Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The

Complete Poetical Works

Of

Including

Poems and Versions of Poems Now

Published for the First Time

Edited

With Textual and Bibliographical Notes

By

Ernest Hartley Coleridge

M.A., HON. F.R.S.L.

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II: DRAMATIC WORKS AND APPENDICES

Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1912

HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK
TORONTO AND MELBOURNE

Contents of Vol. II

DRAMATIC WORKS

1794

PAGE

The Fall of Robespierre. An Historic Drama

1797

Osorio. A Tragedy

1800

The Piccolomini; or, The First Part of Wallenstein. A Drama translated from the German of Schiller.

Preface to the First Edition

The Piccolomini

The Death of Wallenstein. A Tragedy in Five Acts.

Preface of the Translator to the First Edition

The Death of Wallenstein

1812

Remorse.

Preface

Prologue

Epilogue

Remorse. A Tragedy in Five Acts

1815

Zapolya. A Christmas Tale in Two Parts.

Advertisement

Part I. The Prelude, entitled 'The Usurper's Fortune'

Part II. The Sequel, entitled 'The Usurper's Fate'

Epigrams

An Apology for Spencers

On a Late Marriage between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître

On an Amorous Doctor

'Of smart pretty Fellows,' &c.

On Deputy ——

'To be ruled like a Frenchman,' &c.

On Mr. Ross, usually Cognominated Nosy

'Bob now resolves,' &c.

'Say what you will, Ingenious Youth'

'If the guilt of all lying,' &c.

On an Insignificant

'There comes from old Avaro's grave'

On a Slanderer

Lines in a German Student's Album

[Hippona]

On a Reader of His Own Verses

On a Report of a Minister's Death

[Dear Brother Jem]

Job's Luck

On the Sickness of a Great Minister

[To a Virtuous Oeconomist]

[L'Enfant Prodigue]

On Sir Rubicund Naso

To Mr. Pye

[Ninety-Eight]

Occasioned by the Former

[A Liar by Profession]

To a Proud Parent

Rufa

On a Volunteer Singer

Occasioned by the Last

Epitaph on Major Dieman

On the Above

Epitaph on a Bad Man (Three Versions)

To a Certain Modern Narcissus

To a Critic

Always Audible

Pondere non Numero

The Compliment Qualified

'What is an Epigram,' &c.

'Charles, grave or merry,' &c.

'An evil spirit's on thee, friend,' &c.

'Here lies the Devil,' &c.

To One Who Published in Print, &c.

'Scarce any scandal,' &c.

'Old Harpy,' &c.

To a Vain Young Lady

A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls

'From me, Aurelia,' &c.

For a House-Dog's Collar

'In vain I praise thee, Zoilus'

Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser

A Dialogue between an Author and his Friend

Μωροσοφία, or Wisdom in Folly

'Each Bond-street buck,' &c.

From an Old German Poet

On the Curious Circumstance, That in the German, &c.

Spots in the Sun

'When Surface talks,' &c.

To my Candle

Epitaph on Himself

The Taste of the Times

On Pitt and Fox

'An excellent adage,' &c.

Comparative Brevity of Greek and English

On the Secrecy of a Certain Lady

Motto for a Transparency, &c. (Two Versions)

'Money, I've heard,' &c.

Modern Critics

Written in an Album

To a Lady who requested me to Write a Poem upon Nothing

Sentimental

'So Mr. Baker,' &c.

Authors and Publishers

The Alternative

'In Spain, that land,' &c.

Inscription for a Time-piece

On the Most Veracious Anecdotist, &c.

'Nothing speaks but mind,' &c.

Epitaph of the Present Year on the Monument of Thomas Fuller

Jeux d'Esprit

My Godmother's Beard

Lines to Thomas Poole

To a Well-known Musical Critic, &c.

To T. Poole: An Invitation

Song, To be Sung by the Lovers of all the noble liquors, &c.

Drinking versus Thinking

The Wills of the Wisp

To Captain Findlay

On Donne's Poem 'To a Flea'

[Ex Libris S. T. C.]

