Collected poems / Sara Coleridge ; edited with an introduction by Peter Swaab.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, 1802-1852.

Contributor:

Swaab, Peter, 1958-

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 256 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet, 2007.

Contents:

Early Poems 1815-1829

Valentine written in girlhood - perhaps at 13 years of age 25

Translated from Horace in early youth 26

Praises of a Country Life 27

'I dolci colli, ov'io lasciai me stesso' ('Those pleasant hills high towering into air') 29

'Vago augelletto, che cantando vai' ('Sweet little bird, that in such piteous strains') 30

Extract from an Epistle from Emma to Henry 30

To Elizabeth S.K. Poole 32

To Zoe King 32

To Edith May Southey during absence on the Lily of the Nile 33

[Valentine to Rose Lynn] 34

My dear dear Henry! 34

To the tune of 'When icicles hang by the wall' 35

Sequel 35

'Let it not a Lover pique' 36

'How now, dear suspicious Lover!' 36

'Now to bed will I fly' 37

'They tell me that my eye is dim, my cheek is lily pale' 38

Go, you may call it madness, folly - &c. 39

'O! once again good night!' 39

'Art thou too at this hour awake' 40

To Louisa and Emma Powles 41

'Yes! With fond eye my Henry will peruse' 42

"'How swift is a thought of the mind'" 43

Verses to my Beloved with an empty purse 44

'My Henry, like a modest youth' 47

To Mrs Whitbread 48

'O, how, Love, must I fill' 49

'When this you see' 50

'"I am wreathing a garland for wintry hours"' 50

'Henry comes! No sweeter music' 51

To Susan Patteson with a purse 52

'Th'enamour'd Nymph, whose faithful voice' 53

Epistle from Sara to her sister Mary whom she has never yet seen, her 'Yarrow Unvisited' 53

