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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: coleridge, samuel Matches Found: 457 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Poet's Biography 457 poems available by this author A BECK IN WINTER Poem Text First Line: Over the broad, the shallow, rapid stream Last Line: And pomp of antlers -- Subject(s): Winter A CHARACTER Poem Text First Line: A bird, who for his other sins Last Line: With scarce a pocket for his penny! A CHILD'S EVENING PRAYER Poem Text First Line: Ere on my bed my limbs I lay Last Line: Awake to thy eternal day! Amen. Subject(s): Love; Prayer; Sleep A DAY DREAM Poem Text First Line: My eyes make pictures, when they are shut Last Line: Murmur it to yourselves, ye two beloved women! Variant Title(s): Eye Subject(s): Dreams; Language; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary A FRAGMENT FOUND IN A LECTURE-ROOM Poem Text First Line: Where deep in mud cam rolls his slumbrous stream Last Line: Cetera desunt. A LETTER TO SARA HUTCHINSON, APRIL 4, 1802 -- SUNDAY EVENING Poem Text First Line: Well! If the bard was weatherwise, who made Last Line: Thus may'st thou ever, evermore rejoice! Subject(s): Grief; Hutchinson, Sara; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness A LOVER'S COMPLAINT TO HIS MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: The dubious light sad glimmers o'er the sky Last Line: And faithless ocean smile -- but to deceive. A MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM Poem Text First Line: On a given finite line Last Line: Tis raised upon a. B. The straight, the given line. A PLANTIVE MOMENT Poem Text First Line: Go little pipe! For ever I must leave thee Last Line: Hide with sere leaves my grave's undaisied slope. A RHYMESTER Poem Text First Line: Jem writes his verses with more speed Last Line: And only not so fast as we forget 'em. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A SOLILOQUY OF THE FULL MOON, SHE BEING IN A MAD PASSION Poem Text First Line: Now as heaven is my lot, they're the pests of the nation Last Line: I am I myself I, the jolly full moon. Subject(s): Moon A STRANGER MINSTREL; TO MRS. ROBINSON BEFORE HER DEATH Poem Text First Line: As late on skiddaw's mount I lay supine Last Line: I would, I would that she were here!' Subject(s): Mountains; Robinson, Mary (1758-1800); Skiddaw (mountain), England; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A SUNSET Poem Text First Line: Upon the mountain's edge all lightly resting Last Line: And deep the cavern of the fountain mutters. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND Poem Text First Line: On stern blencathra's perilous height Last Line: The things that seek the earth, how full of noise and riot! Subject(s): Mountains; Saddleback (mountain), England; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A TOMBLESS EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Tis true, idoloclastes satyrane Last Line: Thoughtful, with quiet tears upon his cheek. Subject(s): Epitaphs A WISH WRITTEN IN JESUS WOOD, FEB. 10TH, 1792 Poem Text First Line: Lo! Thro' the dusky silence of the groves Last Line: Compose with icy hand! ABSENCE: A FAREWELL ODE ON QUITTING SCHOOL FOR JESUS COLLEGE Poem Text First Line: Where graced with many a classic spoil Last Line: We bless the wanderer of the night. AD VILMUM AXIOLOGUM Poem Text First Line: This be the meed, that thy song creates a thousand fold echo! Last Line: Love is the spirit of life, and music the life of the spirit. -- Subject(s): Music & Musicians ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG MAN OF FORTUNE Poem Text First Line: Hence that fantastic wantonness of woe Last Line: A prey to tyrants, murderers of mankind. Subject(s): Idleness; Melancholy; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Dejection ALCAEUS TO SAPPHO First Line: How sweet, when crimson colours dart ALICE DU CLOS: OR THE FORKED TONGUE. A BALLAD Poem Text First Line: The sun is not yet risen Last Line: Lies bleeding on the glade. Subject(s): Language; Lies; Words; Vocabulary ALTERNATIVE First Line: This way or that, ye powers above me ALVAR'S ADDRESS TO THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD First Line: With no irreverent voice or uncouth charm ALWAYS AUDIBLE First Line: Pass under jack's window at twelve at night AN ANGEL VISITANT Poem Text First Line: Within these circling hollies woodbine-clad Last Line: For here, my love! Thou art! And here am I! AN ETERNAL POEM Poem Text First Line: Your poem must eternal be Last Line: And without head or tail! Variant Title(s): To Mr. Pye;epigram On The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Subject(s): Pye, Henry James (1745-1813) AN INVOCATION Poem Text First Line: Sweet muse! Companion of my every hour Last Line: O'erspread my features with a flush of joy! AN INVOCATION; SONG, FR. REMORSE Poem Text First Line: Hear, sweet spirit, hear the spell Last Line: Miserere domine! Variant Title(s): A Voice Sings Subject(s): Inquisition AN ODE IN THE MANNER OF ANACREON Poem Text First Line: As late in wreaths gay flowers I bound Last Line: Flutt'ring his wings within my breast! AN ODE ON NAPOLEON; FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: O'erhung with yew, midway the muses mount Last Line: Usurping power his hands in blood imbrues --' Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) AN ODE ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BASTILE Poem Text First Line: Heard'st thou yon universal cry Last Line: First ever of the first and freest of the free! Subject(s): Bastille (paris); French Revolution (1789); Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts AN ODE TO THE RAIN Poem Text First Line: I know it is dark; and though I have lain Last Line: Do go, dear rain! Do go away. Subject(s): Rain ANCIENT MARINER First Line: It is an ancient mariner Last Line: And he shone bright, and on the right %went down into the sea ANCIENT MARINER AMONG THE DEAD BODIES OF SAILORS First Line: Beyond the shadow of the ship AND NOW THERE CAME BOTH MIST AND SNOW FR. THE ANCIENT MARINER Subject(s): Birds ANNA AND HARLAND Poem Text First Line: Within these wilds was anna wont to rove Last Line: Like heaven's bright beauteous bow reflected in the stream. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Supernatural ANNA AND HENRY Poem Text First Line: Along the glade was anna wont's to rove Last Line: Like heaven's bright bow reflected on the stream. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Supernatural ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION Poem Text First Line: Do you ask what the birds say? The sparrow, the dove Last Line: "I love my love, and my love loves me!" Variant Title(s): What The Birds Say;birds;the Language Of Birds Subject(s): Birds; Love; Spring ANTHEM FOR THE CHILDREN OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL Poem Text First Line: Seraphs! Around th' eternal's seat who throng Last Line: And each glad scene look brighter for the storm! Subject(s): Children; Childhood APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA Poem Text First Line: The poet in his lone yet genial hour Last Line: Phantoms of sublimity. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS First Line: Fond, peevish, wedded pair! Why all this rant AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS First Line: A heavy wit shall hang at every lord AVARO First Line: There comes from old avaro's grave BEELZEBUB AND JOB; EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Sly beelzebub took all occasions Last Line: Short-sighted devil, not to take his spouse! Variant Title(s): Job's Luck Subject(s): Devil; Job (bible); Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub BRIDGE STREET COMMITTEE First Line: Jack stripe BRISTOL WITS First Line: Of smart pretty fellows in bristol are numbers, some CATULLIAN HENDECASYLLABLES Poem Text First Line: Hear, my beloved, an old milesian story! Last Line: Shivering with ecstasy sank upon her bosom. CHARITY IN THOUGHT Poem Text First Line: To praise men as good, and to take them for such Last Line: To god, thy conscience, and the grave. CHARITY THE DAUGHTER OF HUMILITY Poem Text First Line: Gently I took that which ungently came Last Line: Give him the rotten timber for his pains! Variant Title(s): Forbearance Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology CHOLERA CURED BEFORE HAND Poem Text First Line: Pains ventral, subventral Last Line: And whitewash at once bowels, rooms, hands, and manners! Subject(s): Cholera CHRISTABEL: PART 1 Poem Text First Line: Tis the middle of night by the castle clock Last Line: For the blue sky bends over all! CHRISTABEL: PART 2 Poem Text First Line: Each matin bell, the baron saith Last Line: So talks as it 's most used to do. COLERIDGE'S SKY First Line: O lady! In this wan and heartless mood Subject(s): Country Life COLOGNE; EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: In koln, a town of monks and bones Last Line: Shall henceforth wash the river rhine? Variant Title(s): Epigram;expectoration The Second Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Hate; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances CONCEALMENT Poem Text First Line: Time, as he courses onward Last Line: To scare