Song, ex improviso, on hearing a Song in praise of a Lady’s Beauty
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- #10Destruction of the Bastile
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- #14An Invocation
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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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- #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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- #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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- #35A Fragment found in a Lecture-room
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- #37A Lover’s Complaint to his Mistress
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- #39Written after a Walk before Supper
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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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- #47An Effusion at Evening
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- #48Lines: On an Autumnal Evening
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- #54Imitated from the Welsh
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- #56Imitations: Ad Lyram
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- #59Moriens Superstiti
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- #60Morienti Superstes
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- #61The Sigh
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- #63To a Young Lady
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- #72Domestic Peace
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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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- #81Priestley
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- #82La Fayette
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- #83Koskiusko
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- #84Pitt
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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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- #92Lines: To a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter
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- #93To an Infant
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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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- #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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- #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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- #128Parliamentary Oscillators
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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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- #145Catullian Hendecasyllables
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- #146The Homeric Hexameter described and exemplified
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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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- #161Hexameters. Paraphrase of Psalm xlvi
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- #164Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
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- #174The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone
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- #249Epitaphium Testamentarium
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- #263Not at Home
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- #264Phantom or Fact. A Dialogue in Verse
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Song, ex improviso, on hearing a Song in praise of a Lady's Beauty by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSong, ex improviso, on hearing a Song in praise of a Lady’s Beauty Annotated
'Tis not the lily-brow I prize,
Nor roseate cheeks, nor sunny eyes,
 Enough of lilies and of roses!
A thousand-fold more dear to me
The gentle look that Love discloses,—
 The look that Love alone can see!