The Complete Poems Book

The Complete Poems Introduction Acknowledgments Table of Dates Further Reading
The Poems
Easter Holidays Dura navis Nil pejus est caelibe vita Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon Julia Quae nocent docent The Nose Life To the Muse Destruction of the Bastille Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital Progress of Vice Monody on the Death of Chatteron (first version)
Monody on the Death of Chatteron (second version)
An Invocation Anna and Harland To the Evening Star Pain On a Lady Weeping Monody on a Tea-Kettle Genevieve On Receiving an Account that his Only Sister's Death Was Inevitable A Mathematical Problem Honour On Imitation Inside the Coach Devonshire Roads Music Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge Sonnet on the Same Happiness A Wish Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10th, 1792
An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon To Disappointment A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room Ode A Lover's Complaint to his Mistress With Fielding's Amelia Written After a Walk Before Supper Imitated from Ossian The Complaint of Ninathoma, from the Same The Rose Kisses Sonnet ("Thou gentle look")
Sonnet to the River Otter Lines on an Autumnal Evening To Fortune: On Buying a Ticket in the Irish Lottery Perspiration: A Travelling Eclogue Lines written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the House of the "Man of Ross"
Imitated from the Welsh Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village Imitations Ad Lyram The Sigh The Kiss To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution Translation of Wrangham's "Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam e Granta Exituram"
To Miss Brunton with the Preceding Translation Epitaph on an Infant
[Pantisocracy]
On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America Elegy, Imitated from One of Akenside's Blank-Verse Inscriptions The Faded Flower Sonnet ("Pale Roamer through the night!")
Domestic Peace Sonnet ("Thou bleedest, my poor Heart!")
Sonnet to the Author of the "Robbers"
Melancholy: A Fragment Songs of the Pixies To a Young Ass, its Mother being Tethered Near it Lines on a Friend Who Died of a Frenzy Fever Induced by Calumnious Reports To a Friend, together with an Unfinished Poem

Sonnets on Eminent Characters:
1. To the Honourable Mr. Erskine
2. Burke
3. Priestly
4. La Fayette
5. Koskiusko
6. Pitt
7. To the Rev. W. L. Bowles (two versions)
8. Mrs. Siddons
9. To William Godwin, Author of "Political Justice"
10. To Robert Southey, of Balliol College, Oxford, Author of the "Retrospect," and Other Poems
11. To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq.
12. To Lord Stanhope, on Reading his Late Protest in the House of Lords

