List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This article lists the complete poetic bibliography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834), which includes fragments not published within his lifetime, epigrams, and titles such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan.[1]
Poetry
| Title | Subtitle | Index of First lines | Composition Date | Publication Date | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easter Holidays. | "Hail! festal Easter that dost bring" | 1787 | 1912 | ||
| Dura Navis. | "To tempt the dangerous deep, too venturous youth," | 1787 | 1893 | ||
| Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitâ. | [In Christ's Hospital Book] | "What pleasures shall he ever find?" | 1787 | 1893 | |
| Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon | "Mild Splendour of the various-vested Night!" | 1788 | 1796 | ||
| Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital. | "Seraphs! around th' Eternal's seat who throng" | 1789 | 1834 | ||
| Julia. | [In Christ's Hospital Book] | "Julia was blest with beauty, wit, and grace:" | 1789 | 1834 | |
| Quae Nocent Docent. | O! mihi praeteritos referat si Jupiter annos! | "Oh! might my ill-past hours return again!" | 1789 | 1893 | |
| The Nose. | "Ye souls unus'd to lofty verse" | 1789 | 1834[Note 1] | ||
| To the Muse. | "Tho' no bold flights to thee belong;" | 1789 | 1834 | ||
| Destruction of the Bastile. | "Heard'st thou yon universal cry," | 1789? | 1834 | ||
| Life. | "As late I journey'd o'er the extensive plain" | 1789 | 1834 | ||
| Progress of Vice. | [Nemo repente turpissimus] | "Deep in the gulph of Vice and Woe" | 1790 | 1834 | |
| Monody on the Death of Chatterton. | [First Version, In Christ's Hospital Book-1790 ] | "Now prompts the Muse poetic lays," | 1790 | 1898 | |
| An Invocation. | "Sweet Muse! companion of my every hour!" | 1790 | 1893 | ||
| Anna and Harland. | "Within these wilds was Anna wont to rove" | 1790? | 1794, October 25 | ||
| To the Evening Star. | "O meek attendant of Sol's setting blaze," | 1790? | 1880 | ||
| Pain. Composed in Sickness | "Once could the Morn's first beams, the healthful breeze," | 1790? | 1834 | ||
| On a Lady Weeping. | Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius | "Lovely gems of radiance meek" | 1790? | 1893 | |
| Monody on a Tea-kettle. | "O Muse who sangest late another's pain," | 1790 | 1834 | ||
| Genevieve. | "Maid of my Love, sweet Genevieve!" | 1789-90? | 1794, November 1 | ||
| On receiving an Account that his Only Sister's Death was Inevitable. | "The tear which mourn'd a brother's fate scarce dry—" | 1791 | 1834 | ||
| On seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister | "I too a sister had! too cruel Death!" | 1791 | 1834 | ||
| A Mathematical Problem. | "This is now--this was erst," | 1791, March 31 | 1834 | ||
| Honour. | O, curas hominum! O, quantum est in rebus inane! | "The fervid Sun had more than halv'd the day," | 1791 | 1834 | |
| On Imitation. | "All are not born to soar—and ah! how few" | 1791 | 1834 | ||
| Inside the Coach. | "'Tis hard on Bagshot Heath to try" | 1791 | 1834 | ||
| Devonshire Roads. | "The indignant Bard composed this furious ode," | 1791 | 1834 | ||
| Music. | "Hence, soul-dissolving Harmony" | 1791 | 1834 | ||
| Sonnet: On quitting School for College. | On Quitting School for College | "Farewell parental scenes! a sad farewell!" | 1791 | 1834 | |
| Absence. A Farewell Ode on quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge. | A Farewell Ode on quiting school for Jesus College, Cambridge. | "Where graced with many a classic spoil" | 1791 | 1794, October 11 | |
| Happiness. | "On wide or narrow scale shall Man" | 1791 | 1834 | ||
| A Wish. Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792. | Written in Jesus Wood, February 10, 1792 | "Lo! through the dusky silence of the groves," | 1792 | 1893 | |
| An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon. | "As late, in wreaths, gay flowers I bound," | 1792 | 1893 | ||
| To Disappointment. | "Hence! thou fiend of gloomy sway," | 1792 | 1895 | ||
| A Fragment found in a Lecture-room. | "Where deep in mud Cam rolls his slumbrous stream," | 1792 | 1895 | ||
| Ode. ('Ye Gales,' &c.) | "Ye Gales, that of the Lark's repose" | 1792 | 1796, Mach 25 | ||
| A Lover's Complaint to his Mistress. | Who Deserted him in quest of a more weatlhy husband in the East Indies | "The dubious light sad glimmers o'er the sky:" | 1792 | 1893 | |
| With Fielding's 'Amelia.' | "Virtues and Woes alike too great for man" | 1792? | 1834 | ||
| Written after a Walk before Supper. | "Tho' much averse, dear Jack, to flicker," | 1792 | 1796 | ||
| Imitated from Ossian. | "The stream with languid murmur creeps," | 1793 | 1796 | ||
| The Complaint of Ninathóma. | "How long will ye round me be swelling," | 1793 | 1796 | ||
| Songs of the Pixies.[Note 2] | "Whom the untaught Shepherds call" | 1793 | 1796 | ||
| The Rose. | "As late each flower that sweetest blows" | 1793 | 1796 | ||
| Kisses. | "Cupid, if storying Legends tell aright," | 1793 | 1796 | ||
| The Gentle Look. | "Thou gentle Look, that didst my soul beguile," | 1793? | 1896 | ||
| Sonnet: To the River Otter | "Dear native Brook! wild Streamlet of the West!" | 1793? | 1796[Note 3] | ||
| An Effusion at Evening. Written in August 1792. (First Draft.) | "Imagination, Mistress of my Love!" | 1793 | 1834 | ||
| Lines: On an Autumnal Evening | "O thou wild Fancy, check thy wing! No more" | 1792, August | 1796 | ||
| To Fortune | On buying a Ticket in the Irish Lottery | "Promptress of unnumber'd sighs," | 1793[Note 4] | 1793, November 7 | |
| Perspiration. A Travelling Eclogue. | "The dust flies smothering, as on clatt'ring wheel" | 1794 | 1895 | ||
| [Ave, atque Vale!] ('Vivit sed mihi,' &c.) | "Vivit sed mihi non vivit—nova forte marita," | 1794 | 1847 | ||
| On Bala Hill. | "With many a weary step at length I gain" | 1794 | 1893 | ||
| Lines: Written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the House of the 'Man of Ross'. | Written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the house of the "Man Of Ross" | "Richer than Miser o'er his countless hoards," | 1794 | 1794, September 27 | |
| Imitated from the Welsh. | "If while my passion I impart," | 1794 | 1796 | ||
| Lines: To a Beautiful Spring in a Village. | "Once more! sweet Stream! with slow foot wandering near," | 1794 | 1796 | ||
| Imitations: Ad Lyram. (Casimir, Book II, Ode 3.) | "The solemn-breathing air is ended—" | 1794 | 1796, March 3 | ||
| To Lesbia. | Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus. - Catullus | "My Lesbia, let us love and live," | 1794? | 1798, April 11 | |
| The Death of the Starling. | Lugete, O Veneres, Cupidinesque - Catullus | "Pity! mourn in plaintive tone" | 1794? | 1836 | |
| Moriens Superstiti.[Note 5] | "The hour-bell sounds, and I must go;" | 1794 | 1798, May 10 | ||
| Morienti Superstes.[Note 6] | Yet art thou happier far than she | 1794? | 1796 | ||
| The Sigh. | "When Youth his faery reign began" | 1794 | 1796 | ||
| The Kiss. | "One kiss, dear Maid! I said and sigh'd—" | 1794? | 1796 | ||
| To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French Revolution. | "Much on my early youth I love to dwell," | 1794, September | 1796, March 1 | ||
| Translation of Wrangham's 'Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam e Granta Exituram' [Kal. Oct. MDCCXC] | "Maid of unboastful charms! whom white-robed Truth" | 1794 | 1795 | ||
