This article lists the complete poetic bibliography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), which includes fragments not published within his lifetime, epigrams, and titles such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan.
Poetry +Poetry of Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTitleSubtitleFirst lineComposition DatePublication DateClassEaster Holidays. "Hail! festal Easter that dost bring"17871912Dura Navis."To tempt the dangerous deep, too venturous youth,"17871893Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitâ. [In Christ's Hospital Book]"What pleasures shall he ever find?"17871893Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon"Mild Splendour of the various-vested Night!"17881796Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital. "Seraphs! around th' Eternal's seat who throng"17891834Julia.[In Christ's Hospital Book]"Julia was blest with beauty, wit, and grace:"17891834Quae Nocent Docent. O! mihi praeteritos referat si Jupiter annos!"Oh! might my ill-past hours return again!"17891893The Nose. "Ye souls unus'd to lofty verse"17891834To the Muse. "Tho' no bold flights to thee belong;"17891834Destruction of the Bastile. "Heard'st thou yon universal cry,"1789?1834Life. "As late I journey'd o'er the extensive plain"17891834Progress of Vice. [Nemo repente turpissimus]"Deep in the gulph of Vice and Woe"17901834Monody on the Death of Chatterton.[First Version, In Christ's Hospital Book-1790 ]"Now prompts the Muse poetic lays,"17901898An Invocation. "Sweet Muse! companion of my every hour!"17901893Anna and Harland. "Within these wilds was Anna wont to rove"1790?1794, October 25To the Evening Star. "O meek attendant of Sol's setting blaze,"1790?1880Pain. Composed in Sickness"Once could the Morn's first beams, the healthful breeze,"1790?1834On a Lady Weeping.Imitation from the Latin of Nicolaus Archius"Lovely gems of radiance meek"1790?1893Monody on a Tea-kettle. "O Muse who sangest late another's pain,"17901834Genevieve. "Maid of my Love, sweet Genevieve!"1789-90?1794, November 1On receiving an Account that his Only Sister's Death was Inevitable. "The tear which mourn'd a brother's fate scarce dry—"17911834On seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister"I too a sister had! too cruel Death!"17911834A Mathematical Problem."This is now--this was erst,"1791, March 311834Honour. O, curas hominum! O, quantum est in rebus inane!"The fervid Sun had more than halv'd the day,"17911834On Imitation."All are not born to soar—and ah! how few"17911834Inside the Coach. "'Tis hard on Bagshot Heath to try"17911834Devonshire Roads. "The indignant Bard composed this furious ode,"17911834Music. "Hence, soul-dissolving Harmony"17911834Sonnet: On quitting School for College.On Quitting School for College"Farewell parental scenes! a sad farewell!"17911834Absence. A Farewell Ode on quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge. A Farewell Ode on quiting school for Jesus College, Cambridge."Where graced with many a classic spoil"17911794, October 11Happiness. "On wide or narrow scale shall Man"17911834A Wish. Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792. Written in Jesus Wood, February 10, 1792"Lo! through the dusky silence of the groves,"17921893An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon. "As late, in wreaths, gay flowers I bound,"17921893To Disappointment. "Hence! thou fiend of gloomy sway,"17921895A Fragment found in a Lecture-room. "Where deep in mud Cam rolls his slumbrous stream,"17921895Ode. ('Ye Gales,' &c.) "Ye Gales, that of the Lark's repose"17921796, Mach 25A Lover's Complaint to his Mistress. Who Deserted him in quest of a more wealthy husband in the East Indies"The dubious light sad glimmers o'er the sky:"17921893With Fielding's 'Amelia.' "Virtues and Woes alike too great for man"1792?1834Written after a Walk before Supper. "Tho' much averse, dear Jack, to flicker,"17921796Imitated from Ossian."The stream with languid murmur creeps,"17931796The Complaint of Ninathóma. "How long will ye round me be swelling,"17931796Songs of the Pixies. "Whom the untaught Shepherds call"17931796The