To Earl Stanhope Lines to a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter To an Infant To the Rev. W. J. Hort, while teaching a young lady some song-tunes on his flute Sonnet ("Sweet Mercy! how my very heart has bled")
To the Nightingale Lines composed while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May, 1795
Lines in the Manner of Spenser To the Author of Poems published anonymously at Bristol in September 1795
The Production of a Young Lady, addressed to the author of the poems alluded to in the preceding epistle Effusion XXXV. Composed August 20th, 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire The Eolian Harp Lines written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, September, 1795, in answer to a letter from Bristol Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement On Donne's Poetry The Hour When We Shall Meet Again The Destiny of Nations Religious Musings From an Unpublished Poem On Observing a Blossom on the First of February, 1796
Verses addressed to J. Horne Tooke On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life Sonnet written on receiving letters informing me of the birth of a Son, I being at Birmingham Sonnet composed on a journey homeward; the author having received intelligence of the birth of a son, Sept. 20th, 1796
Sonnet to a friend who asked, how I felt when the nurse first presented my infant to me Sonnet [to Charles Lloyd]
To a Young Friend, on his Proposing to Domesticate with the Author. Composed in 1796
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune Who Abandoned Himself to an Indolent and Causeless Melancholy To a Friend Who Had Declared his Intention of Writing No More Poetry Ode to the Departing Year The Raven To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre To an Unfortunate Woman To the Rev. George Coleridge On the Christening of a Friend's Child Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Nether Stowey Church This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison The Foster-Mother's Tale The Dungeon Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers: Sonnet I; Sonnet II; Sonnet III Parliamentary Oscillators The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)
Christabel Lines to W. L. while he Sang a Song to Purcell's Music The Three Graves The Wanderings of Cain Fire, Famine, and Slaughter The Old Man of the Alps The Apotheosis, or The Snow-Drop Frost at Midnight France. An Ode Lewti, or the Circassian Love-Chaunt To a Young Lady on her Recovery from a Fever Fears in Solitude The Nightingale The Ballad of the Dark Ladie Kubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream
[Lines from a notebook - September 1798]
[Hexameters:] William, My Teacher, My Friend!
[Translation of a passage in Ottfried's metrical paraphrase of the Gospel]
[Fragmentary translation of the Song of Deborah]
Catullian Hendecasyllables The Homeric Hexameter Described and Exemplified The Ovidian Elegiac Metre Described and Exemplified On a Cataract Tell's Birth-Place The Visit of the Gods On an Infant which Died before Baptism Something Childish, but Very Natural Home-Sick, Written in Germany The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn Lines written in the album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest The British Stripling's War-Song Names The Devil's Thoughts Lines Composed in a Concert-Room The Exchange
[Paraphase of Psalm 46. Hexameters]
Hymn to the Earth. Hexameters Mahomet Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire A Christmas Carol On an Insignificant Job's Luck Love The Madman and the Lethargist, an Example On a Volunteer Singer Talleyrand to Lord Grenville The Two Round Spaces on the Tomb-Stone The Mad Monk A Stranger Minstrel Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side Half-Way Up a Steep Hill Facing South Apologia Pro Vita Sua The Night-Scene: A Dramatic Fragment On Revisiting the Sea-Shore Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath Drinking versus Thinking An Ode to the Rain The Wills of the Wisp Ode to Tranquillity A Letter to ___, April 4, 1802. - Sunday Evening Dejection: An Ode
[A Soliloquy of the full Moon, She being in a Mad Passion]
Answer to a Child's Question A Day Dream The Day-Dream To Asra The Happy Husband A Thought Suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland
[Untitled]
The Keepsake The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution Hymn before Sun-Rise, in the Vale of Chamouni The Good, Great Man The Knight's Tomb To Matilda Betham from a Stranger Westphalian Song The Pains of Sleep
[Lines from a notebook - September 1803]
[Lines from a notebook - February-March 1804]
[What is Life?]
[Lines from a notebook - April 1805]
[Lines from a notebook - May-June 1805]
Phantom
[An Angel Visitant]
Reason for Love's Blindness
[Untitled]
Constancy to an Ideal Object
[Lines from a notebook - March 1806]
[Lines from a notebook - June 1806]
Farewell to Love Time, Real and Imaginary
[Lines from a notebook - 1806]
[Lines from a notebook - October-November 1806]
[Lines from a notebook - 1806]
[Lines from a notebook - November-December 1806]
[Lines from a notebook - February 1807]
[Lines from a notebook - February 1807]
[Lines from a manuscript - 1807-8]
[Lines from a notebook - July 1807; includes lines previously published separately as "Coeli enarrant"]
[Lines from a notebook - January 1808]
To William Wordsworth Metrical Feet. Lesson for a Boy Recollections of Love The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-Tree. A Lament To Two Sisters On Taking Leave of ___, 1817
A Child's Evening Prayer Ad Vilmum Axiologum Psyche
[Sonnet - translated from Marino]
[Fragment: "Two wedded Hearts"]
A Tombless Epitaph On a Clock in a Market-Place Separation The Visionary Hope
[Lines from a notebook - March 1810]
[Lines from a notebook - April-June 1810]
[Lines from a notebook - May 1810]
Epitaph on an Infant
[Lines from a notebook - 1811]
[Fragment of an ode on Napoleon]
[Lines inscribed on the fly-leaf of Benedetto Menzini's "Poesie" (1782)]
[Lines from a notebook - May-June 1811]
[Lines from a notebook - May-July 1811]
[Lines from a notebook - May 1814?]
[Lines from a notebook - 1815-16]
On Donne's First Poem Limbo Moles Ne plus ultra The Suicide's Argument
[An Invocation: from "Remorse"]
God's Omnipresence, a Hymn To a Lady. With Falconer's "Shipwreck"
Human Life, On the Denial of Immortality
[Song from "Zapolya"]
[Hunting Song from "Zapolya"]
[Faith, Hope, and Charity. From the Italian of Guarini]
Fancy in Nubibus Israel's Lament A Character Lines to a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review To Nature The Tears of a Grateful People First Advent of Love
[Reason]
[Lines from a notebook - 1822]
From the German The Reproof and Reply Youth and Age Desire The Delinquent Travellers Song, ex improviso Work Without Hope The Two Founts The Pang More Sharp Than All Sancti Dominici Pallium The Improvisatore Love's Burial-Place: A Madrigal Lines Suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius Epitaphium testamentarium Duty Surviving Self-Love
[Homeless]
Song Profuse Kindness Written in an Album To Mary Pridham Verses Trivocular Water Ballad Cologne On my Joyful Departure from the Same City
[The Netherlands]
The Garden of Bocaccio Alice du Clos: Or The Forked Tongue. A Ballad Love, Hope, and Patience in Education
[Lines written in commonplace book of Miss Barbour]
To Miss A. T.
Love and Friendship Opposite Not at Home W. H. Eheu!
Phantom or Fact?
Charity in Thought Humility the Mother of Charity
["Gently I took that which ungently came"]
Cholera Cured Before Hand Love's Apparition and Evanishment To the Young Artist, Kayser of Kaserwerth Know Thyself My Baptismal Birth-Day Epitaph

Appendices:
1. On the Wretched Lot of the Slaves in the Isles of Western India
2. [Notebook draft of an essay on punctuation]
Notes Index of Titles Index of First Lines