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To the Author of ‘The Robbers’

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Track 73 on The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I 
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Schiller! that hour I would have wish'd to die,
If thro' the shuddering midnight I had sent
From the dark dungeon of the Tower time-rent
That fearful voice, a famish'd Father's cry—
Lest in some after moment aught more mean 5
Might stamp me mortal! A triumphant shout
Black Horror scream'd, and all her goblin rout
Diminish'd shrunk from the more withering scene!
Ah! Bard tremendous in sublimity!
Could I behold thee in thy loftier mood
Wandering at eve with finely-frenzied eye
Beneath some vast old tempest-swinging wood!
Awhile with mute awe gazing I would brood:
Then weep aloud in a wild ecstasy!

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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  1. 1.
    Easter Holidays
  2. 2.
    Dura Navis
  3. 3.
    Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitâ
  4. 4.
    Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon
  5. 5.
    Anthem for the Children of Christ’s Hospital
  6. 6.
    Julia
  7. 7.
    Quae Nocent Docent
  8. 8.
    The Nose
  9. 9.
    To the Muse
  10. 10.
    Destruction of the Bastile
  11. 11.
    Life
  12. 12.
    Progress of Vice
  13. 13.
    Monody on the Death of Chatterton
  14. 14.
    An Invocation
  15. 15.
    Anna and Harland
  16. 16.
    To the Evening Star
  17. 17.
    Pain
  18. 18.
    On a Lady Weeping
  19. 19.
    Monody on a Tea-kettle
  20. 20.
    Genevieve
  21. 21.
    On receiving an Account that his Only Sister’s Death was Inevitable
  22. 22.
    On seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister
  23. 23.
    A Mathematical Problem
  24. 24.
    Honour
  25. 25.
    On Imitation
  26. 26.
    Inside the Coach
  27. 27.
    Devonshire Roads
  28. 28.
    Music
  29. 29.
    Sonnet: On quitting School for College
  30. 30.
    Absence
  31. 31.
    Happiness
  32. 32.
    A Wish
  33. 33.
    An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon
  34. 34.
    To Disappointment
  35. 35.
    A Fragment found in a Lecture-room
  36. 36.
    Ode
  37. 37.
    A Lover’s Complaint to his Mistress
  38. 38.
    With Fielding’s ‘Amelia’
  39. 39.
    Written after a Walk before Supper
  40. 40.
    Imitated from Ossian
  41. 41.
    The Complaint of Ninathóma
  42. 42.
    Songs of the Pixies
  43. 43.
    The Rose
  44. 44.
    Kisses
  45. 45.
    The Gentle Look
  46. 46.
    Sonnet: To The River Otter
  47. 47.
    An Effusion at Evening
  48. 48.
    Lines: On an Autumnal Evening
  49. 49.
    To Fortune
  50. 50.
    Perspiration
  51. 51.
    Ave, Atque Vale!
  52. 52.
    On Bala Hill
  53. 53.
    Lines: Written at the King’s Arms
  54. 54.
    Imitated from the Welsh
  55. 55.
    Lines: To a Beautiful Spring in a Village
  56. 56.
    Imitations: Ad Lyram
  57. 57.
    To Lesbia
  58. 58.
    The Death of the Starling
  59. 59.
    Moriens Superstiti
  60. 60.
    Morienti Superstes
  61. 61.
    The Sigh
  62. 62.
    The Kiss
  63. 63.
    To a Young Lady
  64. 64.
    Translation of Wrangham’s ‘Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam e Granta Exituram’
  65. 65.
    To Miss Brunton
  66. 66.
    Epitaph on an Infant
  67. 67.
    Pantisocracy
  68. 68.
    On the Prospect of establishing a Pantisocracy in America
  69. 69.
    Elegy
  70. 70.
    The Faded Flower
  71. 71.
    The Outcast
  72. 72.
    Domestic Peace
  73. 73.
    To the Author of ‘The Robbers’
  74. 74.
    Melancholy. A Fragment
  75. 75.
    To a Young Ass
  76. 76.
    Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever induced by Calumnious Reports
  77. 77.
    To a Friend together with an Unfinished Poem
  78. 78.
    Sonnets on Eminent Characters
  79. 79.
    To the Honourable Mr. Erskine
  80. 80.
    Burke
  81. 81.
    Priestley
  82. 82.
    La Fayette
  83. 83.
    Koskiusko
  84. 84.
    Pitt
  85. 85.
    To the Rev. W. L. Bowles
  86. 86.
    Mrs. Siddons
  87. 87.
    To William Godwin
  88. 88.
    To Robert Southey of Baliol College
  89. 89.