Rose. "As late each flower that sweetest blows"17931796Kisses. "Cupid, if storying Legends tell aright,"17931796The Gentle Look. "Thou gentle Look, that didst my soul beguile,"1793?1896Sonnet: To the River Otter"Dear native Brook! wild Streamlet of the West!"1793?1796An Effusion at Evening. Written in August 1792. (First Draft.) "Imagination, Mistress of my Love!"17931834Lines: On an Autumnal Evening"O thou wild Fancy, check thy wing! No more"1792, August1796To FortuneOn buying a Ticket in the Irish Lottery"Promptress of unnumber'd sighs,"17931793, November 7Perspiration. A Travelling Eclogue. "The dust flies smothering, as on clatt'ring wheel"17941895[Ave, atque Vale!] ('Vivit sed mihi,' &c.) "Vivit sed mihi non vivit—nova forte marita,"17941847On Bala Hill. "With many a weary step at length I gain"17941893Lines: Written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the House of the 'Man of Ross'. Written at the King's Arms, Ross, formerly the house of the "Man Of Ross""Richer than Miser o'er his countless hoards,"17941794, September 27Imitated from the Welsh. "If while my passion I impart,"17941796Lines: To a Beautiful Spring in a Village."Once more! sweet Stream! with slow foot wandering near,"17941796Imitations: Ad Lyram. (Casimir, Book II, Ode 3.) "The solemn-breathing air is ended—"17941796, March 3To Lesbia.Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus. - Catullus"My Lesbia, let us love and live,"1794?1798, April 11The Death of the Starling. Lugete, O Veneres, Cupidinesque - Catullus"Pity! mourn in plaintive tone"1794?1836Moriens Superstiti. "The hour-bell sounds, and I must go;"17941798, May 10Morienti Superstes. Yet art thou happier far than she1794?1796The Sigh. "When Youth his faery reign began"17941796The Kiss."One kiss, dear Maid! I said and sigh'd—"1794?1796To a Young Lady with a Poem on the French Revolution. "Much on my early youth I love to dwell,"1794, September1796, March 1Translation of Wrangham's 'Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam e Granta Exituram' [Kal. Oct. MDCCXC]"Maid of unboastful charms! whom white-robed Truth"17941795To Miss Brunton with the preceding Translation"That darling of the Tragic Muse,"17941795Epitaph on an Infant. ('Ere Sin could blight.') "Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade,"17941794, September 23Pantisocracy. "No more my visionary soul shall dwell"17941849On the Prospect of establishing a Pantisocracy in America"Whilst pale Anxiety, corrosive Care,"17951826, March 6Elegy: Imitated from one of Akenside's Blank-verse Inscriptions. [(No.) III.]"Near the lone pile with ivy overspread,"1794?1794, September 23[xiii]The Faded Flower"Ungrateful he, who pluck'd thee from thy stalk,"17941836, AugustThe Outcast"Pale Roamer through the night! thou poor Forlorn!"1794?1796Domestic Peace. (From 'The Fall of Robespierre,' Act I, l. 210.)"Tell me, on what holy ground"17941795On a Discovery made too late. "Thou bleedest, my poor Heart! and thy distress"17941796To the Author of 'The Robbers'"Schiller! that hour I would have wish'd to die,"1794?1796Melancholy. A Fragment."Stretch'd on a moulder'd Abbey's broadest wall,"1794?1797, December 12To a Young Ass: Its Mother being tethered near it."Poor little Foal of an oppresséd race!"17941794, December 30Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever induced by Calumnious Reports. "Edmund! thy grave with aching eye I scan,"17941796To a Friend [Charles Lamb] together with an Unfinished Poem. "Thus far my scanty brain hath built the rhyme"17941796I. To the Honourable Mr. Erskine"When British Freedom for an happier land"17941794, December 1Sonnets on Eminent Characters: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle, in Dec. 1794 and Jan. 1795:—II. Burke."As late I lay in Slumber's shadowy vale,"17941794, December 9III. Priestley. "Though rous'd by that dark Vizir Riot rude"17941794, December 11IV. La Fayette"As when far off the warbled strains are heard"17941794, December 15V. Koskiusko. "O what a loud and fearful shriek was there,"17941794, December 16VI. Pitt"Not always should the Tear's ambrosial dew"17941794, December 23VII. To the