THE

POETICAL AND DRAMATIC

WORKS

OF

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE;

WITH

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

LONDON:
JOHN CHIDLEY, 123, ALDERSGATE STREET.

1838.

2 1 AUG. 1931

MEDAR

B. BENSLEY, PRINTER, PHIPPS-BRIDGE, MITCHAM.

CONTENTS.

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Life of the Author.......

Appendix, containing the Will, Contemporary No-

tices, &c. .............

Dedication ..........

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Preface to the First Edition .......

Preface to the Second Edition ........ ....lxxvii

Ode on the Departing Year ............

Monody on the Death of Chatterton ...

Songs of the Pixies. ...

The Rose ...

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The Kiss ...............

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To a Young Ass..........

Domestic Peace......

The Sigh............

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Epitaph on an Infant ....................... 21

Lines, written at the King's Arms, Ross

Lines to a beautiful Spring in a Village............

- Lines on a Friend who died of a Frenzy Fever, in-

duced by Calumnious Reports .................

* To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revo-

lution .........................

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To a Friend, together with an unfinished Poem ....

Sonnet I. " My heart has thank'd thee, Bowles"...

- II. On a discovery made too late .

III. “Thou gentle Look”........ ....... 31

IV. To the River Otter. ................ 31

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Sonnet V. Composed while climbing Brockly Coomb 32

- VI. “Sweet Mercy!"....... ........ 33

VII. “ Pale Roamer thro' the Night !" .... 33

VIII. To the Author of The Robbers......

IX. Composed on a Journey homeward; the

Author having received intelligence of the birth

of a Son .....

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- X. To a Friend, who asked how I felt when

the Nurse first presented my Infant to me....

Reflections, on having left a Place of Retirement.. 36

Ode to Sara.

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Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire ....

To an Unfortunate Woman........

Lines on observing a Blossom on the 1st of February

“ The Hour when we shall meet again”......

To C.Lloyd, on his proposing to domesticate with the

Author. ...................... ........

Religious Musings......

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Lines—“ The piteous sobs that choke the Virgin's

breath”..

Lines to Joseph Cottle....

Lines on an Autumnal Evening ...

Lines, in the Manner of Spenser

The Composition of a Kiss ...

To an Infant .....................

On the Christening of a Friend's Child.

The Nightingale .....

Love................

The Ancient Mariner.

The Foster-mother's Tale ..........

Lines addressed to a Friend, in Answer to a Melan-

choly Letter ............

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Lines written after a Walk before Supper ........ 110

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Complaint of Ninathoma ..

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On a Connubial Rupture in High Life ..

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Absence; a Farewell Ode ........... .... 113

Sonnet, “ Pensive at Eve”..

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To Simplicity .................. .... 115

On a Ruined House, in a Romantic Country 115

To Mercy ......

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To Koskiusko

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To Burke........

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To Sheridan.

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To Priestley . ....

118

To Earl Stanhope ..

118

- To Erskine ............

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A Couplet, Written in a Volume of Poems, presented

by the Author .......

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The Piccolomini; or, the First Part of Wallenstein.. 121

The Death of Wallenstein ......

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