List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This article lists the complete poetic bibliography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), which includes fragments not published within his lifetime, epigrams, and titles such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan.[1]

Poetry

Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Title Subtitle First line Composition Date Publication Date Class
Easter Holidays. "Hail! festal Easter that dost bring" 1787 1912
Dura Navis. "To tempt the dangerous deep, too venturous youth," 1787 1893
Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitâ. [In Christ's Hospital Book] "What pleasures shall he ever find?" 1787 1893
Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon "Mild Splendour of the various-vested Night!" 1788 1796
Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital. "Seraphs! around th' Eternal's seat who throng" 1789 1834
Julia. [In Christ's Hospital Book] "Julia was blest with beauty, wit, and grace:" 1789 1834
Quae Nocent Docent. O! mihi praeteritos referat si Jupiter annos! "Oh! might my ill-past hours return again!" 1789 1893
The Nose. "Ye souls unus'd to lofty verse" 1789 1834[Note 1]
To the Muse. "Tho' no bold flights to thee belong;" 1789 1834
Destruction of the Bastile. "Heard'st thou yon universal cry," 1789? 1834
Life. "As late I journey'd o'er the extensive plain" 1789 1834
Progress of Vice. [Nemo repente turpissimus] "Deep in the gulph of Vice and Woe" 1790 1834
Monody on the Death of Chatterton. [First Version, In Christ's Hospital Book-1790 ] "Now prompts the Muse poetic lays," 1790 1898
An Invocation. "Sweet Muse! companion of my every hour!" 1790 1893
Anna and Harland. "Within these wilds was Anna wont to rove" 1790? 1794, October 25
To the Evening Star. "O meek attendant of Sol's setting blaze," 1790? 1880
Pain. Composed in Sickness "Once could the Morn's first beams, the healthful breeze," 1790? 1834
On a Lady Weeping. Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius "Lovely gems of radiance meek" 1790? 1893
Monody on a Tea-kettle. "O Muse who sangest late another's pain," 1790 1834
Genevieve. "Maid of my Love, sweet Genevieve!" 1789-90? 1794, November 1
On receiving an Account that his Only Sister's Death was Inevitable. "The tear which mourn'd a brother's fate scarce dry—" 1791 1834
On seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister "I too a sister had! too cruel Death!" 1791 1834
A Mathematical Problem. "This is now--this was erst," 1791, March 31 1834
Honour. O, curas hominum! O, quantum est in rebus inane! "The fervid Sun had more than halv'd the day," 1791 1834
On Imitation. "All are not born to soar—and ah! how few" 1791 1834
Inside the Coach. "'Tis hard on Bagshot Heath to try" 1791 1834
Devonshire Roads. "The indignant Bard composed this furious ode," 1791 1834
Music. "Hence, soul-dissolving Harmony" 1791 1834
Sonnet: On quitting School for College. On Quitting School for College "Farewell parental scenes! a sad farewell!" 1791 1834
Absence. A Farewell Ode on quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge. A Farewell Ode on quiting school for Jesus College, Cambridge. "Where graced with many a classic spoil" 1791 1794, October 11
Happiness. "On wide or narrow scale shall Man" 1791 1834
A Wish. Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792. Written in Jesus Wood, February 10, 1792 "Lo! through the dusky silence of the groves," 1792 1893
An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon. "As late, in wreaths, gay flowers I bound," 1792 1893
To Disappointment. "Hence! thou fiend of gloomy sway," 1792 1895
A Fragment found in a Lecture-room. "Where deep in mud Cam rolls his slumbrous stream," 1792 1895
Ode. ('Ye Gales,' &c.) "Ye Gales, that of the Lark's repose" 1792 1796, Mach 25
A Lover's Complaint to his Mistress. Who Deserted him in quest of a more weatlhy husband in the East Indies "The dubious light sad glimmers o'er the sky:" 1792 1893
With Fielding's 'Amelia.' "Virtues and Woes alike too great for man" 1792? 1834
Written after a Walk before Supper. "Tho' much averse, dear Jack, to flicker," 1792 1796
Imitated from Ossian. "The stream with languid murmur creeps," 1793 1796
The Complaint of Ninathóma. "How long will ye round me be swelling," 1793 1796
Songs of the Pixies.[Note 2] "Whom the untaught Shepherds call" 1793 1796
The Rose. "As late each flower that sweetest blows" 1793 1796
Kisses. "Cupid, if storying Legends tell aright," 1793 1796
The Gentle Look. "Thou gentle Look, that didst my soul beguile," 1793? 1896
Sonnet: To the River Otter "Dear native Brook! wild Streamlet of the West!" 1793? 1796[Note 3]
An Effusion at Evening. Written in August 1792. (First Draft.) "Imagination, Mistress of my Love!" 1793 1834
Lines: On an Autumnal Evening "O thou wild Fancy, check thy wing! No more" 1792, August 1796
To Fortune On buying a Ticket in the Irish Lottery "Promptress of unnumber'd sighs," 1793[Note 4] 1793, November 7
Perspiration. A Travelling Eclogue. "The dust flies smothering, as on clatt'ring wheel" 1794 1895
[Ave, atque Vale!] ('Vivit sed mihi,' &c.) "Vivit sed mihi non vivit—nova forte marita," 1794 1847
On Bala Hill. "With many a weary step at length I gain" 1794 1893
Lines: Written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the House of the 'Man of Ross'. Written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the house of the "Man Of Ross" "Richer than Miser o'er his countless hoards," 1794 1794, September 27
Imitated from the Welsh. "If while my passion I impart," 1794 1796
Lines: To a Beautiful Spring in a Village. "Once more! sweet Stream! with slow foot wandering near," 1794 1796
Imitations: Ad Lyram. (Casimir, Book II, Ode 3.) "The solemn-breathing air is ended—" 1794 1796, March 3
To Lesbia. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus. - Catullus "My Lesbia, let us love and live," 1794? 1798, April 11
The Death of the Starling. Lugete, O Veneres, Cupidinesque - Catullus "Pity! mourn in plaintive tone" 1794? 1836
Moriens Superstiti.[Note 5] "The hour-bell sounds, and I must go;" 1794 1798, May 10
Morienti Superstes.[Note 6] Yet art thou happier far than she 1794? 1796
The Sigh. "When Youth his faery reign began" 1794 1796
The Kiss. "One kiss, dear Maid! I said and sigh'd—" 1794? 1796
To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French Revolution. "Much on my early youth I love to dwell," 1794, September 1796, March 1
Translation of Wrangham's 'Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam e Granta Exituram' [Kal. Oct. MDCCXC] "Maid of unboastful charms! whom white-robed Truth" 1794 1795
