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CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
Frontispiece: Greta Hall, Keswick.
SIBYLLINE LEAVES.
I. POEMS OCCASIONED BY POLITICAL EVENTS OR FEEL-
INGS CONNECTED WITH THEM.
*
Ode to the Departing Year
France. An Ode
Fears in Solitude. Written in April, 1798,
during the Alarm of an Invasion
Recantation. Illustrated in the Story of the
Mad Ox
* Parliamentary Oscillators.
Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. A War Eclogue
II. LOVE POEMS.
Love.
PAGE
4
12
17
26
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31
34
39
Lewti, or the Circassian Love-Chant.
43
The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution
47
The Night-Scene. A Dramatic Fragment
The Foster-Mother's Tale. A Dramatic Frag-
55
ment
59
To an Unfortunate Woman, whom the Author
had known in the Days of her Innocence
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre
Lines Composed in a Concert Room .
The Keepsake
To a Lady, with Falconer's "Shipwreck
To a Young Lady. On her Recovery from a
Fever.
Something Childish, but very Natural. Written
in Germany
Home-Sick.
Written in Germany
Answer to a Child's Question
The Visionary Hope
The Happy Husband.
Recollections of Love.
On Revisiting the Sea-Shore, after long Absence,
under strong medical Recommendation not
to bathe
III. MEDITATIVE POEMS IN BLANK VERSE.
Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni
Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode, in
the Hartz Forest
84
89
On Observing a Blossom on the 1st of February,
1796
The Eolian Harp. Composed at Clevedon,
Somersetshire
Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement
To the Rev. George Coleridge, of Ottery St.
Mary, Devon. With some Poems
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
A Tombless Epitaph
91
93
96
99
To William Wordsworth. Composed on the
Night after his Recitation of a Poem on
the Growth of an Individual Mind
The Nightingale; a Conversational Poem.
Written in April, 1798
Dejection. An Ode
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, on
the Twenty-fourth Stanza in her “Passage
over Mount Gothard"
Ode to Tranquillity
To a Young Friend, on his proposing to
Domesticate with the Author. Composed
Lines to W. L., while he sang a Song to Pur-
cell's Music
Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune, who
abandoned himself to an indolent and care-
less Melancholy
Sonnet to the River Otter
Sonnet. Composed on a Journey homeward;
the Author having received Intelligence of
the Birth of a Son, Sept. 20, 1796
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159
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Sonnet, to a Friend who asked how I felt when
161
the Nurse first presented my Infant to me
The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn. Copied from a
Print of the Virgin, in a Roman Catholic
Village in Germany.
Epitaph on an Infant
Melancholy. A Fragment
Tell's Birth-Place. Imitated from Stolberg
A Christmas Carol .
Human Life. On the Denial of Immortality.
A Fragment
* An Ode to the Rain. Composed before Day-
Light, on the Morning appointed for the
Departure of a very worthy, but not very
pleasant Visitor, whom it was feared the
Rain might detain
162
163
164
The Visit of the Gods. Imitated from Schiller 174
Elegy, imitated from one of Akenside's Blank-
Kubla Khan: or a Vision in a Dream. A
Fragment.
203
Song. From "Remorse"
207
*The Day-Dream. From an Emigrant to his
absent Wife
208
* The Good Man's Reward:-
II. Reproof
* The Blessed Virgin. Translation of a Passage
in Ottfried's Metrical Paraphrase of the
Gospels
232
The Pang more sharp than all. An Allegory. 233
To a Lady, offended by a Sportive Observation
that Women have no Souls
Reason for Love's Blindness
Youth, and Age
*Farewell to Love
From "
236
237
* The Tears of a Grateful People
*To Nature
Fancy. in Nubibus; or the Poet in the Clouds . 254
Lament
Duty surviving Self-Love, the only sure Friend
of Declining Life. A Soliloquy
Work without Hope. Lines composed on a
Day in February
* Song
Phantom or Fact? A Dialogue in Verse
Constancy to an Ideal Object
The Blossoming of the Solitary Date Tree. A
The Improvisatore
Love's Apparition and Evanishment. An Alle-
255
goric Romance.
269
* Love's Burial Place
271
* A Sober Statement of Human Life, or the true
Medium
274
The Suicide's Argument
275
Lines suggested by the Last Words of Beren-
garius. Ob. Anno Dom. 1088
The Two Founts. Stanzas addressed to a Lady
on her Recovery with unblemished Looks,
from a severe Attack of Pain
The Garden of Boccaccio
* Lines written in the Commonplace Book of
Miss Barbour, Daughter of our late
Minister to England
* Song, Ex improviso, on hearing a Song in
Praise of a Lady's Beauty
287
* Love, Hope, and Patience in Education
288
* A Thought suggested by a View of Saddleback
in Cumberland .
289
To the Young Artist, Kayser of Kaserwerth
Humility the Mother of Charity