Collected poems
Title:
Collected poems
ISBN:
9781857548952
Physical Description:
x, 256 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Abstract:
This is a collection of poems by Sara Coleridge, daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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Language:
English
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Summary
Summary
Although she is best known as the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge was herself a writer of rare intelligence and great versatility, and a very notable poet. Her poetry has never been published as a collection, so it has never had the readership it deserves. Some of the poems appeared in various fugitive sources, but about half have never been published until now. But even on this basis she has had discerning advocates. In 1950, for instance, Edmund Blunden wrote an admiring essay proposing that 'it would be delightful if her centenary ... might result in an edition of her poems, of which I understand some were never published; and I know that others in her Phantasmion are uncommonly good'.
Table of Contents
Introduction | p. 1 |
Note on the Text | p. 15 |
List of Abbreviations | p. 17 |
Guide to Further Reading | p. 19 |
Early Poems 1815-1829 | |
Valentine written in girlhood - perhaps at 13 years of age | p. 25 |
Translated from Horace in early youth | p. 26 |
Praises of a Country Life | p. 27 |
'I dolci colli, ov'io lasciai me stesso' ('Those pleasant hills high towering into air') | p. 29 |
'Vago augelletto, che cantando vai' ('Sweet little bird, that in such piteous strains') | p. 30 |
Extract from an Epistle from Emma to Henry | p. 30 |
To Elizabeth S.K. Poole | p. 32 |
To Zoe King | p. 32 |
To Edith May Southey during absence on the Lily of the Nile | p. 33 |
[Valentine to Rose Lynn] | p. 34 |
My dear dear Henry! | p. 34 |
To the tune of 'When icicles hang by the wall' | p. 35 |
Sequel | p. 35 |
'Let it not a Lover pique' | p. 36 |
'How now, dear suspicious Lover!' | p. 36 |
'Now to bed will I fly' | p. 37 |
'They tell me that my eye is dim, my cheek is lily pale' | p. 38 |
Go, you may call it madness, folly - &c. | p. 39 |
'O! once again good night!' | p. 39 |
'Art thou too at this hour awake' | p. 40 |
To Louisa and Emma Powles | p. 41 |
'Yes! With fond eye my Henry will peruse' | p. 42 |
"'How swift is a thought of the mind'" | p. 43 |
Verses to my Beloved with an empty purse | p. 44 |
'My Henry, like a modest youth' | p. 47 |
To Mrs Whitbread | p. 48 |
'O, how, Love, must I fill' | p. 49 |
'When this you see' | p. 50 |
'"I am wreathing a garland for wintry hours"' | p. 50 |
'Henry comes! No sweeter music' | p. 51 |
To Susan Patteson with a purse | p. 52 |
'Th'enamour'd Nymph, whose faithful voice' | p. 53 |
Epistle from Sara to her sister Mary whom she has never yet seen, her 'Yarrow Unvisited' | p. 53 |
'The Rose of Love my Henry sends' | p. 58 |
''Mid blooming fields I daily rove' | p. 58 |
Those parched lips I'd rather press' | p. 59 |
Poems 1829-1843 | |
Sickness | p. 60 |
Written in my Illness at Hampstead during Edith's Infancy | p. 61 |
Verses written in sickness 1833, before the Birth of Berkeley and Florence | p. 62 |
To Herbert Coleridge. Feb 13 1834 | p. 63 |
Benoni. Dedication | p. 64 |
The Months | p. 65 |
Trees | p. 66 |
What Makes a Noise | p. 66 |
The Nightingale | p. 66 |
Foolish Interference | p. 67 |
Fine Names for Fine Things | p. 68 |
The Seasons | p. 68 |
The Squirrel | p. 69 |
Poppies | p. 70 |
The Usurping Bird | p. 71 |
Edith Asleep | p. 73 |
The Blessing of Health | p. 74 |
The Humming-Birds | p. 75 |
Childish Tears | p. 77 |
Providence | p. 78 |
'Nox is the night' | p. 79 |
'A father's brother, mother's brother, are not called the same' | p. 79 |
The Celandine | p. 80 |
'January is the first month in the year' | p. 80 |
'January brings the blast' | p. 82 |
'Little Sister Edith now' | p. 85 |
'Why those tears my little treasure' | p. 86 |
Sara Coleridge for Herbert and Edith. April 19th 1834 | p. 87 |
Eye has not seen nor can the heart of man conceive the blessedness of Heaven | p. 87 |
Consolation in Trouble | p. 88 |
Silence and attention at Church | p. 90 |
'Grief's heavy hand hath swayed the lute' | p. 90 |
The Little Invalid | p. 91 |
The mansion of Peace | p. 92 |
'My friends in vain you chide my tears' | p. 92 |
The Crag-fast sheep | p. 93 |
'Bindweed whiter e'en than lilies' | p. 93 |
'The hart delights in cooling streams' | p. 93 |
The birth of purple Columbine | p. 94 |
Forget me not | p. 94 |
The Staining of the Rose | p. 95 |
'No joy have I in passing themes' | p. 96 |
'When Herbert's Mama was a slim little Maid' | p. 97 |
Summer | p. 98 |
The lamb in the Slough | p. 99 |
The Water Lily | p. 99 |
The Pair that will not meet | p. 100 |
Written on a blank leaf of 'Naturalist's' Magazine | p. 101 |
Young Days of Edith and Sara | p. 101 |
The Plunge | p. 102 |