To Miss Brunton with the preceding Translation "That darling of the Tragic Muse," 1794 1795
Epitaph on an Infant. ('Ere Sin could blight.') "Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade," 1794 1794, September 23
Pantisocracy. "No more my visionary soul shall dwell" 1794 1849
On the Prospect of establishing a Pantisocracy in America "Whilst pale Anxiety, corrosive Care," 1795 1826, March 6
Elegy: Imitated from one of Akenside's Blank-verse Inscriptions. [(No.) III.] "Near the lone pile with ivy overspread," 1794? 1794, September 23
[xiii]The Faded Flower "Ungrateful he, who pluck'd thee from thy stalk," 1794 1836, August
The Outcast "Pale Roamer through the night! thou poor Forlorn!" 1794? 1796
Domestic Peace. (From 'The Fall of Robespierre,' Act I, l. 210.) "Tell me, on what holy ground" 1794 1795
On a Discovery made too late. "Thou bleedest, my poor Heart! and thy distress" 1794 1796
To the Author of 'The Robbers' "Schiller! that hour I would have wish'd to die," 1794? 1796
Melancholy. A Fragment. "Stretch'd on a moulder'd Abbey's broadest wall," 1794? 1797, December 12
To a Young Ass: Its Mother being tethered near it. "Poor little Foal of an oppresséd race!" 1794 1794, December 30
Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever induced by Calumnious Reports. "Edmund! thy grave with aching eye I scan," 1794 1796
To a Friend [Charles Lamb] together with an Unfinished Poem. "Thus far my scanty brain hath built the rhyme" 1794 1796
I. To the Honourable Mr. Erskine "When British Freedom for an happier land" 1794 1794, December 1 Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:—
II. Burke. "As late I lay in Slumber's shadowy vale," 1794 1794, December 9
III. Priestley. "Though rous'd by that dark Vizir Riot rude" 1794 1794, December 11
IV. La Fayette "As when far off the warbled strains are heard" 1794 1794, December 15
V. Koskiusko. "O what a loud and fearful shriek was there," 1794 1794, December 16
VI. Pitt[Note 7] "Not always should the Tear's ambrosial dew" 1794 1794, December 23
VII. To the Rev. W. L. Bowles. "My heart has thank'd thee, Bowles! for those soft strains," 1794 1794, December 26
VII. To the Rev. W. L. Bowles. "My heart has thank'd thee, Bowles! for those soft strains" 1794 1794, December 26
VIII. Mrs. Siddons "As when a child on some long Winter's night" 1794 1794, December 29
IX. To William Godwin, Author of 'Political Justice.' "O form'd t' illume a sunless world forlorn," 1795? 1795, January 10
X. To Robert Southey of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of the 'Retrospect' and other Poems. "Southey! thy melodies steal o'er mine ear" 1795 1795, January 14
XI. To Richard Brinsley Sheridan,[Note 8] Esq. "It was some Spirit, Sheridan! that breath'd" 1795 1795, January 29
XII. To Lord Stanhope on reading his Late Protest in the House of Lords. "Stanhope! I hail, with ardent Hymn, thy name!" 1795 1795, January 31
To Earl Stanhope "Not, Stanhope! with the Patriot's doubtful name" 1795 1796
Lines: To a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter "Away, those cloudy looks, that labouring sigh," 1795? 1796
To an Infant. "Ah! cease thy tears and sobs, my little Life!" 1795 1796
To the Rev. W. J. Hort while teaching a Young Lady some Song-tunes on his Flute "Hush! ye clamorous Cares! be mute!" 1795 1796
Pity. "Sweet Mercy! how my very heart has bled" 1795? 1796
To the Nightingale "Sister of love-lorn Poets, Philomel!" 1795 1796
Lines: Composed while climbing the Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May 1795 "With many a pause and oft reverted eye" 1795, May 1796
Lines in the Manner of Spenser "O Peace, that on a lilied bank dost love" 1795 1796
The Hour when we shall meet again. (Composed during Illness and in Absence.) "Dim Hour! that sleep'st on pillowing clouds afar," 1795? 1796, March 17
Lines written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, September 1795, in Answer to a Letter from Bristol "Nor travels my meandering eye" 1795 1796
The Eolian Harp. "My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined" 1795 1796
To the Author of Poems [Joseph Cottle] published anonymously at Bristol in September 1795 "Unboastful Bard! whose verse concise yet clear" 1795 1795, September
The Silver Thimble. The Production of a Young Lady, addressed [xiv]to the Author of the Poems alluded to in the preceding Epistle. "As oft mine eye with careless glance" 1795 1796
Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement Sermoni propriora - Hor. "Low was our pretty Cot: our tallest Rose" 1795 1796, October
Religious Musings. A Desultory poem, written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 "This is the time, when most divine to hear," 1794-6 1796[Note 9]
Monody on the Death of Chatterton. "O what a wonder seems the fear of death," 1790-1834 1794
The Destiny of Nations. A Vision "Auspicious Reverence! Hush all meaner song," 1796 1817
Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an Unpublished Poem "The early Year's fast-flying vapours stray" 1796 1796, March 25
On observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796 "Sweet flower! that peeping from thy russet stem" 1796 1796, April 11
To a Primrose. The First seen in the Season Nitens et roboris expers - Turget et insolida est: et spe delectat. - Ovid, Metam "Thy smiles I note, sweet early Flower," 1796 1796, April 27
Verses: Addressed to J. Horne Tooke and the Company who met on June 28, 1796, to celebrate his Poll at the Westminster Election "Britons! when last ye met, with distant streak" 1796 1893
On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life [Prince and Princess of Wales]. "I sigh, fair injur'd stranger! for thy fate;" 1796 1796, September
Sonnet: On receiving a Letter informing me of the Birth of a Son. "When they did greet me father, sudden awe" 1796, September 20 1847
Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward; the Author having received Intelligence of the Birth of a Son, Sept. 20, 1796. "Oft o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll" 1796 1797
Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me. "Charles! my slow heart was only sad, when first" 1796 1797
Sonnet: [To Charles Lloyd] "The piteous sobs that choke the Virgin's breath" 1796 1796
To a Young Friend on his proposing to domesticate with the Author. Composed in 1796 "A mount, not wearisome and bare and steep," 1796 1797
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune [C. Lloyd] Who Abandoned himself to an indolent and causeless Melancholy "Hence that fantastic wantonness of woe," 1796 1796, December 16
