The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chapter 402 : XIX ZAPOLYA: A / Christmas tale, / In Two Parts: / [=The Prelude=] / Ent.i.tled / &quo

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ZAPOLYA: A / Christmas tale, / In Two Parts: / [=The Prelude=] / Ent.i.tled / "THE USURPERS' FORTUNE;" And / [=The Sequel=] / Ent.i.tled / "THE USURPER'S FATE." / By / S. T. Coleridge, Esq. / _LONDON_: Printed for Rest Fenner, Paternoster Row. / 1817. / [8{o}.

_Collation._--Half-t.i.tle, ZAPOLYA, one leaf; t.i.tle, one leaf; Advertis.e.m.e.nt, one leaf; Characters, one leaf; Four leaves unpaged; Text, Prelude, pp. [1]-31; Additional Characters, p. [34]; ZAPOLYA (headed, [=Usurpation Ended=]; / or / SHE COMES AGAIN. /), pp. [85]-128.

The imprint, S. Curtis, Camberwell Press, is at the foot of p. 128.

Eight pages of advertis.e.m.e.nts dated September, 1817, are bound up with the volume as issued in a brown paper cover.

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The / Poetical Works / Of / S. T. Coleridge, / Including the Dramas of / Wallenstein, Remorse, and Zapolya. / In three Volumes. / Vol. I. / [Vol.

II, &c.] London: / William Pickering. / MDCCCXXVIII. / [8{o}.

_Collation._--Vol. I. Half-t.i.tle, one leaf, The / Poetical Works / of / S. T. Coleridge. / Vol. I. /, p. [i]; t.i.tle, one leaf, p. [iii]; The Imprint, Thomas White, Printer, / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of p. [iv]; Contents, Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, pp. [v]-x; Preface, To the First and Second Editions, pp. [1]-6; Half-t.i.tle, one leaf, Juvenile Poems, p. [7]; Text, pp. [9]-363; The Imprint, Thomas White, Printer, / Crane Court. /, below the figure of a girl watering flowers surmounted by the motto TE FAVENTE VIREBO, is in the centre of p. [554].

[A vignette and double wreath of oak and bay leaves is in the centre of the t.i.tle-page of Vols. I, II, III.]

Vol. II. Half-t.i.tle, one leaf; t.i.tle, one leaf, with Imprint at the foot of the Reverse, unpaged; Half-t.i.tle, The Rime / Of / The Ancient Mariner. / In Seven Parts. /, p. [1]; Motto from T. Burnet, in centre of p. [2]; Text, pp. [3]-370; The Imprint, Thomas White, Printer, / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of p. 370.

Vol. III. Half-t.i.tle, one leaf; t.i.tle, one leaf; The Imprint, Thomas White, Printer, / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of the Reverse, unpaged; Half-t.i.tle, The / Piccolomini, / Or / The First Part of Wallenstein. / A Drama. / Translated from the German of Schiller /, p.

[1]; Preface of the Translator, p. [3]; Text, pp. [5]-428; The Imprint Thomas White, Printer / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of p. 428.

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PREFACE

[The Preface is the same as that of 1803.]

CONTENTS

VOLUME I

PAGE 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 a.s.s 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 Circa.s.sian 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 s.h.i.+pwreck 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-sh.o.r.e 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 Alb.u.m 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 d.u.c.h.ess of Devons.h.i.+re 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 G.o.ds 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, _Archaeol. Phil._, p. 68) [2]

THE ANCIENT MARINER. Part I 3 Part II 8 Part III 12 Part IV 17 Part V 21 Part VI 27 Part VII 33

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CHRISTABEL [39]

Preface [41]

CHRISTABEL. Part I 43 Conclusion to Part I 56 Part II 59 Conclusion to Part II 73

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Prose in Rhyme: Or, / Epigrams, Moralities, and Things / Without a Name [75]