J.C.C. Mays is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin. He has published on English Romantic and Irish Modernist writers and is currently editing Diarmuid and Grania for the Cornell Yeats.

Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xxxvii EDITORIAL PRACTICE, SYMBOLS, AND ABBREVIATIONS xli Poetical Works PART 1 1782-1790 1"First attempt at making a verse" 3 2Fragments of an Ode on Punning 3 3Dura Navis 4 4Greek Epigram on Aphrodite and Athena 5 4.X I Translations of Synesius 5 5Easter Holidays 6 6Nil Pejus Est Caelibe Vitd 7 7De Medio Fonte Lepor-um Surgit Aliquid Amari 8 8Oh! Mihi Prxteritos Referat si Jupiter Annos! 8 9Sonnet: To my Muse 0 10Sonnet: "As late I joumey'd o'er th' extensive plain 11 10 11The Nose: An Odaic Rhapsody 11 12Conclusion to a Youthful Poem 14 13An Ode on the Destruction of the Bastile 14 14Sonnet: To the Evening Star 16 15Sonnet: Composed in Sickness 17 16A Few Lines Written by Lee when Mad 19 17Sonnet: Genevieve 20 18Nemo Repente Turpissimus 22 19Sonnet: Anna and Harland 24 20The Abode of Love 25 21Monody on a Tea Kettle 26 22An Invocation 28 1791 22.Xl Epitaph: By a Son on his Deceased Father 29 22.X2 Schoolboy Poem Sent to George Coleridge 29 23Honos Alit Artes 30 24Prospectus and Specimen of a Translation of Euclid 30 25Sonnet: On Receiving an Account that my Sister's Death was Inevitable 34 26Sonnet: On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by his Sister 36 26.Xl Version of an Epitaph on a Young Lady 37 27Ardua Prima Via Est 38 28Greek Imitation of A Winter Piece 39 290 Curas Hominum! 0 Quantum Est in Rebus Inane! 40 30Happiness: A Poem 42 31An Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital 48 32Sonnet: Sent to Mrs - with Fielding's Amelia 49 33Sonnet: On Quitting Christ's Hospital 50 34Ode to Sleep 51 35Plymtree Road 53 36Ode on the Ottery and Tiverton Church Music 54 37Epigram on my Godmother's Beard 56 38On Imitation 57 39Absence: An Ode 58 40Greek Epitaph on an Infant 60 40.Xl Translations of Anacreon 61 1792 41An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon 61 42A Wish Written in Jesus Wood 62 43A Lover's Complaint to his Mistress 62 44To Disappointment 63 45Fragment Found in a Mathematical Lecture Room 63 46On a Lady Weeping 64 47Greek Epitaph for Howard's Tomb 66 48Sors Misera Servorum in Insulis Indix Occidentalis 66 48.Xl Cambridge Prize Poems, 1792 72 49A Siniile; Written after a Walk before Supper 73 50Latin Lines on Ottery's Inhabitants 75 1793 50.Xl Imitations from the Modern Latin Poets 75 50.X2 Sonnet to the Earl of Lauderdale 76 51The Complaint of Ninathoma 76 52Two Lines on the Poet Laureate 79 530 Turtle-eyed Affection! 80 54Latin Verses, Sent to George Coleridge 80 55Imitated from Ossian 81 55.Xl Laus Astrononiiae 83 55.X2 Cambridge Prize Poems, 1793 88 56On Presenting a Moss Rose to Miss F. Nesbitt 89 57Cupid Tum'd Chymist 92 58An Extempore 95 58.Xl Adaptation of John Bampfylde's To Evening 96 59Elegy 98 60Absence: A Poem 100 61Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon 111 61.Xl Est Quxdam Flere Voluptas 113 62To a Painter 113 63To Miss Dashwood Bacon of Devonshire 114 64Songs of the Pixies 114 64.Xl To the Rt Hon C. J. Fox 123 65To Fortune, on Buying a Ticket in the Irish Lottery 123 1794 65.Xl A Soliloquy of Roberspierre 124 66Domestic Peace 124 66.Xl Sonnet: On Reading Miranda's Sonnet to a Sigh 126 67Song: Imitated from Casimir 128 67.Xl Cambridge Prize Poems, 1794 128 68To a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter 129 68.Xl Lines Written in a Prayer Book: After Bowles 130 69From Perspiration: A Travelling Eclogue 132 70Lines on the "Man of Ross" 132 70.Xl Adaptation of Bowles's "I shall behold far off hy barren crest" 138 70.X2 Fragmentary Adaptation of a Welsh Sonnet 139 71Latin Lines on Mary Evans 141 72Stanzas from an Elegy on a Lady 141 73Imitated from the Welsh 143 73.Xl The Faded Flower 144 73.X2 Sonnet: To an Infant at the Breast 144 74Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village 145 75The Sigh 147 76The Kiss 150 77Two Versions of an Epitaph on an Infant 153 77.Xl The Triumphs of the New Cabinet 155 78Sonnet on Pantisocracy (with Samuel Favell) 155 78.Xl Sonnet: On Establishing Pantisocracy in America 157 78.X2 Revisions to Various Early Poems by Robert outhey 157 78.X3 On Bala Hill 159 79To Ann Brunton: Iniitated from the Latin of Francis Wrangham 159 80To Eliza Brunton, on Behalf of Francis Wrangham 160 81To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution 161 82Monody on the Death of Chatterton 166 83Sonnet: To my Own Heart 188 84To a Young Ass, its Mother Being Tethered near It 189 85Lines on a Friend, Who Died of a Frenzy Fever, Induced by Calumnious Reports 193 86Sonnet: To the Author of The Robbers 197 87Sonnet: On Hope (with Charles Lamb) 199 88Sonnet: To an Old Man in the Snow (with Samuel Favell) 201 89Sonnet: To the Hon Mr Erskine 203 90Sonnet: To Burke 204 91Sonnet: To Priestley 208 92Sonnet: To Fayette 209 93Sonnet: To Kosciusko 211 94Sonnet: To Pitt 212 95Sonnet: To Bowles 213 96Sonnet: To Mrs Siddons (with Charles Lamb) 216 97Sonnet: To William Godwin, Author of Political Justice 218 98Sonnet: To Robert Southey, of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of the "Retrospect," and Other Poems 218 99Sonnet: To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. 219 100 To a Friend, together with an Unfinished Poem 222 101Religious Musings 224 1795 101.XL Sonnet: To Mrs Siddons 263 101.X2 Sonnet: To Lord Stanhope 263 101.X3 Sonnet: To Gilbert Wakefield 263 101.X4 Sonnet: Written on Contemplating a Very Fine Setting Sun. To Lord Stanhope 264 102Sonnet: To Lord Stanhope 264 102.Xl Translation of Four Lines in French 265 103Adaptation of Robert Southey's Sonnet "Pale Roamer thro' the Night!" 266 104Adaptation of Charles Lamb's Sonnet Written at Midnight, by the Sea-side 268 105To an Infant 269 105.Xl Lines Probably Borrowed from John Gaunt 272 106Contribution to The Soldier's Wife, by Robert Southey 274 107Allegoric Vision 275 108Composed While Climbing the Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, in the County of Somerset 287 109To the Rev W.J.H. While Teaching a Young Lady Some Song-tunes on his Flute 288 110Contributions to Joan of Arc, by Robert Southey 288 110.Xl Untitled Stanzas on Grace 309 11O.X2 Report on Mr Cottel 310 111In the Manner of Spenser 310 112To the Nightingale 313 113Adaptation of Charles Lamb's Sonnet "Was it some sweet device of faery land ?" 313 114Adaptation of Charles Lamb's Sonnet "Methinks, how dainty sweet it were" 315 115The Eolian Harp: Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire 316 116Ode to Sara, Written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, in Answer to a Letter from Bristol 328 117Lines to Joseph Cottle 334 118Translations of Homer Iliad 1.34, 49 337 119The Silver Thimble (with Sara Fricker Coleridge) 337 120Fragments of an Epistle to Thomas Poole 341 121Summary Version of Horace 344 122Fragments from the Gutch Notebook 344 1796 122.X I Habent sua Fata-Poetae 345 123The Hour When We Shall Meet Again 346 124Lines on Observing a Blossom 347 125Verse Motto to Poetical Epistles 349 126Lines on the Portrait of a Lady 350 126.Xl Lines Combined from Bowles 350 127From an Unpublished Poem 351 127.Xl Epigram: "Said William to Edmund. 351 127.X2 To the Rev W. L. Bowles 351 128Recollection 352 129Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement 352 130Irregular Sonnet: To John Tbelwall 357 130.Xl Epigram: On a Late Marriage 360 130.X2 Epigram: On an Amorous Doctor 360 130.X3 Epigram: "Of smart pretty Fellows in Bristol are numbers" 360 130.X4 To a Primrose 361 130.X5 Haleswood Poem 361 130.X6 Hymns to the Elements 362 131To the Princess of Wales: Written during her Separation from the Prince 362 132Poetical Address for Home Tooke 365 132.Xi Sonnet: To Poverty 368 133To a Friend Who Had Declared his Intention of Writing No More Poetry 368 134Sonnet: Written on Receiving Letters Informing Me of the Birth of a Son, I Being at Birmingham 371, 1374 135Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward, the Author Having Received Intelligence of the Birth of a Son 372 136Sonnet: To a Friend, Who Asked How I Felt, When the Nurse First Presented my Infant to Me 374, 1374 137Sonnet: Introducing Charles Lloyd's Poems on the Death of Priscilla Farmer 376 138To Charles Lloyd, on his Proposing to Domesticate with the Author 377 138.Xl Nursery Song 381 139The Destiny of Nations: A Vision 381 140Sonnet: To the River Otter 408 141Adaptation of Thomas Derinody 411 142Ode on the Departing Year 411 143Lines to a Young Man of Fortune Who Abandoned Himself to an Indolent and Causeless Melancholy 429 143.Xl Prospect of Peace 432 1797 144On Quitting Oxford Street, Bristol, for Nether Stowey, New Year's Day 1797 432 145The Raven 433 146To Thomas Poole: Invitation to Dine 438 147On the Christening of a Friend's Child 439 148To an Unfortunate Woman, Whom I Knew in the Days of her Innocence: Composed at the Theatre 439 149Allegorical Lines on the Same Subject 442 150To the Rev George Coleridge of Ottery St Mary, Devon, with Some Poems 445 151Song from OsoriolRemorse 448 152The Foster-mother's Tale: A Dramatic Fragment 451 153The Dungeon 458 153.Xl The Brook 459 154Melancholy: A Fragment 460 155Continuation of The Three Graves, by William Wordsworth 462 156This Lime-tree Bower my Prison 480 157Sonnet: To William Linley, Esq., While He Sang a Song to Purcell's Music 487 158Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of "Contemporary Writers" 489 159Sonnet: To a Lady 491 160The Wanderings of Cain 492 161The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 504 161.Xl Translation from Wieland's Oberon 540 162Parliamentary Oscillators 540 163Studies in Cloud Effects 542 164On Deputy - - 543 165The Apotheosis; or, The Snow-drop 543 166To a Well-known Musical Critic, Remarkable for his Ears Sticking thro' his Hair 548 167Fire, Famine, and Slaughter: A War Eclogue, with an Apologetic Preface 548 167.Xl Ideas or Lines for a Poem 565 168The Old Man of the Alps 566 1798 169Modification of Translation of a Celebrated Greek Song, by William Wordsworth 566 170De Papa: Vaticinium Haud Valde Obscurum, Nec 38 Incredibile, 1798 568 171Frost at Midnight 569 172Lewti; or, The Circassian Love-chant 574 173Welcoming Lines to Lavinia Poole 583 174France: An Ode 585 174.X 1 To - - ("I niix in life, and labour to 45 seem free") 593 175Fears in Solitude: Written in April 1798, during 51 the Alarm of an Invasion 593 176Christabel 606 177The Story of the Mad Ox 662 177.Xl To Lesbia 668 177.X2 The Death of the Starling 669 177.X3 Moriens Superstiti 669 177.X4 Morienti Superstes 669 178Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream 669 179Contribution to We Are Seven, by William Wordsworth 678 180The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem 679 181To William Wordsworth, with The Nightingale 684 182The Ballad of the Dark Ladi6: A Fragment 684 183Translation of an Inscription in Stowey Church 691 183.Xl Epigram: "To be ruled like a Frenchman the 10 Briton is loth" 691 ~183.X2 Contributions to The Morning Post 692 ~184 Lines Describing "Tbe silence of a City" 692 185English Hexameters 693 186English Duodecasyllables, Adapted from 18 Matthisson 695 187The Homeric Hexameter Described and 18 Exemplified, Adapted from Schiller 696 188The Ovidian Elegiac Metre Described and 56 Exemplified, from Schiller 697 189Something Childish but Very Natural, from the German 698 190The Visit of the Gods, Iniitated from Schiller 699 1799 191Translation of Otfrid 702 192Alcaeus to Sappho (revising William Wordsworth) 702 193On an Infant Who Died before its Christening, Perhaps Inspired by Lessing 703 194Metrical Adaptation of Gessner 704 195Lines in a German Student's Album 704 196Homesick: Written in Germany, Adapted from Biirde 705 197Adapted Lines on Fleas 707 198Extempore Couplet on German Roads and Woods 707 199The Virgin's Cradle-hymn, Copied from a Print of the Virgin in a Catholic Villaize in Germany 708 200 Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Harz Forest 710 BOOKID200.Xl German Album Verses 713 201Epigram on Goslar Ale, from the German 714 202Epitaph on Johann Reimbold of Catlenburg, from the German 715 203Epigram on Kepler, from Kdstner 715 204Epigram: "Jack drinks fine wines", from Kiistner 716 205Epigram on Mr Ross, Usualy "Nosy" 717 206Epigram: "0 would the Baptist come again", from Logau 717 207On the United Irishmen 718 208Epigram on a Reader of his Own Verses, Inspired by Wemicke 719 209Epigram on Neaera's Portrait, Inspired by Lessing 721 210Epigram on Exchanging Friends, from Logau 721 211Epigram on a Slanderer, from Lessing 721 212The British Stripling's War-song, from Stolberg 723 213Epigram on Hippona, from Lessing 726 214The Devil's Thoughts 726 215Before Gleim's Cottage: Elegiacs from Voss 751 216Mahomet: A Fragment 752 217Specimen Elegiacs, Adapting Ossian 753 217.Xl Rigmarole Verses about Samuel Jackson Pratt 754 218Epigram on a Report of a Minister's Death, from Lessing 754 219Epigram to a Proud Parent, from Lessing 755 220Epigram on a Notorious Liar, from Lessing 756 PART 2 221Epitaph on a Bad Man, Perhaps after Vicesimus Knox 759 222Two Versions of an Epigram on Lying, from Lessing 760 223Epigram on an Oxford Brothelhouse, Adapted from Lessing 761 224Epigram on a Lady's Too Great Fondness for her Dog, from Lessing 762 225Epigram on Mimulus, from Lessing 764 226Epigram on Paviun, from Lessing 764 227Epitaph on an Insignificant, Adapted from Lessing 765 228Epigram on Marriage, from Lessing 766 229Epigram on Maids and Angels, from Lessing 767 230Epigram to a Virtuous CEconornist, from Wemicke 767 231Epigram on Gripus, from Lessing 768 232On the Sickness of a Great Minister, from Lessing 769 233Epigram to an Author, from Lessing 770 234The Lethargist and Madman: A Political Fable, after the Greek Anthology 771 235Epigram to a Critic, Who Extracted a Passage from a Poem 773 236Names, from Lessing 774 237Epigram: Always Audible, from Kdstner 776 238Over the Door of a Cottage, after Logau 777 239The Devil Outwitted; or, Job's Luck, after Logau and John Owen 778 240Epigram on the Speed with Which Jack Writes Verses, after von Halem 780 241Epigram on a Bad Singer, after Pfeffel and Martial 781 242Epigram on a Joke without a Sting 782 243To a Living Ninon d'Enclos 783 244Epigram on a Maiden More Sentimental than Chaste 784 245The Exchange of Hearts 784 246Epigram on a Supposed Son 786 247Pondere, Non Numero, from Logau 786 248Lines Composed in a Concert-room 787 249Hexametrical Translation of Psalm 46 790 250Epigram on Sir Rubicund Naso 790 251To Delia 791 251.Xl Epigrams from Lessing 792 251.X2 Epigram: "Doris can find no taste in Tea" 792 252Couplet on Grosvenor Bedford 792 253Love 793 254Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, on the 24th Stanza in her Passage over Mount Gothard 807 265Two Lines on the Stars and the Mountains 823 266On the Poet's Eye 823 267The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone: A Skeltoniad (to be Read in the Recitative Lilt) 824 268Six Lines on a Keswick Holiday 832 269The Mad Monk 833 270Inscription for a Seat by a Road Side, Half-way up a Steep Hill, Facing the South 835 271A Stranger Minstrel 836 272The Night-scene: A Dramatic Fragment 838 273Two Lines on Remorse 839 1801 273.Xl lambics: "No cold shall thee benumb" 839 273.X2 The Second Birth 839 274Two Lines on the Cur, Arthritis 839 274.Xl An Expostulatory and Panegyrical Ode 840 274.X2 A Philosophical Apology for the Ladies 840 275After Bathing in the Sea at Scarborough in Company with T. Hutchinson, August 1801 841,1374 276Verse Letter to Miss Isabella Addison and Miss Joanna Hutchinson 844 277Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath 845 278Song to be Sung by the Lovers of All the Nobic Liquors Comprised under the Name of Ale 847 279Drinking versus Thinking; or, A Song against the New Philosophy 847 280Lines Written in Bed at Grasmere 848 281The Wills of the Wisp: A Sapphic, from Stolberg 853 282Lines Translated from Barbarous Latin 853 283Ode to Tranquillity 854 284To a Certain Modem Narcissus, from Hagedom 858 285Pastoral from Gessner 858 286Adaptation of Ben Jonson's The Poetaster 859 286.Xl The Complaint Qualified 859 1802 287Fragment on Time, from Schiller 860 287.Xl Experiment for a Metre (1) 860 288Lines on the Breeze and Hope 861 288.Xl Experiment for a Metre (2) 861 289A Letter to - 861 289.Xl Verses Sent to Dorothy Wordsworth 876 290A Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad Passion 876 290.Xl "Dear Messieurs Trippeaux" 880 291Answer to a Child's Question 880 291.Xl The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus 882 292Epitaph on Lord Lonsdale 883 293Dejection: An Ode 884 294The Day Dream 897 294.Xl The Soother of Absence 899 295Sonnett o Asra 900 295.X1 Translation into Blank Verse of Salomon Gessner's Der erste Schiffer 900 296Lines Composed during a Night Rarnble behind Skiddaw, at the Foot of Mount Blencarthur, in 1802 901 297Sonnet Adapted from Petrarch 904 298A Version of a Nursery Rhyme 905 299The Keepsake 906 300 The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution 909 301Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny 922 302Dialogue concerning a Good Great Man 933 302.Xl Effusion, after Reading the Interesting Account of the Young Savage of Aveyron 935 303The Knight's Tomb 935 304To Matilda Betham, from a Stranger 938 305EDiizram on Eiigrams, from Wemicke 940 306Epigram on a Congenital Liar, from Wemicke 941 307Epigram on the Devil, from a German Original? 942 308Epigram Addressed to One Who Published in Print What Had Been Entrusted to Him by my Fire-side, from Wemicke 942 309On the Curious Circumstance, that in the German Language the Sun is Feminine, and the Moon Masculine, after Wernicke 943 310Epigram on Spots in the Sun, from Wernicke 944 311Epigram on Surface, from Wernicke 945 312A Dialogue between an Author and his Friend, after Wemicke 946 313Epigram on Possession, from a German Original 947 314Epigram on Castles in the Air, from Wernicke 948 315To a Vain Lady, from the German and from Martial 949 316Epigram to my Candle, after Wemicke 950 317From an Old German Poet (after Wernicke) 951 318Epigram on Bond Street Bucks, Adapted from Wemicke 952 319Epigram on Virgil's "Obscuri sub luce maligna", after Wemicke 952 320M(opocFo(piu.; or, Wisdom in Folly, from a German Original? 953 321Westphalian Song 954 322A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls 954 323Latin Lines to William Sotheby 955 324Epigram on Aurelia, from Gryphius 955 325For a House-dog's Collar, from Opitz 955 326Epigram on Zoilus, from Opitz 956 327Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser, from Opitz 956 327.Xl Stanzas Written after a Long Absence 958 328Latin Lines on a Former Friendship 958 1803 329Greek Lines on Achilles' Meal of Yesterday 959 330The Kiss and the Blush 960 331Grasmere in Sunshine 961 331.Xl Three Lines from the Bristol Notebook 962 332Fragments of an Unwritten Poem 962 333Three Lines on Loch Lomond 963 334Lines on "Such love as mouming Husbands have" 963 335The Pains of Sleep 963 336Epitaph on Poor Col, by Himself 967 337Brevity of the Greek and English Compared 968 338Lines after Hearing William Wordsworth's Michael 969 1804 339Lines Written at Dove Cottage 970 3413PatiiDtic Stm7,as 970 340.Xl Lines Written at either Ottery or Walthamstow 971 341A Triplet on Triplets 971 342Hexameter Lines to Mrs Coleridge 971 343Cartwright Modified 972 343.Xl "Sole Maid, associate sole, to me beyond" 972 343.X2 "I from the influence of thy looks receive" 973 343.X3 Verse Trifles Sent to Sir George Beaumont 973 344Epigram on "Dear Anne" 973 345Balsamum in Vitro 974 346Tears and Sympathy 974 347Phantom 974 348To Captain Findlay 975 349Mercury Descending: A Metrical Experiment 976 350Description of the Sun Setting in a Mountainous Country: A Fragment 977 351What is Life? A Metrical Experiment 978 352Adaptation of Hagedorn 979 353Metrical Experiments from Notebook 22 980 354Recollections of Love 982 354.Xl Further Lines on The Soother of Absence 986 355Fragment: "And laurel Crown..." 986 356Fragment: "What never is, but only is to be" 987 357Constancy to an Ideal Object 987 1805 358"This yearning Heart ..." 990 359Love-Why Blind? 990 360Closing Lines in Notebook 21 992 361Couplet Written in February 1805 992 361.Xl Twenty Lines Inscribed in The Poems of Ossian 993 362Verses on Love and Moral Being 993 363Doleful Dialogue 994 364Curtailed Lines in Notebook 17 995 365A Metaphor 995 366Apostrophe to Beauty in Malta 996 367To God 996 368Irregular Lines on the Sick Man's Comforter 997 369Lines Connected with the Grasmere Circle 997 370Lines on Hearing a Tale 998 371Lines Rewritten from Sannazaro 998 371.Xl Lines on Leaving the Mediterranean 999 372On the Nairnes in a Malta Notebook 1001 373Perhaps a Translation of Some Comically Bad Verses 1001 374Latin Lines to William Wordsworth as Judge 1002 375Epitaph on Major Dieman, with Comment 1002 376On the Name "Chastenut Grove", Derived from Ariosto 1003 377On Fetid, Who Died of a Catarrh 1004 378On the Family Vault of the Burrs 1005 1806 379Lines Written in a Dream 1007 380A Single Line on Revenge 1007 381Lines on a Death 1007 382Written at Ossaia 1008 383On Death at Pisa 1008 384The Taste of the Times 1008 385Lines Rewritten from Spenser's Epithalamium 1009 386Lines on a King-and-Emperor-Making Emperor and King, Altered from Fulke Greville 1009 387Farewell to Love 1010 388Time, Real and Imaginary: An Allegory 1011 389Two Epigrams on Pitt and Fox 1014 390Adapted from Fulke Greville's Alaham 1016 391More Lines Inspired by Fulke Greville 1016 392Inspired by Fulke Greville's Alaham 1016 393A Greek Song Set to Music and Sung by Hartley Coleridge, Esq"., Grecologian, Philometrist, and Philomelist 1017 394Verses to Derwent Coleridge, Accompanying Greek Lessons 1019 395To Derwent Coleridge: The Chief and Most Common Metrical Feet Expressed in Corresponding Metre 1019 396The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree 1021 397Lines Written in November-December 1806 1026 398Written at Coleorton 1027 399"Those eyes of deep & most expressive blue" 1027 400 A Line Written at Coleorton 1028 1807 401To Williairn Wordsworth, Composed on the Night after his Recitation of a Poem on the Growth of an Individual Mind 1028 402Psyche; or, The Butterfly 1036 403A Metrical Conclusion? 1038 404Lines on the Yellowhammer 1039 405Parody Epitaph on Tom Navel 1039 406Fragments Written in February 1807 1039 407Allegorical Description 1040 408Three Lines on Penitence 1041 409Fate and Conscience 1041 410Birds in May 1042 411Epigram on Confessions Auricular 1042 412The Pang More Sharp than All: An Allegory 1042 413On the Roots of a Tree 1046 413.Xl Poems Suggested by Richard Heme Shepherd, from The Courier 1047 413.X2 Epigram: "Ned calls his wife his counter-part" 1048 413.X3 "A wind that with Aurora hath abiding" 1048 414An Image Compressed from Crashaw 1048 415Between Concurrences of Fate 1049 416Imitations of Du Bartas etc 1049 417Translation of a Distich by Schiller 1050 418Translation of A Distich by Goethe and Schiller 1050 419On Tom Poole's Meanderings 1051 420Lines on Wordsworth and Coleridge 1051 420.Xl The Barberry-tree 1052 421Versified from Bacon 1053 422Adapted from a Shakespeare Sonnet 1053 423To Two Sisters: A Wanderer's Farewell 1054 424Thinking Merrily Alone 1055 425Lines Prompted by Chapman 1055 426A Line from a Lost Poem? 1056 1808 427Two Lines: "Or like the Swallow. 1056 428Prayer for Night: For Hartley and Derwent 1057 429Ad Vilmum Axiologum 1058 430Ad Vilmum Axiologum: Latin Version 1059 431An Anagram of Mary Morgan's Face 1061 432To Charlotte Brent 1061 433Extremes Meet: A Fill-A-Sopha-Col Note 1062 433A Lines to Charlotte Brent 1375 434On a Happy Household 1063 435Latin Lines to Accompany a Personal Emblem 1063 436Latin Lines to Accompany a Second Emblem 1064 437A Motto to Accompany a Third Emblem 1064 438An Exemplary Description 1064 439Latin Elegiacs on Guy Fawkes 1065 440Sonnet Translated from Marino 1066 441Alternative Stanzas in the Manner of Marino 1066 441.Xl Fragmentary Lines in Pencil 1066 441.X2 Twenty-six-line Poem 1067 442The Happy Husband: A Fragment 1068 443Lines on the Moon 1070 444Couplet on Singing in Church 1071 444.Xl Seven Cancelled Lines 1071 1809 445To Mr Amphlett 1072 446Adelphan Greek Riddle 1072 447Verse Letter to Mrs Coleridge 1072 448Another Epitaph on an Infant 1073 449A Motto Adapted from Love's Labour's Lost 1074 450Three-line Fragment 1075 451Contribution to To my Thrushes, by Thomas Wilkinson 1075 452For a Clock in a Market-place 1076 453On Mr Baker's Marriage: A Fragment 1076 454Verses Based on Paracelsus 1077 455A Tombless Epitaph 1077 455.Xl The Good Old Customs 1079 456Couplet Written in Autumn 1809 1080 457Lines Written in Late Autumn 1809 1080 458Verse Line, Late Autumn 1809 1080 459Adaptation of Lines from Daniel's Civil Wars 1081 460Cartwright Modified Again 1081 1810 461Separation, after Charles Cotton 1082 462Lines Altered from Fulke Greville's A Treatise of Humane Learning 1083 463Futke Greville Modified 1084 464Further Lines on Tranquillity 1085 465Lines on the Body and the Soul 1085 466Written in Dejection, May 1810 1085 467The Visionary Hope 1086 468Fragment in Blank Verse 1087 469Humorous Lines, Spring 1810 1087 470Voltaire Versified 1087 471Gilbert White Versified, on the Owl 1088 472Observation on Colour and Light 1088 473Burlesque in the Manner of Walter Scott 1088 474Translation of a Goethe Epigram 1089 1811 474.Xl Revisions of Mary Russell Mitford's Christina and Blanch 1089 4758 The Moon on the Pacific Main 1090 475.Xl Lovers' Quarrels 1090 475.X2 Epigram on Damus 1090 476On the First Poem in Donne's Book 1091 477Moles 1098 478Limbo: A Fragment 1098 479Ne Plus Ultra 1098 480Adaptation of Milton's Lines on Shakespeare 1099 481Lines Inscribed in Benedetto Menzini 1099 482Human Life, on the Denial of Immortality 1100 483Phlegethon, Cocytus, and Euterpe: Abandoned Stanzas 1102 484Fragmentary Lines on Change 1103 485Lines Inspired by Jean Paul 1103 485.Xl Epigram on Samuel Whitbread 1103 486Adaptation of Ben Jonson's A Nymph's Passion 1104 487Adaptation of Ben Jonson's The Hour-glass 1105 488Lavatorial Lines 1105 489Latin Lines Perhaps Connected with John Morgan 1105 490The Suicide's Argument, with Nature's Answer 1106 491Sir John Davies on the Soul, Adapted to the Imagination 1109 492To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation that Women Have No Souls 1110 492.Xl The Comet, 1811 1111 493Latin Distich on Giving and Receiving 1112 494A Half-attempt at Verse 1113 495A Droll Formulary to Raise Devils 1113 1812 496Versified Note to J. J. Morgan 1115 497Epigram on Maule and Mather 1116 498On the Narning of Bombay 1116 498.Xl Love's Response 1117 498.X2 Epigram on Sir Humphry Davy's Marriage 1117 499Faith, Hope, Charity, Translated from Guarini 1118 500 Metrical Experiment in May 1812 1118 BOOKID500.Xl Lines Sent with a Collection of Manuscripts to John May 1119 501The King of the North Countrie 1119 502Epitaph on the Learned Robert Whitmore, E Who Died of a Diarrho~a, 4 August 1812,~ Etatis Sux 57 1120 502.Xl A Tear 1120 1813-1814 502.X4 Shakespeare Read Creatively 1121 503Couplet on Lesbian Lovers 1122 504On the Secrecy of a Certain Lady 1122 505Maevius-Bavius Exemplum 1123 506Lines on Looking Seaward 1123 507Lines on Zephyrs 1123 508National Independence: A Latin Fragment 1124 508.Xl Doggerel Rhymes 1125 509To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck 1126 510God's Omnipresence: A Hymn 1128 511A Couplet to Illustrate Paeon and Epitrite 1130 512A Plaintive Movement, after Phineas Fletcher 1130 513Motto for a Transparency 1131 514On the Condition of Ireland, in the Manner of Daniel's Civil Wars 1132 515Written in Richard Field's Of the Church 1132 515.Xl Puff and Slander 1133 516Revisions of the Opening of Southey's Roderick 1133 516.Xl Improvements for Charles Bowker Ash 1134 1815 517Glycine's Song from Zapolya 1134 517.X2 Napoleon 1139 517.X3 Lines in Walker's Dictionary, Largely Erased 1139 518A Metrical Line in Notebook 22 1140 519Metrical Version of Job, from Jacobi 1140 520Specimen Translation of Pindar, "Word for Word" 1140 521Contemporary Critics 1141 522Translation of Dante 1141 523Lines on Aurelia Coates 1141 524Lines in Praise of Rabelais 1142 525EFUENKAIRIAN: A Dithyrambic Ode 1143 526To the Morgans 1143 527Lines on Superstition 1144 528Lines Headed "Orpheus" 1145 529Lines Adapted from Jean Paul 1145 530Further Lines Adapted from Jean Paul 1146 531Epigram on Money 1146 532Lines on Crimes and Virtues 1146 533Elevated Diarrhoea 1147 533.Xl The Cherub 1147 1816-1818 534Verse Lines from A Lay Sermon 1147 535Alternative Translation of Virgil's Bucolics 1148 536Motto for Memoranda in Notebook 25 1148 537Lines after Punch 1149 538Lines for an Autograph Hunter 1149 539To a Young Lady Complaining of a Com 1151 540Fancy in Nubibus 1152 541Imitated from Aristophanes 1154 542Part of a Sonnet to Miss Bullock 1155 543Israel's Lament on the Death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales, Translated from the Hebrew of Hyman Hurwitz 1155 544Rewriting of Lines by Beaumont and Fletcher 1158 545A Description of a Nightingale 1159 546Lines Suggested by Sir Thomas Browne 1159 546.Xl Three Epigrams on Bishop Watson 1160 546.X2 Translations from the Old Testament 1160 547Couplet on the Heart Deaf and Blind 1161 548Adaptation of Daniel's Epistle to Sir Thomas Egerton 1161 549Adaptation of Donne's To Sir Henry Goodyere 1161 550Adaptation of Daniel's Musophilus 1162 551Adaptation of Donne's Eclogue 1613, December 26 1162 552A Further Adaptation of Daniel's Musophilus 1163 553Epigraph Verses for The Friend 1163 554Adaptation of Lines from Dodsley's Select Collection of Old Plays 1163 555Draft Fragment, Perhaps Describing Sara Coleridge 1164 1819-1821 556Lines on the Usury of Pain 1165 557Distich, Written in February 1819 1166 558The Proper Unmodified Dochmius, i.e., Antispastus Hypercatalecticus 1166 559"Beareth all things" 1167 560To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review 1167 561A Character 1170 562Extempore Specimen of the Pun Polysyllabic 1175 563Riddle for Materialists 1175 564Extempore, to Charles Mathews 1176 565The Tears of a Grateful People 1176 566Couplet on Anticipation and Theory, Genius and Cleverness 1177 567Couplet on Man as Solar Animal 1177 568Greek Couplet on Lauderdale 1178 569On Footnotes, in a Letter 1178 570A Practical Problem concerning Flies 1179 571Music 1179 572Sonnet: To Nature 1179 573A Couplet Addressed to the Mind's Ear 1180 574First Advent of Love 1180

J.C.C. Mays is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin. He has published on English Romantic and Irish Modernist writers and is currently editing Diarmuid and Grania for the Cornell Yeats.

Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xxxvii EDITORIAL PRACTICE, SYMBOLS, AND ABBREVIATIONS xli Poetical Works PART 1 1782-1790 1"First attempt at making a verse" 3 2Fragments of an Ode on Punning 3 3Dura Navis 4 4Greek Epigram on Aphrodite and Athena 5 4.X I Translations of Synesius 5 5Easter Holidays 6 6Nil Pejus Est Caelibe Vitd 7 7De Medio Fonte Lepor-um Surgit Aliquid Amari 8 8Oh! Mihi Prxteritos Referat si Jupiter Annos! 8 9Sonnet: To my Muse 0 10Sonnet: "As late I joumey'd o'er th' extensive plain 11 10 11The Nose: An Odaic Rhapsody 11 12Conclusion to a Youthful Poem 14 13An Ode on the Destruction of the Bastile 14 14Sonnet: To the Evening Star 16 15Sonnet: Composed in Sickness 17 16A Few Lines Written by Lee when Mad 19 17Sonnet: Genevieve 20 18Nemo Repente Turpissimus 22 19Sonnet: Anna and Harland 24 20The Abode of Love 25 21Monody on a Tea Kettle 26 22An Invocation 28 1791 22.Xl Epitaph: By a Son on his Deceased Father 29 22.X2 Schoolboy Poem Sent to George Coleridge 29 23Honos Alit Artes 30 24Prospectus and Specimen of a Translation of Euclid 30 25Sonnet: On Receiving an Account that my Sister's Death was Inevitable 34 26Sonnet: On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by his Sister 36 26.Xl Version of an Epitaph on a Young Lady 37 27Ardua Prima Via Est 38 28Greek Imitation of A Winter Piece 39 290 Curas Hominum! 0 Quantum Est in Rebus Inane! 40 30Happiness: A Poem 42 31An Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital 48 32Sonnet: Sent to Mrs - with Fielding's Amelia 49 33Sonnet: On Quitting Christ's Hospital 50 34Ode to Sleep 51 35Plymtree Road 53 36Ode on the Ottery and Tiverton Church Music 54 37Epigram on my Godmother's Beard 56 38On Imitation 57 39Absence: An Ode 58 40Greek Epitaph on an Infant 60 40.Xl Translations of Anacreon 61 1792 41An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon 61 42A Wish Written in Jesus Wood 62 43A Lover's Complaint to his Mistress 62 44To Disappointment 63 45Fragment Found in a Mathematical Lecture Room 63 46On a Lady Weeping 64 47Greek Epitaph for Howard's Tomb 66 48Sors Misera Servorum in Insulis Indix Occidentalis 66 48.Xl Cambridge Prize Poems, 1792 72 49A Siniile; Written after a Walk before Supper 73 50Latin Lines on Ottery's Inhabitants 75 1793 50.Xl Imitations from the Modern Latin Poets 75 50.X2 Sonnet to the Earl of Lauderdale 76 51The Complaint of Ninathoma 76 52Two Lines on the Poet Laureate 79 530 Turtle-eyed Affection! 80 54Latin Verses, Sent to George Coleridge 80 55Imitated from Ossian 81 55.Xl Laus Astrononiiae 83 55.X2 Cambridge Prize Poems, 1793 88 56On Presenting a Moss Rose to Miss F. Nesbitt 89 57Cupid Tum'd Chymist 92 58An Extempore 95 58.Xl Adaptation of John Bampfylde's To Evening 96 59Elegy 98 60Absence: A Poem 100 61Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon 111 61.Xl Est Quxdam Flere Voluptas 113 62To a Painter 113 63To Miss Dashwood Bacon of Devonshire 114 64Songs of the Pixies 114 64.Xl To the Rt Hon C. J. Fox 123 65To Fortune, on Buying a Ticket in the Irish Lottery 123 1794 65.Xl A Soliloquy of Roberspierre 124 66Domestic Peace 124 66.Xl Sonnet: On Reading Miranda's Sonnet to a Sigh 126 67Song: Imitated from Casimir 128 67.Xl Cambridge Prize Poems, 1794 128 68To a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter 129 68.Xl Lines Written in a Prayer Book: After Bowles 130 69From Perspiration: A Travelling Eclogue 132 70Lines on the "Man of Ross" 132 70.Xl Adaptation of Bowles's "I shall behold far off hy barren crest" 138 70.X2 Fragmentary Adaptation of a Welsh Sonnet 139 71Latin Lines on Mary Evans 141 72Stanzas from an Elegy on a Lady 141 73Imitated from the Welsh 143 73.Xl The Faded Flower 144 73.X2 Sonnet: To an Infant at the Breast 144 74Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village 145 75The Sigh 147 76The Kiss 150 77Two Versions of an Epitaph on an Infant 153 77.Xl The Triumphs of the New Cabinet 155 78Sonnet on Pantisocracy (with Samuel Favell) 155 78.Xl Sonnet: On Establishing Pantisocracy in America 157 78.X2 Revisions to Various Early Poems by Robert outhey 157 78.X3 On Bala Hill 159 79To Ann Brunton: Iniitated from the Latin of Francis Wrangham 159 80To Eliza Brunton, on Behalf of Francis Wrangham 160 81To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution 161 82Monody on the Death of Chatterton 166 83Sonnet: To my Own Heart 188 84To a Young Ass, its Mother Being Tethered near It 189 85Lines on a Friend, Who Died of a Frenzy Fever, Induced by Calumnious Reports 193 86Sonnet: To the Author of The Robbers 197 87Sonnet: On Hope (with Charles Lamb) 199 88Sonnet: To an Old Man in the Snow (with Samuel Favell) 201 89Sonnet: To the Hon Mr Erskine 203 90Sonnet: To Burke 204 91Sonnet: To Priestley 208 92Sonnet: To Fayette 209 93Sonnet: To Kosciusko 211 94Sonnet: To Pitt 212 95Sonnet: To Bowles 213 96Sonnet: To Mrs Siddons (with Charles Lamb) 216 97Sonnet: To William Godwin, Author of Political Justice 218 98Sonnet: To Robert Southey, of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of the "Retrospect," and Other Poems 218 99Sonnet: To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. 219 100 To a Friend, together with an Unfinished Poem 222 101Religious Musings 224 1795 101.XL Sonnet: To Mrs Siddons 263 101.X2 Sonnet: To Lord Stanhope 263 101.X3 Sonnet: To Gilbert Wakefield 263 101.X4 Sonnet: Written on Contemplating a Very Fine Setting Sun. To Lord Stanhope 264 102Sonnet: To Lord Stanhope 264 102.Xl Translation of Four Lines in French 265 103Adaptation of Robert Southey's Sonnet "Pale Roamer thro' the Night!" 266 104Adaptation of Charles Lamb's Sonnet Written at Midnight, by the Sea-side 268 105To an Infant 269 105.Xl Lines Probably Borrowed from John Gaunt 272 106Contribution to The Soldier's Wife, by Robert Southey 274 107Allegoric Vision 275 108Composed While Climbing the Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, in the County of Somerset 287 109To the Rev W.J.H. While Teaching a Young Lady Some Song-tunes on his Flute 288 110Contributions to Joan of Arc, by Robert Southey 288 110.Xl Untitled Stanzas on Grace 309 11O.X2 Report on Mr Cottel 310 111In the Manner of Spenser 310 112To the Nightingale 313 113Adaptation of Charles Lamb's Sonnet "Was it some sweet device of faery land ?" 313 114Adaptation of Charles Lamb's Sonnet "Methinks, how dainty sweet it were" 315 115The Eolian Harp: Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire 316 116Ode to Sara, Written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, in Answer to a Letter from Bristol 328 117Lines to Joseph Cottle 334 118Translations of Homer Iliad 1.34, 49 337 119The Silver Thimble (with Sara Fricker Coleridge) 337 120Fragments of an Epistle to Thomas Poole 341 121Summary Version of Horace 344 122Fragments from the Gutch Notebook 344 1796 122.X I Habent sua Fata-Poetae 345 123The Hour When We Shall Meet Again 346 124Lines on Observing a Blossom 347 125Verse Motto to Poetical Epistles 349 126Lines on the Portrait of a Lady 350 126.Xl Lines Combined from Bowles 350 127From an Unpublished Poem 351 127.Xl Epigram: "Said William to Edmund. 351 127.X2 To the Rev W. L. Bowles 351 128Recollection 352 129Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement 352 130Irregular Sonnet: To John Tbelwall 357 130.Xl Epigram: On a Late Marriage 360 130.X2 Epigram: On an Amorous Doctor 360 130.X3 Epigram: "Of smart pretty Fellows in Bristol are numbers" 360 130.X4 To a Primrose 361 130.X5 Haleswood Poem 361 130.X6 Hymns to the Elements 362 131To the Princess of Wales: Written during her Separation from the Prince 362 132Poetical Address for Home Tooke 365 132.Xi Sonnet: To Poverty 368 133To a Friend Who Had Declared his Intention of Writing No More Poetry 368 134Sonnet: Written on Receiving Letters Informing Me of the Birth of a Son, I Being at Birmingham 371, 1374 135Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward, the Author Having Received Intelligence of the Birth of a Son 372 136Sonnet: To a Friend, Who Asked How I Felt, When the Nurse First Presented my Infant to Me 374, 1374 137Sonnet: Introducing Charles Lloyd's Poems on the Death of Priscilla Farmer 376 138To Charles Lloyd, on his Proposing to Domesticate with the Author 377 138.Xl Nursery Song 381 139The Destiny of Nations: A Vision 381 140Sonnet: To the River Otter 408 141Adaptation of Thomas Derinody 411 142Ode on the Departing Year 411 143Lines to a Young Man of Fortune Who Abandoned Himself to an Indolent and Causeless Melancholy 429 143.Xl Prospect of Peace 432 1797 144On Quitting Oxford Street, Bristol, for Nether Stowey, New Year's Day 1797 432 145The Raven 433 146To Thomas Poole: Invitation to Dine 438 147On the Christening of a Friend's Child 439 148To an Unfortunate Woman, Whom I Knew in the Days of her Innocence: Composed at the Theatre 439 149Allegorical Lines on the Same Subject 442 150To the Rev George Coleridge of Ottery St Mary, Devon, with Some Poems 445 151Song from OsoriolRemorse 448 152The Foster-mother's Tale: A Dramatic Fragment 451 153The Dungeon 458 153.Xl The Brook 459 154Melancholy: A Fragment 460 155Continuation of The Three Graves, by William Wordsworth 462 156This Lime-tree Bower my Prison 480 157Sonnet: To William Linley, Esq., While He Sang a Song to Purcell's Music 487 158Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of "Contemporary Writers" 489 159Sonnet: To a Lady 491 160The Wanderings of Cain 492 161The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 504 161.Xl Translation from Wieland's Oberon 540 162Parliamentary Oscillators 540 163Studies in Cloud Effects 542 164On Deputy - - 543 165The Apotheosis; or, The Snow-drop 543 166To a Well-known Musical Critic, Remarkable for his Ears Sticking thro' his Hair 548 167Fire, Famine, and Slaughter: A War Eclogue, with an Apologetic Preface 548 167.Xl Ideas or Lines for a Poem 565 168The Old Man of the Alps 566 1798 169Modification of Translation of a Celebrated Greek Song, by William Wordsworth 566 170De Papa: Vaticinium Haud Valde Obscurum, Nec 38 Incredibile, 1798 568 171Frost at Midnight 569 172Lewti; or, The Circassian Love-chant 574 173Welcoming Lines to Lavinia Poole 583 174France: An Ode 585 174.X 1 To - - ("I niix in life, and labour to 45 seem free") 593 175Fears in Solitude: Written in April 1798, during 51 the Alarm of an Invasion 593 176Christabel 606 177The Story of the Mad Ox 662 177.Xl To Lesbia 668 177.X2 The Death of the Starling 669 177.X3 Moriens Superstiti 669 177.X4 Morienti Superstes 669 178Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream 669 179Contribution to We Are Seven, by William Wordsworth 678 180The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem 679 181To William Wordsworth, with The Nightingale 684 182The Ballad of the Dark Ladi6: A Fragment 684 183Translation of an Inscription in Stowey Church 691 183.Xl Epigram: "To be ruled like a Frenchman the 10 Briton is loth" 691 ~183.X2 Contributions to The Morning Post 692 ~184 Lines Describing "Tbe silence of a City" 692 185English Hexameters 693 186English Duodecasyllables, Adapted from 18 Matthisson 695 187The Homeric Hexameter Described and 18 Exemplified, Adapted from Schiller 696 188The Ovidian Elegiac Metre Described and 56 Exemplified, from Schiller 697 189Something Childish but Very Natural, from the German 698 190The Visit of the Gods, Iniitated from Schiller 699 1799 191Translation of Otfrid 702 192Alcaeus to Sappho (revising William Wordsworth) 702 193On an Infant Who Died before its Christening, Perhaps Inspired by Lessing 703 194Metrical Adaptation of Gessner 704 195Lines in a German Student's Album 704 196Homesick: Written in Germany, Adapted from Biirde 705 197Adapted Lines on Fleas 707 198Extempore Couplet on German Roads and Woods 707 199The Virgin's Cradle-hymn, Copied from a Print of the Virgin in a Catholic Villaize in Germany 708 200 Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Harz Forest 710 BOOKID200.Xl German Album Verses 713 201Epigram on Goslar Ale, from the German 714 202Epitaph on Johann Reimbold of Catlenburg, from the German 715 203Epigram on Kepler, from Kdstner 715 204Epigram: "Jack drinks fine wines", from Kiistner 716 205Epigram on Mr Ross, Usualy "Nosy" 717 206Epigram: "0 would the Baptist come again", from Logau 717 207On the United Irishmen 718 208Epigram on a Reader of his Own Verses, Inspired by Wemicke 719 209Epigram on Neaera's Portrait, Inspired by Lessing 721 210Epigram on Exchanging Friends, from Logau 721 211Epigram on a Slanderer, from Lessing 721 212The British Stripling's War-song, from Stolberg 723 213Epigram on Hippona, from Lessing 726 214The Devil's Thoughts 726 215Before Gleim's Cottage: Elegiacs from Voss 751 216Mahomet: A Fragment 752 217Specimen Elegiacs, Adapting Ossian 753 217.Xl Rigmarole Verses about Samuel Jackson Pratt 754 218Epigram on a Report of a Minister's Death, from Lessing 754 219Epigram to a Proud Parent, from Lessing 755 220Epigram on a Notorious Liar, from Lessing 756 PART 2 221Epitaph on a Bad Man, Perhaps after Vicesimus Knox 759 222Two Versions of an Epigram on Lying, from Lessing 760 223Epigram on an Oxford Brothelhouse, Adapted from Lessing 761 224Epigram on a Lady's Too Great Fondness for her Dog, from Lessing 762 225Epigram on Mimulus, from Lessing 764 226Epigram on Paviun, from Lessing 764 227Epitaph on an Insignificant, Adapted from Lessing 765 228Epigram on Marriage, from Lessing 766 229Epigram on Maids and Angels, from Lessing 767 230Epigram to a Virtuous CEconornist, from Wemicke 767 231Epigram on Gripus, from Lessing 768 232On the Sickness of a Great Minister, from Lessing 769 233Epigram to an Author, from Lessing 770 234The Lethargist and Madman: A Political Fable, after the Greek Anthology 771 235Epigram to a Critic, Who Extracted a Passage from a Poem 773 236Names, from Lessing 774 237Epigram: Always Audible, from Kdstner 776 238Over the Door of a Cottage, after Logau 777 239The Devil Outwitted; or, Job's Luck, after Logau and John Owen 778 240Epigram on the Speed with Which Jack Writes Verses, after von Halem 780 241Epigram on a Bad Singer, after Pfeffel and Martial 781 242Epigram on a Joke without a Sting 782 243To a Living Ninon d'Enclos 783 244Epigram on a Maiden More Sentimental than Chaste 784 245The Exchange of Hearts 784 246Epigram on a Supposed Son 786 247Pondere, Non Numero, from Logau 786 248Lines Composed in a Concert-room 787 249Hexametrical Translation of Psalm 46 790 250Epigram on Sir Rubicund Naso 790 251To Delia 791 251.Xl Epigrams from Lessing 792 251.X2 Epigram: "Doris can find no taste in Tea" 792 252Couplet on Grosvenor Bedford 792 253Love 793 254Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, on the 24th Stanza in her Passage over Mount Gothard 807 265Two Lines on the Stars and the Mountains 823 266On the Poet's Eye 823 267The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone: A Skeltoniad (to be Read in the Recitative Lilt) 824 268Six Lines on a Keswick Holiday 832 269The Mad Monk 833 270Inscription for a Seat by a Road Side, Half-way up a Steep Hill, Facing the South 835 271A Stranger Minstrel 836 272The Night-scene: A Dramatic Fragment 838 273Two Lines on Remorse 839 1801 273.Xl lambics: "No cold shall thee benumb" 839 273.X2 The Second Birth 839 274Two Lines on the Cur, Arthritis 839 274.Xl An Expostulatory and Panegyrical Ode 840 274.X2 A Philosophical Apology for the Ladies 840 275After Bathing in the Sea at Scarborough in Company with T. Hutchinson, August 1801 841,1374 276Verse Letter to Miss Isabella Addison and Miss Joanna Hutchinson 844 277Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath 845 278Song to be Sung by the Lovers of All the Nobic Liquors Comprised under the Name of Ale 847 279Drinking versus Thinking; or, A Song against the New Philosophy 847 280Lines Written in Bed at Grasmere 848 281The Wills of the Wisp: A Sapphic, from Stolberg 853 282Lines Translated from Barbarous Latin 853 283Ode to Tranquillity 854 284To a Certain Modem Narcissus, from Hagedom 858 285Pastoral from Gessner 858 286Adaptation of Ben Jonson's The Poetaster 859 286.Xl The Complaint Qualified 859 1802 287Fragment on Time, from Schiller 860 287.Xl Experiment for a Metre (1) 860 288Lines on the Breeze and Hope 861 288.Xl Experiment for a Metre (2) 861 289A Letter to - 861 289.Xl Verses Sent to Dorothy Wordsworth 876 290A Soliloquy of the Full Moon, She Being in a Mad Passion 876 290.Xl "Dear Messieurs Trippeaux" 880 291Answer to a Child's Question 880 291.Xl The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus 882 292Epitaph on Lord Lonsdale 883 293Dejection: An Ode 884 294The Day Dream 897 294.Xl The Soother of Absence 899 295Sonnett o Asra 900 295.X1 Translation into Blank Verse of Salomon Gessner's Der erste Schiffer 900 296Lines Composed during a Night Rarnble behind Skiddaw, at the Foot of Mount Blencarthur, in 1802 901 297Sonnet Adapted from Petrarch 904 298A Version of a Nursery Rhyme 905 299The Keepsake 906 300 The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution 909 301Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny 922 302Dialogue concerning a Good Great Man 933 302.Xl Effusion, after Reading the Interesting Account of the Young Savage of Aveyron 935 303The Knight's Tomb 935 304To Matilda Betham, from a Stranger 938 305EDiizram on Eiigrams, from Wemicke 940 306Epigram on a Congenital Liar, from Wemicke 941 307Epigram on the Devil, from a German Original? 942 308Epigram Addressed to One Who Published in Print What Had Been Entrusted to Him by my Fire-side, from Wemicke 942 309On the Curious Circumstance, that in the German Language the Sun is Feminine, and the Moon Masculine, after Wernicke 943 310Epigram on Spots in the Sun, from Wernicke 944 311Epigram on Surface, from Wernicke 945 312A Dialogue between an Author and his Friend, after Wemicke 946 313Epigram on Possession, from a German Original 947 314Epigram on Castles in the Air, from Wernicke 948 315To a Vain Lady, from the German and from Martial 949 316Epigram to my Candle, after Wemicke 950 317From an Old German Poet (after Wernicke) 951 318Epigram on Bond Street Bucks, Adapted from Wemicke 952 319Epigram on Virgil's "Obscuri sub luce maligna", after Wemicke 952 320M(opocFo(piu.; or, Wisdom in Folly, from a German Original? 953 321Westphalian Song 954 322A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls 954 323Latin Lines to William Sotheby 955 324Epigram on Aurelia, from Gryphius 955 325For a House-dog's Collar, from Opitz 955 326Epigram on Zoilus, from Opitz 956 327Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser, from Opitz 956 327.Xl Stanzas Written after a Long Absence 958 328Latin Lines on a Former Friendship 958 1803 329Greek Lines on Achilles' Meal of Yesterday 959 330The Kiss and the Blush 960 331Grasmere in Sunshine 961 331.Xl Three Lines from the Bristol Notebook 962 332Fragments of an Unwritten Poem 962 333Three Lines on Loch Lomond 963 334Lines on "Such love as mouming Husbands have" 963 335The Pains of Sleep 963 336Epitaph on Poor Col, by Himself 967 337Brevity of the Greek and English Compared 968 338Lines after Hearing William Wordsworth's Michael 969 1804 339Lines Written at Dove Cottage 970 3413PatiiDtic Stm7,as 970 340.Xl Lines Written at either Ottery or Walthamstow 971 341A Triplet on Triplets 971 342Hexameter Lines to Mrs Coleridge 971 343Cartwright Modified 972 343.Xl "Sole Maid, associate sole, to me beyond" 972 343.X2 "I from the influence of thy looks receive" 973 343.X3 Verse Trifles Sent to Sir George Beaumont 973 344Epigram on "Dear Anne" 973 345Balsamum in Vitro 974 346Tears and Sympathy 974 347Phantom 974 348To Captain Findlay 975 349Mercury Descending: A Metrical Experiment 976 350Description of the Sun Setting in a Mountainous Country: A Fragment 977 351What is Life? A Metrical Experiment 978 352Adaptation of Hagedorn 979 353Metrical Experiments from Notebook 22 980 354Recollections of Love 982 354.Xl Further Lines on The Soother of Absence 986 355Fragment: "And laurel Crown..." 986 356Fragment: "What never is, but only is to be" 987 357Constancy to an Ideal Object 987 1805 358"This yearning Heart ..." 990 359Love-Why Blind? 990 360Closing Lines in Notebook 21 992 361Couplet Written in February 1805 992 361.Xl Twenty Lines Inscribed in The Poems of Ossian 993 362Verses on Love and Moral Being 993 363Doleful Dialogue 994 364Curtailed Lines in Notebook 17 995 365A Metaphor 995 366Apostrophe to Beauty in Malta 996 367To God 996 368Irregular Lines on the Sick Man's Comforter 997 369Lines Connected with the Grasmere Circle 997 370Lines on Hearing a Tale 998 371Lines Rewritten from Sannazaro 998 371.Xl Lines on Leaving the Mediterranean 999 372On the Nairnes in a Malta Notebook 1001 373Perhaps a Translation of Some Comically Bad Verses 1001 374Latin Lines to William Wordsworth as Judge 1002 375Epitaph on Major Dieman, with Comment 1002 376On the Name "Chastenut Grove", Derived from Ariosto 1003 377On Fetid, Who Died of a Catarrh 1004 378On the Family Vault of the Burrs 1005 1806 379Lines Written in a Dream 1007 380A Single Line on Revenge 1007 381Lines on a Death 1007 382Written at Ossaia 1008 383On Death at Pisa 1008 384The Taste of the Times 1008 385Lines Rewritten from Spenser's Epithalamium 1009 386Lines on a King-and-Emperor-Making Emperor and King, Altered from Fulke Greville 1009 387Farewell to Love 1010 388Time, Real and Imaginary: An Allegory 1011 389Two Epigrams on Pitt and Fox 1014 390Adapted from Fulke Greville's Alaham 1016 391More Lines Inspired by Fulke Greville 1016 392Inspired by Fulke Greville's Alaham 1016 393A Greek Song Set to Music and Sung by Hartley Coleridge, Esq"., Grecologian, Philometrist, and Philomelist 1017 394Verses to Derwent Coleridge, Accompanying Greek Lessons 1019 395To Derwent Coleridge: The Chief and Most Common Metrical Feet Expressed in Corresponding Metre 1019 396The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree 1021 397Lines Written in November-December 1806 1026 398Written at Coleorton 1027 399"Those eyes of deep & most expressive blue" 1027 400 A Line Written at Coleorton 1028 1807 401To Williairn Wordsworth, Composed on the Night after his Recitation of a Poem on the Growth of an Individual Mind 1028 402Psyche; or, The Butterfly 1036 403A Metrical Conclusion? 1038 404Lines on the Yellowhammer 1039 405Parody Epitaph on Tom Navel 1039 406Fragments Written in February 1807 1039 407Allegorical Description 1040 408Three Lines on Penitence 1041 409Fate and Conscience 1041 410Birds in May 1042 411Epigram on Confessions Auricular 1042 412The Pang More Sharp than All: An Allegory 1042 413On the Roots of a Tree 1046 413.Xl Poems Suggested by Richard Heme Shepherd, from The Courier 1047 413.X2 Epigram: "Ned calls his wife his counter-part" 1048 413.X3 "A wind that with Aurora hath abiding" 1048 414An Image Compressed from Crashaw 1048 415Between Concurrences of Fate 1049 416Imitations of Du Bartas etc 1049 417Translation of a Distich by Schiller 1050 418Translation of A Distich by Goethe and Schiller 1050 419On Tom Poole's Meanderings 1051 420Lines on Wordsworth and Coleridge 1051 420.Xl The Barberry-tree 1052 421Versified from Bacon 1053 422Adapted from a Shakespeare Sonnet 1053 423To Two Sisters: A Wanderer's Farewell 1054 424Thinking Merrily Alone 1055 425Lines Prompted by Chapman 1055 426A Line from a Lost Poem? 1056 1808 427Two Lines: "Or like the Swallow. 