Poems,

by

S. T. Coleridge.

Felix curarum, cui non Heliconia cordi
Serta, nec imbelles Parnassi e vertice laurus!
Sed viget ingenium, et magnos accinctus in usus
Fert animus quascunque vices.- -Nos tristia vitæ.
Solamur cantu.

STAT. SILV. Lib. iv. 4.

Dedication,

vii

96

Preface to the First Edition,xiii Composed at Clevedon,

Preface to the Second Edit. xvii.

Ode to the New Year,
Monody on Chatterton

I

17

On leaving a Place of Residence,

100

On an unfortunate Woman, 105
On observing a Blossom,

The Hour when we shall

Songs of the Pixies,

107

DEDICATION.

To the Reverend GEORGE COLERIDGE,

OF

OTTERY ST. MARY,

DEVON.

Notus in fratres animi paterni.

Hor. Carm. Lib. II. 2.

A blessed Lot hath he, who having past

His youth and early manhood in the stir
And turmoil of the world, retreats at length,
With cares that move, not agitate the heart,
To the same Dwelling where his Father dwelt;
And haply views his tottering little ones

Embrace those aged knees and climb that lap,
On which first kneeling his own Infancy

Lisp'd its brief prayer. Such, O my earliest Friend!