CONTENTS.

THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER,

Note,

THE PICCOLOMINI; OR, PART I. OF WALLENSTEIN,

THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE,

ZAPOLYA-PART I. THE USURPER'S FORTUNE, .

Lines on a Friend who died of a frenzy fever,

396

To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French

To a Friend, together with an Unfinished Poem,

To the Author of Poems published anonymously at

400

Bristol,

401

Lines composed while climbing Brockley Coomb,

Lines in the manner of Spenser,

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Lines to a Friend, in answer to a Melancholy Letter, 408

Religious Musings-a Desultory Poem,

409

The Destiny of Nations-a Vision,

420

SONNETS:-

I. "My heart has thanked thee, Bowles!"

IX. Not Stanhope! with the Patriot's,

IX. "Pale Roamer through the Night!"

XII. "Sweet Mercy!"

VI. "It was some Spirit, Sheridan!"

VII. "O what a loud and fearful shriek,"

VIII. "As when far off the warbled strains,"

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X. "Thou gentle Look,"

IV. "Though roused by that dark Vizir,"

V. "When British Freedom,'

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XIII. To the Autumnal Moon-" Mild Splendour,'

XIV. "Thou bleedest, my poor Heart!".

XV. To the Author of "The Robbers,"

SIBYLLINE LEAVES:-

I. POEMS OCCASIONED BY POLITICAL EVENTS, OR FEEL-

INGS CONNECTED WITH THEM:-

Ode to the Departing Year,

Fears in Solitude-During the Alarm of an Invasion, 447

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SIBYLLINE LEAVES-(continued).

II. LOVE POEMS :-

Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie,

Love-" All thoughts, all passions," .

Lewti, or the Circassian Love-Chant,

The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution,

The Night-Scene-a Dramatic Fragment,

"Myrtle-leaf that, ill-besped,"

"Maiden, that with sullen brow,"

Lines Composed in a Concert-Room,

The Keepsake-"The tedded hay,"

To a Lady-with Falconer's "Shipwreck,"

To a Young Lady-on her Recovery from a Fever,

The Day-Dream-from an Emigrant to his Absent

The Happy Husband-a Fragment,

Recollections of Love,

On Revisiting the Sea-shore after long Absence,

III. MEDITATIVE POELIS-in Blank Verse:-

Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny,

Lines-written in the Album at Elbingerode,

On observing a Blossom on the First of February,

The Eolian Harp-composed at Clevedon,

Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement,

To the Rev. George Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary,

Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath,

SIBYLLINE LEAVES-MISCELLANEOUS POEMS-(continued). PAGE

Ode to Tranquillity,

516

An Ode to the Rain,

517

The Foster Mother's Tale-a Dramatic Fragment,

Composed during Illness and in Absence, .

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521

To a Young Friend-on his proposing to domesticate

Sonnet-to a Friend who asked, how I felt when the

Nurse first presented my Infant to me,

527

The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn,

528

Melancholy-a Fragment,

Epitaph on an Infant-"Its balmy lips," .

Human Life-on the Denial of Immortality,

Kubla Khan; or, a Vision in a Dream,

The Pains of Sleep,

Elegy-imitated from Akenside,

A Day Dream,

The Visit of the Gods-imitated from Schiller,

V. LATER POEMS :---

Duty surviving Self-Love,.

Phantom or Fact?-a Dialogue in Verse,

Song "Though veiled in spires,"

537

Youth and Age,.

537

To a Lady-offended by a sportive Observation,

538

Work without Hope, .

541

Fancy in Nubibus; or, the Poet in the Clouds,

The Two Founts-Stanzas addressed to a Lady,

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The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-Tree-a Lament, 544

The Garden of Boccaccio, .

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NOTES,

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THE

RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER.

IN

SEVEN PARTS.