To a Friend [Charles Lamb] who had declared his intention of writing no more Poetry "Dear Charles! whilst yet thou wert a babe, I ween" 1796 1800
Ode to the Departing Year "Spirit who sweepest the wild Harp of Time!" 1796 1796, December 31
The Raven. [MS. S. T. C.] A Christmas Tale, Told by a School-boy to his little brothers and sisters. "Underneath an old oak tree" 1797 1798, March 10
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre "Maiden, that with sullen brow" 1797 1797, December 7
To an Unfortunate Woman whom the Author had known in the days of her Innocence "Myrtle-leaf that, ill besped," 1797 1797
To the Rev. George Coleridge Of Ottery St. Mary, Devon. With Some Poems. Notus in fratres animi paterni. - Hor "A blesséd lot hath he, who having passed" 1797 1797
On the Christening of a Friend's Child "This day among the faithful plac'd" 1797 1797
Translation of a Latin Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Nether-Stowey Church "Depart in joy from this world's noise and strife" 1797 1836
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison [Addressed to Lamb Charles, Of the India House, London] "Well, they are gone, and here must I remain," 1797 1800
The Foster-mother's Tale "I never saw the man whom you describe" 1797 1798 Lyrical Ballads
The Dungeon "And this place our forefathers made for man!" 1797 1798 Lyrical Ballads
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner "It is an Ancient Mariner" 1797-98 1798 Lyrical Ballads
Sonnets attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers "Pensive at eve on the hard world I mus'd," 1797 1797, November
Parliamentary Oscillators "Almost awake? Why, what is this, and whence," 1798 1798, January 6
Christabel. "The first part of the following poem was written in the" 1801 1816
Lines to W. L. while he sang a Song to Purcell's Music "While my young cheek retains its healthful hues," 1797 1800
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter A War Ecologue "Sisters! sisters! who sent you here" 1798 1798, January 8
Frost at Midnight "The Frost performs its secret ministry," 1798, February 1798
France: An Ode. "Ye Clouds! that far above me float and pause," 1798, February 1798, April 18
The Old Man of the Alps "Stranger! whose eyes a look of pity shew," 1798, March 8 1798, March 8
[xv]To a Young Lady [Miss Lavinia Poole] on her Recovery from a Fever "Why need I say, Louisa dear!" 1798, March 31 1799, December 9
Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt. "At midnight by the stream I roved," 1798 1798, April 18
Fears in Solitude. Written in April 18, during an alarm of invasion "A green and silent spot, amid the hills," 1798, April 20 1798
The Nightingale. A Conversation Poem "No cloud, no relique of the sunken day" 1798, April 1798 Lyrical Ballads
The Three Graves. "Beneath this thorn when I was young," 1797-1809 1893[Note 10]
The Wanderings of Cain. "Encinctured with a twine of leaves," 1798 1828
To ——[Note 11] "I mix in life, and labour to seem free," 1798? 1836
The Ballad of the Dark Ladié "Beneath yon birch with silver bark," 1798 1834
Kubla Khan Or, A vision in a dream. A Fragment. "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan" 1798 1816
Recantation: Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox "An Ox, long fed with musty hay," 1798 1798, July 30
Hexameters. ('William my teacher,' &c.) "William, my teacher, my friend! dear William and dear Dorothea!" 1799 1851
Translation of a Passage in Ottfried's Metrical Paraphrase of the Gospel "She gave with joy her virgin breast;" 1799? 1817
Catullian Hendecasyllables "Hear, my belovéd, an old Milesian story!—" 1799? 1834
The Homeric Hexameter described and exemplified "Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows," 1799? 1834
The Ovidian Elegiac Metre described and exemplified "In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column;" 1799? 1834
On a Cataract. From a cavern near the summit of a mountain precipice. "Unperishing youth!" 1799? 1834
Tell's Birth-Place Imitated from Stolberg "Mark this holy chapel well!" 1799? 1817
The Visit of the Gods Imitated from Schiller "Never, believe me," 1799? 1817
From the German. ('Know'st thou the land,' &c.) "Know'st thou the land where the pale citrons grow," 1799 1834
Water Ballad. From the French " 'Come hither, gently rowing," 1799 1831, October 29
On an Infant which died before Baptism. ('Be rather,' &c.) "'Be, rather than be called, a child of God,'" 1799, April 8 1834
Something Childish, but very Natural. Written in Germany. "If I had but two little wings" 1799, April 23 1800
Home-Sick. Written in Germany. "'Tis sweet to him who all the week" 1799, May 6 1800
Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode in the Hartz Forest. "I stood on Brocken's sovran height, and saw" 1799, May 17 1799, September 17
The British Stripling's War-Song. Imitated from Stolberg "Yes, noble old Warrior! this heart has beat high," 1799 1799, August 24
Names. [From Lessing.] "I ask'd my fair one happy day," 1799 1803
The Devil's Thoughts. "From his brimstone bed at break of day" 1799 1799, September 6
Lines composed in a Concert-room "Nor cold, nor stern, my soul! yet I detest" 1799 1799, September 24
Westphalian Song "When thou to my true-love com'st" 1799? 1802, September 27
Hexameters. Paraphrase of Psalm xlvi. "Gōd ĭs oŭr Strēngth ănd oŭr Rēfŭge: thērefŏre wīll wĕ nŏt trēmblĕ" 1799 1912
Hymn to the Earth. [Imitated from Stolberg's Hymne an die Erde.] Hexameters "Earth! thou mother of numberless children, the nurse and the mother," 1799 1834
Mahomet "Utter the song, O my soul! the flight and return of Mohammed," 1799? 1834
Love. "All thoughts, all passions, all delights," 1799 1799, December 21
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, on the Twenty-fourth Stanza in her 'Passage over Mount Gothard' "Splendour's fondly-fostered child!" 1799 1799, December 24
A Christmas Carol "The shepherds went their hasty way," 1799 1799, December 25
Talleyrand to Lord Grenville. A Metrical Epistle "My Lord! though your Lordship repel deviation" 1800 1800, January 10
Apologia pro Vita sua. ('The poet in his lone,' &c.) "The poet in his lone yet genial hour" 1800 1822
The Keepsake "The tedded hay, the first fruits of the soil," 1800? 1802, September 17
A Thought suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland. "On stern Blencartha's perilous height" 1800 1833
The Mad Monk "I heard a voice from Etna's side;" 1800 1800, October 13