| To Miss Brunton with the preceding Translation | "That darling of the Tragic Muse," | 1794 | 1795 | ||
| Epitaph on an Infant. ('Ere Sin could blight.') | "Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade," | 1794 | 1794, September 23 | ||
| Pantisocracy. | "No more my visionary soul shall dwell" | 1794 | 1849 | ||
| On the Prospect of establishing a Pantisocracy in America | "Whilst pale Anxiety, corrosive Care," | 1795 | 1826, March 6 | ||
| Elegy: Imitated from one of Akenside's Blank-verse Inscriptions. [(No.) III.] | "Near the lone pile with ivy overspread," | 1794? | 1794, September 23 | ||
| [xiii]The Faded Flower | "Ungrateful he, who pluck'd thee from thy stalk," | 1794 | 1836, August | ||
| The Outcast | "Pale Roamer through the night! thou poor Forlorn!" | 1794? | 1796 | ||
| Domestic Peace. (From 'The Fall of Robespierre,' Act I, l. 210.) | "Tell me, on what holy ground" | 1794 | 1795 | ||
| On a Discovery made too late. | "Thou bleedest, my poor Heart! and thy distress" | 1794 | 1796 | ||
| To the Author of 'The Robbers' | "Schiller! that hour I would have wish'd to die," | 1794? | 1796 | ||
| Melancholy. A Fragment. | "Stretch'd on a moulder'd Abbey's broadest wall," | 1794? | 1797, December 12 | ||
| To a Young Ass: Its Mother being tethered near it. | "Poor little Foal of an oppresséd race!" | 1794 | 1794, December 30 | ||
| Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever induced by Calumnious Reports. | "Edmund! thy grave with aching eye I scan," | 1794 | 1796 | ||
| To a Friend [Charles Lamb] together with an Unfinished Poem. | "Thus far my scanty brain hath built the rhyme" | 1794 | 1796 | ||
| I. To the Honourable Mr. Erskine | "When British Freedom for an happier land" | 1794 | 1794, December 1 | Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:— | |
| II. Burke. | "As late I lay in Slumber's shadowy vale," | 1794 | 1794, December 9 | Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:— | |
| III. Priestley. | "Though rous'd by that dark Vizir Riot rude" | 1794 | 1794, December 11 | Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:— | |
| IV. La Fayette | "As when far off the warbled strains are heard" | 1794 | 1794, December 15 | Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:— | |
| V. Koskiusko. | "O what a loud and fearful shriek was there," | 1794 | 1794, December 16 | Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:— | |
| VI. Pitt[Note 7] | "Not always should the Tear's ambrosial dew" | 1794 | 1794, December 23 | Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:— | |
| VII. To the Rev. W. L. Bowles. | "My heart has thank'd thee, Bowles! for those soft strains," | 1794 | 1794, December 26 | Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:— | |
| VII. To the Rev. W. L. Bowles. | "My heart has thank'd thee, Bowles! for those soft strains" | 1794 | 1794, December 26 | Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:— | |
| VIII. Mrs. Siddons | "As when a child on some long Winter's night" | 1794 | 1794, December 29 | Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:— | |
| IX. To William Godwin, Author of 'Political Justice.' | "O form'd t' illume a sunless world forlorn," | 1795? | 1795, January 10 | Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:— | |
| X. To Robert Southey of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of the 'Retrospect' and other Poems. | "Southey! thy melodies steal o'er mine ear" | 1795 | 1795, January 14 | Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:— | |
| XI. To Richard Brinsley Sheridan,[Note 8] Esq. | "It was some Spirit, Sheridan! that breath'd" | 1795 | 1795, January 29 | Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:— | |
| XII. To Lord Stanhope on reading his Late Protest in the House of Lords. | "Stanhope! I hail, with ardent Hymn, thy name!" | 1795 | 1795, January 31 | Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:— | |
| To Earl Stanhope | "Not, Stanhope! with the Patriot's doubtful name" | 1795 | 1796 | ||
| Lines: To a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter | "Away, those cloudy looks, that labouring sigh," | 1795? | 1796 | ||
| To an Infant. | "Ah! cease thy tears and sobs, my little Life!" | 1795 | 1796 | ||
| To the Rev. W. J. Hort while teaching a Young Lady some Song-tunes on his Flute | "Hush! ye clamorous Cares! be mute!" | 1795 | 1796 | ||
| Pity. | "Sweet Mercy! how my very heart has bled" | 1795? | 1796 | ||
| To the Nightingale | "Sister of love-lorn Poets, Philomel!" | 1795 | 1796 | ||
| Lines: Composed while climbing the Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May 1795 | "With many a pause and oft reverted eye" | 1795, May | 1796 | ||
| Lines in the Manner of Spenser | "O Peace, that on a lilied bank dost love" | 1795 | 1796 | ||
| The Hour when we shall meet again. (Composed during Illness and in Absence.) | "Dim Hour! that sleep'st on pillowing clouds afar," | 1795? | 1796, Maarch 17 | ||
| Lines written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, September 1795, in Answer to a Letter from Bristol | "Nor travels my meandering eye" | 1795 | 1796 | ||
| The Eolian Harp. | "My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined" | 1795 | 1796 | ||
| To the Author of Poems [Joseph Cottle] | published anonymously at Bristol in September 1795 | "Unboastful Bard! whose verse concise yet clear" | 1795 | 1795, September | |
| The Silver Thimble. The Production of a Young Lady, addressed [xiv]to the Author of the Poems alluded to in the preceding Epistle. | "As oft mine eye with careless glance" | 1795 | 1796 | ||
| Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement | Sermoni propriora - Hor. | "Low was our pretty Cot: our tallest Rose" | 1795 | 1796, October | |
| Religious Musings. | A Desultory poem, written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 | "This is the time, when most divine to hear," | 1794-6 | 1796[Note 9] | |
| Monody on the Death of Chatterton. | "O what a wonder seems the fear of death," | 1790-1834 | 1794 | ||
| The Destiny of Nations. A Vision | "Auspicious Reverence! Hush all meaner song," | 1796 | 1817 | ||
| Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an Unpublished Poem | "The early Year's fast-flying vapours stray" | 1796 | 1796, March 25 | ||
| On observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796 | "Sweet flower! that peeping from thy russet stem" | 1796 | 1796, April 11 | ||
| To a Primrose. The First seen in the Season | Nitens et roboris expers - Turget et insolida est: et spe delectat. - Ovid, Metam | "Thy smiles I note, sweet early Flower," | 1796 | 1796, April 27 | |
| Verses: Addressed to J. Horne Tooke and the Company who met on June 28, 1796, to celebrate his Poll at the Westminster Election | "Britons! when last ye met, with distant streak" | 1796 | 1893 | ||
| On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life [Prince and Princess of Wales]. | "I sigh, fair injur'd stranger! for thy fate;" | 1796 | 1796, September | ||
| Sonnet: On receiving a Letter informing me of the Birth of a Son. | "When they did greet me father, sudden awe" | 1796, September 20 | 1847 | ||
| Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward; the Author having received Intelligence of the Birth of a Son, Sept. 20, 1796. | "Oft o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll" | 1796 | 1797 | ||
| Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me. | "Charles! my slow heart was only sad, when first" | 1796 | 1797 | ||
