Category: Poetry

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2

1789 Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital. [MS. O.] 5 Julia. [Boyer's _Liber Aureus_.] 6 Quae Nocent Docent. [Boyer's _Liber Aureus_.] 7 The Nose. [MS. O.] 8 To the Muse. [MS. O.] 9 Destruction of the Bastile. [MS. O.] 10 Life. [MS. O.] 11

Chapters

28. Chapter 28

'A little further, O my father, yet a little further, and we shall come into the open moonlight.' Their road was through a forest of fir-trees; at its entrance the trees stood a...

4. Chapter 4

Ah! why so soon, just as the bloom appears, Drops the fair blossom in the vale of tears? Death view'd the treasure in the desart given And claim'd the right of planting it in He...

30. Chapter 30

Within these circling hollies woodbine-clad-- Beneath this small blue roof of vernal sky-- How warm, how still! Tho' tears should dim mine eye, Yet will my heart for days contin...

153. Chapter 153

_Casimir._ It did, and therefore Have I sent back both pledge and invitation. The spotless Hind hath fled to them for shelter, 15 And bears with her my seal of fellowship! [_The...

3. Chapter 3

EPIGRAMS An Apology for Spencers 951 On a Late Marriage between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître 952 On an Amorous Doctor 952 'Of smart pretty Fellows,' &c. 952 On Deputy ---...

157. Chapter 157

_Sandoval._ A delightful plain this, and doubly pleasant after so long and wearisome a descent from the Pyranees [_sic_]. Did you not observe how our poor over wearied horses me...

5. Chapter 5

The texts of 1828, 1829 (almost but not quite identical) vary slightly from that of the _Sibylline Leaves_, 1817, and, again, the text of 1834 varies from that of 1828 and 1829....

169. Chapter 169

The / Death of Wallenstein. / A Tragedy. / In Five Acts: / [193] Preface of The Translator / To the First Edition. / [195] 724 Dramatis Personae [198] 726 The Death of Wallenste...

23. Chapter 23

[453] The vision foul of fear and pain MS. W., S. T. C. (a), S. T. C. (c), S. H.: The vision of fear, the touch of pain S. T. C. (b).

35. Chapter 35

_Collot d'Herbois._ Caesar is fall'n! The baneful tree of Java, Whose death-distilling boughs dropt poisonous dew, Is rooted from its base. This worse than Cromwell, The austere...

156. Chapter 156

_The murmuring tide Lull'd her, and many a pensive pleasing dream_ Rose in sad shadowy trains at Memory's call. 330 She thought of Arc, and of the dingled brook, Whose waves oft...

40. Chapter 40

_Alhadra._ Yon hanging woods, that touch'd by autumn seem As they were blossoming hues of fire and gold; { The hanging Act V, l. 41. { The flower-like woods, most lovely in deca...

38. Chapter 38

_Ter._ Say rather that I have imagined it A possible thing; and it has sooth'd my soul As other fancies have; but ne'er seduced me To traffic with the black and frenzied hope, T...

159. Chapter 159

Doubtless, this could not be, but that she turns Bodies to spirits, by sublimation strange; As fire converts to fire the things it burns; As we our meats into our nature change.

160. Chapter 160

was published in _Poems_, 1796 (vide _ante_, pp. 89, 90), 'was inserted by the fool of a publisher [Cottle prints 'inserted by Biggs, the fool of a printer'] in order, forsooth,...

148. Chapter 148

_Front of the Palace with a magnificent Colonnade. On one side a military Guard-house. Sentries pacing backward and forward before the Palace. CHEF RAGOZZI, at the door of the G...

150. Chapter 150

_Sarolta._ So many are The sufferings which no human aid can reach, It needs must be a duty doubly sweet To heal the few we can. Well! let us rest. 10

36. Chapter 36

_Alhadra (addressing ALVAR)._ Farewell then! and though many thoughts perplex me, Aught evil or ignoble never can I Suspect of thee! If what thou seem'st thou art, The oppressed...

146. Chapter 146

_Alvar._ And this place my forefathers made for man! This is the process of our love and wisdom To each poor brother who offends against us-- Most innocent, perhaps--and what if...

137. Chapter 137

_Valdez._ Heaven knows with what delight I saw your loves, And could my heart's blood give him back to thee I would die smiling. But these are idle thoughts! Thy dying father co...

