breast] heart MS. Letters to Mrs. Aders, J. G. Lockhart, J. H. Green.
seem'd he] was he MS. Letter to J. H. Green.
toil of] toilsome MS. Letter to Mrs. Aden.
to be forgiven] to be forgiven MS. Letters to Mrs. Aders and J. H. Green.
M.A., HON. F.R.S.L.
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. II: DRAMATIC WORKS AND APPENDICES
HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK
TORONTO AND MELBOURNE
| DRAMATIC WORKS | |
| 1794 | |
| PAGE | |
| The Fall of Robespierre. An Historic Drama | 495 |
| 1797 | |
| Osorio. A Tragedy | 518 |
| 1800 | |
| The Piccolomini; or, The First Part of Wallenstein. A Drama translated from the German of Schiller. | |
| Preface to the First Edition | 598 |
| The Piccolomini | 600 |
| The Death of Wallenstein. A Tragedy in Five Acts. | |
| Preface of the Translator to the First Edition | 724 |
| The Death of Wallenstein | 726 |
| 1812 | |
| Remorse. | |
| Preface | 812 |
| Prologue | 816 |
| Epilogue | 817 |
| Remorse. A Tragedy in Five Acts | 819 |
| 1815 | |
| Zapolya. A Christmas Tale in Two Parts. | |
| Advertisement | 883 |
| Part I. The Prelude, entitled 'The Usurper's Fortune' | 884 |
| Part II. The Sequel, entitled 'The Usurper's Fate' | 901 |
| Epigrams | 951 |
| An Apology for Spencers | 951 |
| On a Late Marriage between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître | 952 |
| On an Amorous Doctor | 952 |
| 'Of smart pretty Fellows,' &c. | 952 |
| On Deputy —— | 953 |
| 'To be ruled like a Frenchman,' &c. | 953 |
| On Mr. Ross, usually Cognominated Nosy | 953 |
| 'Bob now resolves,' &c. | 953 |
| 'Say what you will, Ingenious Youth' | 954 |
| 'If the guilt of all lying,' &c. | 954 |
| On an Insignificant | 954 |
| 'There comes from old Avaro's grave' | 954 |
| On a Slanderer | 955 |
| Lines in a German Student's Album | 955 |
| [Hippona] | 955 |
| On a Reader of His Own Verses | 955 |
| On a Report of a Minister's Death | 956 |
| [Dear Brother Jem] | 956 |
| Job's Luck | 957 |
| On the Sickness of a Great Minister | 957 |
| [To a Virtuous Oeconomist] | 958 |
| [L'Enfant Prodigue] | 958 |
| On Sir Rubicund Naso | 958 |
| To Mr. Pye | 959 |
| [Ninety-Eight] | 959 |
| Occasioned by the Former | 959 |
| [A Liar by Profession] | 960 |
| To a Proud Parent | 960 |
| Rufa | 960 |
| On a Volunteer Singer | 960 |
| Occasioned by the Last | 961 |
| Epitaph on Major Dieman | 961 |
| On the Above | 961 |
| Epitaph on a Bad Man (Three Versions) | 961 |
| To a Certain Modern Narcissus | 962 |
| To a Critic | 962 |
| Always Audible | 963 |
| Pondere non Numero | 963 |
| The Compliment Qualified | 963 |
| 'What is an Epigram,' &c. | 963 |
| 'Charles, grave or merry,' &c. | 964 |
| 'An evil spirit's on thee, friend,' &c. | 964 |
| 'Here lies the Devil,' &c. | 964 |
| To One Who Published in Print, &c. | 964 |
| 'Scarce any scandal,' &c. | 965 |
| 'Old Harpy,' &c. | 965 |
| To a Vain Young Lady | 965 |
| A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls | 966 |
| 'From me, Aurelia,' &c. | 966 |
| For a House-Dog's Collar | 966 |
| 'In vain I praise thee, Zoilus' | 966 |
| Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser | 967 |
| A Dialogue between an Author and his Friend | 967 |
| Μωροσοφία, or Wisdom in Folly | 967 |
| 'Each Bond-street buck,' &c. | 968 |
| From an Old German Poet | 968 |
| On the Curious Circumstance, That in the German, &c. | 968 |
| Spots in the Sun | 969 |
| 'When Surface talks,' &c. | 969 |
| To my Candle | 969 |
| Epitaph on Himself | 970 |
| The Taste of the Times | 970 |
| On Pitt and Fox | 970 |
| 'An excellent adage,' &c. | 971 |
| Comparative Brevity of Greek and English | 971 |
| On the Secrecy of a Certain Lady | 971 |
| Motto for a Transparency, &c. (Two Versions) | 972 |
| 'Money, I've heard,' &c. | 972 |
| Modern Critics | 972 |
| Written in an Album | 972 |
| To a Lady who requested me to Write a Poem upon Nothing | 973 |
| Sentimental | 973 |
| 'So Mr. Baker,' &c. | 973 |
| Authors and Publishers | 973 |
| The Alternative | 974 |