ΕΓΩΕΝΚΑΙΠΑΝ

The Bridge Street Committee

Nonsense Sapphics

To Susan Steele, &c.

Association of Ideas

Verses Trivocular

Cholera Cured Before-hand

To Baby Bates

To a Child

Fragments from a Notebook, (circa 1796-1798)

Fragments. (For unnamed Fragments see Index of First Lines.)

Over my Cottage

[The Night-Mare Death in Life]

A Beck in Winter

[Not a Critic—But a Judge] 1000

[De Profundis Clamavi] 1001

Fragment of an Ode on Napoleon 1003

Epigram on Kepler 1004

[Ars Poetica] 1006

Translation of the First Strophe of Pindar's Second Olympic 1006

Translation of a Fragment of Heraclitus 1007

Imitated from Aristophanes 1008

To Edward Irving 1008

[Luther—De Dæmonibus] 1009

The Netherlands 1009

Elisa: Translated from Claudian 1009

Profuse Kindness 1010

Napoleon 1010

The Three Sorts of Friends 1012

Bo-Peep and I Spy— 1012

A Simile 1013

Baron Guelph of Adelstan. A Fragment 1013

Metrical Experiments 1014

An Experiment for a Metre ('I heard a Voice, &c.') 1014

Trochaics 1015

The Proper Unmodified Dochmius 1015

Iambics 1015

Nonsense ('Sing, impassionate Soul,' &c.) 1015

A Plaintive Movement 1016

An Experiment for a Metre ('When thy Beauty appears') 1016

Nonsense Verses ('Ye fowls of ill presage') 1017

Nonsense ('I wish on earth to sing') 1017

'There in some darksome shade' 1018

'Once again, sweet Willow, wave thee' 1018

'Songs of Shepherds, and rustical Roundelays' 1018

A Metrical Accident 1019

Notes by Professor Saintsbury 1019

APPENDIX I

First Drafts, Early Versions, etc.

A. Effusion 35, August 20th, 1795. (First Draft.) [MS. R.] 1021

Effusion, p. 96 [1797]. (Second Draft.) [MS. R.] 1021

B. Recollection 1023

C. The Destiny of Nations. (Draft I.) [Add. MSS. 34,225]
" " " (Draft II.) [ibid.]
" " " (Draft III.) [ibid.] 1024
1026
1027

D. Passages in Southey's Joan of Arc (First Edition, 1796) contributed by S. T. Coleridge 1027

E. The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere [1798] 1030

F. The Raven. [M. P. March 10, 1798.] 1048

G. Lewti; or, The Circassian's Love-Chant. (1.) [B. M. Add. MSS. 27,902.] 1049

The Circassian's Love-Chaunt. (2.) [Add. MSS. 35,343.] 1050

Lewti; or, The Circassian's Love-Chant. (3.) [Add. MSS. 35,343.] 1051

H. Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie. [M. P. Dec. 21, 1799.] 1051

I. The Triumph of Loyalty. An Historic Drama. [Add. MSS. 34,225.] 1069

J. Chamouny; The Hour before Sunrise. A Hymn. [M. P. Sept. 11, 1802.] 1074

K. Dejection: An Ode. [M. P. Oct. 4, 1802.] 1076

L. To W. Wordsworth. January 1807 1081

M. Youth and Age. (MS. I, Sept. 10, 1823.)
" " (MS. II. 1.)
" " (MS. II. 2.) 1084
1085
1086

N. Love's Apparition and Evanishment. (First Draft.) 1087

O. Two Versions of the Epitaph. ('Stop, Christian,' &c.) 1088

P. [Habent sua Fata—Poetae.] ('The Fox, and Statesman,' &c.) 1089

Q. To John Thelwall 1090

R. [Lines to T. Poole.] [1807.] 1090

APPENDIX II

Allegoric Vision 1091

APPENDIX III

Apologetic Preface to 'Fire, Famine, and Slaughter' 1097

APPENDIX IV

Prose Versions of Poems, etc.