152. Chapter 152

_Laska._ No, not mine, 15 Not mine, an please your Majesty! There are Some insolent malcontents indeed that talk thus-- Nay worse, mere treason. As Bathory's son, The fool that...

21. Chapter 21

Each matin bell, the Baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death. These words Sir Leoline first said, When he rose and found his lady dead: 335 These words Sir Leoline will...

134. Chapter 134

This Tragedy was written in the summer and autumn of the year 1797; at Nether Stowey, in the county of Somerset. By whose recommendation, and of the manner in which both the Pla...

67. Chapter 67

_Max._ Art thou offended with me? Heaven knows 5 That odious business was no fault of mine. 'Tis true, indeed, I saw thy signature. What thou hadst sanctioned, should not, it mi...

1. Chapter 1

1789 Anthem for the Children of Christ's Hospital. [MS. O.] 5 Julia. [Boyer's _Liber Aureus_.] 6 Quae Nocent Docent. [Boyer's _Liber Aureus_.] 7 The Nose. [MS. O.] 8 To the Muse...

166. Chapter 166

_Collation._--Vol. I. Title, one leaf, p. [iii]; The Imprint, Thomas White, Printer, / Johnson's Court. /, is at the foot of p. [iv]; Contents, pp. [v]-x; Preface, pp. [1]-7; Ha...

52. Chapter 52

_WALLENSTEIN, TERTSKY, ILLO.--To them enter QUESTENBERG, OCTAVIO, and MAX PICCOLOMINI, BUTLER, ISOLANI, MARADAS, and three other_ Generals. _WALLENSTEIN motions QUESTENBERG, who...

77. Chapter 77

_Wallenstein._ Set not this tongue upon me, I entreat you. 5 You know it is the weapon that destroys me. I am routed, if a woman but attack me. I cannot traffic in the trade of...

151. Chapter 151

_Raab Kiuprili._ O for a sleep, for sleep itself to rest in! I dream'd I had met with food beneath a tree, 5 And I was seeking you, when all at once My feet became entangled in...

20. Chapter 20

'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock, And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu--whit!----Tu--whoo! And hark, again! the crowing cock, How drowsily it crew. 5 Sir...

34. Chapter 34

_Robespierre mounts the Tribune._ Once more befits it that the voice of Truth, Fearless in innocence, though leaguered round By Envy and her hateful brood of hell, Be heard amid...

161. Chapter 161

_Collation._--Title, one leaf, pp. [i]-[ii]; The Imprint, _W. Pople, Printer, 67, Chancery Lane_, is at the foot of the Reverse; Preface, pp. [iii]-viii; Prologue, pp. [ix]-[x];...

139. Chapter 139

_Alhadra (addressing Alvar)._ Farewell then! and though many thoughts perplex me, Aught evil or ignoble never can I Suspect of thee! If what thou seem'st thou art, The oppressed...

33. Chapter 33

_Barrere._ The tempest gathers--be it mine to seek A friendly shelter, ere it bursts upon him. But where? and how? I fear the Tyrant's _soul_-- Sudden in action, fertile in reso...

143. Chapter 143

_A cavern, dark, except where a gleam of moonlight is seen on one side at the further end of it; supposed to be cast on it from a crevice in a part of the cavern out of sight. I...

138. Chapter 138

_Isidore._ Now indeed My house! and it looks cheerful as the clusters Basking in sunshine on yon vine-clad rock, That over-brows it! Patron! Friend! Preserver! 5 Thrice have you...

83. Chapter 83

O, hadst thou been but simple and sincere, Ne'er had it come to this--all had stood otherwise. 5 He had not done that foul and horrible deed, The virtuous had retained their inf...

19. Chapter 19

Pensive at eve on the _hard_ world I mus'd, And _my poor_ heart was sad: so at the Moon I gaz'd--and sigh'd, and sigh'd!--for, ah! how soon Eve darkens into night. Mine eye peru...

141. Chapter 141

_Teresa._ When first I entered this pure spot, forebodings Press'd heavy on my heart: but as I knelt, Such calm unwonted bliss possess'd my spirit, A trance so cloudless, that t...

101. Chapter 101

_Max._ Yes! here he is! I can endure no longer To creep on tiptoe round this house, and lurk In ambush for a favourable moment. This loitering, this suspense exceeds my powers.

