The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume II Part 184

G.o.d's Image, Sister of the Cherubim!

First published in 1893. Compare the last line of _The Ode to the Departing Year_ (_ante_, p. 168).

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And re-implace G.o.d's Image in the Soul.

First published in 1893.

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And arrows steeled with wrath.

First published in 1893.

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Lov'd the same Love, and hated the same hate, Breath'd in his soul! etc. etc.

First published in 1893.

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O man! thou half-dead Angel!

First published in 1893.

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Thy stern and sullen eye, and thy dark brow Chill me, like dew-damps of th' unwholesome Night.

My Love, a timorous and tender flower, Closes beneath thy Touch, unkindly man!

Breath'd on by gentle gales of Courtesy And cheer'd by sunshine of impa.s.sion'd look-- Then opes its petals of no vulgar hues.

First published in 1893. See _Remorse_, Act I, Sc. II, ll. 81-4 (_ante_, p. 826). Compare _Osorio_, Act. I, ll. 80-3 (_ante_, p. 522).

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With skill that never Alchemist yet told, Made drossy Lead as ductile as pure Gold.

First published in 1893.

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Grant me a Patron, gracious Heaven! whene'er My unwash'd follies call for Penance drear: But when more hideous guilt this heart infests Instead of fiery coals upon my Pate, O let a _t.i.tled_ Patron be my Fate;-- That fierce Compendium of aegyptian Pests!

Right reverend Dean, right honourable Squire, Lord, Marquis, Earl, Duke, Prince,--or if aught higher, However proudly nicknamed, he shall be Anathema Maranatha to me!

First published, _Lit. Rem._, i. 281.

FOOTNOTES:

[988:1] One of the earliest of Coleridge's Notebooks, which fell into the hands of his old schoolfellow, John Mathew Gutch, the printer and proprietor of _Felix Farley's Bristol Journal_, was purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1868, and is now included in _Add.

MSS._ as No. 27901. The fragments of verse contained in the notebook are included in _P. W._ 1893, pp. 453-8. The notebook as a whole was published by Professor A. Brandl in 1896 (_S. T. Coleridge's Notizbuch aus den Jahren 1795-1798_). Nineteen entries are included by H. N.

Coleridge in _Poems and Poetical Fragments_ published in _Literary Remains_, 1836, i. 277-80.

[988:2] An incorrect version of the lines was published in _Lit. Rem._, ii. 280.

FRAGMENTS[996:1]

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O'er the raised earth the gales of evening sigh; And, see, a daisy peeps upon its slope!

I wipe the dimming waters from mine eye; Even on the cold grave lights the Cherub Hope.[996:2]

? 1787. First published in _Poems_, 1852 (p. 379, Note 1). First collected 1893.

2

Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud With arching Wings, the sea-mew o'er my head Posts on, as bent on speed, now pa.s.saging Edges the stiffer Breeze, now, yielding, drifts, Now floats upon the air, and sends from far A wildly-wailing Note.

Now first published from an MS. Compare Fragment No. 29 of Fragments from a Notebook.

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OVER MY COTTAGE

The Pleasures sport beneath the thatch; But Prudence sits upon the watch; Nor Dun nor Doctor lifts the latch!

1799. First published from an MS. in 1893. Suggested by Lessing's _Sinngedicht_ No. 104.

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In the lame and limping metre of a barbarous Latin poet--