All vain desires, all lawless wishes quelled, Be Thou to love and praise alike im pelled Whatever boon is granted or withheld. 1844. 1845. THE UNREMITTING VOICE OF NIGHTLY STREAMS THE unremitting voice of nightly streamns That wastes so oft, we think, its tune ful powers, If neither soothing to the worm that gleams Through dewy grass, nor small birds hushed in bowers, Nor unto silent leaves and drowsy flowers, That voice of unpretending harmony (For who what is shall measure by what seems To be, or not to be, Or tax high Heaven with prodigality ?) Wants not a healing influence that can creep AFFECTIONS lose their object; Time brings forth No successors ; and, lodged in memory, If lore exist no longer, must die, Wanting accustomed food, must pass froin earth, Or never hope to reach a second birth. This sad belief, the happiest that is left To thousands, share not Thou ; howe'er bereft, Scorned, or neglected, fear not such a dearth. Though poor and destitute of friends thou art, Perhaps the sole survivor of thy race, One to whom Heaven assigns that mournful part The utmost solitude of age to face, Still shall be left some corner of the heart Where Love for living Thing can find a place. 1846. 1850. LIST OF REFERENCES EDITIONS * POETICAL WORKS, 1 volume, edited by James Dykes Campbell, The Macmillan Co., 1893 (Globe Edition). — POEMS, 1 volume, edited by E. H. Coleridge, John Lane, 1907 (Illustrated Edition). -- POEMS AND DRAMATIC WORKS, edited by William Knight, Scribner's, 1906 (Caxton Thin Paper Classics). COMPLETE WORKS, 7 volumes, edited by W. G. T. Shedd, Harper & Bros., 1853, 1884 (a rather poor edition). – POETICAL WORKS, 2 volumes, PROSE WORKS, 6 volumes, edited by T. Ashe, 1885. – POETICAL WORKS, 1 volume, Crowell & Co., 1908 (Astor Edition). - LETTERS, edited by E. H. Coleridge, 2 volumes, 1895. BIOGRAPHY GILLMAN (James), The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I, 1838 (all published). — BRANDL (Alois), Samuel Taylor Coleridge und die englische Romantik, Berlin, 1886. (English edition by Lady Eastlake, assisted by the author, 1887.) - TRAILL (H. D.), Coleridge (English Men of Letters Series), 1884. —CAINE (T. Hall), Coleridge (Great Writers Series), 1887. — *CAMPBELL (J. D.), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a Narrative of the Events of his Life, 1894. — AYNARD (Joseph), La Vie d'un Poète: Coleridge, Paris, 1907. – (See also knight's Life of Wordsworth.) PERSONAL REMINISCENCES AND EARLY CRITICISM COLERIDGE (S. T.), Biographia Literaria. Table Talk. Letters, edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. - Anima Poetæ, Selections from the unpublished Note-Books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. - Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge, edited by Thomas Allsop. — Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge, edited by her daughter. - COTTLE (Joseph), Early Recollections of S. T. Coleridge. — TALFOURD (T. N.), Final Memorials of Lamb. — ROBINSON (H. C.), Diary. - HAZLITT (William), My First Acquaintance with Poets. HAZLITT (William), Spirit of the Age. - Hazlitt (William), Lectures on the English Poets; Lecture 8. – DE QUINCEY (Masson's Edition), Vol. V, Coleridge and Opium-Eating. -- MITFORD (M. R.), Recollections of a Literary Life. -- WILSON (John), Essays. — JEFFREY (Lord Francis), Critical Essays: Coleridge's Literary Life. — * CARLYLE, Life of Sterling, Part I, Chap. 8. — LAMB (Charles), Works: * Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago; Recollections of Christ's Hospital; On the Death of Coleridge; Letters. — * WORDSWORTH (Dorothy), Journals. -- SOUTHEY (R.), Life and Correspondence. LATER CRITICISM BEERS (H. A.), English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century, 1901. - CESTRE (Charles), La Révolution française et les poètes anglais, 1906. – CALVERT (G. H.), Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe, 1880. — COLERIDGE (E. H.), in Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Vol. III, new edition, 1901. — DOWDEN (E lward), New Studies in Literature: Coleridge as a Poet, 1895. DOWDEN (Edward), French Revolution and English Literature, Essay IV, 1897. — * GARNETT (R.). Essays of an Ex-Librarian, 1901. --LEGOUIS (Emile), La Jeunesse de William Wordsworth, 1896. * LOWELL (J. R.), Prose Works, Vol. VI (Address of 1887). – * MILL (J. S.), Dissertations and Discussions. — * PATER (Walter), Appreciations (Essay of 1865). — PAYNE (W. M.), The Greater English Poets of the Nineteenth Century, 1997. – ROBERTSON (John W.), New Essays towards a Critical Method, 1897. — SAINTSBURY (G.), Essays in English Literature, second series: Coleridge and Southey, 1895. -- SHAIRP (J. C.), Studies in Poetry and Philosophy, 1868, 1887.---STEPHEN (Leslie), Hours in a Library, Vol. III, new edition, 1892. — SWINBURNE (A. C.), Essays and Studies, 1875. — Symons (A.), Coleridge, in the International Quarterly, JuneSept., 1904. – WATSON (William), Excursions in Criticism, 1893. – WINTER (W.), Shakspere's England: At the Grave of Coleridge, 1886. - WOODBERRY (G. E.), Makers of Literature (1890), 1900. BAYNE (Peter), Essays, Vol. II, 1858. - BROOKE (Stopford A.), Theology in the English Poets, 1874. - CHANCELLOR (E. B.), Literary Types, 1895. -- Cooper (Lane), The Abyssinian Paradise in Coleridge and Milton, in Modern Philology, Jan., 1906 (a note on Kubla Khan).— DAWSON (G.), Biographical Lectures, 1886. -- Dawson (W. J.), Makers of English Poetry, 1906. — FROTHINGHAM (0. B.), Transcendentalism in New England, 1876. HANCOCK (A. E.), The French Revolution and the English Poets, 1899. – HELMHOLTZ (A. A.), The Indebtedness of Coleridge to A. W. von Schlegel, Madison, 1907. – JOHNSON (C. F.), Three Americans and Three Englishmen, 1886. - MITCHELL (D. G.), English Lands, Letters and Kings, Vol. III, 1895. - LANG (Andrew), Poets' Country, 1907. Ossoli (M. F.), Art, Literature and the Drama. — ROSSETTI (W.M.), Lives of Famous Poets, 1878. — SHARP (R. F.), Architects of English Literature, 1900. — SHEDD (W. G.T.), Literary Essays, 1878. ---SYMONS (A.), Romantic Movement in English Poetry, 1909. TRIBUTES IN VERSE SHELLEY, To Coleridge. -- * ROSSETTI (D. G.). Five English Poets: Samuel Taylor Coleridge. -- DE VERE (Aubrey), Poetical Works, Vol. 1: Sonnets: To Coleridge; Miscellaneous Poems: Coleridge; Vol. III: On visiting a Haunt of Coleridge's. - BROWNING (E. B.), A Vision of Poets. WATTS-DUNTON (T.), Coleridge (in Stedman's Victorian Anthology). WATSON (William), Lines in a Fly-Leaf of Christabel. — HELLMAN (G. S.), The Hudson and other Poems, 1909. BIBLIOGRAPHY SHEPHERD (R. H.), Bibliography of Coleridge; revised by W. F. Prideaux, 1900. — *HANEY (J. L.), Bibliography of S. T. Coleridge, 1903. COLERIDGE LIFE As late I journey'd o'er the extensive plain Where native Otter sports his scanty stream, Musing in torpid woe a sister's pain, The glorious prospect woke me from the dream. ray ! At erery step it widen'd to my sight, Wood, Meadow, verdant Hill, and dreary Steep, Following in quick succession of delight, Till all-at once-did my eye ravish'd sweep! May this (I cried) my course through Life portray! New scenes of wisdom may each step display, And knowledge open as my days ad vance! Till what time Death shall pour the un darken'd ray, My eye shal! dart thro' infinite ex panse, And thought suspended lie in rapture's blissful trance. September, 1789. 