32. Chapter 32

An Apology for Spencers 951 On a Late Marriage between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître 952 On an Amorous Doctor 952 'Of smart pretty Fellows,' &c. 952 On Deputy ---- 953 'To...

75. Chapter 75

_Wrangel._ It was the doing of the element With which you fought, my Lord! and not my merit. The Baltic Neptune did assert his freedom, The sea and land, it seemed, were not to...

44. Chapter 44

Octavio--Max Piccolomini! O saviour names, and full of happy omen! Ne'er will her prosperous genius turn from Austria, While two such stars, with blessed influences Beaming prot...

56. Chapter 56

_Max._ Now once again I have courage to look on you. To-day at noon I could not. The dazzle of the jewels that play'd round you 10 Hid the beloved from me.

25. Chapter 25

Well! it passed off! the gentle Ellen Did well nigh dote on Mary; 410 And she went oftener than before, And Mary loved her more and more: She managed all the dairy.

98. Chapter 98

_WALLENSTEIN, TERTSKY, ILLO, Ten_ Cuirassiers _(led by an_ Anspessade,[745:1] _march up and arrange themselves, after the word of command, in one front before the DUKE, and make...

117. Chapter 117

_Devereux._ Ay? That sounds well. The words sound always well That travel hither from the Court. Yes! yes! We know already what Court-words import. 30 A golden chain perhaps in...

122. Chapter 122

_Wallenstein._ Commend me to your lord. I sympathize In his good fortune; and if you have seen me Deficient in the expressions of that joy Which such a victory might well demand...

79. Chapter 79

_Wallenstein._ Rather hope I 5 To bind it nearer still and faster to me. [_He seats himself._ Yes, Max, I have delayed to open it to thee, Even till the hour of acting 'gins to...

140. Chapter 140

_Valdez._ Nay, My Alvar lov'd sad music from a child. Once he was lost; and after weary search We found him in an open place in the wood. To which spot he had followed a blind b...

22. Chapter 22

[In the Hinves copy (Nov., 1816), ll. 60-5 are inserted in the margin and the two lines 'Her neck . . . her hair' are erased. This addition was included in 1828, 1829, 1834, &c.]

82. Chapter 82

_Octavio (after both have seated themselves)._ You have not Returned the advances which I made you yesterday-- Misunderstood them, as mere empty forms. 5 That wish proceeded fro...

64. Chapter 64

_Master of the Cellar._ The best wine! O! if my old mistress, his lady mother, could but see these wild goings on, she would turn herself round in her grave. Yes, yes, sir offic...

42. Chapter 42

_Octavio._ And Colonel Butler--trust me, I rejoice Thus to renew acquaintance with a man Whose worth and services I know and honour. See, see, my friend! There might we place at...

59. Chapter 59

_Countess._ Fie, lady niece! to throw yourself upon him, Like a poor gift to one who cares not for it, And so must be flung after him! For you, Duke Friedland's only child, I sh...

31. Chapter 31

'unperturb'd'. In the draft of April 24, four lines were added, and of these an alternative version was published in _P. W._, 1834, with the heading 'Desire' (vide _ante_, p. 48...

87. Chapter 87

_Wallenstein._ In a few hours may couriers come from Prague With tidings, that this capital is ours. Then we may drop the mask, and to the troops Assembled in this town make kno...

136. Chapter 136

_Alvar._ My faithful Zulimez, for one brief moment Let me forget my anguish and their crimes. If aught on earth demand an unmix'd feeling, 'Tis surely this--after long years of...

12. Chapter 12

This Hermit good lives in that wood Which slopes down to the sea. 515 How loudly his sweet voice he rears! He loves to talk with marineres That come from a far countree.

51. Chapter 51

_Wallenstein._ Thou teachest me to know my man? Sixteen campaigns I have made with that old warrior. 15 Besides, I have his horoscope, We both are born beneath like stars--in sh...

41. Chapter 41

_Isolani._ Add this too, that we come not empty-handed. At Donauwert[600:2] it was reported to us, A Swedish caravan was on its way 5 Transporting a rich cargo of provision, Alm...

144. Chapter 144

_Teresa._ Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze Ev'n pity's eye with her own frozen tear. In vain I urge the tortures that await him; Even Selma, reverend guardian of my...

108. Chapter 108

_Gordon._ Yes! and in obedience to it 5 Opened the strong hold to him without scruple. For an imperial letter orders me To follow your commands implicitly. But yet forgive me; w...