'The Rose of Love my Henry sends' 58

''Mid blooming fields I daily rove' 58

Those parched lips I'd rather press' 59

Poems 1829-1843

Sickness 60

Written in my Illness at Hampstead during Edith's Infancy 61

Verses written in sickness 1833, before the Birth of Berkeley and Florence 62

To Herbert Coleridge. Feb 13 1834 63

Benoni. Dedication 64

The Months 65

Trees 66

What Makes a Noise 66

The Nightingale 66

Foolish Interference 67

Fine Names for Fine Things 68

The Seasons 68

The Squirrel 69

Poppies 70

The Usurping Bird 71

Edith Asleep 73

The Blessing of Health 74

The Humming-Birds 75

Childish Tears 77

Providence 78

'Nox is the night' 79

'A father's brother, mother's brother, are not called the same' 79

The Celandine 80

'January is the first month in the year' 80

'January brings the blast' 82

'Little Sister Edith now' 85

'Why those tears my little treasure' 86

Sara Coleridge for Herbert and Edith. April 19th 1834 87

Eye has not seen nor can the heart of man conceive the blessedness of Heaven 87

Consolation in Trouble 88

Silence and attention at Church 90

'Grief's heavy hand hath swayed the lute' 90

The Little Invalid 91

The mansion of Peace 92

'My friends in vain you chide my tears' 92

The Crag-fast sheep 93

'Bindweed whiter e'en than lilies' 93

'The hart delights in cooling streams' 93

The birth of purple Columbine 94

Forget me not 94

The Staining of the Rose 95

'No joy have I in passing themes' 96

'When Herbert's Mama was a slim little Maid' 97

Summer 98

The lamb in the Slough 99

The Water Lily 99

The Pair that will not meet 100

Written on a blank leaf of 'Naturalist's' Magazine 101

Young Days of Edith and Sara 101

The Plunge 102

The narrow Escape 103

'See the Halcyon fishing' 105

Daffodil or King's Spear 105

Fine birds and their plain wives 106

The Glow-worm ('Glow-worm lights her starry lamp') 106

The Glow-worm ("Mid the silent murky dell') 107

Herbert looking at the Moon 108

Game 109

'From Isles far over the sea' 110

Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven 110

A Sister's Love 112

From Petrarch 113

Poems from Phantasmion

'See the bright stranger!' 114

'Tho' I be young - ah well-a-day!' 114

'Sylvan stag, securely play' 116

'Bound along or else be still' 117

'Milk-white doe, 'tis but the breeze' 117

'One face alone, one face alone' 118

'Deem not that our eldest heir' 119

'While the storm her bosom scourges' 120

'Many a fountain cool and shady' 121

'The captive bird with ardour sings' 121

'The sun may speed or loiter on his way' 122

'Grief's heavy hand hath swayed the lute' 123

'Life and light, Anthemna bright' 123

'O sleep, my babe, hear not the rippling wave' 124

'How gladsome is a child, and how perfect is his mirth' 125

'I tremble when with look benign' 125

'Ne'er ask where knaves are mining' 126

'How high yon lark is heavenward borne!' 127

'Newts and blindworms do no wrong' 128

'The winds were whispering, the waters glistering' 128

'False Love, too long thou hast delayed' 129

'He came unlooked for, undesired' 129

'Yon changeful cloud will soon thy aspect wear' 130

'I was a brook in straitest channel pent' 131

'By the storm invaded' 131

'I thought by tears thy soul to move' 132

'Blest is the tarn which towering cliffs o'ershade' 133

'What means that darkly-working brow' 133

'Methought I wandered dimly on' 134

'"The spring returns, and balmy budding flow'rs' 135

'Full oft before some gorgeous fane' 136

'See yon blithe child that dances in our sight!' 136

'Their armour is flashing' 137

'Ah, where lie now those locks that lately streamed' 139

'Poor is the portrait that one look portrays' 140

The Three Humpbacked Brothers 141

Reflections on Reading Lucretius 145

from 'Kings of England from the Conquest' 149

Receipt for a Cake 153

Lines on the Death of- 155

Poems 1843-1852

For my Father on his lines called 'Work Without Hope' 156

'Friend, thou hast been a traveller bold' 157

To a fair young Lady who declared that she and I were coevals 158

To a Fair Friend arguing in support of the theory of the renovation in a literal sense of the material system 159

Dreams

I The Lilies 160

II Time's Acquittal 160

III To a Friend 162

Asceticism 164

Blanco White 165

To a Friend who wished to give me half her sleep 165

To a Friend who prayed, that my heart might still be young 166

On reading my Father's 'Youth and Age' 167

To a little weanling Babe, who returned a kiss with great eagerness 168

Dream-love 168

To my Son 169

Tennyson's 'Lotos Eaters' with a new conclusion 171

Crashaw's Poetry 173

'On the same' 174

'Toil not for burnished gold that poorly shines' 175

Sketch from Life. Morning Scene. Sept 22 1845 176

A Boy's complaint of Dr Blimber 177

L'Envoy to 'Phantasmion' 177

Feydeleen to Zelneth 178

Song of Leucoia 179

Song for 'Phantasmion' 180

Zelneth. Love unreturned 180

Matthew VI.28-9 181

Prayer for Tranquillity 183

The melancholy Prince 183

Zelneth's Song in Magnart's Garden 184

Children 185

'Passion is blind not Love: her wondrous might' 186

'O change that strain with man's best hopes at strife' 187

'O vain expenditure! unhallowed waste!' 188

Darling Edith 189

First chorus in 'The Agamemnon' of Aeschylus 190

Poems written for a book of Dialogues on the Doctrines of grace

I 'While disputants for victory fight' 192

II Water can but rise to its own level 192

II Reason 193

IV Mystic Doctrine of Baptism 193

V Baptism 194

[Verses from 'Regeneration'] ('This is a giddy world of chance and changing') 195

Missionary Poem 195

[From Sara Coleridge's Journal, September 1850] ('Danced forty times? We know full well') 196

[From a letter to Mrs Derwent Coleridge, 16 January 1852] ('Sing hey diddle diddle') 196

[From a letter to Derwent Coleridge, 22 January 1852] ('Darran was a bold man') 197

Doggrel Charm 198

Appendix 'Howithorn' 199.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781857548952

1857548957

OCLC:

71808781