Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) was one of the first figures of the Romantic movement, and a poet, philosopher and critic. His close friendship with Dorothy and William Wordsworth, whom he met in 1797, led to the publication of the "Lyrical Ballads", which marked a conscious break with poetic tradition and includes one of Coleridge's most famous poems, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". William Keach is Professor of English at Brown University in Rhode Island. He has published many books and articles on Renaissance and Romantic literature.

• The Complete PoemsIntroductionAcknowledgmentsTable of DatesFurther ReadingThe PoemsEaster HolidaysDura navisNil pejus est caelibe vitaSonnet to the Autumnal MoonJuliaQuae nocent docentThe NoseLifeTo the MuseDestruction of the BastilleAnthem for the Children of Christ's HospitalProgress of ViceMonody on the Death of Chatteron (first version)Monody on the Death of Chatteron (second version)An InvocationAnna and HarlandTo the Evening StarPainOn a Lady WeepingMonody on a Tea-KettleGenevieveOn Receiving an Account that his Only Sister's Death Was InevitableA Mathematical ProblemHonourOn ImitationInside the CoachDevonshire RoadsMusicAbsence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, CambridgeSonnet on the SameHappinessA Wish Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10th, 1792An Ode in the Manner of AnacreonTo DisappointmentA Fragment Found in a Lecture-RoomOdeA Lover's Complaint to his MistressWith Fielding's AmeliaWritten After a Walk Before SupperImitated from OssianThe Complaint of Ninathoma, from the SameThe RoseKissesSonnet ("Thou gentle look")Sonnet to the River OtterLines on an Autumnal EveningTo Fortune: On Buying a Ticket in the Irish LotteryPerspiration: A Travelling EclogueLines written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the House of the "Man of Ross"Imitated from the WelshLines to a Beautiful Spring in a VillageImitations Ad LyramThe SighThe KissTo a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French RevolutionTranslation of Wrangham's "Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam e Granta Exituram"To Miss Brunton with the Preceding TranslationEpitaph on an Infant[Pantisocracy]On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in AmericaElegy, Imitated from One of Akenside's Blank-Verse InscriptionsThe Faded FlowerSonnet ("Pale Roamer through the night!")Domestic PeaceSonnet ("Thou bleedest, my poor Heart!")Sonnet to the Author of the "Robbers"Melancholy: A FragmentSongs of the PixiesTo a Young Ass, its Mother being Tethered Near itLines on a Friend Who Died of a Frenzy Fever Induced by Calumnious ReportsTo a Friend, together with an Unfinished PoemSonnets on Eminent Characters:1. To the Honourable Mr. Erskine2. Burke3. Priestly4. La Fayette5. Koskiusko6. Pitt7. To the Rev. W. L. Bowles (two versions)8. Mrs. Siddons9. To William Godwin, Author of "Political Justice"10. To Robert Southey, of Balliol College, Oxford, Author of the "Retrospect," and Other Poems11. To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq.12. To Lord Stanhope, on Reading his Late Protest in the House of LordsTo Earl StanhopeLines to a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy LetterTo an InfantTo the Rev. W. J. Hort, while teaching a young lady some song-tunes on his fluteSonnet ("Sweet Mercy! how my very heart has bled")To the NightingaleLines composed while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May, 1795Lines in the Manner of SpenserTo the Author of Poems published anonymously at Bristol in September 1795The Production of a Young Lady, addressed to the author of the poems alluded to in the preceding epistleEffusion XXXV. Composed August 20th, 1795, at Clevedon, SomersetshireThe Eolian HarpLines written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, September, 1795, in answer to a letter from BristolReflections on Having Left a Place of RetirementOn Donne's PoetryThe Hour When We Shall Meet AgainThe Destiny of NationsReligious MusingsFrom an Unpublished PoemOn Observing a Blossom on the First of February, 1796Verses addressed to J. Horne TookeOn a Late Connubial Rupture in High LifeSonnet written on receiving letters informing me of the birth of a Son, I being at BirminghamSonnet composed on a journey homeward; the author having received intelligence of the birth of a son, Sept. 20th, 1796Sonnet to a friend who asked, how I felt when the nurse first presented my infant to meSonnet [to Charles Lloyd]To a Young Friend, on his Proposing to Domesticate with the Author. Composed in 1796Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune Who Abandoned Himself to an Indolent and Causeless MelancholyTo a Friend Who Had Declared his Intention of Writing No More PoetryOde to the Departing YearThe RavenTo an Unfortunate Woman at the TheatreTo an Unfortunate WomanTo the Rev. George ColeridgeOn the Christening of a Friend's ChildInscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Nether Stowey ChurchThis Lime-Tree Bower My PrisonThe Foster-Mother's TaleThe DungeonSonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers: Sonnet I; Sonnet II; Sonnet IIIParliamentary OscillatorsThe Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)ChristabelLines to W. L. while he