| 'In Spain, that land,' &c. | 974 |
| Inscription for a Time-piece | 974 |
| On the Most Veracious Anecdotist, &c. | 974 |
| 'Nothing speaks but mind,' &c. | 975 |
| Epitaph of the Present Year on the Monument of Thomas Fuller | 975 |
| Jeux d'Esprit | 976 |
| My Godmother's Beard | 976 |
| Lines to Thomas Poole | 976 |
| To a Well-known Musical Critic, &c. | 977 |
| To T. Poole: An Invitation | 978 |
| Song, To be Sung by the Lovers of all the noble liquors, &c. | 978 |
| Drinking versus Thinking | 979 |
| The Wills of the Wisp | 979 |
| To Captain Findlay | 980 |
| On Donne's Poem 'To a Flea' | 980 |
| [Ex Libris S. T. C.] | 981 |
| ΕΓΩΕΝΚΑΙΠΑΝ | 981 |
| The Bridge Street Committee | 982 |
| Nonsense Sapphics | 983 |
| To Susan Steele, &c. | 984 |
| Association of Ideas | 984 |
| Verses Trivocular | 985 |
| Cholera Cured Before-hand | 985 |
| To Baby Bates | 987 |
| To a Child | 987 |
| Fragments from a Notebook, (circa 1796-1798) | 988 |
| Fragments. (For unnamed Fragments see Index of First Lines.) | 996 |
| Over my Cottage | 997 |
| [The Night-Mare Death in Life] | 998 |
| A Beck in Winter | 998 |
| [Not a Critic—But a Judge] | 1000 |
| [De Profundis Clamavi] | 1001 |
| Fragment of an Ode on Napoleon | 1003 |
| Epigram on Kepler | 1004 |
| [Ars Poetica] | 1006 |
| Translation of the First Strophe of Pindar's Second Olympic | 1006 |
| Translation of a Fragment of Heraclitus | 1007 |
| Imitated from Aristophanes | 1008 |
| To Edward Irving | 1008 |
| [Luther—De Dæmonibus] | 1009 |
| The Netherlands | 1009 |
| Elisa: Translated from Claudian | 1009 |
| Profuse Kindness | 1010 |
| Napoleon | 1010 |
| The Three Sorts of Friends | 1012 |
| Bo-Peep and I Spy— | 1012 |
| A Simile | 1013 |
| Baron Guelph of Adelstan. A Fragment | 1013 |
| Metrical Experiments | 1014 |
| An Experiment for a Metre ('I heard a Voice, &c.') | 1014 |
| Trochaics | 1015 |
| The Proper Unmodified Dochmius | 1015 |
| Iambics | 1015 |
| Nonsense ('Sing, impassionate Soul,' &c.) | 1015 |
| A Plaintive Movement | 1016 |
| An Experiment for a Metre ('When thy Beauty appears') | 1016 |
| Nonsense Verses ('Ye fowls of ill presage') | 1017 |
| Nonsense ('I wish on earth to sing') | 1017 |
| 'There in some darksome shade' | 1018 |
| 'Once again, sweet Willow, wave thee' | 1018 |
| 'Songs of Shepherds, and rustical Roundelays' | 1018 |
| A Metrical Accident | 1019 |
| Notes by Professor Saintsbury | 1019 |
| APPENDIX I | |
| First Drafts, Early Versions, etc. | |
| A. Effusion 35, August 20th, 1795. (First Draft.) [MS. R.] | 1021 |
| Effusion, p. 96 [1797]. (Second Draft.) [MS. R.] | 1021 |
| B. Recollection | 1023 |
| C. The Destiny of Nations. (Draft I.) [Add. MSS. 34,225] " " " (Draft II.) [ibid.] " " " (Draft III.) [ibid.] |
1024 1026 1027 |
| D. Passages in Southey's Joan of Arc (First Edition, 1796) contributed by S. T. Coleridge | 1027 |
| E. The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere [1798] | 1030 |
| F. The Raven. [M. P. March 10, 1798.] | 1048 |
| G. Lewti; or, The Circassian's Love-Chant. (1.) [B. M. Add. MSS. 27,902.] | 1049 |
| The Circassian's Love-Chaunt. (2.) [Add. MSS. 35,343.] | 1050 |
| Lewti; or, The Circassian's Love-Chant. (3.) [Add. MSS. 35,343.] | 1051 |
| H. Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie. [M. P. Dec. 21, 1799.] | 1051 |
| I. The Triumph of Loyalty. An Historic Drama. [Add. MSS. 34,225.] | 1069 |
| J. Chamouny; The Hour before Sunrise. A Hymn. [M. P. Sept. 11, 1802.] | 1074 |
| K. Dejection: An Ode. [M. P. Oct. 4, 1802.] | 1076 |
| L. To W. Wordsworth. January 1807 | 1081 |
| M. Youth and Age. (MS. I, Sept. 10, 1823.) " " (MS. II. 1.) " " (MS. II. 2.) |
1084 1085 1086 |
| N. Love's Apparition and Evanishment. (First Draft.) | 1087 |
| O. Two Versions of the Epitaph. ('Stop, Christian,' &c.) | 1088 |
| P. [Habent sua Fata—Poetae.] ('The Fox, and Statesman,' &c.) | 1089 |
| Q. To John Thelwall | 1090 |
| R. [Lines to T. Poole.] [1807.] | 1090 |
| APPENDIX II | |
| Allegoric Vision | 1091 |