1056 428Prayer for Night: For Hartley and Derwent 1057 429Ad Vilmum Axiologum 1058 430Ad Vilmum Axiologum: Latin Version 1059 431An Anagram of Mary Morgan's Face 1061 432To Charlotte Brent 1061 433Extremes Meet: A Fill-A-Sopha-Col Note 1062 433A Lines to Charlotte Brent 1375 434On a Happy Household 1063 435Latin Lines to Accompany a Personal Emblem 1063 436Latin Lines to Accompany a Second Emblem 1064 437A Motto to Accompany a Third Emblem 1064 438An Exemplary Description 1064 439Latin Elegiacs on Guy Fawkes 1065 440Sonnet Translated from Marino 1066 441Alternative Stanzas in the Manner of Marino 1066 441.Xl Fragmentary Lines in Pencil 1066 441.X2 Twenty-six-line Poem 1067 442The Happy Husband: A Fragment 1068 443Lines on the Moon 1070 444Couplet on Singing in Church 1071 444.Xl Seven Cancelled Lines 1071 1809 445To Mr Amphlett 1072 446Adelphan Greek Riddle 1072 447Verse Letter to Mrs Coleridge 1072 448Another Epitaph on an Infant 1073 449A Motto Adapted from Love's Labour's Lost 1074 450Three-line Fragment 1075 451Contribution to To my Thrushes, by Thomas Wilkinson 1075 452For a Clock in a Market-place 1076 453On Mr Baker's Marriage: A Fragment 1076 454Verses Based on Paracelsus 1077 455A Tombless Epitaph 1077 455.Xl The Good Old Customs 1079 456Couplet Written in Autumn 1809 1080 457Lines Written in Late Autumn 1809 1080 458Verse Line, Late Autumn 1809 1080 459Adaptation of Lines from Daniel's Civil Wars 1081 460Cartwright Modified Again 1081 1810 461Separation, after Charles Cotton 1082 462Lines Altered from Fulke Greville's A Treatise of Humane Learning 1083 463Futke Greville Modified 1084 464Further Lines on Tranquillity 1085 465Lines on the Body and the Soul 1085 466Written in Dejection, May 1810 1085 467The Visionary Hope 1086 468Fragment in Blank Verse 1087 469Humorous Lines, Spring 1810 1087 470Voltaire Versified 1087 471Gilbert White Versified, on the Owl 1088 472Observation on Colour and Light 1088 473Burlesque in the Manner of Walter Scott 1088 474Translation of a Goethe Epigram 1089 1811 474.Xl Revisions of Mary Russell Mitford's Christina and Blanch 1089 4758 The Moon on the Pacific Main 1090 475.Xl Lovers' Quarrels 1090 475.X2 Epigram on Damus 1090 476On the First Poem in Donne's Book 1091 477Moles 1098 478Limbo: A Fragment 1098 479Ne Plus Ultra 1098 480Adaptation of Milton's Lines on Shakespeare 1099 481Lines Inscribed in Benedetto Menzini 1099 482Human Life, on the Denial of Immortality 1100 483Phlegethon, Cocytus, and Euterpe: Abandoned Stanzas 1102 484Fragmentary Lines on Change 1103 485Lines Inspired by Jean Paul 1103 485.Xl Epigram on Samuel Whitbread 1103 486Adaptation of Ben Jonson's A Nymph's Passion 1104 487Adaptation of Ben Jonson's The Hour-glass 1105 488Lavatorial Lines 1105 489Latin Lines Perhaps Connected with John Morgan 1105 490The Suicide's Argument, with Nature's Answer 1106 491Sir John Davies on the Soul, Adapted to the Imagination 1109 492To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation that Women Have No Souls 1110 492.Xl The Comet, 1811 1111 493Latin Distich on Giving and Receiving 1112 494A Half-attempt at Verse 1113 495A Droll Formulary to Raise Devils 1113 1812 496Versified Note to J. J. Morgan 1115 497Epigram on Maule and Mather 1116 498On the Narning of Bombay 1116 498.Xl Love's Response 1117 498.X2 Epigram on Sir Humphry Davy's Marriage 1117 499Faith, Hope, Charity, Translated from Guarini 1118 500 Metrical Experiment in May 1812 1118 BOOKID500.Xl Lines Sent with a Collection of Manuscripts to John May 1119 501The King of the North Countrie 1119 502Epitaph on the Learned Robert Whitmore, E Who Died of a Diarrho~a, 4 August 1812,~ Etatis Sux 57 1120 502.Xl A Tear 1120 1813-1814 502.X4 Shakespeare Read Creatively 1121 503Couplet on Lesbian Lovers 1122 504On the Secrecy of a Certain Lady 1122 505Maevius-Bavius Exemplum 1123 506Lines on Looking Seaward 1123 507Lines on Zephyrs 1123 508National Independence: A Latin Fragment 1124 508.Xl Doggerel Rhymes 1125 509To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck 1126 510God's Omnipresence: A Hymn 1128 511A Couplet to Illustrate Paeon and Epitrite 1130 512A Plaintive Movement, after Phineas Fletcher 1130 513Motto for a Transparency 1131 514On the Condition of Ireland, in the Manner of Daniel's Civil Wars 1132 515Written in Richard Field's Of the Church 1132 515.Xl Puff and Slander 1133 516Revisions of the Opening of Southey's Roderick 1133 516.Xl Improvements for Charles Bowker Ash 1134 1815 517Glycine's Song from Zapolya 1134 517.X2 Napoleon 1139 517.X3 Lines in Walker's Dictionary, Largely Erased 1139 518A Metrical Line in Notebook 22 1140 519Metrical Version of Job, from Jacobi 1140 520Specimen Translation of Pindar, "Word for Word" 1140 521Contemporary Critics 1141 522Translation of Dante 1141 523Lines on Aurelia Coates 1141 524Lines in Praise of Rabelais 1142 525EFUENKAIRIAN: A Dithyrambic Ode 1143 526To the Morgans 1143 527Lines on Superstition 1144 528Lines Headed "Orpheus" 1145 529Lines Adapted from Jean Paul 1145 530Further Lines Adapted from Jean Paul 1146 531Epigram on Money 1146 532Lines on Crimes and Virtues 1146 533Elevated Diarrhoea 1147 533.Xl The Cherub 1147 1816-1818 534Verse Lines from A Lay Sermon 1147 535Alternative Translation of Virgil's Bucolics 1148 536Motto for Memoranda in Notebook 25 1148 537Lines after Punch 1149 538Lines for an Autograph Hunter 1149 539To a Young Lady Complaining of a Com 1151 540Fancy in Nubibus 1152 541Imitated from Aristophanes 1154 542Part of a Sonnet to Miss Bullock 1155 543Israel's Lament on the Death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales, Translated from the Hebrew of Hyman Hurwitz 1155 544Rewriting of Lines by Beaumont and Fletcher 1158 545A Description of a Nightingale 1159 546Lines Suggested by Sir Thomas Browne 1159 546.Xl Three Epigrams on Bishop Watson 1160 546.X2 Translations from the Old Testament 1160 547Couplet on the Heart Deaf and Blind 1161 548Adaptation of Daniel's Epistle to Sir Thomas Egerton 1161 549Adaptation of Donne's To Sir Henry Goodyere 1161 550Adaptation of Daniel's Musophilus 1162 551Adaptation of Donne's Eclogue 1613, December 26 1162 552A Further Adaptation of Daniel's Musophilus 1163 553Epigraph Verses for The Friend 1163 554Adaptation of Lines from Dodsley's Select Collection of Old Plays 1163 555Draft Fragment, Perhaps Describing Sara Coleridge 1164 1819-1821 556Lines on the Usury of Pain 1165 557Distich, Written in February 1819 1166 558The Proper Unmodified Dochmius, i.e., Antispastus Hypercatalecticus 1166 559"Beareth all things" 1167 560To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review 1167 561A Character 1170 562Extempore Specimen of the Pun Polysyllabic 1175 563Riddle for Materialists 1175 564Extempore, to Charles Mathews 1176 565The Tears of a Grateful People 1176 566Couplet on Anticipation and Theory, Genius and Cleverness 1177 567Couplet on Man as Solar Animal 1177 568Greek Couplet on Lauderdale 1178 569On Footnotes, in a Letter 1178 570A Practical Problem concerning Flies 1179 571Music 1179 572Sonnet: To Nature 1179 573A Couplet Addressed to the Mind's Ear 1180 574First Advent of Love 1180