Sang a Song to Purcell's MusicThe Three GravesThe Wanderings of CainFire, Famine, and SlaughterThe Old Man of the AlpsThe Apotheosis, or The Snow-DropFrost at MidnightFrance. An OdeLewti, or the Circassian Love-ChauntTo a Young Lady on her Recovery from a FeverFears in SolitudeThe NightingaleThe Ballad of the Dark LadieKubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream[Lines from a notebook - September 1798][Hexameters:] William, My Teacher, My Friend![Translation of a passage in Ottfried's metrical paraphrase of the Gospel][Fragmentary translation of the Song of Deborah]Catullian HendecasyllablesThe Homeric Hexameter Described and ExemplifiedThe Ovidian Elegiac Metre Described and ExemplifiedOn a CataractTell's Birth-PlaceThe Visit of the GodsOn an Infant which Died before BaptismSomething Childish, but Very NaturalHome-Sick, Written in GermanyThe Virgin's Cradle-HymnLines written in the album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz ForestThe British Stripling's War-SongNamesThe Devil's ThoughtsLines Composed in a Concert-RoomThe Exchange[Paraphase of Psalm 46. Hexameters]Hymn to the Earth. HexametersMahometOde to Georgiana, Duchess of DevonshireA Christmas CarolOn an InsignificantJob's LuckLoveThe Madman and the Lethargist, an ExampleOn a Volunteer SingerTalleyrand to Lord GrenvilleThe Two Round Spaces on the Tomb-StoneThe Mad MonkA Stranger MinstrelInscription for a Seat by the Road Side Half-Way Up a Steep Hill Facing SouthApologia Pro Vita SuaThe Night-Scene: A Dramatic FragmentOn Revisiting the Sea-ShoreInscription for a Fountain on a HeathDrinking versus ThinkingAn Ode to the RainThe Wills of the WispOde to TranquillityA Letter to ___, April 4, 1802. - Sunday EveningDejection: An Ode[A Soliloquy of the full Moon, She being in a Mad Passion]Answer to a Child's QuestionA Day DreamThe Day-DreamTo AsraThe Happy HusbandA Thought Suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland[Untitled]The KeepsakeThe Picture, or the Lover's ResolutionHymn before Sun-Rise, in the Vale of ChamouniThe Good, Great ManThe Knight's TombTo Matilda Betham from a StrangerWestphalian SongThe Pains of Sleep[Lines from a notebook - September 1803][Lines from a notebook - February-March 1804][What is Life?][Lines from a notebook - April 1805][Lines from a notebook - May-June 1805]Phantom[An Angel Visitant]Reason for Love's Blindness[Untitled]Constancy to an Ideal Object[Lines from a notebook - March 1806][Lines from a notebook - June 1806]Farewell to LoveTime, Real and Imaginary[Lines from a notebook - 1806][Lines from a notebook - October-November 1806][Lines from a notebook - 1806][Lines from a notebook - November-December 1806][Lines from a notebook - February 1807][Lines from a notebook - February 1807][Lines from a manuscript - 1807-8][Lines from a notebook - July 1807; includes lines previously published separately as "Coeli enarrant"][Lines from a notebook - January 1808]To William WordsworthMetrical Feet. Lesson for a BoyRecollections of LoveThe Blossoming of the Solitary Date-Tree. A LamentTo Two SistersOn Taking Leave of ___, 1817A Child's Evening PrayerAd Vilmum AxiologumPsyche[Sonnet - translated from Marino][Fragment: "Two wedded Hearts"]A Tombless EpitaphOn a Clock in a Market-PlaceSeparationThe Visionary Hope[Lines from a notebook - March 1810][Lines from a notebook - April-June 1810][Lines from a notebook - May 1810]Epitaph on an Infant[Lines from a notebook - 1811][Fragment of an ode on Napoleon][Lines inscribed on the fly-leaf of Benedetto Menzini's "Poesie" (1782)][Lines from a notebook - May-June 1811][Lines from a notebook - May-July 1811][Lines from a notebook - May 1814?][Lines from a notebook - 1815-16]On Donne's First PoemLimboMolesNe plus ultraThe Suicide's Argument[An Invocation: from "Remorse"]God's Omnipresence, a HymnTo a Lady. With Falconer's "Shipwreck"Human Life, On the Denial of Immortality[Song from "Zapolya"][Hunting Song from "Zapolya"][Faith, Hope, and Charity. From the Italian of Guarini]Fancy in NubibusIsrael's LamentA CharacterLines to a Comic Author, on an Abusive ReviewTo NatureThe Tears of a Grateful PeopleFirst Advent of Love[Reason][Lines from a notebook - 1822]From the GermanThe Reproof and ReplyYouth and AgeDesireThe Delinquent TravellersSong, ex improvisoWork Without HopeThe Two FountsThe Pang More Sharp Than AllSancti Dominici PalliumThe ImprovisatoreLove's Burial-Place: A MadrigalLines Suggested by the Last Words of BerengariusEpitaphium testamentariumDuty Surviving Self-Love[Homeless]SongProfuse KindnessWritten in an AlbumTo Mary PridhamVerses TrivocularWater BalladCologneOn my Joyful Departure from the Same City[The Netherlands]The Garden of BocaccioAlice du Clos: Or The Forked Tongue. A BalladLove, Hope, and Patience in Education[Lines written in commonplace book of Miss Barbour]To Miss A. T.Love and Friendship OppositeNot at HomeW. H. Eheu!Phantom or Fact?Charity in ThoughtHumility the Mother of Charity["Gently I took that which ungently came"]Cholera Cured Before HandLove's Apparition and EvanishmentTo the Young Artist, Kayser of KaserwerthKnow ThyselfMy Baptismal Birth-DayEpitaphAppendices:1. On the Wretched Lot of the Slaves in the Isles of Western India2. [Notebook draft of an essay on punctuation]NotesIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines