The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited, with an introductory memoir, by William B. Scott

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THE POETICAL WORKS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR By WILLIAM B. SCOTT LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL NEW YORK : 416 RROOME STREET CONTENTS. Page The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - i Christabel iS Kubla Khan ; or, a Vision in a dream 33 The Pains of Sleep 35 Love 36 JUVENILE POEMS. Genevieve 39 Monody on the Death of Chatterton 39 Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon 42 Time, Real and Imaginary 43 Songs of the Pixies 43 The Raven 46 Absence, a Farewell Ode 47 Written in Early Youth 4S The Kiss 50 The Rose 51 To a Young Ass S1 The Sigh ■ . . 52 Domestic Peace 53 Lines Written at th^e King's-Arms, Ross 53 Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village 53 Lines on a Friend 54 Lines composed while climbing Brockley Coomb 55 To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution 56 Sonnet I. " My Heart has thanked thee, Bowles '* . . ■ ■ 57 — II.

"As late I lay in Slumber's Shadowy Vale" . . 57 — III. "Though roused by that dark Vizik Riot rude" . . 58 — IV. "When British Freedom for an happier Land". . . 58 — V. " It was some Spirit, Sheridan!" 59 — VI. "O what a loud and fearful Shriek was there" . Contents. Vase Sonnet VII. "As when far-off the warbled Strains are heard " 59 — VIII. "Thou gentle look" 59 — IX. "Pale Roamer through the Night !" .... 60 X. "Sweet Mercv ! how my very Heart has bled" . 60 — XI. "Thou bleedest, my poor Heart ! and thy Distress " £0 XII. "To the Author of the Robbers" 6l Epitaph on an Infant ** Lines in the manner of Spenser 6' Imitated from Ossian °2 The Complaint of Ninath<5ma 63 To an Infant 6I Imitated from the Welsh 64 Lines in Answer to a Letter from Bristol 64 Lines to a Friend in Answer to a melancholy Letter . . . 67 Religious Musings 67 The Destiny of Nations, a Vision 77 SIBYLLINE LEAVES.

I.— Poems occasioned by Political Events or Feelings connected with them. Ode to the Departing Year 8S France, an Ode 92 Fears in Solitude 94 Fire, Famine, and Slaughter 99 Recantation 10S II.— Love Poems. Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie 110 Lewti, or the Circassian Love-Chaunt 111 The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution 113 The Night-Scene, a Dramatic Fragment 117- To an Unfortunate Woman 119 To AN Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre 120 Lines composed in a Concert-Room I2I The Keepsake 122 To a Young Lady on her Recovery from a Fever . . . . 12j To a Lady, with Falconer's "Shipwreck" u3 Home-Sick: written in Germany I:+ Sokethinc Childish, but very Natural ...... Contents. V Page Answer to a Child's Question 125 The Visionary Hope 12S The Happy Husband «6 On Re-visiting the Sea-Shore 127 Recollections of Love 127 The Composition of a Kiss I2S III.— Meditative Poems, in Blank Verse.