The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume I Part 167

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume I Part 167

[1] in degree] _in degree_ F. O.


[2] kind] _kind_ F. O.


NOT AT HOME[484:2]


That Jealousy may rule a mind Where Love could never be I know; but neer expect to find Love without Jealousy.


She has a strange cast in her ee, 5 A swart sour-visaged maid-- But yet Loves own twin-sister she His house-mate and his shade.


Ask for her and shell be denied:-- What then? they only mean 10 Their mistress has lain down to sleep, And cant just then be seen.


? 1830.


FOOTNOTES:


[484:2] First published in 1834.


PHANTOM OR FACT[484:3]


A DIALOGUE IN VERSE


AUTHOR


A lovely form there sate beside my bed, And such a feeding calm its presence shed, A tender love so pure from earthly leaven, That I unnethe the fancy might control, Twas my own spirit newly come from heaven, 5 Wooing its gentle way into my soul!


But ah! the change--It had not stirrd, and yet-- Alas! that change how fain would I forget!


That shrinking back, like one that had mistook!


That weary, wandering, disavowing look! 10 Twas all another, feature, look, and frame, And still, methought, I knew, it was the same!


FRIEND


This riddling tale, to what does it belong?


Ist history? vision? or an idle song?


Or rather say at once, within what s.p.a.ce 15 Of time this wild disastrous change took place?


AUTHOR


Call it a moments work (and such it seems) This tales a fragment from the life of dreams; But say, that years maturd the silent strife, And tis a record from the dream of life. 20


? 1830.


FOOTNOTES:


[484:3] First published in 1834.


DESIRE[485:1]


Where true Love burns Desire is Loves pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the n.o.bler part, And but translates the language of the heart.


? 1830.


FOOTNOTES:


[485:1] First published in 1834.


LINENOTES:


[1-4]


Desire of pure Love born, itself the same; A pulse that animates the outer frame, And takes the impress of the n.o.bler part, It but repeats the Life, that of the Heart.


MS. S. T. C.


CHARITY IN THOUGHT[486:1]


To praise men as good, and to take them for such, Is a grace which no soul can mete out to a t.i.ttle;-- Of which he who has not a little too much, Will by Charitys gauge surely have much too little.


? 1830.


FOOTNOTES:


[486:1] First published in 1834.


HUMILITY THE MOTHER OF CHARITY[486:2]