The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume II Part 180

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume II Part 180

[12] And therefore don't get tipsy Letter 1832.

[16] with this gipsy] of Dys Pipsy Letter 1832.

[22] And oh! och my dear Honies Letter 1832.

[28] offal-fed] horn-and-hoof'd Letter 1832.

[41] dreams] drams Letter 1832.

[44] And whitewash at once your Guts, Rooms and Manners Letter 1832.

[After 44]

Vivat Rex Popellio!

Vivat Regina Plebs!

Hurra! 3 times 3 thrice repeated Hurra!

Letter, 1832.

18

TO BABY BATES

You come from o'er the waters, From famed Columbia's land, And you have sons and daughters, And money at command.

But I live in an island, Great Britain is its name, With money none to buy land, The more it is the shame.

But we are all the children Of one great G.o.d of Love, Whose mercy like a mill-drain Runs over from above.

Lullaby, lullaby, Sugar-plums and cates, Close your little peeping eye, Bonny Baby B----s.

First collected 1893. 'Baby Bates' was the daughter of Joshua Bates, one of the donors of the Boston Library. Her father and mother pa.s.sed a year (1828-1829) at Highgate, 'close to the house of Dr. and Mrs. Gillman.'

See a letter to Mrs. Bates from S. T. C. dated Jan. 23, 1829. _N. and Q._ 4th Series, i. 469.

19

TO A CHILD[987:1]

Little Miss f.a.n.n.y, So cubic and canny, With blue eyes and blue shoes-- The Queen of the Blues!

As darling a girl as there is in the world-- If she'll laugh, skip and jump, And not be _Miss Glump_!

1834. First published in _Athenaeum_, Jan. 28, 1888. First collected 1893.

FOOTNOTES:

[976:1] 'There is a female saint (St. Vuilgefortis), whom the Jesuit Sautel, in his _Annus Sacer Poeticus_, has celebrated for her beard--a mark of divine favour bestowed upon her for her prayers.' _Omniana_, 1812, ii. 54. 'Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixere! What! can nothing be one's own? This is the more vexatious, for at the age of eighteen I lost a legacy of fifty pounds for the following epigram on my G.o.dmother's beard, which she had the _barbarity_ to revenge by striking me out of her will.' _S. T. C._

[981:1] These lines are written on a fly-leaf of a copy of _Five Bookes of the Church_ by Richard Field (folio 1635), under the inscription: 'Hannah Scollock, her book, February 10, 1787.' The volume was bequeathed to the poet's younger son, Derwent Coleridge, and is now in the possession of the Editor.

[983:1] Written for James Gillman Junr. as a School Exercise, for _Merchant Taylors'_, c. 1822-3.

[984:1] Written in pencil on the blank leaf of a book of lectures delivered at the London University, in which the Hartleyan doctrine of a.s.sociation was a.s.sumed as a true basis.

[987:1] To Miss f.a.n.n.y Boyce, afterwards Lady Wilmot Horton.

FRAGMENTS FROM A NOTEBOOK[988:1]

_Circa_ 1796-98

1

Light cargoes waft of modulated Sound From viewless Hybla brought, when Melodies Like Birds of Paradise on wings, that aye Disport in wild variety of hues, Murmur around the honey-dropping flower.

First published in 1893. Compare _The Eolian Harp_ (Aug. 1795), lines 20-5 (_ante_ p. 101).

2

Broad-breasted rock--hanging cliff that gla.s.ses His rugged forehead in the calmy sea.[988:2]

First published in 1893. Compare _Destiny of Nations_ (1796), lines 342, 343 (_ante_ p. 143).

3

Where Cam his stealthy flowings most dissembles And scarce the Willow's watery shadow trembles.

First published in 1893. Compare line 1 of _A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room_, 'Where deep in mud Cam rolls his slumbrous stream'

(_ante_, p. 35).

4

With secret hand heal the conjectur'd wound,

[or]

Guess at the wound, and heal with secret hand.

First published in 1893. The alternative line was first published in _Lit. Rem._, i. 279.