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 ne'er expect to find Love without Jealousy.

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

Ask for her and she'll be denied:-- What then? they only mean 10 Their mistress has lain down to sleep, And can't 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 stirr'd, 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?

Is't 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 moment's work (and such it seems) This tale's a fragment from the life of dreams; But say, that years matur'd 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 Love's 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 Charity's gauge surely have much too little.

? 1830.

FOOTNOTES:

[486:1] First published in 1834.

HUMILITY THE MOTHER OF CHARITY[486:2]