[xvi]Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side half-way up a Steep Hill facing South "Thou who in youthful vigour rich, and light" 1800 1800, October 21
A Stranger Minstrel Written [To Mrs. Robinson], A few weeks before her death. "As late on Skiddaw's mount I lay supine," 1800, November 1801
Alcaeus to Sappho. "How sweet, when crimson colours dart" 1800 1800, November 24
The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone. "The Devil believes that the Lord will come," 1800 1800, December 4
The Snow-drop. "The Devil believes that the Lord will come," 1800 1893
On Revisiting the Sea-shore. After Long Absence, Under strong Medical Recommendation not to bathe. "God be with thee, gladsome Ocean!" 1801 1801, September 15
Ode to Tranquillity "Tranquillity! thou better name" 1801 1801, December 4
To Asra. "Are there two things, of all which men possess," 1801 1893
The Second Birth. "There are two births, the one when Light" 1801? 1893
Love's Sanctuary. "This yearning heart (Love! witness what I say)" 1801? 1893
Dejection: An Ode. "Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made" 1802, April 4 1802, October 4
The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution "Through weeds and thorns, and matted underwood" 1802 1802, September 6
To Matilda Betham from a Stranger "Matilda! I have heard a sweet tune played" 1802 1893[Note 12]
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni. "Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star" 1802 1802, September 11
The Good, Great Man "'How seldom, friend! a good great man inherits" 1802 1802, September 23
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath "This Sycamore, oft musical with bees,—" 1802 1802, September 24
An Ode to the Rain Composed Before Daylight, on the Morning Appointed for the Departure of a Very Worthy, but Not Very Pleasant Visitor, Whom It Was Feared the Rain Might Detain "I know it is dark; and though I have lain," 1802 1802, October 7
A Day-dream. ('My eyes make pictures,' &c.) "My eyes make pictures, when they are shut:" 1802 1828
Answer to a Child's Question "Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove," 1802 1802, October 16
The Day-dream. From an Emigrant to his Absent Wife "If thou wert here, these tears were tears of light!" 1801-02 1802, October 19
The Happy Husband. A Fragment "Oft, oft methinks, the while with thee," 1802? 1817 Sibylline Leaves
The Pains of Sleep. "Ere on my bed my limbs I lay," 1803 1816
The Exchange "We pledged our hearts, my love and I,—" 1804 1804, April 16
Ad Vilmum Axiologum. [To William Wordsworth.] "This be the meed, that thy song creates a thousand-fold echo!" 1805? 1893
An Exile. "Friend, Lover, Husband, Sister, Brother!" 1805 1893
Sonnet. [Translated from Marini.] "Lady, to Death we're doom'd, our crime the same!" 1805? 1893
Phantom "All look and likeness caught from earth," 1805 1805, February 8
A Sunset. "Upon the mountain's edge with light touch resting," 1805 1893
What is Life? "Resembles life what once was deem'd of light," 1805 1829
The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree A Lament "I seem to have an indistinct recollection of having read either in one" 1805 1828
Separation. "A sworded man whose trade is blood," 1805? 1834
The Rash Conjurer. "Strong spirit-bidding sounds!" 1805? or 1814? 1912[Note 13]
A Child's Evening Prayer. "Ere on my bed my limbs I lay," 1806 1852
Metrical Feet. Lesson for a Boy. "Trōchĕe trīps frŏm lōng tŏ shōrt;" 1806 1834
Farewell to Love "Farewell, sweet Love! yet blame you not my truth;" 1806 1806, September 27
To William Wordsworth. Composed on the night after his recitation of a poem on the growth of an individual mind. "Friend of the wise! and Teacher of the Good!" 1807, January 1817 Sibylline Leaves
An Angel Visitant. "Within these circling hollies woodbine-clad—" 1801? 1836
Recollections of Love. "How warm this woodland wild Recess!" 1807 1817 Sibylline Leaves
To Two Sisters. [Mary Morgan and Charlotte Brent] A Wanderer's Farwell "To know, to esteem, to love,—and then to part—" 1807 1807, December 10
Psyche. "The butterfly the ancient Grecians made" 1808 1817[Note 14]
A Tombless Epitaph "'Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane!" 1809? 1809, November 23
For a Market-clock. (Impromptu.) "What now, O Man! thou dost or mean'st to do" 1809 1836
The Madman and the Lethargist. An Example "Quoth Dick to me, as once at College" 1809 1912
The Visionary Hope "Sad lot, to have no Hope! Though lowly kneeling" 1810 1817 Sibylline Leaves
Epitaph on an Infant. ('Its balmy lips,' &c.) "Its balmy lips the infant blest" 1811 1811, March 20
The Virgin's Cradle-hymn Copied from a print of the virgin in a Roman Catholic village in Germany "Dormi, Jesu! Mater ridet" 1811 1801, December 26
To a Lady offended by a Sportive Observation that Women have no Souls "Nay, dearest Anna! why so grave?" 1811? 1812
Reason for Love's Blindness "I have heard of reasons manifold" 1811? 1828
The Suicide's Argument. "Ere the birth of my life, if I wished it or no," 1811 1828
Time, Real and Imaginary An Allegory "On the wide level of a mountain's head," 1812? 1817 Sibylline Leaves
An Invocation. From Remorse [Act III, Scene i, ll. 69-82] "Hear, sweet Spirit, hear the spell," 1812 1813
The Night-scene. " You loved the daughter of Don Manrique" 1813 1817 Sibylline Leaves
A Hymn "My Maker! of thy power the trace" 1814 1852
To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck "Ah! not by Cam or Isis, famous streams," 1814 1817 Sibylline Leaves
Human Life. On the Denial of Immortality "If dead, we cease to be; if total gloom" 1815? 1817 Sibylline Leaves
Song. From Zapolya (Act II, Sc. i, ll. 65–80.) "A Sunny shaft did I behold," 1815 1817
Hunting Song. From Zapolya (Act IV, Sc. ii, ll. 56-71) "Up, up! ye dames, and lasses gay!" 1815 1817
Faith, Hope, and Charity. From the Italian of Guarini "Let those whose low delights to Earth are given" 1815 1817[Note 15]
To Nature "It may indeed be phantasy, when I" 1820? 1836
Limbo. "The sole true Something—This! In Limbo's Den" 1817 1893
Ne Plus Ultra "Sole Positive of Night!" 1826? 1834
The Knight's Tomb "Where is the grave of Sir Arthur O'Kellyn?" 1817? 1834
On Donne's Poetry "With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots," 1818? 1836
Israel's Lament A Hebrew Dirge, chaunted in the Great Synagogue, St. James's Place, Aldgate, on the day of the Funeral of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte. By Hyman Hurwitz, Master of the Hebrew Academy, Highgate: with a Translation in English Verse, by S. T. Coleridge, Esq., 1817.' "Mourn, Israel! Sons of Israel, mourn!" 1817 1817