| APPENDIX III | |
| Apologetic Preface to 'Fire, Famine, and Slaughter' | 1097 |
| APPENDIX IV | |
| Prose Versions of Poems, etc. | |
| A. Questions and Answers in the Court of Love | 1109 |
| B. Prose Version of Glycine's Song in Zapolya | 1109 |
| C. Work without Hope. (First Draft.) | 1110 |
| D. Note to Line 34 of the Joan of Arc Book II. [4o 1796.] | 1112 |
| E. Dedication. Ode on the Departing Year. [4o 1796.] | 1113 |
| F. Preface to the MS. of Osorio | 1114 |
| APPENDIX V | |
| Adaptations | |
| From Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke: | |
| God and the World we worship still together | 1115 |
| The Augurs we of all the world admir'd | 1116 |
| Of Humane Learning | 1116 |
| From Sir John Davies: On the Immortality of the Soul | 1116 |
| From Donne: Eclogue. 'On Unworthy Wisdom' | 1117 |
| Letter to Sir Henry Goodyere | 1117 |
| From Ben Jonson: A Nymph's Passion (Mutual Passion) | 1118 |
| Underwoods, No. VI. The Hour-glass | 1119 |
| The Poetaster, Act I, Scene i. | 1120 |
| From Samuel Daniel: Epistle to Sir Thomas Egerton, Knight | 1120 |
| Musophilus, Stanza cxlvii | 1121 |
| Musophilus, Stanzas xxvii, xxix, xxx | 1122 |
| From Christopher Harvey: The Synagogue (The Nativity, or Christmas Day.) | 1122 |
| From Mark Akenside: Blank Verse Inscriptions | 1123 |
| From W. L. Bowles: 'I yet remain' | 1124 |
| From an old Play: Napoleon | 1124 |
| APPENDIX VI | |
| Originals of Translations | |
| F. von Matthison: Ein milesisches Mährchen, Adonide. | 1125 |
| Schiller: Schwindelnd trägt er dich fort auf rastlos strömenden Wogen. | 1125 |
| Im Hexameter steigt des Springquells flüssige Säule. | 1125 |
| Stolberg: Unsterblicher Jüngling! | 1126 |
| Seht diese heilige Kapell! | 1126 |
| Schiller: Nimmer, das glaubt mir. | 1127 |
| Goethe: Kennst du das Land, wo die Citronen blühn. | 1128 |
| François-Antoine-Eugène de Planard: 'Batelier, dit Lisette.' | 1128 |
| German Folk Song: Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär. | 1129 |
| Stolberg; Mein Arm wird stark und gross mein Muth. | 1129 |
| Leasing: Ich fragte meine Schöne. | 1130 |
| Stolberg: Erde, du Mutter zahlloser Kinder, Mutter und Amme! | 1130 |
| Friederike Brun: Aus tiefem Schatten des schweigenden Tannenhains. | 1131 |
| Giambattista Marino: Donna, siam rei di morte. Errasti, errai. | 1131 |
| MS. Notebook: In diesem Wald, in diesen Gründen. | 1132 |
| Anthologia Graeca: Κοινῇ πὰρ κλισίῃ ληθαργικὸς ἠδὲ φρενοπλὴξ | 1132 |
| Battista Guarini: Canti terreni amori. | 1132 |
| Stolberg: Der blinde Sänger stand am Meer. | 1134 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE POETICAL WORKS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE | 1135 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX | |
| No. I. Poems first published in Newspapers or Periodicals. | 1178 |
| No. II. Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit first published in Newspapers and Periodicals. | 1182 |
| No. III. Poems included in Anthologies and other Works. | 1183 |
| No. IV. Poems first printed or reprinted in Literary Remains, 1836, &c. | 1187 |
| Poems first printed or reprinted in Essays on His Own Times, 1850. | 1188 |
| INDEX OF FIRST LINES | 1189 |
ERRATA
On p. 1179, line 7, for Sept. 27, read Sept. 23.
On p. 1181, line 33, for Oct. 9 read Oct. 29.
[First Act by Coleridge: Second and Third by Southey—1794.]
TO
H. MARTIN, ESQ.
OF
JESUS COLLEGE
CAMBRIDGE
Dear Sir,
Accept, as a small testimony of my grateful attachment, the following Dramatic Poem, in which I have endeavoured to detail, in an interesting form, the fall of a man, whose great bad actions have cast a disastrous lustre on his name. In the execution of the work, as intricacy of plot could not have been attempted without a gross violation of recent facts, it has been my sole aim to imitate the empassioned and highly figurative language of the French orators, and to develope the characters of the chief actors on a vast stage of horrors.
Jesus College, September 22, 1794.