24. Chapter 24

'My sister may not visit us, My mother says her nay: 265 O Edward! you are all to me, I wish for your sake I could be More lifesome and more gay.

65. Chapter 65

_OCTAVIO PICCOLOMINI enters in conversation with MARADAS, and both place themselves quite on the edge of the stage on one side of the proscenium. On the side directly opposite,...

55. Chapter 55

_Max._ O, if you felt the oppression at my heart! Since we've been here, so to constrain myself-- With such poor stealth to hazard words and glances-- 10 These, these are not my...

145. Chapter 145

_Alhadra._ Yon hanging woods, that touch'd by autumn seem As they were blossoming hues of fire and gold The flower-like woods, most lovely in decay, The many clouds, the sea, th...

43. Chapter 43

_Questenberg._ Where must we seek then for a second host 5 To have the custody of this? That Illo Thinks worse, I fear me, than he speaks. And then This Butler too--he cannot ev...

66. Chapter 66

_To these enter ILLO from the inner room. He has in his hand the golden service-cup, and is extremely distempered with drinking: GOETZ and BUTLER follow him, endeavouring to kee...

80. Chapter 80

_Tertsky._ It is as if the earth had swallowed him. He had scarce left thee, when I went to seek him. I wished some words with him--but he was gone. 5 How, when, and where, coul...

10. Chapter 10

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, 295 That slid into my soul.

39. Chapter 39

_Teresa._ Heart-chilling Superstition! thou canst glaze Ev'n Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. In vain I urge the tortures that await him: Even Selma, reverend guardian of my...

124. Chapter 124

_Seni (still more urgently)._ O wait not the arrival of these Swedes! An evil near at hand is threatening thee From false friends. All the signs stand full of horror! 10 Near, n...

50. Chapter 50

_Wallenstein (to himself)._ She hath seen all things as they are--It is so And squares completely with my other notices. They have determined finally in Vienna, Have given me my...

104. Chapter 104

_Max (who during the last scene has been standing at a distance, advances)._ This can I not endure. With most determined soul did I come hither, My purposed action seemed unblam...

47. Chapter 47

_Duchess._ I did even that Which you commissioned me to do. I told them, You had determined on our daughter's marriage, And wished, ere yet you went into the field, To shew the...

74. Chapter 74

_Wallenstein._ Is it possible? Is't so? I can no longer what I would? No longer draw back at my liking? I Must do the deed, because I thought of it, And fed this heart here with...

118. Chapter 118

_Countess._ She seems to have Foreboded some misfortune. The report Of an engagement, in the which had fallen A colonel of the Imperial army, frighten'd her. I saw it instantly....

123. Chapter 123

'Twas the first present of the Emperor. 15 He hung it round me in the war of Friule, He being then Archduke; and I have worn it Till now from habit---- From superstition if you...

58. Chapter 58

_Thekla._ Why needs he To go at all to that society? 10 'Tis not his proper company. They may Be worthy men, but he's too young for them. In brief, he suits not such society.

27. Chapter 27

A prose composition, one not in metre at least, seems _primâ facie_ to require explanation or apology. It was written in the year 1798, near Nether Stowey, in Somersetshire, at...

73. Chapter 73

_Illo (to Wallenstein)._ Thinkest thou still To make thy peace with the Emperor, to regain His confidence?--E'en were it now thy wish To abandon all thy plans, yet still they kn...

15. Chapter 15

Are those her naked ribs, which fleck'd The sun that did behind them peer? And are those two all, all the crew,[193:A] That woman and her fleshless Pheere?

114. Chapter 114

_Gordon (looking after them)._ Unhappy men! How free from all foreboding! They rush into the outspread net of murder, In the blind drunkenness of victory; I have no pity for the...

11. Chapter 11

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend 450 Doth cl...

81. Chapter 81

_Isolani._ Noble brother, I am Not one of those men who in words are valiant, And when it comes to action skulk away. The Duke has acted towards me as a friend. God knows it is...

162. Chapter 162

Genevieve [9] Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon 10 Time, Real and Imaginary. An Allegory 11 Monody on the Death of Chatterton 12 Songs of the Pixies 19 The Raven 25 Absence. A Farewel...

113. Chapter 113

_Illo._ It lies with us at present to prescribe 5 Laws, and take vengeance on those worthless traitors, Those skulking cowards that deserted us; One has already done his bitter...