Fancy in Nubibus, or the Poet in the Clouds. "O! it is pleasant, with a heart at ease," 1817 1818, February 7
The Tears of a Grateful People "Oppress'd, confused, with grief and pain," 1820 1820
Youth and Age. "Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying," 1823-1832 1834
The Reproof and Reply Or, The Flower-Thief's Apology, for a robbery committed in Mr. and Mrs. ——'s garden, on Sunday morning, 25 May 1823, between the hours of eleven and twelve. ""Fie, Mr. Coleridge!—and can this be you?" 1823 1834
First Advent of Love. "O fair is Love's first hope to gentle mind!" 1824 1834
The Delinquent Travellers "Some are home-sick—some two or three," 1824 1912
Work without Hope. "All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—" 1825, February 21 1828
Sancti Dominici Pallium. A Dialogue between Poet and Friend. Found Written on the Blank Leaf at the Beginning of Butler's. 'book of the Church' (1825) "I note the moods and feelings men betray," 1825 or 1826 1827, May 21
Song. ('Though veiled,' &c.) "Though veiled in spires of myrtle-wreath," 1825 1828
A Character. "A bird, who for his other sins" 1825 1834
The Two Founts. Stanzas Addressed to a Lady on Her Recovery With Unblemished Looks, From a Severe Attack of Pain "'Twas my last waking thought, how it could be" 1826 1827
Constancy to an Ideal Object "Since all that beat about in Nature's range," 1826? 1817
The Pang more Sharp than All. An Allegory "He too has flitted from his secret nest," 1825-6? 1834
Duty surviving Self-love. The only sure Friend of declining Life. "Unchanged within, to see all changed without," 1826 1828
Homeless "'O! Christmas Day, Oh! happy day!" 1826 1827, January
Lines suggested by the last Words of Berengarius; ob. Anno Dom. 1088 "No more 'twixt conscience staggering and the Pope" 1826? 1827
Epitaphium Testamentarium "Quae linquam, aut nihil, aut nihili, aut vix sunt mea. Sordes" 1826 1827
Ἔρως ἀεὶ λάληθρος ἑταῖρος "In many ways does the full heart reveal" 1826 1827
The Improvisatore; or, 'John Anderson, My Jo, John' "Yes, yes! that boon, life's richest treat" 1827 1828
To Mary Pridham [afterwards Mrs. Derwent Coleridge]. "Dear tho' unseen! tho' I have left behind" 1827 1827, October 16
Alice du Clos; or, The Forked Tongue. A Ballad. One word with two meanings is the traitor's shield and shaft: and a slit tongue be his blazon!'—Caucasian Proverb. "'The Sun is not yet risen," 1828? 1834
Love's Burial-place "Lady. If Love be dead—" 1828 1828
Lines: To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review "What though the chilly wide-mouth'd quacking chorus" 1825? 1834
Cologne "In Köhln, a town of monks and bones" 1828 1834
On my Joyful Departure from the same City "As I am a Rhymer" 1828 1834
The Garden of Boccaccio "Or late, in one of those most weary hours," 1828 1829
Love, Hope, and Patience in Education. "O'er wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule," 1829 1830
To Miss A. T. "Verse, pictures, music, thoughts both grave and gay," 1829 1850
Lines written in Commonplace Book of Miss Barbour, Daughter of the Minister of the U. S. A. to England "Child of my muse! in Barbour's gentle hand" 1829, August 1829, December 19
Song, ex improviso, on hearing a Song in praise of a Lady's Beauty "'Tis not the lily-brow I prize," 1830 1830
Love and Friendship Opposite "Her attachment may differ from yours in degree," 1830? 1834
Not at Home "That Jealousy may rule a mind" 1830? 1834
Phantom or Fact. A Dialogue in Verse "A lovely form there sate beside my bed," 1830? 1834
Desire. "Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;" 1830? 1834
Charity in Thought "To praise men as good, and to take them for such," 1830? 1834
Humility the Mother of Charity "Frail creatures are we all! To be the best," 1830? 1834
[Coeli Enarrant.] "The stars that wont to start, as on a chace," 1830? 1912
Reason ['Finally, what is Reason? You have often asked me: and this is my answer':—] "Whene'er the mist, that stands 'twixt God and thee," 1830 1830[Note 16]
Self-knowledge —E coelo descendit γνῶθι σεαυτόν.—Juvenal, xi. 27. "Γνῶθι σεαυτόν!—and is this the prime" 1832 1834
Forbearance "Gently I took that which ungently came" 1832? 1834
Love's Apparition and Evanishment An Allegoric Romance "Like a lone Arab, old and blind," 1833 1834
To the Young Artist Kayser of Kaserwerth "Kayser! to whom, as to a second self," 1833 1834
My Baptismal Birth-day "God's child in Christ adopted,—Christ my all,—" 1833 1834
Epitaph. "Stop, Christian passer-by!—Stop, child of God," 1833, November 9 1834
An Apology for Spencers "Said William to Edmund I can't guess the reason" 1796, March 21 1796, March 25 Epigram
On a Late Marriage between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître "Tho' Miss ——'s match is a subject of mirth," Unknown 1796, April 2 Epigram
On an Amorous Doctor "From Rufa's eye sly Cupid shot his dart" Unknown 1796, April 2 Epigram
Of smart pretty Fellows,' &c. "Of smart pretty Fellows in Bristol are numbers, some" Unknown 1912 Epigram
On Deputy —— "By many a booby's vengeance bit" Unknown 1798, January 2 Epigram
To be ruled like a Frenchman,' &c. "To be ruled like a Frenchman the Briton is loth," 1798 1912 Epigram
On Mr. Ross, usually Cognominated Nosy "I fancy whenever I spy Nosy" 1799 1912 Epigram
Bob now resolves,' &c. "Bob now resolves on marriage schemes to trample," Unknown 1912 Epigram
Say what you will, Ingenious Youth' "Say what you will, Ingenious Youth!" 1799 1893 Epigram
If the guilt of all lying,' &c. "If the guilt of all lying consists in deceit," 1800 1800 Epigram
On an Insignificant "No doleful faces here, no sighing—" 1799 1893[Note 17] Epigram
There comes from old Avaro's grave' "There comes from old Avaro's grave" 1799 1829 Epigram
On a Slanderer "From yonder tomb of recent date," 1799 1893 Epigram
Lines in a German Student's Album "We both attended the same College," Unknown 1856 Epigram
[Hippona] "Hippona lets no silly flush" 1799 August, 29 1799, August 29 Epigram
On a Reader of His Own Verses "Hoarse Mævius reads his hobbling verse" Unknown 1799, September 7 Epigram
[iv]On a Report of a Minister's Death "Last Monday all the Papers said" Unknown 1799, September 18 Epigram
[Dear Brother Jem] "Jem writes his verses with more speed" Unknown 1799, September 23 Epigram
Job's Luck "Sly Beelzebub took all occasions" 1799 1801, September 26 Epigram
On the Sickness of a Great Minister "Pluto commanded death to take away" Unknown 1799, October 1 Epigram
[To a Virtuous Oeconomist] "You're careful o'er your wealth 'tis true:" Unknown 1799, October 28 Epigram
