The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume II Part 181

5

Outmalic'd Calumny's imposthum'd Tongue.

First published in 1893. A line from _Verses to Horne Tooke_, July 4, 1796, line 20 (_ante_, p. 151).

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And write Impromptus Spurring their Pegasus to tortoise gallop.

First published in 1893.

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Due to the Staggerers, that made drunk by Power Forget thirst's eager promise, and presume, Dark Dreamers! that the world forgets it too.

First published in _Lit. Rem._, 1836, i. 27.

LINENOTES:

[1] Due] These L. R.

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Perish warmth Unfaithful to its seeming!

First published in _Lit. Rem._, i. 279.

9

Old age, 'the shape and messenger of Death,'

'His wither'd Fist still knocking at Death's door.'

First published in _Lit. Rem._, i. 279. Quoted from Sackville's _Induction to a Mirrour for Magistrates_, stanza 48:

'His wither'd fist stil knocking at deathes dore, Tumbling and driveling as he drawes his breth; For briefe, the shape and messenger of death.'

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G.o.d no distance knows, All of the whole possessing!

First published in _Lit. Rem._, i. 279. Compare _Religious Musings_, ll.

156-7.

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Wherefore art thou come? doth not the Creator of all things know all things? And if thou art come to seek him, know that where thou wast, there he was.

First published in 1893. Compare the _Wanderings of Cain_.

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And cauldrons the scoop'd earth, a boiling sea.

First published in 1893.

13

Rush on my ear, a cataract of sound.

First published in 1893.

14

The guilty pomp, consuming while it flares.

First published in 1893.

15

My heart seraglios a whole host of Joys.

First published in 1893.

16

And Pity's sigh shall answer thy tale of Anguish Like the faint echo of a distant valley.

First published in _Notizbuch_, 1896, p. 350.

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A DUNGEON

In darkness I remain'd--the neighb'ring clock Told me that now the rising sun shone lovely On my garden.

First published in _Lit. Rem._, i. 279. Compare _Osorio_, Act I, lines 219-21 (_ante_, p. 528), and _Remorse_, Act I, Scene II, lines 218-20 (_ante_, p. 830).