A. Questions and Answers in the Court of Love 1109

B. Prose Version of Glycine's Song in Zapolya 1109

C. Work without Hope. (First Draft.) 1110

D. Note to Line 34 of the Joan of Arc Book II. [4o 1796.] 1112

E. Dedication. Ode on the Departing Year. [4o 1796.] 1113

F. Preface to the MS. of Osorio 1114

APPENDIX V

Adaptations

From Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke:

God and the World we worship still together 1115

The Augurs we of all the world admir'd 1116

Of Humane Learning 1116

From Sir John Davies: On the Immortality of the Soul 1116

From Donne: Eclogue. 'On Unworthy Wisdom' 1117

Letter to Sir Henry Goodyere 1117

From Ben Jonson: A Nymph's Passion (Mutual Passion) 1118

Underwoods, No. VI. The Hour-glass 1119

The Poetaster, Act I, Scene i. 1120

From Samuel Daniel: Epistle to Sir Thomas Egerton, Knight 1120

Musophilus, Stanza cxlvii 1121

Musophilus, Stanzas xxvii, xxix, xxx 1122

From Christopher Harvey: The Synagogue (The Nativity, or Christmas Day.) 1122

From Mark Akenside: Blank Verse Inscriptions 1123

From W. L. Bowles: 'I yet remain' 1124

From an old Play: Napoleon 1124

APPENDIX VI

Originals of Translations

F. von Matthison: Ein milesisches Mährchen, Adonide. 1125

Schiller: Schwindelnd trägt er dich fort auf rastlos strömenden Wogen. 1125

Im Hexameter steigt des Springquells flüssige Säule. 1125

Stolberg: Unsterblicher Jüngling! 1126

Seht diese heilige Kapell! 1126

Schiller: Nimmer, das glaubt mir. 1127

Goethe: Kennst du das Land, wo die Citronen blühn. 1128

François-Antoine-Eugène de Planard: 'Batelier, dit Lisette.' 1128

German Folk Song: Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär. 1129

Stolberg; Mein Arm wird stark und gross mein Muth. 1129

Leasing: Ich fragte meine Schöne. 1130

Stolberg: Erde, du Mutter zahlloser Kinder, Mutter und Amme! 1130

Friederike Brun: Aus tiefem Schatten des schweigenden Tannenhains. 1131

Giambattista Marino: Donna, siam rei di morte. Errasti, errai. 1131

MS. Notebook: In diesem Wald, in diesen Gründen. 1132

Anthologia Graeca: Κοινῇ πὰρ κλισίῃ ληθαργικὸς ἠδὲ φρενοπλὴξ 1132

Battista Guarini: Canti terreni amori. 1132

Stolberg: Der blinde Sänger stand am Meer. 1134

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE POETICAL WORKS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 1135

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX

No. I. Poems first published in Newspapers or Periodicals. 1178

No. II. Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit first published in Newspapers and Periodicals. 1182

No. III. Poems included in Anthologies and other Works. 1183

No. IV. Poems first printed or reprinted in Literary Remains, 1836, &c. 1187

Poems first printed or reprinted in Essays on His Own Times, 1850. 1188

INDEX OF FIRST LINES 1189

ERRATA

On p. 1179, line 7, for Sept. 27, read Sept. 23.

On p. 1181, line 33, for Oct. 9 read Oct. 29.

Dramatic Works

The Fall of Robespierre[495:1]

An Historic Drama

[First Act by Coleridge: Second and Third by Southey—1794.]

TO

H. MARTIN, ESQ.

OF

JESUS COLLEGE

CAMBRIDGE

Dear Sir,
Accept, as a small testimony of my grateful attachment, the following Dramatic Poem, in which I have endeavoured to detail, in an interesting form, the fall of a man, whose great bad actions have cast a disastrous lustre on his name. In the execution of the work, as intricacy of plot could not have been attempted without a gross violation of recent facts, it has been my sole aim to imitate the empassioned and highly figurative language of the French orators, and to develope the characters of the chief actors on a vast stage of horrors.

Yours fraternally,

S. T. Coleridge.

Jesus College, September 22, 1794.