| Sonnet: [To Charles Lloyd] | "The piteous sobs that choke the Virgin's breath" | 1796 | 1796 | ||
| To a Young Friend on his proposing to domesticate with the Author. Composed in 1796 | "A mount, not wearisome and bare and steep," | 1796 | 1797 | ||
| Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune [C. Lloyd] | Who Abandoned himself to an indolent and causeless Melancholy | "Hence that fantastic wantonness of woe," | 1796 | 1796, December 16 | |
| To a Friend [Charles Lamb] who had declared his intention of writing no more Poetry | "Dear Charles! whilst yet thou wert a babe, I ween" | 1796 | 1800 | ||
| Ode to the Departing Year | "Spirit who sweepest the wild Harp of Time!" | 1796 | 1796, December 31 | ||
| The Raven. [MS. S. T. C.] | A Christmas Tale, Told by a School-boy to his little brothers and sisters. | "Underneath an old oak tree" | 1797 | 1798, March 10 | |
| To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre | "Maiden, that with sullen brow" | 1797 | 1797, December 7 | ||
| To an Unfortunate Woman whom the Author had known in the days of her Innocence | "Myrtle-leaf that, ill besped," | 1797 | 1797 | ||
| To the Rev. George Coleridge | Of Ottery St. Mary, Devon. With Some Poems. Notus in fratres animi paterni. - Hor | "A blesséd lot hath he, who having passed" | 1797 | 1797 | |
| On the Christening of a Friend's Child | "This day among the faithful plac'd" | 1797 | 1797 | ||
| Translation of a Latin Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Nether-Stowey Church | "Depart in joy from this world's noise and strife" | 1797 | 1836 | ||
| This Lime-tree Bower my Prison | [Addressed to Lamb Charles, Of the India House, London] | "Well, they are gone, and here must I remain," | 1797 | 1800 | |
| The Foster-mother's Tale | "I never saw the man whom you describe" | 1797 | 1798 | Lyrical Ballads | |
| The Dungeon | "And this place our forefathers made for man!" | 1797 | 1798 | Lyrical Ballads | |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | "It is an Ancient Mariner" | 1797-98 | 1798 | Lyrical Ballads | |
| Sonnets attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers | "Pensive at eve on the hard world I mus'd," | 1797 | 1797, November | ||
| Parliamentary Oscillators | "Almost awake? Why, what is this, and whence," | 1798 | 1798, January 6 | ||
| Christabel. | "The first part of the following poem was written in the" | 1801 | 1816 | ||
| Lines to W. L. while he sang a Song to Purcell's Music | "While my young cheek retains its healthful hues," | 1797 | 1800 | ||
| Fire, Famine, and Slaughter | A War Ecologue | "Sisters! sisters! who sent you here" | 1798 | 1798, January 8 | |
| Frost at Midnight | "The Frost performs its secret ministry," | 1798, February | 1798 | ||
| France: An Ode. | "Ye Clouds! that far above me float and pause," | 1798, February | 1798, April 18 | ||
| The Old Man of the Alps | "Stranger! whose eyes a look of pity shew," | 1798, March 8 | 1798, March 8 | ||
| [xv]To a Young Lady [Miss Lavinia Poole] on her Recovery from a Fever | "Why need I say, Louisa dear!" | 1798, March 31 | 1799, December 9 | ||
| Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt. | "At midnight by the stream I roved," | 1798 | 1798, April 18 | ||
| Fears in Solitude. | Written in April 18, during an alarm of invasion | "A green and silent spot, amid the hills," | 1798, April 20 | 1798 | |
| The Nightingale. A Conversation Poem | "No cloud, no relique of the sunken day" | 1798, April | 1798 | Lyrical Ballads | |
| The Three Graves. | "Beneath this thorn when I was young," | 1797-1809 | 1893[Note 10] | ||
| The Wanderings of Cain. | "Encinctured with a twine of leaves," | 1798 | 1828 | ||
| To ——[Note 11] | "I mix in life, and labour to seem free," | 1798? | 1836 | ||
| The Ballad of the Dark Ladié | "Beneath yon birch with silver bark," | 1798 | 1834 | ||
| Kubla Khan | Or, A vision in a dream. A Fragment. | "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan" | 1798 | 1816 | |
| Recantation: Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox | "An Ox, long fed with musty hay," | 1798 | 1798, July 30 | ||
| Hexameters. ('William my teacher,' &c.) | "William, my teacher, my friend! dear William and dear Dorothea!" | 1799 | 1851 | ||
| Translation of a Passage in Ottfried's Metrical Paraphrase of the Gospel | "She gave with joy her virgin breast;" | 1799? | 1817 | ||
| Catullian Hendecasyllables | "Hear, my belovéd, an old Milesian story!—" | 1799? | 1834 | ||
| The Homeric Hexameter described and exemplified | "Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows," | 1799? | 1834 | ||
| The Ovidian Elegiac Metre described and exemplified | "In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column;" | 1799? | 1834 | ||
| On a Cataract. | From a cavern near the summit of a mountain precipice. | "Unperishing youth!" | 1799? | 1834 | |
| Tell's Birth-Place | Imitated from Stolberg | "Mark this holy chapel well!" | 1799? | 1817 | |
| The Visit of the Gods | Imitated from Schiller | "Never, believe me," | 1799? | 1817 | |
| From the German. ('Know'st thou the land,' &c.) | "Know'st thou the land where the pale citrons grow," | 1799 | 1834 | ||
| Water Ballad. | From the French | " 'Come hither, gently rowing," | 1799 | 1831, October 29 | |
| On an Infant which died before Baptism. ('Be rather,' &c.) | "'Be, rather than be called, a child of God,'" | 1799, April 8 | 1834 | ||
| Something Childish, but very Natural. Written in Germany. | "If I had but two little wings" | 1799, April 23 | 1800 | ||
| Home-Sick. Written in Germany. | "'Tis sweet to him who all the week" | 1799, May 6 | 1800 | ||
| Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode in the Hartz Forest. | "I stood on Brocken's sovran height, and saw" | 1799, May 17 | 1799, September 17 | ||
| The British Stripling's War-Song. | Imitated from Stolberg | "Yes, noble old Warrior! this heart has beat high," | 1799 | 1799, August 24 | |
| Names. [From Lessing.] | "I ask'd my fair one happy day," | 1799 | 1803 | ||
| The Devil's Thoughts. | "From his brimstone bed at break of day" | 1799 | 1799, September 6 | ||
| Lines composed in a Concert-room | "Nor cold, nor stern, my soul! yet I detest" | 1799 | 1799, September 24 | ||
| Westphalian Song | "When thou to my true-love com'st" | 1799? | 1802, September 27 | ||
| Hexameters. Paraphrase of Psalm xlvi. | "Gōd ĭs oŭr Strēngth ănd oŭr Rēfŭge: thērefŏre wīll wĕ nŏt trēmblĕ" | 1799 | 1912 | ||
| Hymn to the Earth. [Imitated from Stolberg's Hymne an die Erde.] Hexameters | "Earth! thou mother of numberless children, the nurse and the mother," | 1799 | 1834 | ||
| Mahomet | "Utter the song, O my soul! the flight and return of Mohammed," | 1799? | 1834 | ||
| Love. | "All thoughts, all passions, all delights," | 1799 | 1799, December 21 | ||
| Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, on the Twenty-fourth Stanza in her 'Passage over Mount Gothard' | "Splendour's fondly-fostered child!" | 1799 | 1799, December 24 | ||
| A Christmas Carol | "The shepherds went their hasty way," | 1799 | 1799, December 25 | ||
| Talleyrand to Lord Grenville. A Metrical Epistle | "My Lord! though your Lordship repel deviation" | 1800 | 1800, January 10 | ||
| Apologia pro Vita sua. ('The poet in his lone,' &c.) | "The poet in his lone yet genial hour" | 1800 | 1822 | ||
| The Keepsake | "The tedded hay, the first fruits of the soil," | 1800? | 1802, September 17 | ||