or to reward. CONSTANCY TO AN IDEAL OBJECT Poem Text First Line: Since all, that beat about in nature's range Last Line: Nor knows he makes the shadow, he pursues! Subject(s): Fidelity; Faithfulness; Constancy DAINTY TERMS FOR FRATRICIDE First Line: We, this whole people, have been clamorous Last Line: As though he had no wife to pine for him, %no god to judge him! DARK SIDE OF NATURE First Line: Yon row of bleak and visionary pines DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONAM First Line: Last monday all the papers said DEJECTION: AN ODE Poem Text First Line: Well! If the bard was weather-wise, who made Last Line: Thus mayest thou ever, evermore rejoice. Variant Title(s): The New Moon;letter To Sara Hutchinson: 4 April 1802, Sunday Evening Subject(s): Grief; Hutchinson, Sara; Love - Complaints; Melancholy; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection DESIRE Poem Text First Line: Where true love burns desire is love's pure flame Last Line: And but translates the language of the heart. Subject(s): Desire; Love DEVONSHIRE ROADS Poem Text First Line: The indignant bard compos'd this furious ode Last Line: Alight upon thee, damned bog! DIALOGUE BETWEEN AN AUTHOR AND HIS FRIEND First Line: Come; your opinion of my manuscript DISTICH First Line: Jack finding gold left rope on the ground DOMESTIC PEACE; SONG, FR. THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE Poem Text First Line: Tell me, on what holy ground Last Line: Memory, bosom-spring of joy. DRINKING VERSUS THINKING; OR, A SONG AGAINST THE NEW PHILOSOPHY Poem Text First Line: My merry men all, that drink with glee Last Line: Dead drunk beneath the table! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine DUE TO THE STAGGERERS, THAT MADE DRUNK BY POWER DURA NAVIS Poem Text First Line: To tempt the dangerous deep, too venturous youth Last Line: And gild with brightest rays the evening of thy life. DUTY SURVIVING SELF-LOVE; THE ONLY SURE FRIEND OF DECLINING LIFE Poem Text First Line: Unchanged within to see all changed without Last Line: Because to thee they are not what they were. Subject(s): Change; Tolerance EASTER HOLIDAYS Poem Text First Line: Hail! Festal easter, that dost bring Last Line: Like easter all the year. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection ELEGY IMITATED FROM ONE OF AKENSIDE'S ... INSCRIPTIONS Poem Text First Line: Near the lone pile with ivy overspread Last Line: That riches cannot pay for love or truth. Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Doctors ELEGY ON A LADY WHO DIED IN EARLY YOUTH First Line: O'er the rais'd earth the gales of evening sigh EPIGRAM First Line: Sir, I admit your general rule Last Line: But you yourself may serve to show it, %that every fool is not a poet Subject(s): Poetry And Poets EPIGRAM ON KEPLER First Line: No mortal spirit yet had clomb so high EPILOGUE TO THE RASH CONJUROR First Line: We ask an urge - (here ends the story!) EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Here sleeps at length poor col., and without screaming Last Line: All alone and unknown, at edinbro' in an inn. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH OF A MERCENARY MISER First Line: A poor benighted pedlar knock'd EPITAPH ON A BAD MAN First Line: Of him that in this gorgeous tomb doth lie EPITAPH ON AN INFANT (1) Poem Text First Line: Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade Last Line: And bade it blossom there. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON AN INFANT (2) Poem Text First Line: Its balmy lips the infant blest Last Line: Death sang to sleep with lullaby. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON HIMSELF Poem Text First Line: Stop, christian passer-by! Stop, child of god Last Line: He ask'd, and hoped, through christ, do thou the same! Variant Title(s): Coleridge's Epitaph For Himself, Written 9 November 1833 Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets EPITAPHIUM TESTAMENTARIUM First Line: Quae linquam, aut nihil, aut nihil, aut vix sunt mea EUCLID IN RHYME First Line: Dear brother FALSE KNIGHT UPON THE ROAD First Line: O whare are ye gaun? Last Line: Quo' the wee boy, and still he stude FANCY IN NUBIBUS; OR, THE POET IN THE CLOUDS Poem Text First Line: O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease Last Line: Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Variant Title(s): The Poet In The Clouds Subject(s): Clouds; Nature FAREWELL TO LOVE; SONNET Poem Text First Line: Farewell, sweet love! Yet blame you not my truth Last Line: With thoughts that please me less, and less betray me. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of FEARS IN SOLITUDE Poem Text First Line: A green and silent spot, amid the hills Last Line: Love, and the thoughts that yearn for human kind. Variant Title(s): The Dell Subject(s): England; Fear; Poetry & Poets; War; English FIRE, FAMINE AND SLAUGHTER. A WAR ECLOGUE Poem Text First Line: Sisters! Sisters! Who sent you here? Last Line: Cling to him everlastingly. Subject(s): War FIRST ADVENT OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: O fair is love's first hope to gentle mind Last Line: Meets it with brow uplift, and stays his reaping. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings FLORENCE First Line: The brightness of the world, o thou once free Subject(s): Florence, Italy FOR A HOUSE-DOG'S COLLAR First Line: When thieves come, I bark: when gallants, I am still FOSTER MOTHER'S TALE (2) First Line: But that entrance, mother FOUR METRICAL EXPERIMENTS: 1. IAMBICS Poem Text First Line: No cold shall thee benumb Last Line: My pen shall give thee leave hereafter to be dumb. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOUR METRICAL EXPERIMENTS: 2. TROCHAICS Poem Text First Line: Thus she said, and all around Last Line: Love to-day, and thought to-morrow. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets FOUR METRICAL EXPERIMENTS: 4. PINDARIC Poem Text First Line: Once again, sweet willow, wave thee! Last Line: Why stays my love? Subject(s): Pindar (522-440 B.c.); Willow Trees FRAGMENT (1) Poem Text First Line: The silence of a city, how awful at midnight! Last Line: Of her huge temples. Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life FRAGMENT (2) Poem Text First Line: Whom should I choose for my judge? The earnest, impersonal reader Last Line: Each with a different tone, compleat or in musical fragments. Subject(s): Books; Reading FRAGMENT (3) Poem Text First Line: Let eagle bid the tortoise sunward soar Last Line: As vainly strength speaks to a broken mind. FRAGMENT (4) Poem Text First Line: As when the new or full moon urges Last Line: Of the pacific main. Subject(s): Moon FRAGMENT OF METRICAL EPISTLE Poem Text First Line: Such verse as bowles, heart-honoured poet sang Last Line: With my own laughter stifled my own wit. Subject(s): Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850) FRANCE: AN ODE Poem Text First Line: Ye clouds! That far above me float and pause Last Line: O liberty! My spirit felt thee there. Subject(s): France - Invasion Of Switzerland (1798); Freedom; French Revolution (1789); Liberty FROM AN OLD GERMAN POET First Line: That france has put us oft to rout FROM THE MILLER'S MOSSY WHEEL FROST AT MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: The frost performs its secret ministry Last Line: Quietly shining to the quiet moon. Subject(s): Babies; Fantasy; Parents; Infants; Parenthood GENEVIEVE (1) Poem Text First Line: Maid of my love, sweet genevieve Last Line: And therefore love I you, sweet genevieve! GILES'S HOPE Poem Text First Line: What! Rise again with all one's bones? Last Line: To go without my rib. Subject(s): Bones GLYCINE'S SONG, FR. ZAPOLYA Poem Text First Line: A sunny shaft did I behold GOD'S OMNIPRESENCE; A HYMN Poem Text First Line: My maker! Of thy power the trace Last Line: Where but thy shadow falls, grief cannot be! Subject(s): God GROVE First Line: I know a grove GUTCH MEMORANDUM BOOK, SELS. HAPPINESS Poem Text First Line: On wide or narrow scale shall man Last Line: "while faith proclaims ""thou shalt not die!"" '" HEXAMETERS Poem Text First Line: William, my teacher, my friend! Dear william and dear dorothea Last Line: You have all in each other; but I am lonely, and want you! HINT TO PREMIERS AND FIRST CONSULS First Line: Three truths should thee often think and pause HOMELESS Poem Text First Line: O! Christmas day, oh! Happy day Last Line: The desolate in heart. Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The HOMESICK Poem Text First Line: Tis sweet to him, who all the week Last Line: Before the door of his own home? Subject(s): Homesickness HONOUR Poem Text First Line: The fervid sun had more than halv'd the day Last Line: Twas brookes's all till two -- 'twas hackett's all the rest! HOPE AND TIME Poem Text First Line: In the great city rear'd, my fancy rude Last Line: And knows not whether he is first or last. Subject(s): Fables; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Time; Youth; Allegories; Optimism HOUR-GLASS First Line: O think, fair maid! These sands that pass Subject(s): Hourglasses HUMAN LIFE: ON THE DENIAL OF IMMORTALITY Poem Text First Line: If dead, we cease to be; if total gloom Last Line: Thy being's being is contradiction. Subject(s): Life; Mortality HUMILITY THE MOTHER OF CHARITY First Line: Frail creatures are we all! To be the best Last Line: To god, thy conscience, and the grave Subject(s): Humility HUNTING SONG, FR. ZAPOLYA Poem Text First Line: Up, up! Ye dames and lasses gay! Last Line: To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day. Variant Title(s): Peasants' Hunting Song;choral Song Of Illrian Peasants Subject(s): Hunting; Wolves; Hunters HYMN TO MONT BLANC [IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI] Poem Text First Line: Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star Last Line: Earth with her thousand voices, praises god. Variant Title(s): Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni;chamouny;mont Blanc Before Sunrise;hymn Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni Subject(s): Alps; Blanc, Mont; Chamonix, France; God; Mountains; Religion; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Theology HYMN TO THE EARTH. HEXAMETERS Poem Text First Line: Earth! Thou mother of numberless children, the nurse and the mother Last Line: Wandered bleating in valleys, and warbled on blossoming branches. Subject(s): Earth; World HYMN TO THE MORNING First Line: Awake, my soul! Not only passive praise IMITATED FROM OSSIAN Poem Text First Line: The stream with languid murmur creeps Last Line: In slumber's nightly hour. IMITATED FROM THE WELSH Poem Text First Line: If, while my passion I impart Last Line: It wishes to discover. IMITATIONS AD LYRAM Poem Text First Line: The solemn-breathing air is ended Last Line: Headlong, ever on the wing. IN DARKNES I REMAIN'D - THE NEIGHBOURS CLOCK INSCRIPTION FOR A FOUNTAIN ON A HEATH Poem Text First Line: This sycamore, oft musical with bees Last Line: Or passing gale or hum of murmuring bees! Subject(s): Fountains; Rivers INSCRIPTION FOR A TIME-PIECE First Line: Now! It is gone. Our brief hours travel post INSCRIPTIONS FOR A SEAT BY THE ROAD SIDE HALF-WAY UP A STEEP HILL Poem Text First Line: Thou who in youthful vigour rich, and light Last Line: Then wake in heaven, and find the dream all true. INSIDE THE COACH Poem Text First Line: Tis hard on bagshot heath to try Last Line: To dreary bagshot heath again! INTRODUCTION OF THE TALE OF THE DARK LADIE First Line: O leave the lily on its stem INVISIBLE POWERS First Line: For what is freedom, but the unfettered use Last Line: Transfer their rude faith perfected and pure IT SOUNDS LIKE STORIES FROM THE LAND OF SPIRITS JULIA Poem Text First Line: Julia was blest with beauty, wit, and grace Last Line: At once her lover and her lap-dog lost. Subject(s): Love - Complaints KNOW THYSELF Poem Text First Line: Know thyself - and is this the prime Last Line: Ignore thyself, and strive to know thy god! Variant Title(s): True Self-knowledge Subject(s): Self; Worship KUBLA KHAN Poem Text First Line: In xanadu did kubla khan / a stately pleasure dome decree Last Line: And drunk the milk of paradise. Variant Title(s): Romance;the Sacred River Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Dreams; Heaven; Kubla Khan (1214-1294); Mysticism; Nightmares; Paradise L'ENVOY Poem Text First Line: In vain we supplicate the powers above Last Line: In the chilled heart by gradual self-decay. LAPLAND Poem Text First Line: As ere from lieule-oaive's vapory head Last Line: Dance sportively. Subject(s): Lapland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians LEWTI, OR THE CIRCASSIAN LOVE CHANT Poem Text First Line: At midnight by the stream I roved Last Line: To-morrow lewti may be kind. LIFE Poem Text First Line: As late I journey'd o'er the extensive plain Last Line: And thought suspended lie in rapture's blissful trance. Subject(s): Life LIGHT CARGOES WAFT OF MODULATED SOUND LIGHT TRACERIES First Line: Observed the great half moon setting behind the mountain ridge, and watched the Last Line: Where is it? Unseen-but a little fleecy cloud hangs above the mountain ridge, and %is rich in amber LIMBO Poem Text First Line: Tis a strange place, this limbo! - not a place Last Line: A fear -- a future state; -- 'tis positive negation! Subject(s): Hades LIMBO [DIFF. VERSION] First Line: The sole true something - this! In limbo's den Subject(s): Hades LINES ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND, IN ANSWER TO A MELANCHOLY LETTER Poem Text First Line: Away, those cloudy looks, that labouring sigh Last Line: Barter for food the jewels of his crown. LINES COMPOSED IN A CONCERT-ROOM Poem Text First Line: Nor cold, nor stern, my soul! Yet I detest Last Line: Murmur and music thin of sudden breeze. Subject(s): Music & Musicians LINES COMPOSED WHILE CLIMBING THE LEFT ASCENT OF BROCKLEY Poem Text First Line: With many a pause and oft reverted eye Last Line: Enchanting spot! O were my sara here! Subject(s): Mountain Climbing LINES FROM A MANUSCRIPT - 1807-8 Poem Text First Line: The moon - how definite its orb Last Line: In which it towers, infinite in height/ -- LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - 1806 Poem Text First Line: Bright clouds of reverence sufferably bright Last Line: Itself an early sun, of pure intensest white LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - 1815-16 Poem Text First Line: Let klumps of earth however glorified Last Line: Can therefore never be again -- LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - 1815-16 Poem Text First Line: O! Superstition is the giant shadow Last Line: Casts on the thin mist of the uncertain future. LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - 1822 Poem Text First Line: Where'er I find the good, the true, the fair Last Line: In man, and nature is philosophy. LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - APRIL 1805 Poem Text First Line: O th' oppressive, irksome weight Last Line: Every notice [...] LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - APRIL/JUNE 1810 Poem Text First Line: The body / eternal shadow of the finite soul Last Line: Its own yet not itself Subject(s): Soul LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - FEBRUARY 1807 (1) Poem Text First Line: And in life's noisiest hour Last Line: How oft I bless the lot, that made me love you. LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - FEBRUARY 1807 (2) Poem Text First Line: As some vast tropic tree, itself a wood Last Line: Broods o'er the rude idolatry beneath. -- Variant Title(s): The Tropic Tree Subject(s): Trees LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - FEBRUARY/MARCH 1804 Poem Text First Line: Sole maid, associate sole, to me beyond Last Line: Of outward strength/ LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - JANUARY 1808 Poem Text First Line: The singing kettle & the purring cat Last Line: And tender smile answ'ring its smile of sleep. LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - JULY 1807 Poem Text First Line: Life wakeful over all knew no gradation Last Line: And with its voice of voices cries out, o! LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - JUNE 1806 Poem Text First Line: Come, come, thou bleak december wind Last Line: And take a life, that wearies me. LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MARCH 1806 Poem Text First Line: I know 'tis but a dream, yet feel more anguish Last Line: Will no one hear these stifled groans, & wake me? LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MARCH 1810 Poem Text First Line: When hope but made tranquillity be felt Last Line: Fann'd the calm air upon the brow of toil -- Subject(s): Hope; Optimism LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MAY 1810 Poem Text First Line: I have experience'd / the worst, the world can wreak on me; the worst Last Line: That ties me to myself -- and break I shall! -- LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MAY 1814 Poem Text First Line: Seaward, white-gleaming thro' the busy scud Last Line: A wildly-wailing note. Variant Title(s): The Sea Mew LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MAY/JULY 1811 Poem Text First Line: A low dead thunder muttered thro' the night Last Line: & leave me dreaming. -- Subject(s): Sleep LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MAY/JUNE 1805 Poem Text First Line: O beauty, in a beauteous body dight! Last Line: Fair cloud which less we see, than by thee see the light! Subject(s): Beauty LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - MAY/JUNE 1811 Poem Text First Line: O mercy, o miserable man Last Line: My joys, my hopes, my friendships, & my love! LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1806 Poem Text First Line: As the shy hind, the soft-eyed gentle brute Last Line: She, fearful beast! But that no sound of fear. LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1806 Poem Text First Line: His own fair countenance, his kingly forehead Last Line: And saturate with the intellectual rays, it soften'd. LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - SEPTEMBER 1803 Poem Text First Line: Such love as mourning husbands have Last Line: -- cold to the touch & blooming to the eye -- Subject(s): Love LINES IN A GERMAN STUDENT'S ALBUM First Line: We both attended the same college LINES IN THE MANNER OF SPENSER Poem Text First Line: O peace, that on a lilied bank dost love Last Line: O! How shall I behold my love at even-tide!' LINES INSCRIBED ON THE FLY-LEAF OF BENEDETTO MENZINI'S 'POESIE' Poem Text First Line: I stand alone, nor tho' my heart should break Last Line: Her love was to my heart, like the heart-blood. LINES ON A FRIEND WHO DIED OF A FRENZY FEVER ... CALUMINOUS REPORTS Poem Text First Line: Edmund! Thy grave with aching eye I scan Last Line: And fain would sleep, though pillowed on a clod! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LINES ON AN AUTUMNAL EVENING Poem Text First Line: O thou wild fancy, check thy wing! No more Last Line: Till chill and damp the moonless night descend. LINES ON OBSERVING A BLOSSOM [ON THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY 1796] Poem Text First Line: Sweet flower! That peeping from thy russet stem Last Line: Played deftly on a soft-toned instrument. Variant Title(s): Anemone: Forsaken Subject(s): Flowers LINES SUGGESTED BY THE LAST WORDS OF BERENGARIUS Poem Text First Line: No more 'twixt conscience staggering and the pope Last Line: The mists and painted vapours of our morn. LINES TO A BEAUTIFUL SPRING IN A VILLAGE Poem Text First Line: Once more, sweet stream! With slow foot wandering near Last Line: Or o'er the rough rock bursts and foams along! LINES TO A COMIC AUTHOR, ON AN ABUSIVE REVIEW Poem Text First Line: What though the chilly wide-mouth'd quacking chorus Last Line: I hate the quacking tribe, and they hate me!' Subject(s): Critics & Criticism LINES TO JOSEPH COTTLE First Line: My honor'd friend! Whose verse concise yet clear LINES TO WILLIAM LINLEY WHILE HE SANG A SONG TO PURCELL'S MUSIC Poem Text First Line: While my young cheek retains its healthful hues Last Line: Mix with the blest, nor know that I had died! Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs LINES WRITTEN AT SHURTON BARS, NEAR BRIDGEWATER Poem Text First Line: Nor travels my meandering eye Last Line: Shoots rapid through the frame! LINES WRITTEN AT THE KING'S ARMS, FORMERLY THE HOUSE OF 'MAN OF ROSS' Poem Text First Line: Richer than miser o'er his countless hoards Last Line: And dream of goodness, thou hast never felt! LINES WRITTEN IN COMMONPLACE BOOK OF MISS BARBOUR, DAUGHTER ... Poem Text First Line: Child of my muse! In barbour's gentle hand Last Line: And say, I greet thee with a brother's love! Subject(s): Barbour, James (1775-1842) LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM AT ELBINGERODE, IN HARTZ FOREST Poem Text First Line: I stood on brocken's sovran height, and saw Last Line: Himself our father, and the world our home. Subject(s): Hartz Forest, Germany; Nostalgia LONG DEEP LANE LOVE Poem Text First Line: All thoughts, all passions, all delights Last Line: My bright and beauteous bride. Variant Title(s): Genevieve (2) Subject(s): Courtship; Love LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP OPPOSITE Poem Text First Line: Her attachment may differ from yours in degree Last Line: You must lower down your state to hers. Subject(s): Friendship; Love LOVE'S APPARITION AND EVANISHMENT; AN ALLEGORICAL ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: Like a lone arab, old and blind Last Line: To make hope die anew. Subject(s): Love LOVE'S BURIAL-PLACE: A MADRIGAL Poem Text First Line: If love be dead Last Line: And died at length of a decline.' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE, ALWAYS A TALKATIVE COMPANION Poem Text First Line: In many ways does the full heart reveal Last Line: The absence of the love, which yet it fain would shew. Variant Title(s): An Unwilling Witness Subject(s): Love LOVE, HOPE, AND PATIENCE IN EDUCATION Poem Text First Line: O'er wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule Last Line: And both supporting does the work of both. Subject(s): Education LOVELY IN DECAY First Line: Yon hanging woods, that touched by autumn seem MAHOMET Poem Text First Line: Utter the song. O my soul! The flight and return of mohammed Last Line: Rushes dividuous all -- all rushing impetuous onward. Subject(s): Muhammad, The Prophet (570-632); Mahomet; Mohammed MELANCHOLY: A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Stretch'd on a mouldered abbey's broadest wall Last Line: Strange was the dream -- METRICAL FEET Poem Text First Line: Trochee trips from long to short Last Line: Bred racer. Variant Title(s): Lessons For A Boy Subject(s): Ingenuity; Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets MOLES Poem Text First Line: They shrink in, as moles Last Line: The natural alien of their negative eye. Subject(s): Animals; Moles MONODY ON A TEA-KETTLE Poem Text First Line: O muse who sangest late another's pain Last Line: On empty trivets she bids fancied kettles boil! MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON (3) First Line: When faint and sad o'er sorrow's desert wild Last Line: Muse on the sore ills I had left behind Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770) MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON (FIRST VERSION) Poem Text First Line: Cold penury repress'd his noble rage Last Line: And soar beyond the storms with upright eye elate! Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770) MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON (SECOND VERSION) Poem Text First Line: O what a wonder seems the fear of death Last Line: Muse on the sore ills I had left behind. Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Poetry & Poets MORIENS SUPERSTES First Line: Yet art thou happier far than she MORIENS SUPERSTITI First Line: The hour-bell sounds, and I must go MOTTO First Line: We've fought for peace, and conquer'd it at last MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Hence, soul-dissolving harmony Last Line: Clappest hoarse thy raven wings! Variant Title(s): Swamp MY BAPTISMAL BIRTH-DAY Poem Text First Line: God's child in christ adopted, - christ my all Last Line: Yes! But not his -- 'tis death itself there dies. Subject(s): Birthdays; Religion; Theology MY GENTLE-HEARTED CHARLES! WHEN THE LAST ROOK , FR. TIS LIME-TREE Subject(s): Birds MY GODMOTHER'S BEARD First Line: So great the charms of mrs. Monday NAMES Poem Text First Line: I asked my fair one happy day Last Line: Only, only call me thine.' Subject(s): Names NE PLUS ULTRA Poem Text First Line: Sole positive of night Last Line: That watch the throne of heaven! NECESITY THE MOTHER OF FASHION First Line: Said william to edmund I can't guess the reason NIL PEJUS EST CAELIBE VITA Poem Text First Line: What pleasures shall he ever find Last Line: To show the man so blest once breath'd the vital air. Subject(s): Celibacy; Pleasure NONSENSE SAPPHICS First Line: Here's jem's first copy of nonsense verses NOT AT HOME Poem Text First Line: That jealousy may rule a mind Last Line: And can't just then be seen. Subject(s): Jealousy O MY MOTHER ISLE First Line: Not yet enslaved, not wholly vile O SARA! NEVER RASHLY LET ME GO Last Line: We die, and dying own a more than mortal love OCCASIONED BY THE FORMER First Line: I hold of all our viperous race OCCASIONED BY THE LAST First Line: A joke (cries jack) without a sting ODE Poem Text First Line: Ye gales, that of the lark's repose Last Line: With breezt influence. ODE ON ASTRONOMY; WRITTEN FOR THE PRIZE AT CAMBRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Hail venerable night! Last Line: A god the gods among. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Immortality; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime ODE TO GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE ON 'PASSAGE OVER MT. GOTHARD' Poem Text First Line: Splendour's folly fostered child! Last Line: Thence learn'd you that heroic measure. Subject(s): Cavendish, Georgiana (1757-1806); Poetry & Poets; Tell, William ODE TO THE DEPARTING YEAR Poem Text First Line: Spirit who sweepest the wild harp of time Last Line: God's image, sister of the seraphim. Subject(s): Catherine The Great, Empress Of Russia; Holidays; New Year; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ODE TO TRANQUILLITY Poem Text First Line: Tranquillity! Thou better name Last Line: Too foolish for a tear, too wicked for a smile! Subject(s): Peace OF A BAD SINGER; EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing Last Line: Did certain persons die before they sing. Variant Title(s): The Desired Swan-song;bad Poets;on A Volunteer Singer;on A Bad Singer Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs OLD AGE, 'THE SHAPE AND MESSENGER OF DEATH' ON A CATARACT; FROM A CAVERN NEAR THE SUMMIT OF A MOUNTAIN PRECIPICE Poem Text First Line: Unperishing youth Last Line: Life invulnerable. ON A CLOCK IN A MARKET-PLACE Poem Text First Line: What now thou dost or art about to do Last Line: The moment, that secures thee heaven or hell. Subject(s): Time ON A DISCOVERY MADE TOO LATE Poem Text First Line: Thou bleedest, my poor heart! And thy distress Last Line: That wan and sickly droops upon her breast! ON A LADY WEEPING Poem Text First Line: Lovely gems of radiance meek Last Line: And flutters in the fost'ring dew. ON A LATE CONUBIAL RUPTURE IN HIGH LIFE Poem Text First Line: I sigh, fair injur'd stranger! For thy fate Last Line: Like two bright dew-drops meeting in a flower. ON A LATE MARRIAGE First Line: Thou miss - 's match is a subject of mirth ON A READER OF HIS OWN VERSES; EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Hoarse maevius reads his hobbling verse Last Line: An ass without an ear! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ON AN AMOROUS DOCTOR First Line: From rufa's eye sly cupid shot his dart ON AN INFANT WHICH DIED BEFORE BAPTISM Poem Text First Line: Be, rather than be called, a child of god' Last Line: Possessor, not inheritor. Subject(s): Death - Children; Worship; Death - Babies ON AN INSIGNIFICANT Poem Text First Line: No doleful faces here, no sighing Last Line: Whom death created into dust. ON DEPUTY First Line: By many a booby's vengeance bit ON DONNE'S FIRST POEM Poem Text First Line: Be proud, as spaniards! And leap for pride, ye fleas Last Line: The natural alien of their negative eye. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets ON DONNE'S POETRY Poem Text First Line: With donne, whose muse on dromedary trots Last Line: Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets ON IMITATION Poem Text First Line: All are not born to soar - and ah! How few Last Line: Yet all like fox can game -- like pitt can drink. ON LUTHER DE DIABOLIS First Line: The angel's like a flea ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE CITY OF COLOGNE Poem Text First Line: As I am a rhymer Last Line: In the body-and-soul-stinking town of cologne. Variant Title(s): An Expectoration Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Hate; Travel; Journeys; Trips ON RE-VISITING THE SEA-SHORE, AFTER LONG ABSENCE Poem Text First Line: God be with thee, gladsome ocean Last Line: I cannot die, if life be love. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON RECEIVING AN ACCOUNT THAT HIS ONLY SISTER'S DEATH WAS INEVITABLE Poem Text First Line: The tear which mourn'd a brother's fate scarce dry Last Line: Better to die, than live and not be lov'd! Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Dead, The ON SEEING A YOUTH AFFECTIONATELY WELCOMED BY A SISTER Poem Text First Line: I too a sister had! Too cruel death Last Line: For life was misery, and the grave is peace! ON SIR ROBICUND NASO First Line: Speak out, sir! You're safe, for so ruddy your nose ON TAKING LEAVE OF - , 1817 [SHORTER VERSION OF 'TO TWO SISTERS'] Poem Text First Line: To know, to esteem, to love - and then to part Last Line: And shine in the eye of all the world beside! Subject(s): Farewell; Sisters; Parting ON THE BROAD MOUNTAIN TOP ON THE CHRISTENING OF A FRIEND'S CHILD Poem Text First Line: This day among the faithful placed Last Line: Another and the same! Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings ON THE CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE First Line: Our english poets, bad and good, agree ON THE PROSPECT OF ESTABLISHING A PANTISOCRACY IN AMERICA Poem Text First Line: Whilst pale anxiety, corrosive care Last Line: Content and bliss on transatlantic shore. ON THE WRETCHED LOT OF THE SLAVES IN THE ISLES OF WESTERN INDIA First Line: O death, leaving the gates of darkness, come Last Line: The sufferers thy name shall dart to heaven Subject(s): Slavery; West Indies PAIN Poem Text First Line: Once could the morn's first beams, the healthful breeze Last Line: Ere the wild pulse throbb'd anguish thro' the night! PANTISOCRACY Poem Text First Line: No more my visionary soul shall dwell Last Line: New rays of pleasance trembling to the heart. PARAPHRASE OF PSALM 46. HEXAMETERS Poem Text First Line: God is our strength and our refuge: therefore will we not tremble Last Line: Halleluja! Th' eternal is with us, the god of our fathers! PARLIAMENTARY OSCILLATORS Poem Text First Line: Almost awake? Why, what is this, and whence Last Line: And once more seeks the bottom's blackest mud! PART THE SEVENTH First Line: Since then, at an uncertain hour Subject(s): Birds PEACE ON EARTH Poem Text First Line: The shepherds went their hasty way Last Line: Peace, peace on earth! The prince of peace is born.' Variant Title(s): A Christmas Carol;the Shepherds Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Peace; Nativity, The PENANCE OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, AND HIS REVERENT TEACHING First Line: Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched PERMANENCY OF MYTHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS First Line: The intelligible forms of ancient poets PERSPIRATION: A TRAVELING ECLOGUE Poem Text First Line: The dust flies smothering, as on clatt'ring wheels Last Line: The fleecy files faint-ruminating lie. PHANTOM Poem Text First Line: All look and likeness caught from earth Last Line: Shone through her body visibly. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Supernatural PHANTOM OR FACT; A DIALOGUE IN VERSE Poem Text First Line: A lovely form there sate beside my bed Last Line: And 'tis a record from the dream of life. POET'S PRAYER First Line: Grant me a patron, gracious heaven! Whene'er PONDERE NON NUMERO First Line: Friends should be weigh'd, not told; who boasts to have won PRESENT STATE OF SOCIETY First Line: Ah! Far removed from all that glads the sense Last Line: And mused expectant on these promised years PROFUSE KINDNESS Poem Text First Line: What a spring-tide of love to dear friends in a shoal! Last Line: Half of it to one were worth double the whole! Subject(s): Friendship; Kindness PROGRESS OF VICE Poem Text First Line: Deep in the gulph of vice and woe Last Line: Ah! Close the scene -- ah! Close -- for dreadful is the sight. Subject(s): Evil PSYCHE Poem Text First Line: The butterfly the ancient grecians made Last Line: And to deform and kill the things whereon we feed. Variant Title(s): The Butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs QUAE NOCENT DOCENT Poem Text First Line: Oh? Might my ill-passed hours return again Last Line: But sage experience only comes with years. Subject(s): Experience REASON FOR LOVE'S BLINDENESS Poem Text First Line: I have heard of reasons manifold Last Line: He seeth with the heart. Subject(s): Love RECANTATION Poem Text First Line: An ox, long fed with musty hay Last Line: And sheridan's recanted!' RECOLLECTIONS OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: How warm this woodland wild recess Last Line: Dear under-song in clamor's hour. Subject(s): Love REFLECTIONS ON HAVING LEFT A PLACE OF RETIREMENT Poem Text First Line: Low was our pretty cot: our tallest rose Last Line: Speed it, o father! Let thy kingdom come! RELIGIOUS MUSINGS; A DESULTORY POEM, WRITTEN ON CHRISTMAS EVE Poem Text First Line: This is the time, when most divine to hear Last Line: Flows to the ray and warbles as it flows. Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology REVIEWERS First Line: No private grudge they need, no personal spite RHEINWEIN First Line: In spain, that land of monks and apes RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 1 First Line: It is an ancient mariner Last Line: I shot the albatross Subject(s): Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 2 First Line: The sun now rose upon the right: %out of the sea came he Last Line: Instead of the cross, the albatross %about my neck was hung Subject(s): Birds; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 3 First Line: There passed a weary time. Each throat %was parched, and glazed each eye Last Line: And every soul, it passed me by, %like the whizz of my cross-bow Subject(s): Birds; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 4 First Line: I fear thee, ancient mariner! %I fear thy skinny hand! Last Line: The albatross fell off, and sank %like lead into the sea Subject(s): Birds; Love; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 5 First Line: Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing Last Line: Quoth he, 'the man hath pennance done, %and pennance more will do' Variant Title(s): The Ancient Mariner Refreshed By Sleep And Rai Subject(s): Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 6 First Line: But tell me, tell me! Speak again Last Line: He'll shrive my soul, he'll wash away %the albatross's blood Subject(s): Birds; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 7 First Line: This hermit good lives in that wood Last Line: A sadder and wiser man, %he rose the morrow morn Subject(s): Religion; Sea SANCTI DOMINICI PALLIUM; A DIALOGUE BETWEEN POET AND FRIEND Poem Text First Line: I note the moods and feelings men betray Last Line: Impearling a tame wild-cat's whisker'd jaws! Subject(s): Anglican Church; Catholics; England; Religious Discrimination; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; English; Religious Conflict SEA-BREEZE MOANS Subject(s): Sea SENTIMENTAL First Line: The rose that blushes like the morn SEPARATION Poem Text First Line: A sworded man whose trade is blood Last Line: Not half enough to part from thee! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SIBYLLINE LEAF First Line: Not hers SOMETHING CHILDISH, BUT VERY NATURAL; WRITTEN IN GERMANY Poem Text First Line: If I had but two little wings Last Line: And still dreams on. Subject(s): Flight; Love; Sleep; Flying SONG Poem Text First Line: Though veiled in spires of myrtle-wreath Last Line: And only hilt and stump remain. Subject(s): Love SONG TO BE SUNG BY THE LOVERS OF ALL THE NOBLE LIQUORS First Line: Ye drinkers of stingo and nappy so free SONG: ON HEARING A SONG IN PRAISE OF A LADY'S BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: Tis not the lily-brow I prize Last Line: The look that love alone can see! Subject(s): Beauty SONGS OF THE PIXIES Poem Text First Line: Whom the untaught shepherds call Last Line: Extract a blush for love! SONNET Poem Text First Line: Pale roamer through the night thou poor forlorn Last Line: He, the great comforter that rules above! Variant Title(s): The Outcast SONNET Poem Text First Line: Sweet mercy! How my very heart has bled Last Line: And called them friends, and healed their noisome sores! Variant Title(s): The Outcast SONNET Poem Text First Line: Thou gentle look, that didst my soul beguile Last Line: Like the bright rainbow on a willowy stream. Variant Title(s): The Outcast SONNET (ON QUITTING SCHOOL FOR COLLEGE) Poem Text First Line: Farewell parental scenes! A sad farewell Last Line: Mingled its tears with hers -- my widow'd parent lorn. SONNET (ON RECEIVING A LETTER INFORMING ME OF THE BIRTH OF A SON) Poem Text First Line: When they did greet me father, sudden awe Last Line: And he be born again, a child of god! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery SONNET (TO CHARLES LLOYD) Poem Text First Line: The piteous sobs that choke the virgin's breath Last Line: Mourns with no transient love the aged friend. SONNET COMPOSED ON A JOURNEY HOMEWARD Poem Text First Line: Oft o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll Last Line: While we wept idly o'er thy little bier! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery SONNET TO A FRIEND WHO ASKED, HOW I FELT ... MY INFANT TO ME Poem Text First Line: Charles, my slow heart was only sad, when first Last Line: And dearer was the mother for the child. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To A Friend Who Asked How I Felt;mother And Child;to A Friend, Who Asked How I Felt, When The Nurse First Presented Subject(s): Mothers; Parents; Parenthood SONNET TO THE AUTUMNAL MOON Poem Text First Line: Mild splendor of the various-vested night Last Line: Sails, like a meteor kindling in its flight. Subject(s): Moon SONNET TO THE RIVER OTTER Poem Text First Line: Dear native brook! Wild streamlet of the west Last Line: Ah! That once more I were a careless child! Variant Title(s): To The River Otter Subject(s): Landscape; Otter (river), Great Britain; Rivers SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: 1 Poem Text First Line: Pensive at eve, on the hard world I mused Last Line: Oh my poor heart's inexplicable swell! SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: 2 Poem Text First Line: Oh I do love thee, meek simplicity Last Line: All very simple, meek simplicity! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Simplicity SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: 3 Poem Text First Line: And this reft house is that, the which he built Last Line: Peeps in fair fragments forth the full-orb'd harvest-moon! Variant Title(s): On A Refund House In A Romantic Country;sonnet: 3. On A Ruined House In A Romantic Country;the House That Jack Built Subject(s): Houses SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 1. TO THE HONORABLE MR. ERSKINE Poem Text First Line: When british freedom for a happier land Last Line: Still glows wide heaven with his distended blaze! Subject(s): Erskine, Thomas (1750-1823) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 10. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text First Line: Southey! They melodies steal o'er mine ear Last Line: The imag'd rainbow on a willowy stream. Subject(s): Southey, Robert (1774-1843) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 11. TO RICHARD SHERIDAN Poem Text First Line: It was some spirit, sheridan! That breathed Last Line: As erst that elder fiend beneath great michael's sword. Subject(s): Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 12. TO LORD STANHOPE Poem Text First Line: Stanhope! I hail, with ardent hymn, thy name Last Line: One of the people SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 2. BURKE Poem Text First Line: As late I lay in slumber's shadowy vale Last Line: So might I clasp thee with a mother's joy!' Subject(s): Burke, Edmund (1729-1797) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 3. PRIESTLEY Poem Text First Line: Though roused by that dark vizir riot rude Last Line: To smile with fondness on her gazing son! Subject(s): Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 4. LA FAYETTE Poem Text First Line: As when far off the warbled strains are heard Last Line: And slavery's spectres shriek and vanish from the ray! Variant Title(s): Sonnet To La Fayette Subject(s): Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis De SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 5. KOSKIUSKO Poem Text First Line: O what a loud and fearful shriek was there Last Line: In the mere wilfulness, and sick despair of soul! Subject(s): Kosciuszko, Thaddeus (1746-1817) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 6. PITT Poem Text First Line: Not always should the tear's ambrosial dew Last Line: And hurl her thunderbolts with fiercer hand! Subject(s): Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 7. TO W.L. BOWLES (REVISED VERSION) Poem Text First Line: My heart has thanked thee, bowles! For those soft strains Last Line: Moved on the darkness of the unformed deep. Variant Title(s): To The Rev. W.l. Bowles (second Version) Subject(s): Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 7. TO W.L. BOWLES (1ST VERSION) Poem Text First Line: My heart has thank'd thee, bowles! For those soft strains Last Line: Mov'd on the darkness of the formless deep! Subject(s): Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 8. MRS. SIDDONS Poem Text First Line: As when a child on some long winter's night Last Line: Ev'n so thou, siddons! Meltest my sad heart! Subject(s): Siddons, Sarah Kemble (1755-1831) SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 9. TO WILLIAM GODWIN, AUTHOR Poem Text First Line: O form'd t'illume a sunless world forlorn Last Line: And told me that her name was happiness. Subject(s): Godwin, William (1756-1836) SONNETS, ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF BOWLES, SELS. SPOTS IN THE SUN First Line: My father is strict and holy STILLY MURMUR OF THE DISTANT SEA Subject(s): Sea STORMS AND OVERWHELMING WAVES Subject(s): Sea SUN (FOR NOW HIS ORB 'GAN SLOWLY SINK) SUNSHINE LIES ON THE COTTAGE-WALL SWALLOWS TALLEYRAND TO LORD GRENVILLE; A METRICAL EPISTLE Poem Text First Line: My lord! Though your lordship repel deviation Last Line: To pause, and resume the remainder to-morrow. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Great Britain - Relations With France; Grenville, William Wyndham (1759-1834); Talleyrand, Charles (1754-1838) TELL'S BIRTHPLACE Poem Text First Line: Mark this holy chapel well Last Line: Of slavery, -- the which he broke! Subject(s): Burglen, Switzerland; Tell, William THE AEOLIAN HARP Poem Text First Line: My pensive sara! Thy soft cheek reclined Last Line: Peace, and this cot, and thee, heart-honoured maid! Variant Title(s): Lines Composed At Clevedon;the Eolian Harp;effusion: 35, Composed At Clevedo, Somersetshire Subject(s): Harps; Love - Marital; Musical Instruments; Lyres; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE BALLAD OF THE DARK LADIE; A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Beneath yon birch with silver bark Last Line: And blushing bridal maids. Subject(s): Love THE BLOSSOMING OF THE SOLITARY DATE-TREE. A LAMENT Poem Text First Line: Beneath the blaze of a tropical sun the mountain peaks are the Last Line: Why was I made for love and love denied to me? Subject(s): Date Trees; Love - Complaints; Mothers THE BRITISH STRIPLING'S WAR-SONG (IMITATED FROM STOLBERG) Poem Text First Line: Yes, noble old warrior! This heart has beat high Last Line: And I too will fight as my forefathers fought! Subject(s): Patriotism THE COMPLAINT OF NINATHOMA, FROM THE SAME Poem Text First Line: How long will ye round me be swelling Last Line: To howl through my cavern by night. THE COMPOSITION OF A KISS Poem Text First Line: Cupid, if storying legends tell aright Last Line: And breath'd on sara's lovelier lips the rest. Variant Title(s): Kisses Subject(s): Kisses THE DAY-DREAM; FROM AN EMIGRANT TO HIS ABSENT WIFE Poem Text First Line: If thou wert here, these tears were tears of light Last Line: I blessed him, tried to laugh, and fell a-weeping! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DEATH OF THE STARTLING Poem Text First Line: Pity, mourn in plaintive tone Last Line: Softly stroke the stiffened wing. Subject(s): Death - Animals; Starlings THE DELINQUENT TRAVELLERS Poem Text First Line: Some are home-sick - some two or three Last Line: Are your delinquent travellers! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DESTINY OF NATIONS; A VISION Poem Text First Line: Auspicious reverence! Hush all meaner song Last Line: And savage agony. Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431) THE DEVIL'S WALK [ON EARTH] Poem Text First Line: From his brimstone bed at break of day Last Line: It was general conflagration. Variant Title(s): The Devil's Thoughts Subject(s): Devil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE DUNGEON, FR. OSORIO Poem Text First Line: And this place our forefathers made for man! Last Line: By the benignant touch of love and beauty. Variant Title(s): The Dungeon Amorist THE EXCHANGE Poem Text First Line: We pledged our hearts, my love and I Last Line: We had exchanged our hearts indeed. Subject(s): Courtship; Love THE FADED FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Ungrateful he, who pluck'd thee from thy stalk Last Line: Tasted her vernal sweets, but tasted to destroy!' THE FOSTER MOTHER'S TALE (1) Poem Text First Line: I never saw the man whom you describe Last Line: He liv'd and died among the savage men. Subject(s): Mothers THE GARDEN OF BOCCACCIO Poem Text First Line: Of late, in one of those most weary hours Last Line: With that sly satyr peeping through the leaves! Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Gardens & Gardening THE GOOD GREAT MAN Poem Text First Line: How seldom, friend! A good great man inherits Last Line: Himself, his maker, and the angel death. Variant Title(s): Complaint [and Reproof];the Reward Of The Just Subject(s): Consolation THE HAPPY HUSBAND Poem Text First Line: Oft, oft methinks, the while with thee Last Line: That seems, yet cannot greater be! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED] Poem Text First Line: Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows Last Line: Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey THE HOUR WHEN WE SHALL MEET AGAIN Poem Text First Line: Dim hour! That sleep'st on pillowing clouds afar Last Line: His pitying mistress mourns, and mourning heals! THE IMPROVISATORE Poem Text First Line: What are the words? Last Line: And that is next to best! Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists THE KEEP-SAKE Poem Text First Line: The tedded hay, the first fruits of the soil Last Line: And own thenceforth no other name but mine! Subject(s): Memory THE KISS Poem Text First Line: One kiss, dear maid! I said and sighed Last Line: The gentle violence of joy. THE KNIGHT'S TOMB Poem Text First Line: Where is the grave of sir arthur o'kellyn Last Line: His soul is with the saints, I trust. Subject(s): Graves; Peace; Tombs; Tombstones THE MAD MONK Poem Text First Line: I heard a voice from etna's side Last Line: Down thro' the forest I pursu'd my way. THE MADMAN AND THE LETHARGIST, AN EXAMPLE Poem Text First Line: Quoth dick to me, as once at college Last Line: But as for th'example, 'tis a lie!' THE NETHERLANDS Poem Text First Line: Water and windmills, greenness, islets green Last Line: And water seen -- Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE NIGHT-SCENE; A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: You loved the daughter of don manrique Last Line: And lazy snakes trail o'er the level ruins! THE NIGHTINGALE; A CONVERSATION POEM Poem Text First Line: No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Last Line: Sweet nightingale! Once more, my friends! Farewell. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NOSE Poem Text First Line: Ye souls unus'd to lofty verse Last Line: I perish in the blaze while I the blaze admire. Subject(s): Noses THE OLD MAN OF THE ALPS Poem Text First Line: Stranger! Whose eyes a look of pity show Last Line: In that unchanging realm, where love reigns evermore! Subject(s): Old Age THE OLD MAN'S SIGH. A SONNET Poem Text First Line: Dewdrops are the gems of the morning Last Line: Whose total being is act, alone remain behind! Subject(s): Old Age THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE, DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED Poem Text First Line: In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column Last Line: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. Subject(s): Mnemonics; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Poetry & Poets THE PAINS OF SLEEP Poem Text First Line: Ere on my bed my limbs I lay Last Line: And whom I love, I love indeed. Subject(s): Love; Sleep THE PANG MORE SHARP THAN ALL; AN ALLEGORY Poem Text First Line: He too has flitted from his secret nest Last Line: Is kindness counterfeiting absent love! Subject(s): Love THE PICTURE, OR THE LOVER'S RESOLUTION Poem Text First Line: Through weeds and thorns, and matted underwood Last Line: And I may be her guide the long wood through. Subject(s): Love THE PRODUCTION OF A YOUNG LADY Poem Text First Line: As oft mine eye with careless glance Last Line: Sara Variant Title(s): The Silver Thimble THE RAVEN; A CHRISTMAS TALE, TOLD BY A SCHOOL-BOY Poem Text First Line: Underneath an old oak tree Last Line: They had taken his all, and revenge it was sweet! Subject(s): Ravens THE REPROOF AND REPLY Poem Text First Line: Fie, mr. Coleridge! - and can this be you Last Line: "the eighth commandment was not made for bards!""'" Subject(s): Crime & Criminals THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER Poem Text First Line: It is an ancient mariner Last Line: He rose the morrow morn. Variant Title(s): The Rime Of The Ancyent Marinere (1834) Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds; Curses; Mysticism; Sailing & Sailors; Supernatural; Seamen; Sails THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: As late each flower that sweetest blows Last Line: I'll fix my empire here.' THE SIGH Poem Text First Line: When youth his faery reign began Last Line: Still, mary! Still I sigh for thee. THE SNOWDROP Poem Text First Line: Fear no more, thou timid flower Last Line: A snow-drop mid the snow. Variant Title(s): The Apotheosis, Or The Snow-drop Subject(s): Consolation; Snowdrops (plants) THE SOLDIER'S RETURN Poem Text First Line: O! Day thrice lovely! When at length the soldier Last Line: The faithful tender arms with mute embracing. Subject(s): Courage; War; Valor; Bravery THE SUICIDE'S ARGUMENT Poem Text First Line: Ere the birth of my life, if I wished it or no Last Line: Then die -- if die you dare! Subject(s): Suicide THE THREE GRAVES: PART 3 Poem Text First Line: The grapes upon the vicar's wall Last Line: She saw some frightful thing. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE THREE GRAVES: PART 4 Poem Text First Line: To see a man tread over graves Last Line: And never she smiled after. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE TWO FOUNTS; ADDRESSED TO A LADY ON HER RECOVERY ... FROM PAIN Poem Text First Line: Twas my last waking thought, how it could be Last Line: Hoard for thyself the pain, thou wilt not give! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery THE TWO ROUND SPACES ON THE TOMB-STONE Poem Text First Line: The devil believes that the lord will come Last Line: For they are cock-sure of the fellow below. Subject(s): Mackintosh, Sir James (1765-1832) THE VISIONARY HOPE Poem Text First Line: Sad lot, to have no hope! Though lowly kneeling Last Line: Such strength that he would bless his pains and live. Subject(s): Hope; Optimism THE VISIT OF THE GODS Poem Text First Line: Never, believe me, / appear the immortals Last Line: Forbids me to die! Subject(s): Immortality THE WANDERINGS OF CAIN Poem Text First Line: Encinctured with a twine of leaves Last Line: Has he no friend, no loving mother near? Variant Title(s): The Child In The Wilderness;the Fruit Plucker Subject(s): Boys THE WIFE OF FERGUS; A MONODRAMA Poem Text First Line: Cease -- cease your torments! Spare the sufferers Last Line: No guilty fear in death. Subject(s): Marriage; Murder; Regicide; Scotland; Suicide; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WILLS OF THE WISP; A SAPPHIC Poem Text First Line: Lunatic witch-fires! Ghosts of light and motion Last Line: Black-ey'd rebecca! Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE YELLOW HAMMER Poem Text First Line: The spruce and limber yellow-hammer Last Line: With notes as of one who brass is filing. Subject(s): Birds; Craftsmanship THERE WAS A KNIGHT First Line: There was a knicht riding frae the east Last Line: As the doo flies owre the mulberry tree THIS LIME-TREE BOWER MY PRISON Poem Text First Line: Well, they are gone, and here must I remain Last Line: No sound is dissonant which tells of life. Subject(s): Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) THITHER WHERE HE LIES BURIED Subject(s): Love THREE FRIENDS First Line: Hath he not always treasures, always friends THREE SORTS OF FRINDS First Line: Thou friendships differ endless in degree TIME, REAL AND IMAGINARY; AN ALLEGORY Poem Text First Line: On the wide level of a mountain's head Last Line: And knows not whether he be first or last. Subject(s): Fables; Time; Allegories TO A CERTIAN MODERN NARCISSUS First Line: Do call, dear jesus, whene'er my way you come TO A CHILD First Line: Little miss fanny TO A CRITIC First Line: Most candid, what if I TO A FRIEND, TOGETHER WITH AN UNFINISHED POEM Poem Text First Line: Thus far my scanty brain hath built the rhyme Last Line: And praise him gracious with a brother's joy! TO A FRIEND, WHO HAD DECLARED INTENTION OF WRITING NO MORE POETRY Poem Text First Line: Dear charles! Whilst yet thou wert a babe, I ween Last Line: The illustrious brow of scotch nobility! Subject(s): Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) TO A LADY First Line: Nay, dearest anna, why so grave? TO A LADY, WITH FALCONER'S 'SHIPWRECK' Poem Text First Line: Ah! Not by cam or isis, famous streams Last Line: A tear for falconer, wilt remember me. Subject(s): Falconer, William (1732-1769) TO A PRIMROSE First Line: Thy smiles I note, sweet early flower TO A PROUD PARENT First Line: Thy babes ne'er greet thee with the father's name TO A VAIN YOUNG LADY First Line: Didst thou think less of thy dear self TO A WELL-KNOWN MUSICAL CRITIC First Line: O! - o - ! Of you we complain Subject(s): Music Criticism And Critics TO A YOUNG ASS; ITS MOTHER BEING TETHERED NEAR IT Poem Text First Line: Poor little foal of an oppressed race Last Line: The aching of pale fashion's vacant breast! Subject(s): Donkeys; Burros TO A YOUNG LADY ON HER RECOVERY FROM A FEVER Poem Text First Line: Why need I say, louisa dear Last Line: And heaven is overflowing! TO A YOUNG LADY, WITH A POEM ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Poem Text First Line: Much on my early youth I love to dwell Last Line: From flattery's night-shade: as he feels he sings. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) TO AN INFANT Poem Text First Line: Ah! Cease thy tears and sobs, my little life Last Line: Meek nurse of souls through their long infancy! Subject(s): Babies; Infants TO AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN AT THE THEATRE Poem Text First Line: Maiden, that with sullen brow Last Line: And embathe in heavenly light. TO AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN, WHOM THE AUTHOR HAD KNOWN ... Poem Text First Line: Myrtle leaf that, ill besped Last Line: Flung to fade, to rot and die. TO ASRA Poem Text First Line: Are there two things, of all which men possess Last Line: Thy lot, methinks, were heaven, thy age, eternity! Subject(s): Love TO BABY BATES First Line: You come from o'er the waters TO C. LLOYD, ON HIS PROPOSING TO DOMESTICATE WITH THE AUTHOR Poem Text First Line: A mount, not wearisome and bare and steep Last Line: Now may heaven realise this vision bright! Variant Title(s): To A Young Friend (charles Lloyd) On His Proposing To Domesticate With Author;to A Young Friend On His Proposing To Domesticate With The Author TO DISAPPOINTMENT Poem Text First Line: Hence! Thou fiend of gloomy sway Last Line: Dare her slow return to mourn! TO EARL STANHOPE Poem Text First Line: Not, stanhope! With the patriot's doubtful name Last Line: Champion of freedom and her god! Rejoice! TO EDWARD IRVING First Line: Friend pure of heart and fervent! We have learnt TO FORTUNE: ON BUYING A TICKET IN THE IRISH LOTTERY Poem Text First Line: Promptress of unnumber'd sighs Last Line: And yield the unsunn'd stranger to the western gale! Subject(s): Lotteries TO MARY PRIDHAM Poem Text First Line: Dear tho' unseen! Tho' I have left behind Last Line: A father's blessing on thee, gentle maid! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MATILDA BETHAM, FROM A STRANGER Poem Text First Line: Matilda! I have heard a sweet tune played Last Line: And exultation even in strangers' hearts? TO MISS A. T. Poem Text First Line: Verse, pictures, music, thoughts both grave and gay Last Line: Such should thine album be, for such art thou, sweet maid! TO MISS BRUNTON WITH HIS TRANSLATION OF WRANGHAM'S LATIN Poem Text First Line: That darling of the tragic muse Last Line: New rays of pleasance trembling to the heart. Subject(s): Brunton, Elizabeth TO MY CANDLE First Line: Good candle, thou that with thy brother, fire TO NATURE Poem Text First Line: It may indeed be phantasy, when I Last Line: Even me, the priest of this poor sacrifice. Subject(s): Religion; Theology TO ONE WHO PUBLISHED IN PRINT Poem Text First Line: Two things hast thou made known to half the nation Last Line: It shames me to have call'd a wretch, like thee, my friend! TO POVERTY First Line: Low in a barren vale I see thee sit TO THE AUTHOR OF 'THE ROBBERS' (SCHILLER) Poem Text First Line: Schiller! That hour I would have wished to die Last Line: Then weep aloud in a wild ecstasy! Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Author Of The Robbers Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von TO THE AUTHOR OF POEMS PUBLISHED ANONYMOUSLY (JOSEPH COTTLE) Poem Text First Line: Unboastful bard! Whose verse concise yet clear Last Line: With fruits and flowers she loads the tempest-honour'd ground. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO THE EVENING STAR Poem Text First Line: O meek attendant of sol's setting blaze Last Line: Her spirit in thy kindred orb, o star benign! TO THE MUSE Poem Text First Line: Tho' no bold flights to thee belong Last Line: Whose hues gay-varying wanton in the sun. TO THE NIGHTINGALE Poem Text First Line: Sister of love-lorn poets, philomel Last Line: She thrills me with the husband's promised name! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Poetry & Poets TO THE REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE OF OTTERY ST. MARY, DEVON Poem Text First Line: A blessed lot hath he, who having passed Last Line: Will calm it down, and let thy love forgive it! TO THE REV. W.J. HORT, WHILE TEACHING A YOUNG LADY ... ON HIS FLUTE Poem Text First Line: Hush! Ye clamorous cares! Be mute Last Line: And I will thank thee with a raptur'd tear. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors TO THE YOUNG ARTIST, KAYSER OF KASERWERTH Poem Text First Line: Kayser! To whom, as to a second self Last Line: Be wise! Be happy! And forget not me. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO TWO SISTERS; A WANDERER'S FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: To know, to esteem, to love, - and then to part Last Line: And shine in the eye, of all the world beside. Subject(s): Farewell; Sisters; Parting TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text First Line: Friend of the wise! And teacher of the good! Last Line: And when I rose, I found myself in prayer. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TOWN AND COUNTRY First Line: For I was reared %in the great city, pent Subject(s): Country Life TWAS SWEET TO KNOW IT ONLY POSSIBLE TWO WEDDED HEARTS; FRAGMENT: 1 Poem Text First Line: Two wedded hearts, if e'er were such Last Line: Die into an intenser life/ Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TWO WEDDED HEARTS; FRAGMENT: 2 Poem Text First Line: The builder left one narrow rent Last Line: And union absolute of love. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love UBI THESAURUS IBI COR Poem Text First Line: I mix in life, and labour to seem free Last Line: And every impulse from thy influence springs. VER PERPETUM Poem Text First Line: The early year's fast-flying vapour stray Last Line: Screen'd by those clouds and cherish'd by those showers! Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed VERSES ADDRESSED TO J. HORNE TOOKE ... WESTMINISTER ELECTION Poem Text First Line: Britons! When last ye met, with distant streak Last Line: Not to the tyrants but the tyranny! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Tooke, John Horne (1736-1812) VERSES TRIVOCULAR Poem Text First Line: Of one scrap of science I've evidenced ocular Last Line: So with them will I finish these verses trivocular. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets VOICES OF THE ANGELS First Line: Around, around, flew each sweet sound W. H. EHEU! Poem Text First Line: Beneath this stone does william hazlitt lie Last Line: He died like one who dared not hope to live. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hazlitt, William (1778-1830) WHAT IS AN EPIGRAM? Poem Text First Line: What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole Last Line: Its body brevity, and wit its soul. WHAT IS LIFE? Poem Text First Line: Resembles life what once was deemed of light Last Line: A war-embrace of wrestling life and death? Subject(s): Life WHAT IS REASON? Poem Text First Line: Whene'er the mist, that stands 'twixt god and thee Last Line: Which thou hadst seen, had that been shaken off. Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals WHERE CAM HIS STEALTHY FLOWINGS MOST DISSMEBLES WISDOM IN FOLLY First Line: Tom slothful talks, as slothful tom beseems WITH FIELDING'S AMELIA Poem Text First Line: Virtues and woes alike too great for man Last Line: In all but sorrows shall amelias be! WORK WITHOUT HOPE Poem Text First Line: All nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair Last Line: And hope without an object cannot live. Variant Title(s): In Springtime;a Dream Of Spring Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Spring; Work; Workers WORLD SO HUSHED! Subject(s): Sea WORLD THAT SPIDERY WITCH First Line: I speak in figures inward thoughts and woes Last Line: But cease the prelude and resume the lay WRITTEN AFTER A WALK BEFORE SUPPER Poem Text First Line: Tho' much averse, dear jack, to flicker Last Line: But stop, my muse! For here comes supper. WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM Poem Text First Line: Parry seeks the polar ridge Last Line: The public little knows -- the publisher too much. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; North Pole; Parry, William Edward (1790-1855) YON CRESCENT MOON AS FIXED AS IF IT GREW YOUTH AND AGE Poem Text First Line: Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying Last Line: And tells the jest without the smile. Subject(s): Friendship; Old Age; Youth YOUTH AND AGE: NOTE Poem Text First Line: On the tenth day of september Last Line: [the watch and clock do both agree] Subject(s): Poetry & Poets |
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