85. Chapter 85

_Countess._ 'Twas for that purpose that I bade her leave us. Thekla, you are no more a child. Your heart Is now no more in nonage: for you love, And boldness dwells with love--t...

119. Chapter 119

_Thekla._ The fault is mine. Myself did wrest it from you. The horror which came o'er me interrupted Your tale at its commencement. May it please you, 10 Continue it to the end.

8. Chapter 8

There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! a weary time! 145 How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld A something i...

112. Chapter 112

_Butler._ They are twelve regiments strong, and there are five Close by us to protect the Duke. We have Only my single regiment; and the garrison Is not two hundred strong.

70. Chapter 70

_Max._ If thou hast believed that I shall act A part in this thy play---- Thou hast miscalculated on me grievously. My way must be straight on. True with the tongue, 10 False wi...

63. Chapter 63

_Butler._ With or without the clause, all one to me! 5 You understand me? My fidelity The Duke may put to any proof--I'm with him! Tell him so! I'm the Emperor's officer, As lon...

106. Chapter 106

_Wallenstein._ The Governor at Egra is your friend 5 And countryman. Write to him instantly By a Post Courier. He must be advised, That we are with him early on the morrow. You...

86. Chapter 86

_Duchess._ I am grown so timorous, every trifling noise Scatters my spirits, and announces to me The footstep of some messenger of evil. 5 And can you tell me, sister, what the...

6. Chapter 6

With sloping masts and dipping prow, 45 As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the bl...

53. Chapter 53

_Illo._ Attend! We frame a formal declaration, Wherein we to the Duke consign ourselves Collectively, to be and to remain 5 His both with life and limb, and not to spare The las...

174. Chapter 174

In the Preface to "The Death of Wallenstein," the lines are numbered. Where words are hyphenated in the original, the parts have been rejoined and the first part of the word mov...

9. Chapter 9

I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky 250 Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at...

93. Chapter 93

_Wallenstein (meets him with outspread arms, and embraces him with warmth)._ Come to my heart, old comrade! Not the sun Looks out upon us more revivingly In the earliest month o...

71. Chapter 71

SCENE--_A Room fitted up for astrological Labours, and provided with celestial Charts, with Globes, Telescopes, Quadrants, and other mathematical Instruments.--Seven Colossal Fi...

131. Chapter 131

_Countess._ They are the fruits Of your contrivances. The Duke is dead, My husband too is dead, the Duchess struggles In the pangs of death, my niece has disappeared. 5 This hou...

109. Chapter 109

_Burgomaster._ We were free, But for these last two hundred years has Egra Remained in pledge to the Bohemian crown, 5 Therefore we bear the half eagle, the other half Being can...

120. Chapter 120

_Thekla (falls on Lady Neubrunn's neck)._ Now, gentle Neubrunn, shew me the affection Which thou hast ever promised--prove thyself My own true friend and faithful fellow-pilgrim...

7. Chapter 7

And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe: For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow. Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay, 95 That m...

60. Chapter 60

_A large Saloon lighted up with festal Splendour; in the midst of it, and in the Centre of the Stage, a Table richly set out, at which eight_ Generals _are sitting, among whom a...

103. Chapter 103

_Tertsky._ Message and greeting from our faithful regiments. Their ardour may no longer be curbed in. They intreat permission to commence the attack, And if thou would'st but gi...

125. Chapter 125

_Gordon._ But then I break my oath to the Emperor; If he escape and strengthen the enemy, Do I not hereby call down on my head 10 All the dread consequences?

154. Chapter 154

_"O France," he cried, "my country"!_ When soft as breeze that curls the summer clouds At close of day, stole on his ear a voice 35 Seraphic. "Son of Orleans! grieve no more. Hi...

49. Chapter 49

_Wallenstein._ 'Till now it was the Emperor who rewarded thee, I but the instrument. This day thou hast bound 5 The father to thee, Max! the fortunate father, And this debt Frie...

57. Chapter 57

_Thekla._ I know no more than you; but yet believe me: 5 There's some design in this! to make us happy, To realize our union--trust me, love! They but pretend to wish it.

90. Chapter 90

_Tertsky._ There are strange movements among all the troops, And no one knows the cause. Mysteriously, With gloomy silentness, the several corps Marshal themselves, each under i...