| A Thought suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland. | "On stern Blencartha's perilous height" | 1800 | 1833 | ||
| The Mad Monk | "I heard a voice from Etna's side;" | 1800 | 1800, October 13 | ||
| [xvi]Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side half-way up a Steep Hill facing South | "Thou who in youthful vigour rich, and light" | 1800 | 1800, October 21 | ||
| A Stranger Minstrel | Written [To Mrs. Robinson], A few weeks before her death. | "As late on Skiddaw's mount I lay supine," | 1800, November | 1801 | |
| Alcaeus to Sappho. | "How sweet, when crimson colours dart" | 1800 | 1800, November 24 | ||
| The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone. | "The Devil believes that the Lord will come," | 1800 | 1800, December 4 | ||
| The Snow-drop. | "The Devil believes that the Lord will come," | 1800 | 1893 | ||
| On Revisiting the Sea-shore. | After Long Absence, Under strong Medical Recommendation not to bathe. | "God be with thee, gladsome Ocean!" | 1801 | 1801, September 15 | |
| Ode to Tranquillity | "Tranquillity! thou better name" | 1801 | 1801, December 4 | ||
| To Asra. | "Are there two things, of all which men possess," | 1801 | 1893 | ||
| The Second Birth. | "There are two births, the one when Light" | 1801? | 1893 | ||
| Love's Sanctuary. | "This yearning heart (Love! witness what I say)" | 1801? | 1893 | ||
| Dejection: An Ode. | "Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made" | 1802, April 4 | 1802, October 4 | ||
| The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution | "Through weeds and thorns, and matted underwood" | 1802 | 1802, September 6 | ||
| To Matilda Betham from a Stranger | "Matilda! I have heard a sweet tune played" | 1802 | 1893[Note 12] | ||
| Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni. | "Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star" | 1802 | 1802, September 11 | ||
| The Good, Great Man | "'How seldom, friend! a good great man inherits" | 1802 | 1802, September 23 | ||
| Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath | "This Sycamore, oft musical with bees,—" | 1802 | 1802, September 24 | ||
| An Ode to the Rain | Composed Before Daylight, on the Morning Appointed for the Departure of a Very Worthy, but Not Very Pleasant Visitor, Whom It Was Feared the Rain Might Detain | "I know it is dark; and though I have lain," | 1802 | 1802, October 7 | |
| A Day-dream. ('My eyes make pictures,' &c.) | "My eyes make pictures, when they are shut:" | 1802 | 1828 | ||
| Answer to a Child's Question | "Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove," | 1802 | 1802, October 16 | ||
| The Day-dream. From an Emigrant to his Absent Wife | "If thou wert here, these tears were tears of light!" | 1801-02 | 1802, October 19 | ||
| The Happy Husband. A Fragment | "Oft, oft methinks, the while with thee," | 1802? | 1817 | Sibylline Leaves | |
| The Pains of Sleep. | "Ere on my bed my limbs I lay," | 1803 | 1816 | ||
| The Exchange | "We pledged our hearts, my love and I,—" | 1804 | 1804, April 16 | ||
| Ad Vilmum Axiologum. [To William Wordsworth.] | "This be the meed, that thy song creates a thousand-fold echo!" | 1805? | 1893 | ||
| An Exile. | "Friend, Lover, Husband, Sister, Brother!" | 1805 | 1893 | ||
| Sonnet. [Translated from Marini.] | "Lady, to Death we're doom'd, our crime the same!" | 1805? | 1893 | ||
| Phantom | "All look and likeness caught from earth," | 1805 | 1805, February 8 | ||
| A Sunset. | "Upon the mountain's edge with light touch resting," | 1805 | 1893 | ||
| What is Life? | "Resembles life what once was deem'd of light," | 1805 | 1829 | ||
| The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree | A Lament | "I seem to have an indistinct recollection of having read either in one" | 1805 | 1828 | |
| Separation. | "A sworded man whose trade is blood," | 1805? | 1834 | ||
| The Rash Conjurer. | "Strong spirit-bidding sounds!" | 1805? or 1814? | 1912[Note 13] | ||
| A Child's Evening Prayer. | "Ere on my bed my limbs I lay," | 1806 | 1852 | ||
| Metrical Feet. Lesson for a Boy. | "Trōchĕe trīps frŏm lōng tŏ shōrt;" | 1806 | 1834 | ||
| Farewell to Love | "Farewell, sweet Love! yet blame you not my truth;" | 1806 | 1806, September 27 | ||
| To William Wordsworth. | Composed on the night after his recitation of a poem on the growth of an individual mind. | "Friend of the wise! and Teacher of the Good!" | 1807, January | 1817 | Sibylline Leaves |
| An Angel Visitant. | "Within these circling hollies woodbine-clad—" | 1801? | 1836 | ||
| Recollections of Love. | "How warm this woodland wild Recess!" | 1807 | 1817 | Sibylline Leaves | |
| To Two Sisters. [Mary Morgan and Charlotte Brent] | A Wanderer's Farwell | "To know, to esteem, to love,—and then to part—" | 1807 | 1807, December 10 | |
| Psyche. | "The butterfly the ancient Grecians made" | 1808 | 1817[Note 14] | ||
| A Tombless Epitaph | "'Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane!" | 1809? | 1809, November 23 | ||
| For a Market-clock. (Impromptu.) | "What now, O Man! thou dost or mean'st to do" | 1809 | 1836 | ||
| The Madman and the Lethargist. | An Example | "Quoth Dick to me, as once at College" | 1809 | 1912 | |
| The Visionary Hope | "Sad lot, to have no Hope! Though lowly kneeling" | 1810 | 1817 | Sibylline Leaves | |
| Epitaph on an Infant. ('Its balmy lips,' &c.) | "Its balmy lips the infant blest" | 1811 | 1811, March 20 | ||
| The Virgin's Cradle-hymn | Copied from a print of the virgin in a Roman Catholic village in Germany | "Dormi, Jesu! Mater ridet" | 1811 | 1801, December 26 | |
| To a Lady offended by a Sportive Observation that Women have no Souls | "Nay, dearest Anna! why so grave?" | 1811? | 1812 | ||
| Reason for Love's Blindness | "I have heard of reasons manifold" | 1811? | 1828 | ||
| The Suicide's Argument. | "Ere the birth of my life, if I wished it or no," | 1811 | 1828 | ||
| Time, Real and Imaginary | An Allegory | "On the wide level of a mountain's head," | 1812? | 1817 | Sibylline Leaves |
| An Invocation. From Remorse [Act III, Scene i, ll. 69-82] | "Hear, sweet Spirit, hear the spell," | 1812 | 1813 | ||
| The Night-scene. | " You loved the daughter of Don Manrique" | 1813 | 1817 | Sibylline Leaves | |
| A Hymn | "My Maker! of thy power the trace" | 1814 | 1852 | ||
| To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck | "Ah! not by Cam or Isis, famous streams," | 1814 | 1817 | Sibylline Leaves | |
| Human Life. On the Denial of Immortality | "If dead, we cease to be; if total gloom" | 1815? | 1817 | Sibylline Leaves | |
| Song. From Zapolya (Act II, Sc. i, ll. 65–80.) | "A Sunny shaft did I behold," | 1815 | 1817 | ||
| Hunting Song. From Zapolya (Act IV, Sc. ii, ll. 56-71) | "Up, up! ye dames, and lasses gay!" | 1815 | 1817 | ||
| Faith, Hope, and Charity. From the Italian of Guarini | "Let those whose low delights to Earth are given" | 1815 | 1817[Note 15] | ||
| To Nature | "It may indeed be phantasy, when I" | 1820? | 1836 | ||
| Limbo. | "The sole true Something—This! In Limbo's Den" | 1817 | 1893 | ||
| Ne Plus Ultra | "Sole Positive of Night!" | 1826? | 1834 | ||
| The Knight's Tomb | "Where is the grave of Sir Arthur O'Kellyn?" | 1817? | 1834 | ||
| On Donne's Poetry | "With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots," | 1818? | 1836 | ||
| Israel's Lament | A Hebrew Dirge, chaunted in the Great Synagogue, St. James's Place, Aldgate, on the day of the Funeral of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte. By Hyman Hurwitz, Master of the Hebrew Academy, Highgate: with a Translation in English Verse, by S. T. Coleridge, Esq., 1817.' | "Mourn, Israel! Sons of Israel, mourn!" | 1817 | 1817 | |
