Contents
Contents
- Close section Front Matter
- Close sectionCollected Poems of Sara Coleridge
- Close sectionEarly Poems 1815–1829
- Valentine written in girlhood — perhaps at 13 years of age
- Translated from Horace in early youth
- Praises of a Country Life
- 'I dolci colli, ov'io lasciai me stesso'
- 'Vago augelletto, che cantando vai'
- Extract from an Epistle from Emma to Henry
- To Elizabeth S. K. Poole
- To Zoe King
- To Edith May Southey during absence on the Lily of the Nile
- [Valentine to Rose Lynn]
- My dear dear Henry!
- To the tune of 'When icicles hang by the wall'
- Sequel
- 'Let it not a Lover pique'
- 'How now, dear suspicious Lover!'
- 'Now to bed will I fly'
- 'They tell me that my eye is dim, my cheek is lily pale,'
- Go, you may call it madness, folly—&c.
- 'O! once again good night!'
- 'Art thou too at this hour awake'
- To Louisa and Emma Powles
- 'Yes! With fond eye my Henry will peruse'
- '"How swift is a thought of the mind"'
- Verses to my Beloved with an empty purse
- 'My Henry, like a modest youth'
- To Mrs Whitbread
- 'O, how, Love, must I fill'
- 'When this you see'
- '"I am wreathing a garland for wintry hours"'
- 'Henry comes! No sweeter music'
- To Susan Patteson with a purse
- 'Th'enamour'd Nymph, whose faithful voice'
- Epistle from Sara to her sister Mary whom she has never yet seen, her 'Yarrow Unvisited'
- 'The Rose of Love my Henry sends,'
- ''Mid blooming fields I daily rove'
- 'Those parched lips I'd rather press'
- Close sectionPoems 1829–1843
- Sickness
- Written in my Illness at Hampstead during Edith's Infancy
- Verses written in sickness 1833, before the Birth of Berkeley and Florence
- To Herbert Coleridge. Feb 13 1834
- Benoni. Dedication
- The Months
- Trees
- What Makes a Noise
- The Nightingale
- Foolish Interference
- Fine Names for Fine Things
- The Seasons
- The Squirrel
- Poppies
- The Usurping Bird
- Edith Asleep
- The Blessing of Health
- The Humming-Birds
- Childish Tears
- Providence
- 'Nox is the night'
- 'A father's brother, mother's brother, are not called the same'
- The Celandine
- 'January is the first month in the year'
- 'January brings the blast,'
- 'Little Sister Edith now'
- 'Why those tears my little treasure'
- Sara Coleridge for Herbert and Edith. April 19th 1834
- Eye has not seen nor can the heart of man conceive the blessedness of Heaven
- Consolation in Trouble
- Silence and attention at Church
- 'Grief's heavy hand hath swayed the lute;'
- The Little Invalid
- The mansion of Peace
- 'My friends in vain you chide my tears'
- The Crag-fast sheep
- 'Bindweed whiter e'en than lilies'
- 'The hart delights in cooling streams'
- The birth of purple Columbine
- Forget me not
- The Staining of the Rose
- 'No joy have I in passing themes,'
- 'When Herbert's Mama was a slim little Maid'
- Summer
- The lamb in the Slough
- The Water Lily
- The Pair that will not meet
- Written on a blank leaf of 'Naturalist's' Magazine
- Young Days of Edith and Sara
- The Plunge
- The narrow Escape
- 'See the Halcyon fishing'
- Daffodil or King's Spear
- Fine birds and their plain wives
- The Glow-worm ('Glow-worm lights her starry lamp')
- The Glow-worm (''Mid the silent murky dell')
- Herbert looking at the Moon
- Game
- 'From Isles far over the sea'
- Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven
- A Sister's Love
- From Petrarch
- Close sectionPoems from Phantasmion
- 'See the bright stranger!'
- 'Tho' I be young ' ah well-a-day!'
- 'Sylvan stag, securely play,'
- 'Bound along or else be still,'
- 'Milk-white doe, 'tis but the breeze'
- 'One face alone, one face alone,'
- 'Deem not that our eldest heir'
- 'While the storm her bosom scourges,'
- 'Many a fountain cool and shady'
- 'The captive bird with ardour sings,'
- 'The sun may speed or loiter on his way,'
- 'Grief's heavy hand hath swayed the lute;'
- 'Life and light, Anthemna bright,'
- 'O sleep, my babe, hear not the rippling wave,'
- 'How gladsome is a child, and how perfect is his mirth,'
- 'I tremble when with look benign'
- 'Ne'er ask where knaves are mining,'
- 'How high yon lark is heavenward borne!'
- 'Newts and blindworms do no wrong,'
- 'The winds were whispering, the waters glistering,'
- 'False Love, too long thou hast delayed,'
- 'He came unlooked for, undesired,'
- 'Yon changeful cloud will soon thy aspect wear'
- 'I was a brook in straitest channel pent,'
- 'By the storm invaded'
- 'I thought by tears thy soul to move,'
- 'Blest is the tarn which towering cliffs o'ershade,'
- 'What means that darkly-working brow,'
- 'Methought I wandered dimly on,'
- 'The spring returns, and balmy budding flow'rs'
- 'Full oft before some gorgeous fane'
- 'See yon blithe child that dances in our sight!'
- 'Their armour is flashing,'
- 'Ah, where lie now those locks that lately streamed'
- 'Poor is the portrait that one look portrays,'
- The Three Humpbacked Brothers
- Reflections on Reading Lucretius
- From 'Kings of England from the Conquest'
- Receipt for a Cake
- Lines on the Death of —
- Close sectionPoems 1843–1852
- For my Father on his lines called 'Work Without Hope'
- Friend, thou hast been a traveller bold'
- To a fair young Lady who declared that she and I were coevals
- To a Fair Friend arguing in support of the theory of the renovation in a literal sense of the material system
- Close sectionDreams
- Asceticism
- Blanco White
- To a Friend who wished to give me half her sleep
- To a Friend who prayed, that my heart might still be young
- On reading my Father's 'Youth and Age'
- To a little weanling Babe, who returned a kiss with great eagerness
- Dream-love
- To my Son
- Tennyson's 'Lotos Eaters' with a new conclusion
- Crashaw's Poetry
- 'On the same'
- 'Toil not for burnished gold that poorly shines'
- Sketch from Life. Morning Scene. Sept 22 1845
- A Boy's complaint of Dr Blimber
- L'Envoy to 'Phantasmion'
- Feydeleen to Zelneth
- Song of Leucoia
- Song for 'Phantasmion'
- Zelneth. Love unreturned
- Matthew VI.28–9
- Prayer for Tranquillity
- The melancholy Prince
- Zelneth's Song in Magnart's Garden
- Children
- 'Passion is blind not Love: her wondrous might'
- 'O change that strain with man's best hopes at strife,'
- 'O vain expenditure! unhallowed waste!'
- Darling Edith
- First chorus in 'The Agamemnon' of Æschylus
- Close sectionPoems written for a book of Dialogues on the Doctrines of Grace
- [Verses from 'Regeneration']
- Missionary Poem
- [From Sara Coleridge's Journal, September 1850]
- [From a letter to Mrs Derwent Coleridge, 16 January 1852]
- [From a letter to Derwent Coleridge, 22 January 1852]
- Doggrel Charm
- Close sectionEarly Poems 1815–1829
- Close section End Matter
