The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetical Works: Corrections and Additions

Edited by J.C.C.Mays

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Poetical Works has three print volumes: Reading Text, Variorum Text, and Plays, each in two parts paginated continuously, a total of six physical books.

 

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Index to Individual Works:

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Number

Poem Title

Reading
Text page

Variorum
Text page

Prelims

xiii

xii

24

Prospectus and Specimen of a Translation of Euclid

33

 

49

A Simile; Written after a Walk before Supper

84

 

60

Absence: A Poem

99

100

66

Domestic Peace

114

125

73

Imitated from the Welsh

 

143

74

To a Beautiful Spring

125

145-6

77

Epitaph on an Infant

 

154

82

Monody on the Death of Chatterton

139

166

84

To a Young Ass

146

190

84.X1

Written on the Necessary House at Jesus College

 

193

86

Sonnet: To the Author of "The Robbers"

 

198

88

To an Old Man in the Snow

 

202

106

Contribution to "The Soldier's Wife", by Robert Southey

 

275

108

Brockley Combe

203

109

To the Rev W.J.H.

204

288

115

The Eolian Harp: Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire

231

316

116

Ode to Sara, Written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgwater, in Answer to a Letter from Bristol

235

328

129

Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement

 

353

130

Irregular Sonnet: To John Thelwall

 

357

136

Sonnet: To a Friend

 

375

139

The Destiny of Nations: A Vision

279

 

142

Ode on the Departing Year

302

 

155

Continuation of The Three Graves, by William Wordsworth

336

 

156

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison

349

 

161

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

365

504

166

To a Well-known Musical Critic, Remarkable for his Ears Sticking thro'  his Hair

427

 

168

The Old Man of the Alps

445

566

171

Frost at Midnight

452

 

172

Lewti; or, The Circassian Love-chant

 

574

176

Christabel

477

606

177

The Story of the Mad Ox

 

662

178

Kubla Khan

509

670

180

The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem

516

 

182

The Ballad of the Dark Ladič: A Fragment

522

 

196

Homesick: Written in Germany, Adapted from Bürde

 

705

198

Extempore Couplet on German Roads and Woods

546

707

200

Lines Written at Elbingerode

547

710

205

Epigram on Mr Ross, Usually Cognominated “Nosy”

552

 

208

Epigram on a Reader of his Own Verses, Inspired by Wernike

554

719

214

The Devil's Thoughts

 

737

240

Epigram on the Speed with which Jack Writes Verses, after von Halem

 

780

245

The Exchange of Hearts

785

251

To Delia [CANCELLED]

602

791

253

Love

 

793

260

A Christmas Carol

 

817

262

Talleyrand to Lord Grenville: A Metrical Epistle

629

 

297

Sonnet Adapted from Petrarch [CANCELLED]

706

904

316

Epigram to my Candle, after Wernike

738

 

319

Epigram on Virgil's "Obscuri sub luce maligna", after Wernike

741

 

328.X

Latin Lines on a Former Friendship[CANCELLED]

748

958

351

What is Life? A Metrical Experiment

767

978

356

Fragment: “What never is, but only is to be” [CANCELLED]

776

987

364.X

Curtailed Lines in Notebook 17 [CANCELLED]

782

995

379

Lines Written in a Dream

791

 

380

A Single Line on Revenge

792

 

381

Lines on a Death

792

 

402

Psyche

820

1037

416

Imitations of Du Bartas etc

830

 

517.X3

Lines in Walker's Dictionary, Largely Erased

 

1139

533.X1

The Cherub

 

1147

538

For an Autograph Hunter

 

1149

539

The Tender Corn [Correction to title. Formerly: To a Young Lady Complaining of a Corn]

941

1151

540

Fancy in Nubibus

 

1152

561

A Character

969

 

565

The Tears of a Grateful People

975

 

568.X1

Faustus: from the German of Goethe

 

1178

592

Youth and Age

1011

1196

596.X1

Corrections to Wordsworth's Virgil

 

1212

599

The Delinquent Travellers

1022

 

604

Album Verses on Original Sin

 

1227

606

Work without Hope

1228

617.X1

Atherstone's Herculaneum Emended

 

1238

622

The Alternative

1055

 

651

The Netherlands

1088

653

A Somnulent Extempore, Eyes half-closed and the Head Nodding Time: To an American Lady [Retitled. Formerly: To Baby Bates]

1096

1300

658A

 Lover's Reverie [Added]

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658B

 The Young Tanner: A Shenstoniad [Added]

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658C

 Lines on the Improvement of Verse by Music [Added]

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664A

The Joy of Age

1117

1320

667

Phantom or Fact? A Dialogue in Verse

1118

1321

676

The Three Patriots: Cockney Snip, Irish Blarney, and Me

1125

 

693

S.T.C.

 

1359

 

Annexes

1163

 
 

Plays

 

 

 

Prelims

i

 

76.X1

The Fall of Robespierre

3

 

146.X1

Osorio: A Tragedy

45

 

262.X1

Die Piccolomini/The Piccolomini

165

 

263.X1

Wallenstein/The Death of Wallenstein

617

 

502.X3

Remorse (Printed)

1227

 

517.X1

Zapolya: A Christmas Tale

1327

 
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