1834.1 Bathed in rich amber-glowing floods of light; Nor in yon gleam, where slow descends the day, With western peasants hail the morning Ah ! rather bid the perished pleasures move, A shadowy train, across the soul of Love! O'er disappointment's wintry desert fling Each flower that wreathed the dewy locks of Spring, When blushing, like a bride, from Hope's trim bower She leapt, awakened by the pattering shower, Now sheds the sinking Sun a deeper gleam, Aid, lovely Sorceress! aid thy Poet's dream! With faery wand O bid the Maid arise, Chaste Joyance dancing in her bright. blue eyes ; As erst when from the Muses' calm abode I came, with Learning's meed not un bestowed ; When as she twined a laurel round my brow, And met my kiss, and half returned my O'er all my frame shot rapid my thrilled heart, And every nerve confessed the electric dart. O dear Deceit! I see the Maiden rise, Chaste Joyance dancing in her bright. blue eyes! When first the lark high-soaring swells his throat, Mocks the tired eye, and scatters the loud note, I trace her footsteps on the accustomed lawn, VOW, LINES ON AN AUTUMNAL EVENING O THOU wild Fancy, check thy wing! No more Those thin white flakes, those purple clouds explore ! Nor there with happy spirits speed thy flight 1 The dates for Coleridge's poems are made up from the Shepherd-Prideaux and the Haney bibliographies, and from the excellent notes to Campbell's edition of the Poetical Works. Or mine the power of Proteus, changeful God ! 1 A flower-entangled Arbor I would seerr. To shield my Love from Noontide's sultry beam : Or bloom a Myrtle, from whose odorous boughs My Love might weave gay garlands for her brows. When Twilight stole across the fading vale, To fan my Love I'd be the Evening Gale; Mourn in the soft folds of her swelling vest, And flutter my faint pinions on her breast! On Seraph wing I'd foat a Dream by night, To soothe my Love with shadows of delight: Or soar aloft to be the Spangled Skies, And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes ! As when the Savage, who his drowsy frame Had basked beneath the Sun's unclouded flame, Awakes amid the troubles of the air, The skiey deluge, and white lightning's glareAghast he scours before the tempest's sweep, And sad recalls the sunny hour of sleep :So tossed by storms along Life's wilder on ing way, Spirits of Love! ye heard her name! Obey The powerful spell, and to my haunt repair. Whether on clustering pinions ye are there, Where rich shows blossom the Myrtle-trees, Or with fond languishment around my fair Sigh in the loose luxuriance of her hair ; O heed the spell, and hither wing your way. Like far-off music, voyaging the breeze! Spirits ! to you the infant Maid was given Formed by the wondrous Alchemy of Heaven! No fairer Maid does Love's wide empire know, Vo fairer Maid e'er heaved the bosom's snow. A thousand Loves around her forehead fly; A thousand Loves sit melting in her eye ; Love lights her smile-in Joy's red nectar dips His myrtle flower, and plants it on her lips. She speaks! and hark that passion warbled song Still, Fancy! still that voice, those notes, prolong, As sweet as when that voice with rap turous falls hall wake the softened echoes of Heaven's Halls! O (have I sigh’d) were mine the wiz ard's rod, SO Mine eye reverted views that cloudless day, When by my native brook I wont to love, While Hope with kisses nursed the In. fant Love. Jear native brook! like Peace, placidly Smoothing through fertile fields thy current meek! Dear native brook! where first young Poesy Stared wildly-eager in her noontide dream! Where blameless pleasures dimple Quiet's cheek, "I entreat the Public's pardon for having care. lessly suffered to be printed such intolerable stuff as this and the thirteen following lines. They have not the merit even of originality : as every thought is to be found in the Greek Epigrams (From Coleridge's note in the Poems, 1700.) |