46. Chapter 46

_Changes to a spacious chamber in the house of the Duke of Friedland._--Servants _employed in putting the tables and chairs in order. During this enters SENI, like an old Italia...

171. Chapter 171

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130. Chapter 130

_To these enters OCTAVIO PICCOLOMINI with all his train. At the same time DEVEREUX and MACDONALD enter from out the Corridor with the_ Halberdiers. _WALLENSTEIN'S dead body is c...

48. Chapter 48

_Countess._ How, sister? What already upon business, And business of no pleasing kind I see, Ere he has gladdened at his child. The first Moment belongs to joy. Here, Friedland!...

69. Chapter 69

_Cornet._ He was sorely frightened, When it was told him he must to Vienna. But the Count Altringer bade him take heart, Would he but make a full and free confession. 25

96. Chapter 96

_Wallenstein (in armour)._ Thou hast gained thy point, Octavio! Once more am I Almost as friendless as at Regenspurg. There I had nothing left me, but myself-- But what one man...

142. Chapter 142

54. Chapter 54

_Tertsky._ I am not quite certain, I must confess it, Countess, whether or not We are earning the Duke's thanks hereby. You know, 5 No ray has broken from him on this point. You...

168. Chapter 168

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS [55] Motto Ἔρωϛ ἀεί, &c. In many ways, &c. (four lines) _Alice du Clos; or, the Forked Tongue. A Ballad_ 57 469 _The Knight's Tomb_ 64 432 _Hymn to the Earth...

18. Chapter 18

They lifted up their stiff right arms, They held them strait and tight; And each right-arm burnt like a torch, A torch that's borne upright. Their stony eye-balls glitter'd on I...

100. Chapter 100

_Wallenstein (aside to Tertsky)._ Quick! Let a carriage stand in readiness In the court behind the palace. Scherfenberg Be their attendant; he is faithful to us; To Egra he'll c...

89. Chapter 89

_Countess (holding him back)._ Nothing? Do I not see, that all the lifeblood Has left your cheeks--look you not like a ghost? That even my brother but affects a calmness? 10

17. Chapter 17

13. Chapter 13

158. Chapter 158

The _Augurs_ we of all the world admir'd Flatter'd by Consulls, honour'd by the State, Because the event of all that was desir'd They seem'd to know, and keepe the books of Fate...

45. Chapter 45

_Questenberg._ Alas, alas! and stands it so? What, friend! and do we let him go away In this delusion--let him go away? Not call him back immediately, not open His eyes upon the...

14. Chapter 14

But I had not been long on board a ship, before I perceived that this was the image as seen by a spectator from the shore, or from another vessel. From the ship itself, the _Wak...

135. Chapter 135

Ballads_ (1798, 1800, 1802, and 1805) as a separate poem entitled 'The Foster-Mother's Tale' (_vide ante_, pp. 182-4, 571-4), and of a second passage numbering twenty-eight line...

95. Chapter 95

_Duchess._ No! Here is yet Some frightful mystery that is hidden from me. Why does my sister shun me? Don't I see her Full of suspense and anguish roam about From room to room?-...

68. Chapter 68

78. Chapter 78

_Wallenstein (coming forward in conversation)._ He sends me word from Linz, that he lies sick; But I have sure intelligence, that he Secretes himself at Frauenberg with Galas. S...

92. Chapter 92

_Wallenstein._ The stars lie not; but we have here a work Wrought counter to the stars and destiny. The science is still honest: this false heart 10 Forces a lie on the truth-te...

170. Chapter 170

37. Chapter 37

_Val._ Nay, My Alvar lov'd sad music from a child. Once he was lost; and after weary search We found him in an open place in [of _Osor._] the wood, To which spot he had followed...

111. Chapter 111

_Illo._ From the Rhinegrave. And what he brings I can announce to you Beforehand. Seven leagues distant are the Swedes; 5 At Neustadt did Max Piccolomini Throw himself on them w...

165. Chapter 165

Prose in Rhyme: Or, / Epigrams, Moralities, and Things / Without a Name [75] Mottoes:-- Ἔρωϛ ἀεὶ λάληθρος ἑταῖρος. In many ways does the full heart reveal The presence of the lo...

91. Chapter 91

_Illo._ Caraffa too, and Montecuculi, 15 Are missing, with six other Generals, All whom he had induced to follow him. This plot he has long had in writing by him From the Empero...

