Chapter LXV: Preface: The Preface is the same as that of 1803

CONTENTS

VOLUME I

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JUVENILE POEMS

Genevieve [9]
Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon 10
Time, Real and Imaginary. An Allegory 11
Monody on the Death of Chatterton 12
Songs of the Pixies 19
The Raven 25
Absence. A Farewell Ode 28
Lines on an Autumnal Evening 30
The Rose 35
The Kiss 37
To a Young Ass 39
Domestic Peace 41
The Sigh 42
Epitaph on an Infant ['Ere Sin could blight'] 43
Lines written at the King's-Arms, Ross 44
Lines to a beautiful Spring in a Village 46
On a Friend who died of a Frenzy-fever induced by calumnious
reports 48
To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French Revolution 51
Sonnet I. My heart has thanked thee, Bowles 54
" II. As late I lay in Slumber's Shadowy Vale 55
" III. Though roused by that dark Vizir Riot rude 56
" IV. When British Freedom for an happier land 57
" V. It was some Spirit, Sheridan! 58
" VI. O what a loud and fearful Shriek 59
" VII. As when far off 60
" VIII. Thou gentle Look 61
" IX. Pale Roamer through the Night 62
" X. Sweet Mercy! 63
" XI. Thou bleedest, my Poor Heart 64
" XII. To the Author of The Robbers 65
Lines, composed while climbing Brockley Coomb 66
Lines in the Manner of Spenser 67
Imitated from Ossian 70
The Complaint of Ninathoma 72
Imitated from the Welsh 73
To an Infant 74
Lines in answer to a Letter from Bristol 76
To a Friend in Answer to a melancholy Letter 82
Religious Musings 84
The Destiny of Nations. A Vision 104

SIBYLLINE LEAVES

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I. POEMS OCCASIONED BY POLITICAL EVENTS OR / FEELINGS CONNECTED
WITH THEM [127]
Motto--fourteen lines--'When I have borne in memory what has
tamed', Wordsworth [128]
Ode to the Departing Year 131
France, an Ode 139
Fears in Solitude 144
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter 155

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II. Love Poems [159]
Motto--eleven lines of a Latin Poem by Petrarch [160]
Love 161
Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt 167
The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution 171
The Night Scene, a Dramatic Fragment 179
To an Unfortunate Woman 184
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre 186
Lines composed in a Concert Room 188
The Keepsake 191
To a Lady, with Falconer's Shipwreck 194
To a Young Lady on her recovery from a Fever 196
Something Childish, but very Natural 198
Home-sick: written in Germany 200
Answer to a Child's Question 202
The Visionary Hope 203
The Happy Husband 205
Recollections of Love 207
On revisiting the Sea-shore 209

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III. MEDITATIVE POEMS. / IN BLANK VERSE [211]
Motto--eight lines (translated) from Schiller [212]
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny 213
Lines written in an Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest 218
On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 221
The Eolian Harp 223
Reflections on having left a place of Retirement 227
To the Rev. George Coleridge 231
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath 235
A Tombless Epitaph 237
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison 239
To a Friend who had declared his intention of writing no more
Poetry 244
To a Gentleman [Wordsworth] composed on the night after his
recitation of a Poem on the growth of an individual mind 247
[The Nightingale; a Conversation Poem 253]
Frost at Midnight 261

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THE THREE GRAVES [267]

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ODES / AND / MISCELLANEOUS POEMS [287]
Dejection, An Ode 289
Ode to Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire 296
Ode to Tranquillity 300
To a Young Friend, on his proposing to domesticate with the
Author 302
Lines to W. L., Esq., while he sang a song to Purcell's Music 306
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune 307
Sonnet To the River Otter 309
---- Composed on a journey homeward after hearing of the birth of
a Son 310
---- To a Friend 311
The Virgin's Cradle Hymn 312
Epitaph on an Infant. ['Its balmy lips the Infant blest'] 313
Melancholy, A Fragment 314
Tell's Birth-place 315
A Christmas Carol 317
Human Life 320
The Visit of the Gods 321
Elegy, imitated from Akenside 324

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Kubla Khan: / Or, / A Vision In A Dream [327]
Of The Fragment Of Kubla Khan [329]
Kubla Khan [332]
[The Pains of Sleep 334]
Apologetic Preface to "Fire, Famine, and Slaughter" 337

END OF VOL. I

VOLUME II

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The Rime / of / The Ancient Mariner. / In Seven Parts. / [1]
Motto (From T. Burnet, _Archæol. Phil._, p. 68) [2]
THE ANCIENT MARINER. Part I 3
Part II 8