| Fancy in Nubibus, or the Poet in the Clouds. | "O! it is pleasant, with a heart at ease," | 1817 | 1818, February 7 | ||
| The Tears of a Grateful People | "Oppress'd, confused, with grief and pain," | 1820 | 1820 | ||
| Youth and Age. | "Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying," | 1823-1832 | 1834 | ||
| The Reproof and Reply | Or, The Flower-Thief's Apology, for a robbery committed in Mr. and Mrs. ——'s garden, on Sunday morning, 25 May 1823, between the hours of eleven and twelve. | ""Fie, Mr. Coleridge!—and can this be you?" | 1823 | 1834 | |
| First Advent of Love. | "O fair is Love's first hope to gentle mind!" | 1824 | 1834 | ||
| The Delinquent Travellers | "Some are home-sick—some two or three," | 1824 | 1912 | ||
| Work without Hope. | "All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—" | 1825, February 21 | 1828 | ||
| Sancti Dominici Pallium. A Dialogue between Poet and Friend. | Found Written on the Blank Leaf at the Beginning of Butler's. 'book of the Church' (1825) | "I note the moods and feelings men betray," | 1825 or 1826 | 1827, May 21 | |
| Song. ('Though veiled,' &c.) | "Though veiled in spires of myrtle-wreath," | 1825 | 1828 | ||
| A Character. | "A bird, who for his other sins" | 1825 | 1834 | ||
| The Two Founts. | Stanzas Addressed to a Lady on Her Recovery With Unblemished Looks, From a Severe Attack of Pain | "'Twas my last waking thought, how it could be" | 1826 | 1827 | |
| Constancy to an Ideal Object | "Since all that beat about in Nature's range," | 1826? | 1817 | ||
| The Pang more Sharp than All. An Allegory | "He too has flitted from his secret nest," | 1825-6? | 1834 | ||
| Duty surviving Self-love. The only sure Friend of declining Life. | "Unchanged within, to see all changed without," | 1826 | 1828 | ||
| Homeless | "'O! Christmas Day, Oh! happy day!" | 1826 | 1827, January | ||
| Lines suggested by the last Words of Berengarius; ob. Anno Dom. 1088 | "No more 'twixt conscience staggering and the Pope" | 1826? | 1827 | ||
| Epitaphium Testamentarium | "Quae linquam, aut nihil, aut nihili, aut vix sunt mea. Sordes" | 1826 | 1827 | ||
| Ἔρως ἀεὶ λάληθρος ἑταῖρος | "In many ways does the full heart reveal" | 1826 | 1827 | ||
| The Improvisatore; or, 'John Anderson, My Jo, John' | "Yes, yes! that boon, life's richest treat" | 1827 | 1828 | ||
| To Mary Pridham [afterwards Mrs. Derwent Coleridge]. | "Dear tho' unseen! tho' I have left behind" | 1827 | 1827, October 16 | ||
| Alice du Clos; or, The Forked Tongue. A Ballad. | One word with two meanings is the traitor's shield and shaft: and a slit tongue be his blazon!'—Caucasian Proverb. | "'The Sun is not yet risen," | 1828? | 1834 | |
| Love's Burial-place | "Lady. If Love be dead—" | 1828 | 1828 | ||
| Lines: To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review | "What though the chilly wide-mouth'd quacking chorus" | 1825? | 1834 | ||
| Cologne | "In Köhln, a town of monks and bones" | 1828 | 1834 | ||
| On my Joyful Departure from the same City | "As I am a Rhymer" | 1828 | 1834 | ||
| The Garden of Boccaccio | "Or late, in one of those most weary hours," | 1828 | 1829 | ||
| Love, Hope, and Patience in Education. | "O'er wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule," | 1829 | 1830 | ||
| To Miss A. T. | "Verse, pictures, music, thoughts both grave and gay," | 1829 | 1850 | ||
| Lines written in Commonplace Book of Miss Barbour, Daughter of the Minister of the U. S. A. to England | "Child of my muse! in Barbour's gentle hand" | 1829, August | 1829, December 19 | ||
| Song, ex improviso, on hearing a Song in praise of a Lady's Beauty | "'Tis not the lily-brow I prize," | 1830 | 1830 | ||
| Love and Friendship Opposite | "Her attachment may differ from yours in degree," | 1830? | 1834 | ||
| Not at Home | "That Jealousy may rule a mind" | 1830? | 1834 | ||
| Phantom or Fact. A Dialogue in Verse | "A lovely form there sate beside my bed," | 1830? | 1834 | ||
| Desire. | "Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;" | 1830? | 1834 | ||
| Charity in Thought | "To praise men as good, and to take them for such," | 1830? | 1834 | ||
| Humility the Mother of Charity | "Frail creatures are we all! To be the best," | 1830? | 1834 | ||
| [Coeli Enarrant.] | "The stars that wont to start, as on a chace," | 1830? | 1912 | ||
| Reason | ['Finally, what is Reason? You have often asked me: and this is my answer':—] | "Whene'er the mist, that stands 'twixt God and thee," | 1830 | 1830[Note 16] | |
| Self-knowledge | —E coelo descendit γνῶθι σεαυτόν.—Juvenal, xi. 27. | "Γνῶθι σεαυτόν!—and is this the prime" | 1832 | 1834 | |
| Forbearance | "Gently I took that which ungently came" | 1832? | 1834 | ||
| Love's Apparition and Evanishment | An Allegoric Romance | "Like a lone Arab, old and blind," | 1833 | 1834 | |
| To the Young Artist Kayser of Kaserwerth | "Kayser! to whom, as to a second self," | 1833 | 1834 | ||
| My Baptismal Birth-day | "God's child in Christ adopted,—Christ my all,—" | 1833 | 1834 | ||
| Epitaph. | "Stop, Christian passer-by!—Stop, child of God," | 1833, November 9 | 1834 | ||
| An Apology for Spencers | "Said William to Edmund I can't guess the reason" | 1796, March 21 | 1796, March 25 | Epigram | |
| On a Late Marriage between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître | "Tho' Miss ——'s match is a subject of mirth," | Unknown | 1796, April 2 | Epigram | |
| On an Amorous Doctor | "From Rufa's eye sly Cupid shot his dart" | Unknown | 1796, April 2 | Epigram | |
| Of smart pretty Fellows,' &c. | "Of smart pretty Fellows in Bristol are numbers, some" | Unknown | 1912 | Epigram | |
| On Deputy —— | "By many a booby's vengeance bit" | Unknown | 1798, January 2 | Epigram | |
| To be ruled like a Frenchman,' &c. | "To be ruled like a Frenchman the Briton is loth," | 1798 | 1912 | Epigram | |
| On Mr. Ross, usually Cognominated Nosy | "I fancy whenever I spy Nosy" | 1799 | 1912 | Epigram | |
| Bob now resolves,' &c. | "Bob now resolves on marriage schemes to trample," | Unknown | 1912 | Epigram | |
| Say what you will, Ingenious Youth' | "Say what you will, Ingenious Youth!" | 1799 | 1893 | Epigram | |
| If the guilt of all lying,' &c. | "If the guilt of all lying consists in deceit," | 1800 | 1800 | Epigram | |
| On an Insignificant | "No doleful faces here, no sighing—" | 1799 | 1893[Note 17] | Epigram | |
| There comes from old Avaro's grave' | "There comes from old Avaro's grave" | 1799 | 1829 | Epigram | |
| On a Slanderer | "From yonder tomb of recent date," | 1799 | 1893 | Epigram | |
| Lines in a German Student's Album | "We both attended the same College," | Unknown | 1856 | Epigram | |
| [Hippona] | "Hippona lets no silly flush" | 1799 August, 29 | 1799, August 29 | Epigram | |
| On a Reader of His Own Verses | "Hoarse Mævius reads his hobbling verse" | Unknown | 1799, September 7 | Epigram | |
| [iv]On a Report of a Minister's Death | "Last Monday all the Papers said" | Unknown | 1799, September 18 | Epigram | |
| [Dear Brother Jem] | "Jem writes his verses with more speed" | Unknown | 1799, September 23 | Epigram | |
| Job's Luck | "Sly Beelzebub took all occasions" | 1799 | 1801, September 26 | Epigram | |
| On the Sickness of a Great Minister | "Pluto commanded death to take away" | Unknown | 1799, October 1 | Epigram | |