The narrow Escape | p. 103 |
'See the Halcyon fishing' | p. 105 |
Daffodil or King's Spear | p. 105 |
Fine birds and their plain wives | p. 106 |
The Glow-worm ('Glow-worm lights her starry lamp') | p. 106 |
The Glow-worm ("Mid the silent murky dell') | p. 107 |
Herbert looking at the Moon | p. 108 |
Game | p. 109 |
'From Isles far over the sea' | p. 110 |
Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven | p. 110 |
A Sister's Love | p. 112 |
From Petrarch | p. 113 |
Poems from Phantasmion | |
'See the bright stranger!' | p. 114 |
'Tho' I be young - ah well-a-day!' | p. 114 |
'Sylvan stag, securely play' | p. 116 |
'Bound along or else be still' | p. 117 |
'Milk-white doe, 'tis but the breeze' | p. 117 |
'One face alone, one face alone' | p. 118 |
'Deem not that our eldest heir' | p. 119 |
'While the storm her bosom scourges' | p. 120 |
'Many a fountain cool and shady' | p. 121 |
'The captive bird with ardour sings' | p. 121 |
'The sun may speed or loiter on his way' | p. 122 |
'Grief's heavy hand hath swayed the lute' | p. 123 |
'Life and light, Anthemna bright' | p. 123 |
'O sleep, my babe, hear not the rippling wave' | p. 124 |
'How gladsome is a child, and how perfect is his mirth' | p. 125 |
'I tremble when with look benign' | p. 125 |
'Ne'er ask where knaves are mining' | p. 126 |
'How high yon lark is heavenward borne!' | p. 127 |
'Newts and blindworms do no wrong' | p. 128 |
'The winds were whispering, the waters glistering' | p. 128 |
'False Love, too long thou hast delayed' | p. 129 |
'He came unlooked for, undesired' | p. 129 |
'Yon changeful cloud will soon thy aspect wear' | p. 130 |
'I was a brook in straitest channel pent' | p. 131 |
'By the storm invaded' | p. 131 |
'I thought by tears thy soul to move' | p. 132 |
'Blest is the tarn which towering cliffs o'ershade' | p. 133 |
'What means that darkly-working brow' | p. 133 |
'Methought I wandered dimly on' | p. 134 |
'"The spring returns, and balmy budding flow'rs' | p. 135 |
'Full oft before some gorgeous fane' | p. 136 |
'See yon blithe child that dances in our sight!' | p. 136 |
'Their armour is flashing' | p. 137 |
'Ah, where lie now those locks that lately streamed' | p. 139 |
'Poor is the portrait that one look portrays' | p. 140 |
The Three Humpbacked Brothers | p. 141 |
Reflections on Reading Lucretius | p. 145 |
from 'Kings of England from the Conquest' | p. 149 |
Receipt for a Cake | p. 153 |
Lines on the Death of- | p. 155 |
Poems 1843-1852 | |
For my Father on his lines called 'Work Without Hope' | p. 156 |
'Friend, thou hast been a traveller bold' | p. 157 |
To a fair young Lady who declared that she and I were coevals | p. 158 |
To a Fair Friend arguing in support of the theory of the renovation in a literal sense of the material system | p. 159 |
Dreams | |
I The Lilies | p. 160 |
II Time's Acquittal | p. 160 |
III To a Friend | p. 162 |
Asceticism | p. 164 |
Blanco White | p. 165 |
To a Friend who wished to give me half her sleep | p. 165 |
To a Friend who prayed, that my heart might still be young | p. 166 |
On reading my Father's 'Youth and Age' | p. 167 |
To a little weanling Babe, who returned a kiss with great eagerness | p. 168 |
Dream-love | p. 168 |
To my Son | p. 169 |
Tennyson's 'Lotos Eaters' with a new conclusion | p. 171 |
Crashaw's Poetry | p. 173 |
'On the same' | p. 174 |
'Toil not for burnished gold that poorly shines' | p. 175 |
Sketch from Life. Morning Scene. Sept 22 1845 | p. 176 |
A Boy's complaint of Dr Blimber | p. 177 |
L'Envoy to 'Phantasmion' | p. 177 |
Feydeleen to Zelneth | p. 178 |
Song of Leucoia | p. 179 |
Song for 'Phantasmion' | p. 180 |
Zelneth. Love unreturned | p. 180 |
Matthew VI.28-9 | p. 181 |
Prayer for Tranquillity | p. 183 |
The melancholy Prince | p. 183 |
Zelneth's Song in Magnart's Garden | p. 184 |
Children | p. 185 |
'Passion is blind not Love: her wondrous might' | p. 186 |
'O change that strain with man's best hopes at strife' | p. 187 |
'O vain expenditure! unhallowed waste!' | p. 188 |
Darling Edith | p. 189 |
First chorus in 'The Agamemnon' of Aeschylus | p. 190 |
Poems written for a book of Dialogues on the Doctrines of grace | |
I 'While disputants for victory fight' | p. 192 |
II Water can but rise to its own level | p. 192 |
II Reason | p. 193 |
IV Mystic Doctrine of Baptism | p. 193 |
V Baptism | p. 194 |
[Verses from 'Regeneration'] ('This is a giddy world of chance and changing') | p. 195 |
Missionary Poem | p. 195 |
[From Sara Coleridge's Journal, September 1850] ('Danced forty times? We know full well') | p. 196 |
[From a letter to Mrs Derwent Coleridge, 16 January 1852] ('Sing hey diddle diddle') | p. 196 |
[From a letter to Derwent Coleridge, 22 January 1852] ('Darran was a bold man') | p. 197 |
Doggrel Charm | p. 198 |
Appendix 'Howithorn' | p. 199 |
Notes on the Poems | p. 212 |
Index of First Lines | p. 246 |
Index of Titles | p. 252 |
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