[L'Enfant Prodigue] "Jack drinks fine wines, wears modish clothing," Unknown 1799, November 16 Epigram
On Sir Rubicund Naso A Court Alderman and Whisperer of Secrets "Speak out, Sir! you're safe, for so ruddy your nose" Unknown 1799, December 7 Epigram
To Mr. Pye "Your poem must eternal be," Unknown 1800, January 24 Epigram
[Ninety-Eight] "O would the Baptist come again" Unknown 1800 Epigram
Occasioned by the Former "I hold of all our viperous race" Unknown 1800 Epigram
[A Liar by Profession] "As Dick and I at Charing Cross were walking," Unknown 1800 Epigram
To a Proud Parent "Thy babes ne'er greet thee with the father's name;" Unknown 1800 Epigram
Rufa "Thy lap-dog, Rufa, is a dainty beast," Unknown 1800 Epigram
On a Volunteer Singer "Swans sing before they die—'twere no bad thing" Unknown 1800 Epigram
Occasioned by the Last "A joke (cries Jack) without a sting—" Unknown 1800 Epigram
Epitaph on Major Dieman "Know thou who walks't by, Man! that wrapp'd up in lead, man," 1800? 1912 Epigram
On the Above "As long as ere the life-blood's running," 1800? 1912 Epigram
Epitaph on a Bad Man (1st Version) "Of him that in this gorgeous tomb doth lie," Unknown 1801, September 22 Epigram
Epitaph on a Bad Man (2nd Version) "Under this stone does Walter Harcourt lie," Unknown 1912 Epigram
Epitaph on a Bad Man (3rd Version) W. H. EHEU! "Beneath this stone does William Hazlitt lie," Unknown 1830, September 10 Epigram
To a Certain Modern Narcissus "Do call, dear Jess, whene'er my way you come;" Unknown 1801, December 16 Epigram
To a Critic Who Extracted a Passage from a poem without adding a word respecting the context, and then derided it as unitelligible. "Most candid critic, what if I," Unknown 1801, December 16 Epigram
Always Audible "Pass under Jack's window at twelve at night" Unknown 1801, December 19 Epigram
Pondere non Numero "Friends should be weigh'd, not told; who boasts to have won" Unknown 1801, December 26 Epigram
The Compliment Qualified "To wed a fool, I really cannot see" Unknown 1801, December 26 Epigram
What is an Epigram,' &c. "What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole," Unknown 1802, September 23 Epigram
Charles, grave or merry,' &c. "Charles, grave or merry, at no lie would stick," Unknown 1802, September 23 Epigram
An evil spirit's on thee, friend,' &c. "An evil spirit's on thee, friend! of late!" Unknown 1802, September 23 Epigram
Here lies the Devil,' &c. "Here lies the Devil—ask no other name." Unknown 1802, September 23 Epigram
To One Who Published in Print, &c. What has been entrusted to him by my Fireside "Two things hast thou made known to half the nation," Unknown 1802, September 23 Epigram
Scarce any scandal,' &c. "Scarce any scandal, but has a handle;" Unknown 1802, September 23 Epigram
Old Harpy,' &c. "Old Harpy jeers at castles in the air," Unknown 1802, September 23 Epigram
To a Vain Young Lady "Didst thou think less of thy dear self" Unknown 1802, September 23 Epigram
A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls FROM AN OLD TRAGEDY, VIZ. AGATHA TO KING ARCHELAUS "Three truths should make thee often think and pause;" Unknown 1802, September 27 Epigram
From me, Aurelia,' &c. "From me, Aurelia! you desired" Unknown 1802, October 2 Epigram
For a House-Dog's Collar "When thieves come, I bark: when gallants, I am still—" Unknown 1802, October 2 Epigram
In vain I praise thee, Zoilus' "In vain I praise thee, Zoilus!" Unknown 1802, October 2 Epigram
Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser "A poor benighted Pedlar knock'd" Unknown 1802, October 9 Epigram
A Dialogue between an Author and his Friend "Come; your opinion of my manuscript" Unknown 1802, October 11 Epigram
Μωροσοφία, or Wisdom in Folly "Tom Slothful talks, as slothful Tom beseems," Unknown 1802, October 11 Epigram
Each Bond-street buck,' &c. "Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf!" Unknown 1802, October 11 Epigram
From an Old German Poet "That France has put us oft to rout" Unknown 1802, October 11 Epigram
On the Curious Circumstance, That in the German, &c. The Sun is feminine, and the moon is masculine "Our English poets, bad and good, agree" Unknown 1802, October 11 Epigram
Spots in the Sun "My father confessor is strict and holy," Unknown 1802, October 11 Epigram
When Surface talks,' &c. "When Surface talks of other people's worth" Unknown 1802, October 11 Epigram
To my Candle To Farewell Epigram "Good Candle, thou that with thy brother, Fire," Unknown 1802, October 11 Epigram
Epitaph on Himself "Here sleeps at length poor Col., and without screaming—" Unknown 1848 Epigram
The Taste of the Times "Some whim or fancy pleases every eye;" 1806? 1904, January 9 Epigram
On Pitt and Fox "Britannia's boast, her glory and her pride," Unknown 1904, January 6 Epigram
An excellent adage,' &c. "An excellent adage commands that we should" Unknown 1809, November 12 Epigram
Comparative Brevity of Greek and English "χρυσὸν ἀνὴρ εὑρὼν ἔλιπε βρόχον, αὐτὰρ ὁ χρυσὸν" Unknown 1812 Epigram
On the Secrecy of a Certain Lady "'She's secret as the grave, allow!'" Unknown 1814, January 3 Epigram
Motto for a Transparency, &c. (1st Version) &c corresponds to DESIGNED BY WASHINGTON ALLSTON AND EXHIBITED AT BRISTOL ON 'PROCLAMATION DAY'—June 29, 1814. "We've fought for Peace, and conquer'd it at last," Unknown 1836 Epigram
Motto for a Transparency, &c. (2nd Version) &c corresponds to DESIGNED BY WASHINGTON ALLSTON AND EXHIBITED AT BRISTOL ON 'PROCLAMATION DAY'—June 29, 1814. "We've conquered us a Peace, like lads true metalled:" Unknown 1836 Epigram
Money, I've heard,' &c. "Money, I've heard a wise man say," Unknown 1893 Epigram
[v]Modern Critics "No private grudge they need, no personal spite," Unknown 1817 Epigram
Written in an Album "Parry seeks the Polar ridge," Unknown 1834 Epigram
To a Lady who requested me to Write a Poem upon Nothing "On nothing, Fanny, shall I write?" Unknown 1822, February 22 Epigram
Sentimental "The rose that blushes like the morn," Unknown 1877[Note 18] Epigram
So Mr. Baker,' &c. "So Mr. Baker heart did pluck—" Unknown 1836 Epigram
Authors and Publishers " 'A heavy wit shall hang at every lord,'

"

Unknown 1825, December 10 Epigram
The Alternative "This way or that, ye Powers above me!" Unknown Unknown Epigram
In Spain, that land,' &c. "In Spain, that land of Monks and Apes," Unknown 1871 Epigram
Inscription for a Time-piece "Now! It is gone—Our brief hours travel post," Unknown 1844[Note 19] Epigram
On the Most Veracious Anecdotist, &c. "Tom Hill, who laughs at Cares and Woes," Unknown 1912 Epigram
