Poetical Works: Corrections and Additions
Edited by J.C.C.Mays
Material last updated September 2012
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| Number | Poem Title | Reading Text page | Variorum Text page |
| Prelims | xiii | xii | |
| 24 | Prospectus and Specimen of a Translation of Euclid | 33 | |
| 49 | A Simile; Written after a Walk before Supper | 84 | |
| 60 | Absence: A Poem | 99 | 100 |
| 66 | Domestic Peace | 114 | 125 |
| 73 | Imitated from the Welsh | 143 | |
| 74 | To a Beautiful Spring | 125 | 145-6 |
| 77 | Epitaph on an Infant | 154 | |
| 82 | Monody on the Death of Chatterton | 139 | 166 |
| 84 | To a Young Ass | 146 | 190 |
| 84.X1 | Written on the Necessary House at Jesus College | 193 | |
| 86 | Sonnet: To the Author of “The Robbers” | 198 | |
| 88 | To an Old Man in the Snow | 202 | |
| 106 | Contribution to “The Soldier’s Wife”, by Robert Southey | 275 | |
| 108 | Brockley Combe | 203 | |
| 109 | To the Rev W.J.H. | 204 | 288 |
| 115 | The Eolian Harp: Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire | 231 | 316 |
| 116 | Ode to Sara, Written at Shurton Bars, near Bridgwater, in Answer to a Letter from Bristol | 235 | 328 |
| 129 | Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement | 353 | |
| 130 | Irregular Sonnet: To John Thelwall | 357 | |
| 136 | Sonnet: To a Friend | 375 | |
| 139 | The Destiny of Nations: A Vision | 279 | |
| 142 | Ode on the Departing Year | 302 | |
| 155 | Continuation of The Three Graves, by William Wordsworth | 336 | |
| 156 | This Lime-tree Bower my Prison | 349 | |
| 161 | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 365 | 504 |
| 166 | To a Well-known Musical Critic, Remarkable for his Ears Sticking thro’ his Hair | 427 | |
| 168 | The Old Man of the Alps | 445 | 566 |
| 171 | Frost at Midnight | 452 | |
| 172 | Lewti; or, The Circassian Love-chant | 574 | |
| 176 | Christabel | 477 | 606 |
| 177 | The Story of the Mad Ox | 662 | |
| 178 | Kubla Khan | 509 | 670 |
| 180 | The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem | 516 | |
| 182 | The Ballad of the Dark Ladiè: A Fragment | 522 | |
| 196 | Homesick: Written in Germany, Adapted from Bürde | 705 | |
| 198 | Extempore Couplet on German Roads and Woods | 546 | 707 |
| 200 | Lines Written at Elbingerode | 547 | 710 |
| 205 | Epigram on Mr Ross, Usually Cognominated “Nosy” | 552 | |
| 208 | Epigram on a Reader of his Own Verses, Inspired by Wernike | 554 | 719 |
| 214 | The Devil’s Thoughts | 737 | |
| 240 | Epigram on the Speed with which Jack Writes Verses, after von Halem | 780 | |
| 245 | The Exchange of Hearts | 785 | |
| 251 | To Delia [CANCELLED] | 602 | 791 |
| 253 | Love | 793 | |
| 260 | A Christmas Carol | 817 | |
| 262 | Talleyrand to Lord Grenville: A Metrical Epistle | 629 | |
| 297 | Sonnet Adapted from Petrarch [CANCELLED] | 706 | 904 |
| 316 | Epigram to my Candle, after Wernike | 738 | |
| 319 | Epigram on Virgil’s “Obscuri sub luce maligna”, after Wernike | 741 | |
| 328.X | Latin Lines on a Former Friendship[CANCELLED] | 748 | 958 |
| 351 | What is Life? A Metrical Experiment | 767 | 978 |
| 356 | Fragment: “What never is, but only is to be” [CANCELLED] | 776 | 987 |
| 364.X | Curtailed Lines in Notebook 17 [CANCELLED] | 782 | 995 |
| 379 | Lines Written in a Dream | 791 | |
| 380 | A Single Line on Revenge | 792 | |
| 381 | Lines on a Death | 792 | |
| 402 | Psyche | 820 | 1037 |
| 416 | Imitations of Du Bartas etc | 830 | |
| 517.X3 | Lines in Walker’s Dictionary, Largely Erased | 1139 | |
| 533.X1 | The Cherub | 1147 | |
| 538 | For an Autograph Hunter | 1149 | |
| 539 | The Tender Corn [Correction to title. Formerly: To a Young Lady Complaining of a Corn] | 941 | 1151 |
| 540 | Fancy in Nubibus | 1152 | |
| 561 | A Character | 969 | |
| 565 | The Tears of a Grateful People | 975 | |
| 568.X1 | Faustus: from the German of Goethe | 1178 | |
| 592 | Youth and Age | 1011 | 1196 |
| 596.X1 | Corrections to Wordsworth’s Virgil | 1212 | |
| 599 | The Delinquent Travellers | 1022 | |
| 604 | Album Verses on Original Sin | 1227 | |
| 606 | Work without Hope | 1228 | |
| 617.X1 | Atherstone’s Herculaneum Emended | 1238 | |
| 622 | The Alternative | 1055 | |
| 651 | The Netherlands | 1088 | |
| 653 | A Somnulent Extempore, Eyes half-closed and the Head Nodding Time: To an American Lady [Retitled. Formerly: To Baby Bates] | 1096 | 1300 |
| 658A | Lover’s Reverie [Added] | Add | Add |
| 658B | The Young Tanner: A Shenstoniad [Added] | Add | Add |
| 658C | Lines on the Improvement of Verse by Music [Added] | Add | Add |
| 664A | The Joy of Age | 1117 | 1320 |
| 667 | Phantom or Fact? A Dialogue in Verse | 1118 | 1321 |
| 676 | The Three Patriots: Cockney Snip, Irish Blarney, and Me | 1125 | |
| 693 | S.T.C. | 1359 | |
| Annexes | 1163 | ||
| Plays | |||
| Prelims | i | ||
| 76.X1 | The Fall of Robespierre | 3 | |
| 146.X1 | Osorio: A Tragedy | 45 | |
| 262.X1 | Die Piccolomini/The Piccolomini | 165 | |
| 263.X1 | Wallenstein/The Death of Wallenstein | 617 | |
| 502.X3 | Remorse (Printed) | 1227 | |
| 517.X1 | Zapolya: A Christmas Tale | 1327 | |