POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS

OF

S. T. COLERIDGE.

WITH A MEMOIR.

VOLUME 1.

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY.
NEW YORK: PHINNEY, BLAKEMAN AND MASON.

M.DCCC.LXI.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:
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CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR...

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ory............

POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH.

Page

Exrst Advent of Love...

Genevieve .....................

(The Raven. A Christmas Tale........................

Time, Real and Imaginary. An Allegory.

Absence. A farewell Ode......

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

Songs of the Pixies..............

The Rose. ................

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Kisses...................

To Sara ..........

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

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

Lines on an Autumnal Evening...........

To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolu-

tion....

ion ........................................... 25

Imitated from Ossian ........

The Complaint of Ninathoma...................

To a Young Ass; its mother being tethered near it......

To an Infant ........

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Imitated from the Welsh .........

Domestic Peace...............................

Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross...........

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

To the Nightingale ...............................

... 37 -

Lines on a Friend who died of a frenzy fever..........

Monody on the Death of Chatterton.....

Sonnet I. My Heart has Thanked Thee, Bowles! for those

Soft Strains.................................... 47

Sonnet II. As Late I Lay in Slumber's Shadowy Vale ... 48

Sonnet III. Not Always should the Tear's Ambrosial Dew. 49

Sonnet IV. Though Roused by that Dark Vizir Riot Rude. 50

Sonnet V. When British Freedom for a Happier Land... 51

Sonnet VI. It was Some Spirit, Sheridan! that Breathed. 52

Sonnet VII. O what a Loud and Fearful Shriek was There. 53

Sonnet VIII. As When Far Off the Warbled Strains are

Heard .........

............... 54

Sonnet IX. Not Stanhope! with the Patriot's Doubtful

Name ........... .............................. 55 |

Sonnet X. Thou Gentle Look, that Didst my Soul Be-

guile........

.......... 56

Sonnet XI. Pale Roamer through the Night! Thou Poor

Forlorn........................................ 57

Sonnet XII. Sweet Mercy! how my Very Heart has Bled. 58:

Sonnet XIII. To the Autumnal Moon .................. 59

Sonnet XIV. Thou Bleedest, my Poor Heart! and Thy

Distress .....

........... 60

Sonnet XV. To the Author of " The Robbers” ......... 61

Lines composed while climbing the left ascent of Brock-

ley Coomb, Somersetshire................

.......... 62

Lines in the Manner of Spenser.......... .............

To the Author of Poems Published Anonymously at Bris-

tol ................

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Lines written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater.........

Lines to a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter.....

Religious Musings A Desulterge Poem..

The Destiny of Nations. A Vision....

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