Nothing speaks but mind,' &c. "Nothing speaks our mind so well" Unknown 1912 Epigram
Epitaph of the Present Year on the Monument of Thomas Fuller "A Lutheran stout, I hold for Goose-and-Gaundry" 1833, November 28 1912 Epigram
My Godmother's Beard "So great the charms of Mrs. Mundy," 1791? 1888 Jeux d'esprit
Lines to Thomas Poole "Repeaating Such verse as Bowles, heart honour'd Poet sang,' 1796 1893 Jeux d'esprit
To a Well-known Musical Critic, &c[Note 20] "O ——! O ——! of you we complain" 1798, January 4 1798, January 4 Jeux d'esprit
To T. Poole: An Invitation[Note 21] "Plucking flowers from the Galaxy" 1797, January 1888 Jeux d'esprit
Song, To be Sung by the Lovers of all the noble liquors, &c[Note 22] "Ye drinkers of Stingo and Nappy so free," Unknown 1801, September 18 Jeux d'esprit
Drinking versus Thinking Or, a Song Against the New Philosophy "My Merry men all, that drink with glee" Unknown 1801, September 25 Jeux d'esprit
The Wills of the Wisp A Sapphic. Vix ea nostra voco
 "Lunatic Witch-fires! Ghosts of Light and Motion!" Unknown 1801, December 1 Jeux d'esprit
To Captain Findlay "When the squalls were flitting and fleering" 1804, May 4 1912 Jeux d'esprit
On Donne's Poem 'To a Flea' "Be proud as Spaniards! Leap for pride ye Fleas!" 1811 1912 Jeux d'esprit
[Ex Libris S. T. C.] "This, Hannah Scollock! may have been the case;" 1814, November 25 Unknown Jeux d'esprit
ΕΓΩΕΝΚΑΙΠΑΝ "Eu! Dei vices gerens, ipse Divus,; 1815 1817 Jeux d'esprit
The Bridge Street Committee "Jack Snipe" Unknown 1836 Jeux d'esprit
Nonsense Sapphics "Here's Jem's first copy of nonsense verses," Unknown 1850 Jeux d'esprit
To Susan Steele, &c. "My dearest Dawtie!" 1829 1912 Jeux d'esprit
Association of Ideas I.—By Likeness "Fond, peevish, wedded pair! why all this rant?" 1830? 1835 Jeux d'esprit
Association of Ideas II.—Association by Contrast
 "Phidias changed marble into feet and legs." 1830? 1835 Jeux d'esprit
Association of Ideas III.—Association by Time
 "I touch this scar upon my skull behind," 1830? 1835 Jeux d'esprit
Verses Trivocular "Of one scrap of science I've evidence ocular." Unknown 1912. Jeux d'esprit
Cholera Cured Before-hand Or a premonition promulgated gratis for the use of the Useful Classes, specially those resident in St. Giles's, Saffron Hill, Bethnal Green, etc.; and likewise, inasmuch as the good man is merciful even to the beasts, for the benefit of the Bulls and Bears of the Stock Exchange. "Pains ventral, subventral," 1832, July 26 1834 Jeux d'esprit
To Baby Bates "You come from o'er the waters," Unknown 1893[Note 23] Jeux d'esprit
To a Child "Little Miss Fanny," 1834 1888, Jan 28 Jeux d'esprit
An Experiment for a Metre ('I heard a Voice,' &c.) "I heard a voice pealing loud triumph to-day:" 1801 1912. Metrical Experiments
Trochaics "Thus she said, and, all around," 1801 1912. Metrical Experiments
The Proper Unmodified Dochmius (i. e. antispastic Catalectic) "Bĕnīgn shōōtĭng stārs, ĕcstātīc dĕlīght." 1801 1912. Metrical Experiments
Iambics "No cold shall thee benumb," 1801 1912. Metrical Experiments
Nonsense ('Sing, impassionate Soul,' &c.) "Sing impassionate Soul! of Mohammed the complicate story:" Unknown 1912. Metrical Experiments
A Plaintive Movement "Go little Pipe! for ever I must leave thee," 1814, October 1912. Metrical Experiments
An Experiment for a Metre ('When thy Beauty appears') "When thy Beauty appears," Unknown 1912. Metrical Experiments
Nonsense Verses ('Ye fowls of ill presage') [An Experiment For a Metre] "Ye fowls of ill presage," Unknown 1912. Metrical Experiments
Nonsense ('I wish on earth to sing') [An Experiment For a Metre] "I wish on earth to sing" Unknown 1912. Metrical Experiments
There in some darksome shade' "There in some darksome shade" 1801 1893 Metrical Experiments
Once again, sweet Willow, wave thee' "Once again, sweet Willow, wave thee!" Unknown 1893 Metrical Experiments
Songs of Shepherds, and rustical Roundelays' "Songs of Shepherds and rustical Roundelays," Unknown 1912. Metrical Experiments
A Metrical Accident "Then Jerome did cal" 1826, July 7 1912. Metrical Experiments
O'er the raised &c "O'er the raised earth the gales of evening sigh;" 1797? 1852 Fragments
Sea-ward, &c "Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud" Unknown 1912 Fragments
Over my Cottage "The Pleasures sport beneath the thatch;" 1799 1893 Fragments
In the lame and limping metre of a barbarous Latin poet— "Est meum et est tuum, amice! at si amborum nequit esse," 1801, November 1 1816 Fragments
Names do not &c "Names do not always meet with Love," 1801, December 1912. Fragments
The Moon, &c "The Moon, how definite its orb!" 1801? 1893 Fragments
Such love as &c "Such love as mourning Husbands have" 1803, September 1912. Fragments
[The Night-Mare Death in Life] "I know 'tis but a dream, yet feel more anguish" 1803? 1912. Fragments
Bright clouds &c "Bright clouds of reverence, sufferably bright," 1803 1893 Fragments
A Beck in Winter "Over the broad, the shallow, rapid stream," 1804, January 1912. Fragments
I from the &c "I from the influence of thy Looks receive," 1804 1912. Fragments
What never is &c "What never is, but only is to be" 1804-5 1912. Fragments
This silence of &c "The silence of a City, how awful at Midnight!" 1804-5 1912. Fragments
O beauty &c "O beauty in a beauteous body dight!" 1805 1893 Fragments
O th'Oppressive &c "O th' Oppressive, irksome weight" 1805 1893 Fragments
Twas not a &c "'Twas not a mist, nor was it quite a cloud," 1797, December 1893 Fragments
[Not a Critic—But a Judge] "Whom should I choose for my Judge? the earnest, impersonal reader," 1805 1912. Fragments
A sumptuous and &c "A sumptuous and magnificent Revenge." 1806, March 1893 Fragments
[De Profundis Clamavi] "Come, come thou bleak December wind," 1806, June 7 1875 Fragments
As some vast &c "As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood," 1806-7 1912. Fragments
Let Eagle bid &c "Let Eagle bid the Tortoise sunward soar—" 1807 1888 Fragments
The body &c "The body, Eternal Shadow of the finite Soul," Unknown 1912. Fragments
Or Wren &c "Or Wren or Linnet," 1807, May 1912. Fragments
The reed roof'd &c "The reed roof'd village still bepatch'd with snow" 1798 1912. Fragments
And in Life's &c "And in Life's noisiest hour" 1807 1912. Fragments
You mould my &c "You mould my Hopes you fashion me within:" 1807 1912. Fragments
And my heart &c "And my heart mantles in its own delight." Unknown 1912. Fragments
The spruce and limber &c "The spruce and limber yellow-hammer" 1807 1912. Fragments
Fragment of an Ode on Napoleon "O'erhung with yew, midway the Muses mount" 1808? 1912. Fragments
