Contents
Introduction
Chronology
Poems
Imitation of Spenser
Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles's Restoration, on Hearing the Bells Ringing
Stay, ruby breasted warbler, stay
As from the darkening gloom a silver dove
Oh Chatterton! how very sad thy fate
To Hope
Ode to Apollo
To Some Ladies
On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies
O come, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown
Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell
To George Felton Mathew
Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs
Hadst thou liv'd in days of old
Give me women, wine, and snuff
Specimen of an Induction to a Poem
Calidore: A Fragment
To one who has been long in the city pent
To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses
To My Brother George (sonnet)
To My Brother George (epistle)
To Charles Cowden Clarke
How many bards gild the lapses of time
Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there
Addressed to Haydon
To G. A. W.
Sleep and Poetry
I stood tip-toe upon a little hill
Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition
After dark vapours have oppressed our plains
To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crown'd
God of the golden bow
To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me
On the Sea
Hither, hither, love
You say you love; but with a voice
The Gothic looks solemn
Think not of it, sweet one, so
Endymion: A Poetic Romance
Apollo to the Graces
Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
O blush not so! O blush not so
God of the meridian
Robin Hood
Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow
Spenser, a jealous honorer of thine
O thou whose face hath felt the winter's wind
Extracts from an Opera
Four seasons fill the measure of the year
For there's Bishop's Teign
Where be ye going, you Devon maid
Dear Reynolds, as last night I lay in bed
To J.R.
Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil
Give me your patience, sister, while I frame
On Visiting the Tomb of Burns
Old Meg she was a gipsey
There was a naughty boy
Ah! ken ye what I met the day
This mortal body of a thousand days
All gentle folks who owe a grudge
Of later two dainties were before me plac'd
There is a joy in footing slow across a silent plain
Not Aladdin magian
Upon my life, Sir Nevis, I am piqu'd
On Some Skulls in Beauley Abbey, near Inverness
Fragment of Castle-builder
And what is Love? - It is a doll dress'd up
'Tis the "witching time of night"
Where's the Poet? Show him! show him
Fancy
Bards of passion and of mirth
Spirit here that reignest
Hush, hush, tread softly, hush, hush, my dear
Ah! woe is me! poor Silver-wing
The Eve of St. Agnes
The Eve of St. Mark
When they were come unto the Faery's court
As Hermes once took to his feathers light
Character of C. B.
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
Hyperion: A Fragment
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
Song of Four Fairies: Fire, Air, Earth, and Water
Ode to Psyche
On Fame ("Fame, like a wayward girl")
Two or three posies
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode on Indolence
Shed no tear - O shed no tear
Otho the Great: A Tragedy in Five Acts
Lamia
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes
To Autumn
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
What can I do to drive away
To Fanny
King Stephen: A Fragment of a Tragedy
The Jealousies: A Faery Tale, by Lucy Vaughan Lloyd of China Walk, Lambeth
In after time a sage of mickle lore
Abbreviations
Selected Bibliography
Commentary
Appendix: The Contents of 1817 and 1820
Index of Titles and First Lines