| [To a Virtuous Oeconomist] | "You're careful o'er your wealth 'tis true:" | Unknown | 1799, October 28 | Epigram | |
| [L'Enfant Prodigue] | "Jack drinks fine wines, wears modish clothing," | Unknown | 1799, November 16 | Epigram | |
| On Sir Rubicund Naso | A Court Alderman and Whisperer of Secrets | "Speak out, Sir! you're safe, for so ruddy your nose" | Unknown | 1799, December 7 | Epigram |
| To Mr. Pye | "Your poem must eternal be," | Unknown | 1800, January 24 | Epigram | |
| [Ninety-Eight] | "O would the Baptist come again" | Unknown | 1800 | Epigram | |
| Occasioned by the Former | "I hold of all our viperous race" | Unknown | 1800 | Epigram | |
| [A Liar by Profession] | "As Dick and I at Charing Cross were walking," | Unknown | 1800 | Epigram | |
| To a Proud Parent | "Thy babes ne'er greet thee with the father's name;" | Unknown | 1800 | Epigram | |
| Rufa | "Thy lap-dog, Rufa, is a dainty beast," | Unknown | 1800 | Epigram | |
| On a Volunteer Singer | "Swans sing before they die—'twere no bad thing" | Unknown | 1800 | Epigram | |
| Occasioned by the Last | "A joke (cries Jack) without a sting—" | Unknown | 1800 | Epigram | |
| Epitaph on Major Dieman | "Know thou who walks't by, Man! that wrapp'd up in lead, man," | 1800? | 1912 | Epigram | |
| On the Above | "As long as ere the life-blood's running," | 1800? | 1912 | Epigram | |
| Epitaph on a Bad Man (1st Version) | "Of him that in this gorgeous tomb doth lie," | Unknown | 1801, September 22 | Epigram | |
| Epitaph on a Bad Man (2nd Version) | "Under this stone does Walter Harcourt lie," | Unknown | 1912 | Epigram | |
| Epitaph on a Bad Man (3rd Version) | W. H. EHEU! | "Beneath this stone does William Hazlitt lie," | Unknown | 1830, September 10 | Epigram |
| To a Certain Modern Narcissus | "Do call, dear Jess, whene'er my way you come;" | Unknown | 1801, December 16 | Epigram | |
| To a Critic | Who Extracted a Passage from a poem without adding a word respecting the context, and then derided it as unitelligible. | "Most candid critic, what if I," | Unknown | 1801, December 16 | Epigram |
| Always Audible | "Pass under Jack's window at twelve at night" | Unknown | 1801, December 19 | Epigram | |
| Pondere non Numero | "Friends should be weigh'd, not told; who boasts to have won" | Unknown | 1801, December 26 | Epigram | |
| The Compliment Qualified | "To wed a fool, I really cannot see" | Unknown | 1801, December 26 | Epigram | |
| What is an Epigram,' &c. | "What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole," | Unknown | 1802, September 23 | Epigram | |
| Charles, grave or merry,' &c. | "Charles, grave or merry, at no lie would stick," | Unknown | 1802, September 23 | Epigram | |
| An evil spirit's on thee, friend,' &c. | "An evil spirit's on thee, friend! of late!" | Unknown | 1802, September 23 | Epigram | |
| Here lies the Devil,' &c. | "Here lies the Devil—ask no other name." | Unknown | 1802, September 23 | Epigram | |
| To One Who Published in Print, &c. | What has been entrusted to him by my Fireside | "Two things hast thou made known to half the nation," | Unknown | 1802, September 23 | Epigram |
| Scarce any scandal,' &c. | "Scarce any scandal, but has a handle;" | Unknown | 1802, September 23 | Epigram | |
| Old Harpy,' &c. | "Old Harpy jeers at castles in the air," | Unknown | 1802, September 23 | Epigram | |
| To a Vain Young Lady | "Didst thou think less of thy dear self" | Unknown | 1802, September 23 | Epigram | |
| A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls | FROM AN OLD TRAGEDY, VIZ. AGATHA TO KING ARCHELAUS | "Three truths should make thee often think and pause;" | Unknown | 1802, September 27 | Epigram |
| From me, Aurelia,' &c. | "From me, Aurelia! you desired" | Unknown | 1802, October 2 | Epigram | |
| For a House-Dog's Collar | "When thieves come, I bark: when gallants, I am still—" | Unknown | 1802, October 2 | Epigram | |
| In vain I praise thee, Zoilus' | "In vain I praise thee, Zoilus!" | Unknown | 1802, October 2 | Epigram | |
| Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser | "A poor benighted Pedlar knock'd" | Unknown | 1802, October 9 | Epigram | |
| A Dialogue between an Author and his Friend | "Come; your opinion of my manuscript" | Unknown | 1802, October 11 | Epigram | |
| Μωροσοφία, or Wisdom in Folly | "Tom Slothful talks, as slothful Tom beseems," | Unknown | 1802, October 11 | Epigram | |
| Each Bond-street buck,' &c. | "Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf!" | Unknown | 1802, October 11 | Epigram | |
| From an Old German Poet | "That France has put us oft to rout" | Unknown | 1802, October 11 | Epigram | |
| On the Curious Circumstance, That in the German, &c. | The Sun is feminine, and the moon is masculine | "Our English poets, bad and good, agree" | Unknown | 1802, October 11 | Epigram |
| Spots in the Sun | "My father confessor is strict and holy," | Unknown | 1802, October 11 | Epigram | |
| When Surface talks,' &c. | "When Surface talks of other people's worth" | Unknown | 1802, October 11 | Epigram | |
| To my Candle | To Farewell Epigram | "Good Candle, thou that with thy brother, Fire," | Unknown | 1802, October 11 | Epigram |
| Epitaph on Himself | "Here sleeps at length poor Col., and without screaming—" | Unknown | 1848 | Epigram | |
| The Taste of the Times | "Some whim or fancy pleases every eye;" | 1806? | 1904, January 9 | Epigram | |
| On Pitt and Fox | "Britannia's boast, her glory and her pride," | Unknown | 1904, January 6 | Epigram | |
| An excellent adage,' &c. | "An excellent adage commands that we should" | Unknown | 1809, November 12 | Epigram | |
| Comparative Brevity of Greek and English | "χρυσὸν ἀνὴρ εὑρὼν ἔλιπε βρόχον, αὐτὰρ ὁ χρυσὸν" | Unknown | 1812 | Epigram | |
| On the Secrecy of a Certain Lady | "'She's secret as the grave, allow!'" | Unknown | 1814, January 3 | Epigram | |
| Motto for a Transparency, &c. (1st Version) | &c corresponds to DESIGNED BY WASHINGTON ALLSTON AND EXHIBITED AT BRISTOL ON 'PROCLAMATION DAY'—June 29, 1814. | "We've fought for Peace, and conquer'd it at last," | Unknown | 1836 | Epigram |
| Motto for a Transparency, &c. (2nd Version) | &c corresponds to DESIGNED BY WASHINGTON ALLSTON AND EXHIBITED AT BRISTOL ON 'PROCLAMATION DAY'—June 29, 1814. | "We've conquered us a Peace, like lads true metalled:" | Unknown | 1836 | Epigram |
| Money, I've heard,' &c. | "Money, I've heard a wise man say," | Unknown | 1893 | Epigram | |
| [v]Modern Critics | "No private grudge they need, no personal spite," | Unknown | 1817 | Epigram | |
| Written in an Album | "Parry seeks the Polar ridge," | Unknown | 1834 | Epigram | |
| To a Lady who requested me to Write a Poem upon Nothing | "On nothing, Fanny, shall I write?" | Unknown | 1822, February 22 | Epigram | |
| Sentimental | "The rose that blushes like the morn," | Unknown | 1877[Note 18] | Epigram | |
| So Mr. Baker,' &c. | "So Mr. Baker heart did pluck—" | Unknown | 1836 | Epigram | |
| Authors and Publishers | " 'A heavy wit shall hang at every lord,'
" |
Unknown | 1825, December 10 | Epigram | |
| The Alternative | "This way or that, ye Powers above me!" | Unknown | Unknown | Epigram | |
| In Spain, that land,' &c. | "In Spain, that land of Monks and Apes," | Unknown | 1871 | Epigram | |
| Inscription for a Time-piece | "Now! It is gone—Our brief hours travel post," | Unknown | 1844[Note 19] | Epigram | |
| On the Most Veracious Anecdotist, &c. | "Tom Hill, who laughs at Cares and Woes," | Unknown | 1912 | Epigram | |
