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Book 2 — THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER[307:2]

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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS ERRATA EASTER HOLIDAYS[1:1]DURA NAVIS[2:1]NIL PEJUS EST CAELIBE VITÂ[4:1]SONNET[5:1]ANTHEM[5:2]JULIA[6:1]QUAE NOCENT DOCENT[7:1]THE NOSE[8:1]TO THE MUSE[9:1]DESTRUCTION OF THE BASTILE[10:1]LIFE[11:1]PROGRESS OF VICE[12:1]MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON[13:1]AN INVOCATION[16:1]ANNA AND HARLAND[16:2]TO THE EVENING STAR[16:3]PAIN[17:1]ON A LADY WEEPING[17:2]MONODY ON A TEA-KETTLE[18:1]GENEVIEVE[19:1]ON RECEIVING AN ACCOUNT THAT HIS ONLY SISTER'S DEATH WAS INEVITABLE[20:1]ON SEEING A YOUTH AFFECTIONATELY WELCOMED BY A SISTER[21:1]A MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM[21:2]HONOUR[24:1]ON IMITATION[26:1]INSIDE THE COACH[26:2]DEVONSHIRE ROADS[27:1]MUSIC[28:1]SONNET[29:1]ABSENCE[29:2]HAPPINESS[30:1]A WISH[33:1]AN ODE IN THE MANNER OF ANACREON[33:2]TO DISAPPOINTMENT[34:1]A FRAGMENT FOUND IN A LECTURE-ROOM[35:1]ODE[35:2]A LOVER'S COMPLAINT TO HIS MISTRESS[36:1]WITH FIELDING'S 'AMELIA'[37:1]WRITTEN AFTER A WALK BEFORE SUPPER[37:3]IMITATED FROM OSSIAN[38:1]THE COMPLAINT OF NINATHÓMA[39:1]SONGS OF THE PIXIES[40:1]THE ROSE[45:1]KISSES[46:2]THE GENTLE LOOK[47:1]SONNET[48:2]AN EFFUSION AT EVENING LINES[51:1]TO FORTUNE[54:1]PERSPIRATION. A TRAVELLING ECLOGUE[56:1][AVE, ATQUE VALE!][56:2]ON BALA HILL[56:3]LINES[57:1]IMITATED FROM THE WELSH[58:1]LINES[58:2]IMITATIONS AD LYRAM[59:1]

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TO LESBIA[60:2]THE DEATH OF THE STARLING[61:1]MORIENS SUPERSTITI[61:2]MORIENTI SUPERSTES THE SIGH[62:1]THE KISS[63:1]TO A YOUNG LADY[64:1]TRANSLATION[66:1]TO MISS BRUNTON[67:1]EPITAPH ON AN INFANT[68:1]PANTISOCRACY[68:2]ON THE PROSPECT OF ESTABLISHING A PANTISOCRACY IN AMERICA[69:1]ELEGY[69:2]THE FADED FLOWER[70:1]THE OUTCAST[71:1]DOMESTIC PEACE[71:2][FROM 'THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE', ACT I, L. 210]ON A DISCOVERY MADE TOO LATE[72:1]TO THE AUTHOR OF 'THE ROBBERS'[72:2]MELANCHOLY[73:1]TO A YOUNG ASS[74:2]LINES ON A FRIEND[76:1]TO A FRIEND[78:1]SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS I[79:2]II[80:1]III[81:1]IV[82:1]V[82:3]VI[83:1]VII[84:1]VIII[85:2]

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X[87:1]XI[87:2]TO LORD STANHOPE[89:1]TO EARL STANHOPE[89:2]LINES[90:2]TO AN INFANT[91:1]TO THE REV. W. J. HORT[92:1]PITY[93:1]TO THE NIGHTINGALE[93:2]LINES[94:1]LINES IN THE MANNER OF SPENSER[94:2]THE HOUR WHEN WE SHALL MEET AGAIN[96:1]LINES[96:2]THE EOLIAN HARP[100:1]TO THE AUTHOR OF POEMS[102:2]THE SILVER THIMBLE[104:1]REFLECTIONS ON HAVING LEFT A PLACE OF RETIREMENT[106:1]RELIGIOUS MUSINGS[108:1]MONODY ON THE DEATH OF CHATTERTON[125:1]THE DESTINY OF NATIONS[131:1]VER PERPETUUM[148:1]ON OBSERVING A BLOSSOM ON THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY 1796[148:2]TO A PRIMROSE[149:2]VERSES[150:1]ON A LATE CONNUBIAL RUPTURE IN HIGH LIFE[152:1]SONNET[152:2]SONNET[153:1]SONNET[154:2]SONNET[155:1]TO A YOUNG FRIEND[155:2]ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG MAN OF FORTUNE[157:1] [C. Lloyd]TO A FRIEND[158:1]ODE TO THE DEPARTING YEAR[160:1]THE RAVEN[169:1]TO AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN AT THE THEATRE[171:1]TO AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN[172:1]TO THE REV. GEORGE COLERIDGE[173:1]ON THE CHRISTENING OF A FRIEND'S CHILD[176:1]TRANSLATION[177:1]THIS LIME-TREE BOWER MY PRISON[178:1]THE FOSTER-MOTHER'S TALE[182:1]THE DUNGEON[185:1]THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER[186:1]SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS[209:1]PARLIAMENTARY OSCILLATORS[211:1]CHRISTABEL[213:1]LINES TO W. L.[236:1]FIRE, FAMINE, AND SLAUGHTER[237:1]FROST AT MIDNIGHT[240:1]FRANCE: AN ODE[243:1]THE OLD MAN OF THE ALPS[248:1]TO A YOUNG LADY[252:1]LEWTI[253:1]FEARS IN SOLITUDE[256:1]THE NIGHTINGALE[264:1]THE THREE GRAVES[267:1]THE WANDERINGS OF CAIN[285:1]