The singing kettle &c "The singing Kettle and the purring Cat," 1803 1893 Fragments
Two wedded hearts &c "Two wedded hearts, if ere were such," 1808 1893 Fragments
Sole Maid &c "Sole Maid, associate sole, to me beyond" 1809 1893 Fragments
Epigram on Kepler "No mortal spirit yet had clomb so high" 1799 1912. Fragments
When Hope but &c "When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt:" 1810 1893 Fragments
I have experienced &c "I have experienced" 1810 1893 Fragments
As when the new &c "As when the new or full Moon urges" 1811 1893 Fragments
O mercy, &c "O mercy, O me, miserable man!" 1811 1912. Fragments
A low dead Thunder &c "A low dead Thunder mutter'd thro' the night," 1811 1893 Fragments
His own far countenance &c "His own fair countenance, his kingly forehead," 1812 Unknown Fragments
[Ars Poetica] "'Behold yon row of pines, that shorn and bow'd" 1815 1817 Fragments
Translation of the First Strophe of Pindar's Second Olympic "Ye harp-controlling hymns!" 1815 1817 Fragments
O! Superstition &c "O! Superstition is the giant shadow" 1816 1893 Fragments
Translation of a Fragment of Heraclitus "Not hers To win the sense by words of rhetoric,

"

1816 Unknown Fragments
Truth I pursued &c "Truth I pursued, as Fancy sketch'd the way," Unknown 1818 Fragments
Imitated from Aristophanes "Great goddesses are they to lazy folks," 1817 1818 Fragments
Let clumps of earth &c "Let clumps of earth, however glorified," 1820 1893 Fragments
To Edward Irving "Friend pure of heart and fervent! we have learnt" 1824 1825 Fragments
[Luther—De Dæmonibus] "'The angel's like a flea," 1826 1839 Fragments
The Netherlands "Water and windmills, greenness, Islets green;—" 1828, June 1912. Fragments
Elisa "Sweet Gift! and always doth Elisa send" 1833 1912. Fragments
Profuse Kindness "What a spring-tide of Love to dear friends in a shoal!" Unknown / Undated 1834 Fragments
I stand alone &c "I stand alone, nor tho' my heart should break," Unknown 1893 Fragments
Napoleon "The Sun with gentle beams his rage disguises," Unknown 1912. Fragments
Thicker than rain-drops &c "Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn." Unknown / Undated 1912. Fragments
His native accents &c "His native accents to her stranger's ear," Unknown / Undated 1893 Fragments
Each crime that &c "Each crime that once estranges from the virtues" Unknown / Undated Unknown Fragments
Where'er I find &c "Where'er I find the Good, the True, the Fair," Unknown / Undated 1893 Fragments
A wind that &c "A wind that with Aurora hath abiding" Unknown / Undated 1893 Fragments
What boots to &c "What boots to tell how o'er his grave" Unknown / Undated Unknown Fragments
[xxii]The Three Sorts of Friends "Though friendships differ endless in degree," Unknown / Undated 1835 Fragments
If fair by &c "If fair by Nature" Unknown 1912. Fragments
Bo-Peep and I Spy— "In the corner one—" 1826 1912. Fragments
A Simile "As the shy hind, the soft-eyed gentle Brute" Unknown / Undated 1912. Fragments
Baron Guelph of Adelstan. A Fragment "For ever in the world of Fame" Unknown / Undated 1912. Fragments

Notes

  1. ^ Third stanza was first published on January 2nd, 1798 in the Morning Post entitled "To the Lord Mayor's Nose".
  2. ^ Prior to 1834, the second paragraph read: To this place the Author conducted a party of young Ladies, during the Summer months of the year 1793, &c.
  3. ^ Lines 2-11 were, however, first published on April 2, 1796 within the Watchman.
  4. ^ Coleridge states that the poem was "Composed during a walk to and from the Queen's Head, Gray's Inn Lane, Holborn, and Hornsby's and Co., Cornhill".
  5. ^ In first publication was prefaced with note " The two following verses from the French, never before published, were written by a French Prisoner as he was preparing to go to the Guillotine".
  6. ^ In first publication was prefaced with note " The two following verses from the French, never before published, were written by a French Prisoner as he was preparing to go to the Guillotine".
  7. ^ Coleridge states in a Note: "'This Sonnet, and the ninth, to Stanhope, were among the pieces withdrawn from the second edition of 1797. They reappeared in the edition of 1803, and were again withdrawn in 1828, solely, it may be presumed, on account of their political vehemence. They will excite no angry feelings, and lead to no misapprehensions now, and as they are fully equal to their companions in poetical merit, the Editors have not scrupled to reproduce them. These Sonnets were originally entitled "Effusions".' appears within editions 1796, 1803 and 1852. "
  8. ^ Coleridge affixed the note: "Hymettian Flowrets. Hymettus, a mountain near Athens, celebrated for its honey" on line 4, in editions 1797 and 1803.
  9. ^ Lines 260-357 were entitled as: "The Present State of Society" and published on March 9, 1796
  10. ^ Parts III and IV were published in 1809, September 21, whereas parts I and II were only first published in 1893, thus the publication date reflects the publication of the poem in totality.
  11. ^ Originally published without title.
  12. ^ This poem, however, was originally printed before 1802, September 10, and preserved in a private autobiographical volume, and was only collected and published in the date stated.
  13. ^ The last stanza was published in 1836 entitled: "Uncomposed Poem".
  14. ^ First published with prefaratory note 'The fact that in Greek Psyche is the common name for the soul, and the butterfly, is thus alluded to in the following stanzas from an unpublished poem of the Author'.
  15. ^ Published as a part of Zapolya.
  16. ^ First published as the conclusion of Coleridge's Essay: On the Constitution of Church and State.
  17. ^ In 1834, however, the last two lines were published.
  18. ^ Date reflects date of collection, as, although stated to have been published within the literary remains, the edition was not stated, and the first publication date not found.
  19. ^ Date reflects date of collection, as, although stated to have been published within the literary remains, the edition was not stated, and the first publication date not found.
  20. ^ &c refers to 'Remarkable for his ears sticking out of his hairs.'
  21. ^ Did not contain Postcript in First Publication.
  22. ^ &c refers to 'Comprised under the name of Ale.'
  23. ^ Date reflects date of collection, as, although stated to have been published within the literary remains, the edition was not stated, and the first publication date not found.

References

  1. ^ "The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Vol I and II". gutenberg.org.