    To Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  90. 90.
    To Lord Stanhope
  91. 91.
    To Earl Stanhope
  92. 92.
    Lines: To a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter
  93. 93.
    To an Infant
  94. 94.
    To the Rev. W. J. Hort
  95. 95.
    Pity
  96. 96.
    Lines: Composed while climbing the Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire
  97. 97.
    Lines in the Manner of Spenser
  98. 98.
    The Hour when we shall meet again
  99. 99.
    Lines written at Shurton Bars
  100. 100.
    The Eolian Harp
  101. 101.
    To the Author of Poems
  102. 102.
    The Silver Thimble
  103. 103.
    Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement
  104. 104.
    Religious Musings
  105. 105.
    The Destiny of Nations. A Vision
  106. 106.
    Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an Unpublished Poem
  107. 107.
    On observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796
  108. 108.
    To a Primrose. The First seen in the Season
  109. 109.
    Verses
  110. 110.
    On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life
  111. 111.
    Sonnet: On receiving a Letter informing me of the Birth of a Son
  112. 112.
    Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward
  113. 113.
    Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt
  114. 114.
    Sonnet: To Charles Lloyd
  115. 115.
    To a Young Friend on his proposing
  116. 116.
    Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune
  117. 117.
    To a Friend [Charles Lamb]
  118. 118.
    Ode to the Departing Year
  119. 119.
    The Raven or, A Christmas Tale, Told by a School-boy to His Little Brothers and Sisters. (1798)
  120. 120.
    To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre
  121. 121.
    To an Unfortunate Woman whom the Author had known in the days of her Innocence
  122. 122.
    To the Rev. George Coleridge
  123. 123.
    On the Christening of a Friend’s Child
  124. 124.
    Translation of a Latin Inscription
  125. 125.
    The Foster-mother’s Tale
  126. 126.
    The Dungeon
  127. 127.
    Sonnets attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers
  128. 128.
    Parliamentary Oscillators
  129. 129.
    Christabel
  130. 130.
    Lines to W. L.
  131. 131.
    Fire, Famine, and Slaughter
  132. 132.
    Frost at Midnight
  133. 133.
    France: An Ode.
  134. 134.
    The Old Man of the Alps
  135. 135.
    To a Young Lady on her Recovery from a Fever
  136. 136.
    Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt
  137. 137.
    Fears in Solitude
  138. 138.
    The Three Graves
  139. 139.
    The Wanderings of Cain
  140. 140.
    To ——
  141. 141.
    The Ballad of the Dark Ladié
  142. 142.
    Recantation: Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox
  143. 143.
    Hexameters
  144. 144.
    Translation of a Passage in Ottfried’s Metrical Paraphrase of the Gospel
  145. 145.
    Catullian Hendecasyllables
  146. 146.
    The Homeric Hexameter described and exemplified
  147. 147.
    The Ovidian Elegiac Metre described and exemplified
  148. 148.
    On a Cataract
  149. 149.
    Tell’s Birth-Place
  150. 150.
    The Visit of the Gods
  151. 151.
    From the German
  152. 152.
    Water Ballad
  153. 153.
    On an Infant which died before Baptism
  154. 154.
    Something Childish, but very Natural. Written in Germany
  155. 155.
    Home-Sick. Written in Germany
  156. 156.
    Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode in the Hartz Forest
  157. 157.
    The British Stripling’s War-Song
  158. 158.
    Names
  159. 159.
    The Devil’s Thoughts
  160. 160.
    Lines composed in a Concert-room
  161. 161.
    Westphalian Song
  162. 162.
    Hexameters. Paraphrase of Psalm xlvi
  163. 163.
    Hymn to the Earth
  164. 164.
    Mahomet
  165. 165.
    Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
  166. 166.
    A Christmas Carol
  167. 167.
    Talleyrand to Lord Grenville. A Metrical Epistle
  168. 168.
    Apologia pro Vita sua
  169. 169.
    The Keepsake
  170. 170.
    A Thought suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland
  171. 171.
    The Mad Monk
  172. 172.
    Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side half-way up a Steep Hill facing South
  173. 173.
    A Stranger Minstrel
  174. 174.
    Alcaeus to Sappho
  175. 175.
    The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone
  176. 176.
    The Snow-drop.
  177. 177.
    On Revisiting the Sea-shore
  178. 178.
    Ode to Tranquillity
  179. 179.
    To Asra
  180. 180.
    The Second Birth
  181. 181.
    Love’s Sanctuary
  182. 182.
    The Picture, or the Lover’s Resolution
  183. 183.
    To Matilda Betham from a Stranger
  184. 184.
    Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
  185. 185.
    The Good, Great Man
  186. 186.
    Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
  187. 187.
    An Ode to the Rain
  188. 188.
    A Day-dream
  189. 189.
    The Day-dream. From an Emigrant to his Absent Wife
  190. 190.
    The Happy Husband. A Fragment
  191. 191.
    The Pains of Sleep
  192. 192.
    The Exchange
  193. 193.
    Ad Vilmum Axiologum
  194. 194.
    An Exile
  195. 195.
    Sonnet
  196. 196.
    Phantom
  197. 197.
    A Sunset
  198. 198.
    What is Life
  199. 199.
    The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree
  200. 200.
    Separation
  201. 201.
    The Rash Conjurer
  202. 202.
    A Child’s Evening Prayer
  203. 203.
    Metrical Feet. Lesson for a Boy
  204. 204.
    Farewell to Love
  205. 205.
    To William Wordsworth
  206. 206.
    An Angel Visitant
  207. 207.
    Recollections of Love
  208. 208.
    To Two Sisters
  209. 209.
    Psyche
  210. 210.
    A Tombless Epitaph
  211. 211.
    For a Market-clock
  212. 212.
    The Madman and the Lethargist
  213. 213.
    The Visionary Hope
  214. 214.
    Epitaph on an Infant(1811)
  215. 215.
    The Virgin’s Cradle-hymn
  216. 216.
    To a Lady offended by a Sportive Observation that Women have no Souls
  217. 217.
    Reason for Love’s Blindness
  218. 218.
    The Suicide’s Argument
  219. 219.
    Time, Real and Imaginary
  220. 220.
    An Invocation. From Remorse
  221. 221.
    The Night-scene
  222. 222.
    A Hymn
  223. 223.
    To a Lady, with Falconer’s Shipwreck
  224. 224.
    Human Life. On the Denial of Immortality
  225. 225.
    Song. From Zapolya
  226. 226.
    Hunting Song. From Zapolya
  227. 227.
    Faith, Hope, and Charity. From the Italian of Guarini
  228. 228.
    To Nature
  229. 229.
    Limbo
  230. 230.
    Ne Plus Ultra
  231. 231.
    The Knight’s Tomb
  232. 232.
    On Donne’s Poetry
  233. 233.
    Israel’s Lament
  234. 234.
    Fancy in Nubibus, or the Poet in the Clouds
  235. 235.
    The Tears of a Grateful People
  236. 236.
    Youth and Age
  237. 237.
    The Reproof and Reply
  238. 238.
    First Advent of Love
  239. 239.
    The Delinquent Travellers
  240. 240.
    Work without Hope. Lines composed 21st February, 1825
  241. 241.
    Sancti Dominici Pallium. A Dialogue between Poet and Friend
  242. 242.
    Song
  243. 243.
    A Character
  244. 244.
    The Two Founts
  245. 245.
    Constancy to an Ideal Object
  246. 246.
    The Pang more Sharp than All. An Allegory
  247. 247.
    Duty surviving Self-love. The only sure Friend of declining Life
  248. 248.
    Homeless
  249. 249.
    Lines suggested by the last Words of Berengarius; ob. Anno Dom. 1088
  250. 250.
    Epitaphium Testamentarium
  251. 251.
    The Improvisatore; or, ‘John Anderson, My Jo, John’
  252. 252.
    To Mary Pridham
  253. 253.
    Alice du Clos; or, The Forked Tongue. A Ballad
  254. 254.
    Love’s Burial-place
  255. 255.
    Lines: To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review
  256. 256.
    Cologne
  257. 257.
    On my Joyful Departure from the same City
  258. 258.
    The Garden of Boccaccio
  259. 259.
    Love, Hope, and Patience in Education.
  260. 260.
    To Miss A. T.
  261. 261.
    Lines written in Commonplace Book of Miss Barbour, Daughter of the Minister of the U. S. A. to England
  262. 262.
    Song, ex improviso, on hearing a Song in praise of a Lady’s Beauty
  263. 263.
    Love and Friendship Opposite
  264. 264.
    Not at Home
  265. 265.
    Phantom or Fact. A Dialogue in Verse
  266. 266.
    Desire
  267. 267.
    Charity in Thought
  268. 268.
    Humility the Mother of Charity
  269. 269.
    [Coeli Enarrant.]
  270. 270.
    Reason
  271. 271.
    Self-knowledge
  272. 272.
    Forbearance
  273. 273.
    Love’s Apparition and Evanishment
  274. 274.
    To the Young Artist Kayser of Kaserwerth
  275. 275.
    My Baptismal Birth-day
  276. 276.
    Epitaph
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