99. Chapter 99

Halt, children, halt! There's some mistake in this; Hark!--I will punish it severely. Stop! 10 They do not hear. (_To ILLO._) Go after them, assure them, And bring them back to...

116. Chapter 116

_Butler._ Find me twelve strong dragoons, arm them with pikes, For there must be no firing---- Conceal them somewhere near the banquet-room, And soon as the dessert is served up...

129. Chapter 129

126. Chapter 126

128. Chapter 128

121. Chapter 121

_Thekla._ His spirit 'tis that calls me: 'tis the troop Of his true followers, who offered up Themselves to avenge his death: and they accuse me Of an ignoble loitering--they wo...

26. Chapter 26

[225] spikes] strikes Sibylline Leaves, 1817. [_Note._ It is possible that 'strikes'--a Somersetshire word--(compare 'strikes of flax') was deliberately substituted for 'spikes'...

102. Chapter 102

_Wallenstein (to Tertsky)._ Have the cannon planted. I will receive them with chain-shot. [_Exit TERTSKY._ 5 Prescribe to me with sword in hand! Go, Neumann! 'Tis my command tha...

110. Chapter 110

_Tertsky._ A countryman from Tirschenseil conveyed it. 5 Soon after sunrise did the fight begin! A troop of the Imperialists from Fachau Had forced their way into the Swedish ca...

84. Chapter 84

_Countess (watching them from the opposite side)._ So you have nothing, niece, to ask me? Nothing? I have been waiting for a word from you. And could you then endure in all this...

94. Chapter 94

_Countess Tertsky (enters from a side room)._ I can endure no longer. No! [_Looks around her._ Where are they? No one is here. They leave me all alone, Alone in this sore anguis...

115. Chapter 115

_Butler (alone)._ I treasured my good name all my life long; The Duke has cheated me of life's best jewel, So that I blush before this poor weak Gordon! He prizes above all his...

62. Chapter 62

_Illo._ O, quite cordial, They are quite cordial in the scheme. We have them. And 'tis as I predicted too. Already It is the talk, not merely to maintain The Duke in station. 'S...

72. Chapter 72

_Tertsky._ All on his road for Regenspurg to the Swede He was plunged down upon by Galas' agent, Who had been long in ambush, lurking for him. There must have been found on him...

76. Chapter 76

127. Chapter 127

_Countess Tertsky (with a light)._ Her bed-chamber is empty; she herself Is no where to be found! The Neubrunn too, Who watched by her, is missing. If she should Be flown--But w...

16. Chapter 16

61. Chapter 61

_Tertsky (beckons to Neumann who is waiting at the side-table, and steps forward with him to the edge of the stage)._ Have you the copy with you, Neumann? Give it. It may be cha...

107. Chapter 107

_Butler._ Here then he is, by his destiny conducted. Here, Friedland! and no farther! From Bohemia Thy meteor rose, traversed the sky awhile, And here upon the borders of Bohemi...

2. Chapter 2

1800 THE PICCOLOMINI; or, THE FIRST PART OF WALLENSTEIN. A Drama translated from the German of Schiller. Preface to the First Edition 598 The Piccolomini 600 THE DEATH OF WALLEN...

149. Chapter 149

_OLD BATHORY, a Mountaineer._ _BETHLEN BATHORY, the young Prince Andreas, supposed son of Old BATHORY._ _LORD RUDOLPH, a Courtier, but friend to the Queen's party._ _LASKA, Stew...

88. Chapter 88

155. Chapter 155

_Martyr'd patriots--spirits pure Wept by the good ye fell! Yet still survives_ Sow'd by your toil and by your blood manur'd 75 Th' imperishable seed, soon to become The Tree, be...

105. Chapter 105

97. Chapter 97

173. Chapter 173

lines 11-12 me--/talk lines 23-24 pre/cedence lines 25-26 permission--/Good lines 44-45 com/plaint lines 46-47 Chaly/beate lines 59-60 Mara/das lines 65-66 com/pliment!--For lin...

172. Chapter 172

lines 5-6 splen/did lines 15-16 Tie/fenbach lines 31-32 tale-/bearers lines 34-35 gold.--/And lines 58-59 Rudolph--/a [moved up] lines 99-100 Fron/tignac!--Snapped lines 111-112...

167. Chapter 167

163. Chapter 163

147. Chapter 147

132. Chapter 132

29. Chapter 29

133. Chapter 133

164. Chapter 164