On Imitation
Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Track #25 On The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol I
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- #1Easter Holidays
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- #2Dura Navis
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- #3Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitâ
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- #4Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon
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- #5Anthem for the Children of Christ’s Hospital
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- #6Julia
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- #7Quae Nocent Docent
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- #8The Nose
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- #9To the Muse
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- #10Destruction of the Bastile
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- #11Life
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- #12Progress of Vice
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- #13Monody on the Death of Chatterton
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- #14An Invocation
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- #15Anna and Harland
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- #16To the Evening Star
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- #17Pain
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- #18On a Lady Weeping
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- #19Monody on a Tea-kettle
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- #20Genevieve
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- #21On receiving an Account that his Only Sister’s Death was Inevitable
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- #22On seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister
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- #23A Mathematical Problem
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- #24Honour
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- #25On Imitation
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- #26Inside the Coach
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- #27Devonshire Roads
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- #28Music
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- #29Sonnet: On quitting School for College
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- #30Absence
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- #31Happiness
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- #32A Wish
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- #33An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon
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- #34To Disappointment
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- #35A Fragment found in a Lecture-room
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- #36Ode
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- #37A Lover’s Complaint to his Mistress
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- #38With Fielding’s ‘Amelia’
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- #39Written after a Walk before Supper
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- #40Imitated from Ossian
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- #41The Complaint of Ninathóma
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- #42Songs of the Pixies
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- #43The Rose
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- #44Kisses
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- #45The Gentle Look
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- #46Sonnet: To The River Otter
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- #47An Effusion at Evening
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- #48Lines: On an Autumnal Evening
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- #49To Fortune
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- #50Perspiration
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- #51Ave, Atque Vale!
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- #52On Bala Hill
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- #53Lines: Written at the King’s Arms
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- #54Imitated from the Welsh
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- #55Lines: To a Beautiful Spring in a Village
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- #56Imitations: Ad Lyram
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- #57To Lesbia
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- #58The Death of the Starling
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- #59Moriens Superstiti
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- #60Morienti Superstes
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- #61The Sigh
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- #62The Kiss
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- #63To a Young Lady
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- #64Translation of Wrangham’s ‘Hendecasyllabi ad Bruntonam e Granta Exituram’
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- #65To Miss Brunton
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- #66Epitaph on an Infant
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- #67Pantisocracy
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- #68On the Prospect of establishing a Pantisocracy in America
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- #69Elegy
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- #70The Faded Flower
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- #71The Outcast
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- #72Domestic Peace
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- #73To the Author of ‘The Robbers’
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- #74Melancholy. A Fragment
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- #75To a Young Ass
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- #76Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever induced by Calumnious Reports
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- #77To a Friend together with an Unfinished Poem
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- #78Sonnets on Eminent Characters
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- #79To the Honourable Mr. Erskine
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- #80Burke
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- #81Priestley
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- #82La Fayette
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- #83Koskiusko
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- #84Pitt
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- #85To the Rev. W. L. Bowles
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- #86Mrs. Siddons
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- #87To William Godwin
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- #88To Robert Southey of Baliol College
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- #89To Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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- #90To Lord Stanhope
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- #91To Earl Stanhope
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- #92Lines: To a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter
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- #93To an Infant
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- #94To the Rev. W. J. Hort
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- #95Pity
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- #96Lines: Composed while climbing the Left Ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire
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- #97Lines in the Manner of Spenser
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- #98The Hour when we shall meet again
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- #99Lines written at Shurton Bars
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- #100The Eolian Harp
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- #101To the Author of Poems
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- #102The Silver Thimble
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- #103Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement
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- #104Religious Musings
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- #105The Destiny of Nations. A Vision
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- #106Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an Unpublished Poem
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- #107On observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796
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- #108To a Primrose. The First seen in the Season
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- #109Verses
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- #110On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life
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- #111Sonnet: On receiving a Letter informing me of the Birth of a Son
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- #112Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward
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- #113Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt
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- #114Sonnet: To Charles Lloyd
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- #115To a Young Friend on his proposing
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- #116Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune
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- #117To a Friend [Charles Lamb]
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- #118Ode to the Departing Year
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- #119The Raven or, A Christmas Tale, Told by a School-boy to His Little Brothers and Sisters. (1798)
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- #120To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre
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- #121To an Unfortunate Woman whom the Author had known in the days of her Innocence
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- #122To the Rev. George Coleridge
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- #123On the Christening of a Friend’s Child
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- #124Translation of a Latin Inscription
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- #125The Foster-mother’s Tale
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- #126The Dungeon
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- #127Sonnets attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers
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- #128Parliamentary Oscillators
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- #129
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- #130Lines to W. L.
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- #131Fire, Famine, and Slaughter
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- #132Frost at Midnight
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- #133France: An Ode.
