I. TO A FRIEND
"Bereave me not of these delightful Dreams."--W. L. BOWLES.[1141:1]
II. "With many a weary step at length I gain."--R. SOUTHEY.
III. TO SCOTLAND
"Scotland! when thinking on each heathy hill."--C. LLOYD.
IV. TO CRAIG-MILLAR CASTLE IN WHICH MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS WAS CONFINED.
"This h.o.a.ry labyrinth, the wreck of Time."--C. LLOYD.
V. TO THE RIVER OTTER
"Dear native Brook! wild Streamlet of the West."--S. T. COLERIDGE.
VI. "O Harmony! thou tenderest Nurse of Pain."--W. L. BOWLES.
VII. TO EVENING
"What numerous tribes beneath thy shadowy wing."--BAMFIELD.
VIII. ON BATHING
"When late the trees were stript by winter pale".--T. WARTON.
IX. "When eddying Leaves begun in whirls to fly."--HENRY BROOKS, (_the Author of the Fool of Quality_.)
X. "We were two pretty Babes, the younger she".--CHARLES LAMB.
[_Note_]. Innocence which while we possess it is playful as a babe, becomes AWFUL, when it departs from us. That is the sentiment of the line, a fine sentiment, and n.o.bly expressed.--THE EDITOR.
XI. "I knew a gentle maid I ne"er shall view."--W. SOTHEBY.
XII. "Was it some sweet device of faery land."--CHARLES LAMB.
XIII. "When last I rov"d these winding wood-walks green."--CHARLES LAMB.
XIV. ON A DISCOVERY MADE TOO LATE.
"Thou bleedest, my poor HEART! and thy distress."--S. T. COLERIDGE.
XV. "Hard by the road, where on that little mound."--ROBERT SOUTHEY.
XVI. THE NEGRO SLAVE
"Oh he is worn with toil! the big drops run."--ROBERT SOUTHEY.
XVII. "Sweet Mercy! how my very heart has bled."--S. T. COLERIDGE.
XVIII. "Could then the babes from yon unshelter"d cot."--THOMAS RUSSEL.
XIX. "Mild arch of promise on the evening sky."--ROBERT SOUTHEY.
XX. "Oh! She was almost speechless nor could hold."--CHARLES LLOYD.
XXI. "When from my dreary Home I first mov"d on"--CHARLES LLOYD.
XXII. "In this tumultuous sphere for thee unfit."--CHARLOTTE SMITH.
XXIII. "I love the mournful sober-suited NIGHT."--CHARLOTTE SMITH.
XXIV. "Lonely I sit upon the silent sh.o.r.e."--THOMAS DERMODY.
XXV. "Oh! I could laugh to hear the midnight wind."--CHARLES LAMB.
XXVI. "Thou whose stern spirit loves the awful storm."--W. L. BOWLES.
XXVII. "INGRAt.i.tUDE, how deadly is thy smart."--ANNA SEWARD.
XXVIII. TO THE AUTHOR OF THE "ROBBERS"
"That fearful voice, a famish"d Father"s cry."--S. T. COLERIDGE.
[At the foot of l. 14. S. T. C. writes--
"I affirm, John Thelwall! that the six last lines of this Sonnet to Schiller are strong and fiery; and you are the only one who thinks otherwise.--There"s! a _spurt_ of Author-like Vanity for you!"]
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ODE / ON THE / DEPARTING YEAR. / BY S. T. COLERIDGE. / ???, ???, ? ? ?a?a, ?p" a? e de???? ????a?te?a? p???? / St??e?, ta?a.s.s?? f??????? ef?????, / . . . . . / t?
e???? ??e? ?a? s? ?? ta?e? pa??? / ??a? ?" a????a?t?? " e?e??. / aeSCHYL. AGAMEM.
1225. / BRISTOL; Printed by N. Biggs, / and sold by J. Parsons, Paternoster Row, London. / 1796. / [4{o}.
_Collation._--t.i.tle, one leaf, p. [1]; Dedication, To Thomas Poole of Stowey, pp. [3]-4; Text, pp. [5]-15; LINES Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune who abandoned himself to an indolent and causeless Melancholy (signed) [=S. T. Coleridge=], p. 16. [Signatures--B (p. 5)--D (p. 13).]
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POEMS, / By / S. T. COLERIDGE, / Second Edition. / To which are now added / POEMS / _By_ CHARLES LAMB, / And / CHARLES LLOYD. / Duplex n.o.bis vinculum, et amicitiae et similium / junctarumque Camnarum; quod utinam neque mors / solvat, neque temporis longinquitas! / _Groscoll.
Epist. ad Car. Utenhov. et Ptol. Lux. Tast._ / Printed by N. Biggs, / For J. Cottle, BRISTOL, and Messrs. / Robinsons, London. / 1797. / [8{o}.
_Collation._--t.i.tle-page, one leaf, p. [i]; Half-t.i.tle, one leaf, [=Poems=] / by / [=S. T. Coleridge=] / [followed by Motto as in No. II], pp. [iii]-[iv]; Contents, pp. [v]-vi; DEDICATION, _To the Reverend_ GEORGE COLERIDGE of OTTERY St. MARY, / DEVON. Notus in frates animi paterni. _Hor. Carm. Lib._ II. 2. /, pp. [vii]-xii; Preface to the First Edition, pp. [xiii]-xvi; Preface to the Second Edition, pp. [xvii]-xx; Half-t.i.tle, [=Ode=] / _on the_ / [=Departing Year=] [with motto (5 lines) from Aeschy. Agamem. 1225], one leaf, pp. [1]-[2]; Argument, pp.
[3]-[4]; Text, pp. [5]-278; Errata (four lines) at the foot of p. 278.
[Carolus Utenhovius (Utenhove, or Uyttenhove) and Ptolomus Luxius Tasteus were scholar friends of the Scottish poet and historian George Buchanan (1506-1582), who prefixes some Iambics "Carolo Utenhovio F. S."