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

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S. T. COLERIDGE. (From the etching by D. Mac list in F.aser's Mag., sine.) THE POETICAL WORKS OF Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited By WILLIAM B. SCOTT WITH AN INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, Limited broadway, ludgate hill MANCHESTER AND NEW YORK ROUTLEDGE'S POPULAR POETS. SHAKSPERE. MILTON. BURNS. BYRON. SCOTT. WORDSWORTH. SHELLEY. MOORE. MRS. HEMANS. HOOD. LONGFELLOW. A THOUSAND AND ONE GEMS OF ENGLISH POETRY. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. BAILEY'S FESTUS. SCHILLER'S PLAYS AND POEMS. WHITTIER. BRYANT. WILLIS. POPE'S HOMER. LONGFELLOW'S DANTE. LOWELL. HOLMES. CONTENTS. Page The Rime of the Ancient Mariner i Christabel 18 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 5° The Rose .... 51 To a Young Ass 51 The Sigh 52 Domestic Peace . . 53 Lines Written at the King's-Arms, Ross 53 Lin.es 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 Vizir 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. Page 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 Mercy! how my very Heart has bled" . 60 — XI. "Thou bleedest, my poor Heart! and thy Distress" 60 — XII. "To the Author of the Robbers" 61 Epitaph on an Infant 61 Lines in the manner of Spenser 61 Imitated from Ossian 62 The Complaint of Ninath<5ma 63 To an Infant .... 6\ 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 88 France, an Ode 92 Fears in Solitude 94 Fire, Famine, and Slaughter 99 Recantation 108 IL— Love Poems. Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie no Lewti, or the Circassian Love-Chaunt in The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution n-^ The Night-Scene, a Dramatic Fragment 117 To an Unfortunate Woman no To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre 120 Lines composed in a Concert-Room I2I The Keepsake I22 To a Young Lady on her Recovery from a Fever . . , . 123 To a Ladv, with Falconer's "Shipwreck" 123 Home-Sick : written in Germany 124 Something Childish, but very Natural . . . . c . Contents. V Page Answer to a Child's Question - . 125 The Visionary Hope 125 The Happy Husdand 12$ On Re-visiting the Sea-Shore ........ 127 Recollections of Love 127 The Composition of a Kiss 128 III.— Meditative Poems, in Blank Verse.