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- #134The Old Man of the Alps
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- #135To a Young Lady on her Recovery from a Fever
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- #136Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt
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- #137Fears in Solitude
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- #138The Three Graves
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- #139The Wanderings of Cain
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- #140To ——
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- #141The Ballad of the Dark Ladié
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- #142Recantation: Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox
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- #143Hexameters
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- #144Translation of a Passage in Ottfried’s Metrical Paraphrase of the Gospel
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- #145Catullian Hendecasyllables
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- #146The Homeric Hexameter described and exemplified
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- #147The Ovidian Elegiac Metre described and exemplified
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- #148On a Cataract
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- #149Tell’s Birth-Place
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- #150The Visit of the Gods
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- #151From the German
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- #152Water Ballad
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- #153On an Infant which died before Baptism
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- #154Something Childish, but very Natural. Written in Germany
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- #155Home-Sick. Written in Germany
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- #156Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode in the Hartz Forest
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- #157The British Stripling’s War-Song
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- #158Names
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- #159Lines composed in a Concert-room
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- #160Westphalian Song
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- #161Hexameters. Paraphrase of Psalm xlvi
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- #162Hymn to the Earth
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- #163Mahomet
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- #164Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
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- #165A Christmas Carol
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- #166Talleyrand to Lord Grenville. A Metrical Epistle
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- #167Apologia pro Vita sua
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- #168The Keepsake
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- #169A Thought suggested by a View of Saddleback in Cumberland
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- #170The Mad Monk
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- #171Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side half-way up a Steep Hill facing South
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- #172A Stranger Minstrel
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- #173Alcaeus to Sappho
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- #174The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone
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- #175The Snow-drop.
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- #176On Revisiting the Sea-shore
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- #177Ode to Tranquillity
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- #178To Asra
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- #179The Second Birth
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- #180Love’s Sanctuary
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- #181The Picture, or the Lover’s Resolution
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- #182To Matilda Betham from a Stranger
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- #183Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
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- #184The Good, Great Man
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- #185Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
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- #186An Ode to the Rain
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- #187A Day-dream
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- #188The Day-dream. From an Emigrant to his Absent Wife
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- #189The Happy Husband. A Fragment
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- #190The Pains of Sleep
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- #191The Exchange
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- #192Ad Vilmum Axiologum
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- #193An Exile
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- #194Sonnet
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- #195Phantom
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- #196A Sunset
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- #197What is Life
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- #198The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree
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- #199Separation
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- #200The Rash Conjurer
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- #201A Child’s Evening Prayer
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- #202Metrical Feet. Lesson for a Boy
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- #203Farewell to Love
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- #204To William Wordsworth
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- #205An Angel Visitant
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- #206Recollections of Love
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- #207To Two Sisters
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- #208Psyche
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- #209A Tombless Epitaph
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- #210For a Market-clock
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- #211The Madman and the Lethargist
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- #212The Visionary Hope
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- #213Epitaph on an Infant(1811)
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- #214The Virgin’s Cradle-hymn
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- #215To a Lady offended by a Sportive Observation that Women have no Souls
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- #216Reason for Love’s Blindness
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- #217The Suicide’s Argument
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- #218Time, Real and Imaginary
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- #219An Invocation. From Remorse
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- #220The Night-scene
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- #221A Hymn
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- #222To a Lady, with Falconer’s Shipwreck
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- #223Human Life. On the Denial of Immortality
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- #224Song. From Zapolya
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- #225Hunting Song. From Zapolya
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- #226Faith, Hope, and Charity. From the Italian of Guarini
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- #227To Nature
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- #228Limbo
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- #229Ne Plus Ultra
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- #230The Knight’s Tomb
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- #231On Donne’s Poetry
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- #232Israel’s Lament
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- #233Fancy in Nubibus, or the Poet in the Clouds
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- #234The Tears of a Grateful People
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- #235Youth and Age
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- #236The Reproof and Reply
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- #237First Advent of Love
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- #238The Delinquent Travellers
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- #239Work without Hope. Lines composed 21st February, 1825
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- #240Sancti Dominici Pallium. A Dialogue between Poet and Friend
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- #241Song
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- #242A Character
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- #243The Two Founts
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- #244Constancy to an Ideal Object
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- #245The Pang more Sharp than All. An Allegory
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- #246Duty surviving Self-love. The only sure Friend of declining Life
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- #247Homeless
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- #248Lines suggested by the last Words of Berengarius; ob. Anno Dom. 1088
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- #249Epitaphium Testamentarium
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- #250The Improvisatore; or, ‘John Anderson, My Jo, John’
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- #251To Mary Pridham
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- #252Alice du Clos; or, The Forked Tongue. A Ballad
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- #253Love’s Burial-place
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- #254Lines: To a Comic Author, on an Abusive Review
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- #255Cologne
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- #256On my Joyful Departure from the same City
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- #257The Garden of Boccaccio
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- #258Love, Hope, and Patience in Education.
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- #259To Miss A. T.
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- #260Lines written in Commonplace Book of Miss Barbour, Daughter of the Minister of the U. S. A. to England
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- #261Song, ex improviso, on hearing a Song in praise of a Lady’s Beauty
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- #262Love and Friendship Opposite
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- #263Not at Home
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- #264Phantom or Fact. A Dialogue in Verse
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- #265Desire
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- #266Charity in Thought
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- #267Humility the Mother of Charity
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- #268[Coeli Enarrant.]
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- #269Reason
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- #270Self-knowledge
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- #271Forbearance
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- #272Love’s Apparition and Evanishment
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- #273To the Young Artist Kayser of Kaserwerth
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- #274My Baptismal Birth-day
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- #275Epitaph
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On Imitation by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Performed by
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAbout
Written in 1791. The main idea of the poem is the juxtaposition of worthy and unworthy pursuits, or the classic opposition of virtue and vice. It “asks some toil” – is difficult – to imitate virtuous behavior; whereas anyone can behave viciously.
On Imitation Annotated
All are not born to soar—and ah! how few
In tracks where Wisdom leads their paths pursue!
Contagious when to wit or wealth allied,
Folly and Vice diffuse their venom wide.
On Folly every fool his talent tries;
It asks some toil to imitate the wise;
Tho' few like Fox can speak—like Pitt can think—
Yet all like Fox can game—like Pitt can drink.