Rev. W. L. Bowles. "My heart has thank'd thee, Bowles! for those soft strains,"17941794, December 26VII. To the Rev. W. L. Bowles. "My heart has thank'd thee, Bowles! for those soft strains"17941794, December 26VIII. Mrs. Siddons"As when a child on some long Winter's night"17941794, December 29IX. To William Godwin, Author of 'Political Justice.' "O form'd t' illume a sunless world forlorn,"1795?1795, January 10X. To Robert Southey of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of the 'Retrospect' and other Poems. "Southey! thy melodies steal o'er mine ear"17951795, January 14XI. To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. "It was some Spirit, Sheridan! that breath'd"17951795, January 29XII. To Lord Stanhope on reading his Late Protest in the House of Lords. "Stanhope! I hail, with ardent Hymn, thy name!"17951795, January 31To Earl Stanhope"Not, Stanhope! with the Patriot's doubtful name"17951796Lines: To a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter"Away, those cloudy looks, that labouring sigh,"1795?1796To an Infant. "Ah! cease thy tears and sobs, my little Life!"17951796To the Rev. W. J. Hort while teaching a Young Lady some Song-tunes on his Flute"Hush! ye clamorous Cares! be mute!"17951796Pity. "Sweet Mercy! how my very heart has bled"1795?1796To the Nightingale"Sister of love-lorn Poets, Philomel!"17951796Lines: Composed while climbing the Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May 1795"With many a pause and oft reverted eye"1795, May1796Lines in the Manner of Spenser"O Peace, that on a lilied bank dost love"17951796The Hour when we shall meet again. (Composed during Illness and in Absence.)"Dim Hour! that sleep'st on pillowing clouds afar,"1795?1796, March 17Lines written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgewater, September 1795, in Answer to a Letter from Bristol"Nor travels my meandering eye"17951796The Eolian Harp. "My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined"17951796To the Author of Poems [Joseph Cottle] published anonymously at Bristol in September 1795"Unboastful Bard! whose verse concise yet clear"17951795, SeptemberThe Silver Thimble. The Production of a Young Lady, addressed [xiv]to the Author of the Poems alluded to in the preceding Epistle."As oft mine eye with careless glance"17951796Reflections on having left a Place of RetirementSermoni propriora - Hor."Low was our pretty Cot: our tallest Rose"17951796, OctoberReligious Musings. A Desultory poem, written on the Christmas Eve of 1794"This is the time, when most divine to hear,"1794-61796Monody on the Death of Chatterton."O what a wonder seems the fear of death,"1790-18341794The Destiny of Nations. A Vision"Auspicious Reverence! Hush all meaner song,"17961817Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an Unpublished Poem"The early Year's fast-flying vapours stray"17961796, March 25On observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796"Sweet flower! that peeping from thy russet stem"17961796, April 11To a Primrose. The First seen in the SeasonNitens et roboris expers - Turget et insolida est: et spe delectat. - Ovid, Metam"Thy smiles I note, sweet early Flower,"17961796, April 27Verses: Addressed to J. Horne Tooke and the Company who met on June 28, 1796, to celebrate his Poll at the Westminster Election"Britons! when last ye met, with distant streak"17961893On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life [Prince and Princess of Wales]. "I sigh, fair injur'd stranger! for thy fate;"17961796, SeptemberSonnet: On receiving a Letter informing me of the Birth of a Son. "When they did greet me father, sudden awe"1796, September 201847Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward; the Author having received Intelligence of the Birth of a Son, Sept. 20, 1796. "Oft o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll"17961797Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me. "Charles! my slow heart was only sad, when first"17961797Sonnet: [To Charles Lloyd]"The piteous sobs that choke the Virgin's breath"17961796To a Young Friend on his proposing to domesticate with the Author. Composed in 1