| Nothing speaks but mind,' &c. | "Nothing speaks our mind so well" | Unknown | 1912 | Epigram | |
| Epitaph of the Present Year on the Monument of Thomas Fuller | "A Lutheran stout, I hold for Goose-and-Gaundry" | 1833, November 28 | 1912 | Epigram | |
| My Godmother's Beard | "So great the charms of Mrs. Mundy," | 1791? | 1888 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| Lines to Thomas Poole | "Repeaating Such verse as Bowles, heart honour'd Poet sang,' | 1796 | 1893 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| To a Well-known Musical Critic, &c[Note 20] | "O ——! O ——! of you we complain" | 1798, January 4 | 1798, January 4 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| To T. Poole: An Invitation[Note 21] | "Plucking flowers from the Galaxy" | 1797, January | 1888 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| Song, To be Sung by the Lovers of all the noble liquors, &c[Note 22] | "Ye drinkers of Stingo and Nappy so free," | Unknown | 1801, September 18 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| Drinking versus Thinking | Or, a Song Against the New Philosophy | "My Merry men all, that drink with glee" | Unknown | 1801, September 25 | Jeux d'esprit |
| The Wills of the Wisp | A Sapphic. Vix ea nostra voco |
"Lunatic Witch-fires! Ghosts of Light and Motion!" | Unknown | 1801, December 1 | Jeux d'esprit |
| To Captain Findlay | "When the squalls were flitting and fleering" | 1804, May 4 | 1912 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| On Donne's Poem 'To a Flea' | "Be proud as Spaniards! Leap for pride ye Fleas!" | 1811 | 1912 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| [Ex Libris S. T. C.] | "This, Hannah Scollock! may have been the case;" | 1814, November 25 | Unknown | Jeux d'esprit | |
| ΕΓΩΕΝΚΑΙΠΑΝ | "Eu! Dei vices gerens, ipse Divus,; | 1815 | 1817 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| The Bridge Street Committee | "Jack Snipe" | Unknown | 1836 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| Nonsense Sapphics | "Here's Jem's first copy of nonsense verses," | Unknown | 1850 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| To Susan Steele, &c. | "My dearest Dawtie!" | 1829 | 1912 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| Association of Ideas I.—By Likeness | "Fond, peevish, wedded pair! why all this rant?" | 1830? | 1835 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| Association of Ideas II.—Association by Contrast |
"Phidias changed marble into feet and legs." | 1830? | 1835 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| Association of Ideas III.—Association by Time |
"I touch this scar upon my skull behind," | 1830? | 1835 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| Verses Trivocular | "Of one scrap of science I've evidence ocular." | Unknown | 1912. | Jeux d'esprit | |
| Cholera Cured Before-hand | Or a premonition promulgated gratis for the use of the Useful Classes, specially those resident in St. Giles's, Saffron Hill, Bethnal Green, etc.; and likewise, inasmuch as the good man is merciful even to the beasts, for the benefit of the Bulls and Bears of the Stock Exchange. | "Pains ventral, subventral," | 1832, July 26 | 1834 | Jeux d'esprit |
| To Baby Bates | "You come from o'er the waters," | Unknown | 1893[Note 23] | Jeux d'esprit | |
| To a Child | "Little Miss Fanny," | 1834 | 1888, Jan 28 | Jeux d'esprit | |
| An Experiment for a Metre ('I heard a Voice,' &c.) | "I heard a voice pealing loud triumph to-day:" | 1801 | 1912. | Metrical Experiments | |
| Trochaics | "Thus she said, and, all around," | 1801 | 1912. | Metrical Experiments | |
| The Proper Unmodified Dochmius | (i. e. antispastic Catalectic) | "Bĕnīgn shōōtĭng stārs, ĕcstātīc dĕlīght." | 1801 | 1912. | Metrical Experiments |
| Iambics | "No cold shall thee benumb," | 1801 | 1912. | Metrical Experiments | |
| Nonsense ('Sing, impassionate Soul,' &c.) | "Sing impassionate Soul! of Mohammed the complicate story:" | Unknown | 1912. | Metrical Experiments | |
| A Plaintive Movement | "Go little Pipe! for ever I must leave thee," | 1814, October | 1912. | Metrical Experiments | |
| An Experiment for a Metre ('When thy Beauty appears') | "When thy Beauty appears," | Unknown | 1912. | Metrical Experiments | |
| Nonsense Verses ('Ye fowls of ill presage') | [An Experiment For a Metre] | "Ye fowls of ill presage," | Unknown | 1912. | Metrical Experiments |
| Nonsense ('I wish on earth to sing') | [An Experiment For a Metre] | "I wish on earth to sing" | Unknown | 1912. | Metrical Experiments |
| There in some darksome shade' | "There in some darksome shade" | 1801 | 1893 | Metrical Experiments | |
| Once again, sweet Willow, wave thee' | "Once again, sweet Willow, wave thee!" | Unknown | 1893 | Metrical Experiments | |
| Songs of Shepherds, and rustical Roundelays' | "Songs of Shepherds and rustical Roundelays," | Unknown | 1912. | Metrical Experiments | |
| A Metrical Accident | "Then Jerome did cal" | 1826, July 7 | 1912. | Metrical Experiments | |
| O'er the raised &c | "O'er the raised earth the gales of evening sigh;" | 1797? | 1852 | Fragments | |
| Sea-ward, &c | "Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud" | Unknown | 1912 | Fragments | |
| Over my Cottage | "The Pleasures sport beneath the thatch;" | 1799 | 1893 | Fragments | |
| In the lame and limping metre of a barbarous Latin poet— | "Est meum et est tuum, amice! at si amborum nequit esse," | 1801, November 1 | 1816 | Fragments | |
| Names do not &c | "Names do not always meet with Love," | 1801, December | 1912. | Fragments | |
| The Moon, &c | "The Moon, how definite its orb!" | 1801? | 1893 | Fragments | |
| Such love as &c | "Such love as mourning Husbands have" | 1803, September | 1912. | Fragments | |
| [The Night-Mare Death in Life] | "I know 'tis but a dream, yet feel more anguish" | 1803? | 1912. | Fragments | |
| Bright clouds &c | "Bright clouds of reverence, sufferably bright," | 1803 | 1893 | Fragments | |
| A Beck in Winter | "Over the broad, the shallow, rapid stream," | 1804, January | 1912. | Fragments | |
| I from the &c | "I from the influence of thy Looks receive," | 1804 | 1912. | Fragments | |
| What never is &c | "What never is, but only is to be" | 1804-5 | 1912. | Fragments | |
| This silence of &c | "The silence of a City, how awful at Midnight!" | 1804-5 | 1912. | Fragments | |
| O beauty &c | "O beauty in a beauteous body dight!" | 1805 | 1893 | Fragments | |
| O th'Oppressive &c | "O th' Oppressive, irksome weight" | 1805 | 1893 | Fragments | |
| Twas not a &c | "'Twas not a mist, nor was it quite a cloud," | 1797, December | 1893 | Fragments | |
| [Not a Critic—But a Judge] | "Whom should I choose for my Judge? the earnest, impersonal reader," | 1805 | 1912. | Fragments | |
| A sumptuous and &c | "A sumptuous and magnificent Revenge." | 1806, March | 1893 | Fragments | |
| [De Profundis Clamavi] | "Come, come thou bleak December wind," | 1806, June 7 | 1875 | Fragments | |
| As some vast &c | "As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood," | 1806-7 | 1912. | Fragments | |
| Let Eagle bid &c | "Let Eagle bid the Tortoise sunward soar—" | 1807 | 1888 | Fragments | |
| The body &c | "The body, Eternal Shadow of the finite Soul," | Unknown | 1912. | Fragments | |
| Or Wren &c | "Or Wren or Linnet," | 1807, May | 1912. | Fragments | |
| The reed roof'd &c | "The reed roof'd village still bepatch'd with snow" | 1798 | 1912. | Fragments | |
| And in Life's &c | "And in Life's noisiest hour" | 1807 | 1912. | Fragments | |