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TO ——[292:1]THE BALLAD OF THE DARK LADIÉ[293:1]KUBLA KHAN[295:1]:KUBLA KHAN RECANTATION[299:1]HEXAMETERS[304:1]TRANSLATION OF A PASSAGE IN OTTFRIED'S METRICAL PARAPHRASE OF THE GOSPEL CATULLIAN HENDECASYLLABLES[307:1]THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER[307:2]THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE ON A CATARACT[308:1]TELL'S BIRTH-PLACE[309:1]THE VISIT OF THE GODS[310:1]FROM THE GERMAN[311:1]WATER BALLAD[311:2]ON AN INFANT[312:1]SOMETHING CHILDISH, BUT VERY NATURAL[313:1]HOME-SICK[314:1]LINES[315:1]THE BRITISH STRIPLING'S WAR-SONG[317:1]NAMES[318:1]THE DEVIL'S THOUGHTS[319:1]LINES COMPOSED IN A CONCERT-ROOM[324:1]WESTPHALIAN SONG[326:1]HEXAMETERS[326:2]HYMN TO THE EARTH[327:1]MAHOMET[329:1]LOVE[330:1]ODE TO GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE[335:1]A CHRISTMAS CAROL[338:1]TALLEYRAND TO LORD GRENVILLE[340:1]APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA[345:1]THE KEEPSAKE[345:2]A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW[347:1]THE MAD MONK[347:2]INSCRIPTION FOR A SEAT BY THE ROAD SIDE HALF-WAY UP A STEEP HILL FACING SOUTH[349:1]A STRANGER MINSTREL[350:1]ALCAEUS TO SAPPHO[353:1]THE TWO ROUND SPACES ON THE TOMBSTONE[353:2]THE SNOW-DROP[356:1]ON REVISITING THE SEA-SHORE[359:1]ODE TO TRANQUILLITY[360:1]TO ASRA[361:1]THE SECOND BIRTH[362:1]LOVE'S SANCTUARY[362:2]DEJECTION: AN ODE[362:3]THE PICTURE[369:1]TO MATILDA BETHAM FROM A STRANGER[374:1]HYMN BEFORE SUN-RISE, IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI[376:2]THE GOOD, GREAT MAN[381:1]INSCRIPTION FOR A FOUNTAIN ON A HEATH[381:2]AN ODE TO THE RAIN[382:2]A DAY-DREAM[385:1]ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION[386:1]THE DAY-DREAM[386:2]THE HAPPY HUSBAND[388:1]THE PAINS OF SLEEP[389:1]THE EXCHANGE[391:1]AD VILMUM AXIOLOGUM[391:2]AN EXILE[392:1]SONNET[392:2]PHANTOM[393:1]A SUNSET[393:2]WHAT IS LIFE?[394:1]THE BLOSSOMING OF THE SOLITARY DATE-TREE[395:1]SEPARATION[397:1]THE RASH CONJURER[399:1]A CHILD'S EVENING PRAYER[401:1]METRICAL FEET[401:2]FAREWELL TO LOVE[402:1]TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH[403:1]AN ANGEL VISITANT[409:1]RECOLLECTIONS OF LOVE[409:2]TO TWO SISTERS[410:1]PSYCHE[412:1]A TOMBLESS EPITAPH[413:1]FOR A MARKET-CLOCK[414:1]THE MADMAN AND THE LETHARGIST[414:2]THE VISIONARY HOPE[416:1]EPITAPH ON AN INFANT[417:1]THE VIRGIN'S CRADLE-HYMN[417:2]TO A LADY[418:1]REASON FOR LOVE'S BLINDNESS[418:2]THE SUICIDE'S ARGUMENT[419:1]TIME, REAL AND IMAGINARY[419:2]AN INVOCATION[420:1]

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Scene continues.OSORIO ACT THE FIRST[519:1]ACT THE SECOND

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ACT THE FIFTH THE PICCOLOMINI[598:1]THE PICCOLOMINI[600:1]

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APPENDIX ZAPOLYA[883:1]

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THE PRELUDE, ENTITLED 'THE USURPER'S FORTUNE'

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THE SEQUEL, ENTITLED 'THE USURPER'S FATE'

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EPIGRAMS[951:1]JEUX D'ESPRIT FRAGMENTS FROM A NOTEBOOK[988:1]FRAGMENTS[996:1]METRICAL EXPERIMENTS[1014:1]APPENDIX I E F G H

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX INDEX OF FIRST LINES TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER[307:2]

DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED

Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.

? 1799.

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Note 1 · First published (together with the 'Ovidian Elegiac Metre', &c.) in Friendship's Offering, 1834: included in P. W., 1834. An acknowledgement

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