SAMUEL TAYLOR

COLERIDGE

EDITED

WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY T. ASHE, B.A.

OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II.

LONDON

GEORGE BELL AND SONS

CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.

TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

I. POEMS OCCASIONED BY POLITICAL EVENTS OR FEEL-

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Ode to the Departing Year

France. An Ode

Fears in Solitude. Written in April, 1798,

during the Alarm of an Invasion

* Recantation. Illustrated in the Story of the

Mad Ox

* Parliamentary Oscillators:

Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. A War Eclogue

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II. LoyE POEMS.

Love.

Lewti, or the Circassian Love-Chant:

The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution

The Night-Scene. A Dramatic Fragment

The Foster-Mother's Tale. A Dramatic Frag-

ment

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To an Unfortunate Woman, whom the Author

had known in the Days of her Innocence

To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre

Lines Composed in a Concert Room

The Keepsake

To a Lady, with Falconer's “ Shipwreck”

To a Young Lady. On her Recovery from a

Fever .
Something Childish, but very Natural. Written

in Germany

Home-Sick. Written in Germany

Answer to a Child's Question

The Visionary Hope

The Happy Husband.

Recollections of Love .

On Revisiting the Sea-Shore, after long Absence,

under strong medical Recommendation not

to bathe

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III. MEDITATIVE POEMS IN BLANK VERSE.

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Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni

Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode, in

the Hartz Forest

On Observing a Blossom on the 1st of February;

1796
The Eolian Harp. Composed at Clevedon,

Somersetshire
Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement

To the Rev. George Coleridge, of Ottery St.

Mary, Devon. With some Poems

Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath

A Tombless Epitaph

This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison

To a Friend who had declared his Intention of

writing no more Poetry

To William Wordsworth. Composed on the

Night after his Recitation of a Puem on

the Growth of an Individual Mind

The Nightingale; a Conversational Poem.

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