| You mould my &c | "You mould my Hopes you fashion me within:" | 1807 | 1912. | Fragments | |
| And my heart &c | "And my heart mantles in its own delight." | Unknown | 1912. | Fragments | |
| The spruce and limber &c | "The spruce and limber yellow-hammer" | 1807 | 1912. | Fragments | |
| Fragment of an Ode on Napoleon | "O'erhung with yew, midway the Muses mount" | 1808? | 1912. | Fragments | |
| The singing kettle &c | "The singing Kettle and the purring Cat," | 1803 | 1893 | Fragments | |
| Two wedded hearts &c | "Two wedded hearts, if ere were such," | 1808 | 1893 | Fragments | |
| Sole Maid &c | "Sole Maid, associate sole, to me beyond" | 1809 | 1893 | Fragments | |
| Epigram on Kepler | "No mortal spirit yet had clomb so high" | 1799 | 1912. | Fragments | |
| When Hope but &c | "When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt:" | 1810 | 1893 | Fragments | |
| I have experienced &c | "I have experienced" | 1810 | 1893 | Fragments | |
| As when the new &c | "As when the new or full Moon urges" | 1811 | 1893 | Fragments | |
| O mercy, &c | "O mercy, O me, miserable man!" | 1811 | 1912. | Fragments | |
| A low dead Thunder &c | "A low dead Thunder mutter'd thro' the night," | 1811 | 1893 | Fragments | |
| His own far countenance &c | "His own fair countenance, his kingly forehead," | 1812 | Unknown | Fragments | |
| [Ars Poetica] | "'Behold yon row of pines, that shorn and bow'd" | 1815 | 1817 | Fragments | |
| Translation of the First Strophe of Pindar's Second Olympic | "Ye harp-controlling hymns!" | 1815 | 1817 | Fragments | |
| O! Superstition &c | "O! Superstition is the giant shadow" | 1816 | 1893 | Fragments | |
| Translation of a Fragment of Heraclitus | "Not hers To win the sense by words of rhetoric,
" |
1816 | Unknown | Fragments | |
| Truth I pursued &c | "Truth I pursued, as Fancy sketch'd the way," | Unknown | 1818 | Fragments | |
| Imitated from Aristophanes | "Great goddesses are they to lazy folks," | 1817 | 1818 | Fragments | |
| Let clumps of earth &c | "Let clumps of earth, however glorified," | 1820 | 1893 | Fragments | |
| To Edward Irving | "Friend pure of heart and fervent! we have learnt" | 1824 | 1825 | Fragments | |
| [Luther—De Dæmonibus] | "'The angel's like a flea," | 1826 | 1839 | Fragments | |
| The Netherlands | "Water and windmills, greenness, Islets green;—" | 1828, June | 1912. | Fragments | |
| Elisa | "Sweet Gift! and always doth Elisa send" | 1833 | 1912. | Fragments | |
| Profuse Kindness | "What a spring-tide of Love to dear friends in a shoal!" | Unknown / Undated | 1834 | Fragments | |
| I stand alone &c | "I stand alone, nor tho' my heart should break," | Unknown | 1893 | Fragments | |
| Napoleon | "The Sun with gentle beams his rage disguises," | Unknown | 1912. | Fragments | |
| Thicker than rain-drops &c | "Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn." | Unknown / Undated | 1912. | Fragments | |
| His native accents &c | "His native accents to her stranger's ear," | Unknown / Undated | 1893 | Fragments | |
| Each crime that &c | "Each crime that once estranges from the virtues" | Unknown / Undated | Unknown | Fragments | |
| Where'er I find &c | "Where'er I find the Good, the True, the Fair," | Unknown / Undated | 1893 | Fragments | |
| A wind that &c | "A wind that with Aurora hath abiding" | Unknown / Undated | 1893 | Fragments | |
| What boots to &c | "What boots to tell how o'er his grave" | Unknown / Undated | Unknown | Fragments | |
| [xxii]The Three Sorts of Friends | "Though friendships differ endless in degree," | Unknown / Undated | 1835 | Fragments | |
| If fair by &c | "If fair by Nature" | Unknown | 1912. | Fragments | |
| Bo-Peep and I Spy— | "In the corner one—" | 1826 | 1912. | Fragments | |
| A Simile | "As the shy hind, the soft-eyed gentle Brute" | Unknown / Undated | 1912. | Fragments | |
| Baron Guelph of Adelstan. A Fragment | "For ever in the world of Fame" | Unknown / Undated | 1912. | Fragments |
Notes
- ^ Third stanza was first published on January 2nd, 1798 in the Morning Post entitled "To the Lord Mayor's Nose".
- ^ Prior to 1834, the second paragraph read: To this place the Author conducted a party of young Ladies, during the Summer months of the year 1793, &c.
- ^ Lines 2-11 were however first published on April 2, 1796 within the Watchman.
- ^ Coleridge states that the poem was "Composed during a walk to and from the Queen's Head, Gray's Inn Lane, Holborn, and Hornsby's and Co., Cornhill." .
- ^ In first publication was prefaced with note " The two following verses from the French, never before published, were written by a French Prisoner as he was preparing to go to the Guillotine".
- ^ In first publication was prefaced with note " The two following verses from the French, never before published, were written by a French Prisoner as he was preparing to go to the Guillotine".
- ^ Coleridge states in a Note: "'This Sonnet, and the ninth, to Stanhope, were among the pieces withdrawn from the second edition of 1797. They reappeared in the edition of 1803, and were again withdrawn in 1828, solely, it may be presumed, on account of their political vehemence. They will excite no angry feelings, and lead to no misapprehensions now, and as they are fully equal to their companions in poetical merit, the Editors have not scrupled to reproduce them. These Sonnets were originally entitled "Effusions".' appears within editions 1796, 1803 and 1852. "
- ^ Coleridge affixed the note: "Hymettian Flowrets. Hymettus, a mountain near Athens, celebrated for its honey" on line 4, in editions 1797 and 1803.
- ^ Lines 260-357 were entitled as: "The Present State of Society" and published on March 9, 1796
- ^ Parts III and IV were published in 1809, September 21, whereas parts I and II were only first published in 1893, thus the publication date reflects the publication of the poem in totality.
- ^ Originally published without title.
- ^ This poem however was originally printed before 1802, September 10, and preserved in a private autobiographical volume, and was only collected and published in the date stated. .
- ^ The last stanza was published in 1836 entitled: "Uncomposed Poem".
- ^ First published with prefaratory note 'The fact that in Greek Psyche is the common name for the soul, and the butterfly, is thus alluded to in the following stanzas from an unpublished poem of the Author'.
- ^ Published as a part of Zapolya.
- ^ First published as the conclusion of Coleridge's Essay: On the Constitution of Church and State.
- ^ In 1834, however the last two lines were published.
- ^ Date reflects date of collection, as, although stated to have been published within the literary remains, the edition was not stated, and the first publication date not found.
- ^ Date reflects date of collection, as, although stated to have been published within the literary remains, the edition was not stated, and the first publication date not found.
- ^ &c refers to 'Remarkable for his ears sticking out of his hairs.'.
- ^ Did not contain Postcript in First Publication.
- ^ &c refers to 'Comprised under the name of Ale.'
- ^ Date reflects date of collection, as, although stated to have been published within the literary remains, the edition was not stated, and the first publication date not found
References
| Topics |  | |
|---|---|---|
Early poetry |
| |
Plays | ||
Cambridge and Bristol poetry | ||
| ||
Late poetry and Lyrical Ballads |
| |
Biographical and other works | ||
| Family |
| |