most she works when we perceive her least.

SONNET

BY SIR THOMAS NOON TALFOURD:

ON THE RECEPTION OF THE POET WORDSWORTH AT OXFORD.

O NEVER did a mighty truth prevail
With such felicities of place and time,
As in those shouts sent forth with joy sublime
From the full heart of England's Youth to hail
Her once neglected Bard within the pale
Of Learning's fairest Citadel! That voice,
In which the Future thunders, bids rejoice
Some who through wintry fortunes did not fail
To bless with love as deep as life, the name
Thus welcomed; — who, in happy silence share
The triumph; while their fondest musings claim
Unhoped-for echoes in the joyous air
That to their long-loved Poet's spirit bear
A nation's promise of undying fame.

If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven,
Then, to the measure of that heaven-born light,
Shine, Poet, in thy place, and be content:-
The stars pre-eminent in magnitude,
And they that from the zenith dart their beams,
(Visible though they be to half the earth,
Though half a sphere be conscious of their brightness)
Are yet of no diviner origin,
No purer essence, than the one that burns,
Like an untended watch-fire, on the ridge
Of some dark mountain; or than those which seem
Humbly to hang, like twinkling winter lamps,
Among the branches of the leafless trees;
All are the undying offspring of one Sire:
Then, to the measure of the light vouchsafed,
Shine, Poet ! in thy place, and be content.

CONTENTS.

POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH.

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Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed

in anticipation of leaving School, 1786... Page 25

An Evening Walk, 1787-8-9.......

25

Descriptive Sketches taken during a Pedestrian

Tour

among the Alps, 1791-2.

29

Written in very early Youth.

37

Lines written while sailing in a Boat at Evening,

1789......

37

Remembrance of Collins, composed upon the

Thames near Richmond, 1789.....

37

Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, 1795 ... 37

Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury

Plain, 1793-4

38

Tue BORDERERS. A Tragedy, 1795-6....

45

Notes to Poems Written in Youth

71

73

Stanzas written in my Pocket-copy of Thomson's

Castle of Indolence, 1802....

95

Louisa. After accompanying her on a Mountain

Excursion, 1805..

96

Strange fits of passion have I known, 1799. 96

She dwelt among the untrodden ways, 1799 96

I travelled among unknown men, 1799

96

Ere with cold beads of midnight dew, 1826... 96

To -, 1824 ...

97

'Tis said, that some have died for love, 1800..... 97

The Forsaken

97

A Complaint, 1806

98

To-, 1824 ..

98

Yes! thou art fair, yet be not moved

98

How rich that forehead's calm expanse, 1824

98

What heavenly smiles ! O Lady mine

98

To, 1824 .

98

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Eve of a

New Year. 1817...

99

The Widow on Windermere Side

99

The Last of the Flock, 1798 ...

100

Repentance. A Pastoral Ballad, 1804

101

The A Miction of Margaret

1804

101

The Cotiager to her Infant, 1805.....

102

The Sailor's Mother, 1800.

102

The Childless Father, 1800

102

The Emigrant Moiher 1802

103

Vaudracour and Julia, 1805 .

104

The Armenian Lady's Love, 1830.

107

The Somnambulist, 1833

107

The Idiot Boy, 1798....

110

Michael. A Pastoral Poem, 1800

115

The Russian Fugitive, 1830. ....

119

Grace Darling, 1842

The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman,
1798.....

• 124

Maternal Grief..

125

Loving and Liking. Irregular Verses, addressed

to a Child, 1832....

126

The Redbreast. Suggested in a Westmoreland

Cottage, 1834..

Her Eyes are Wild, 1798 .

Notes to Poems Founded on the Affections

129

POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF

CHILDHOOD.

My heart leaps up when I behold, 1804

To a Butterfly, 1801..

73

Foresight, 1802.....

73

Characteristics of a Child three Years old, 1811. 73

Address to a Child, during a Boisterous Winter

Evening, 1806.....

The Mother's Return, 1807.

Alice Fell; or, Poverty, 1801

Luey Gray; or, Solitude, 1799

We are Seven, 1798..

Anecdote for Fathers, 1798

77

Rural Architecture, 1801

77

The Pet-lamb. A Pastoral, 1800

78

The Idie Shepherd-boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll

Force. A Pastoral, 1800 ..

79

To H. C. Six Years old, 1802.

Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and

strengthening the imagination in Boyhood and

early Youth

The longest Day. Addressed to

1817....

The Sparrow's Nest, 1801

The Norman Boy..

The Poet's Dream. Sequel to the Norman Boy. 82

The Westmoreland Girl ........

Nutes to Poems Referring to the Period of Child-

hood .....

74

74

75

75

76

123

80

80

81

82

82

127

127

84

POEMS ON THE NAMING OF PLACES.

85