New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-09


And sure feel my angry guest -
Fluttering his wings within my breast
The third. addressed 10 Il fictitious Jnlia, reads
like a rcmonstrance against MarNs coming mar
riagc. II is \ lovers complaint I" MS mistress
who deserted him in quest of hiorr wealthy
husband in the East Indies" These pieces were
all written in the year / 1872 Inc next year
Coerdrc. who was forever revising lll- flncics,
tool, a new and moro cXtcndcl view OF thc theme
suggested in his Anacrcontic inst quoted. He
caught Love in rose And placed him Gagged
within the flower on Spotlcss Sara breast. Do
Poetical ideas that would do for on" sweetheart
would do as well for another apparently. Mean
while, at a critical point in his life, Colerdsc
had acted so as to strengthen the lnd'c''!on II
his character. llcnccforth III l1rs" measure the
will of others would he MS VIII. ht'r II" mad
escaped once ne would mcckly return with
Southcy 70 marry the woman with whom ~ was
10 find companionship a WEAKNESS DrIl'l's
through life, he would hit upon the very wees
that increased and rendered permanent the disease
Of his voliton. vi what was in INN to accom-
plish, he was really to perform only tie mcrcst
fraction.
Mr.. Campbell expresses the conviction that the
undue indulgence in opium began with 'ole-
ridge about tho same time as the estrangcmeni
he does not make it clear what he considers the
relation of the two nisfOituncs - be- or
each, says he, the prcdisposng cause had long
been latent. but whether the quckcnins Of the
one brought the other to fc, and If So which
was cause and which effect it would now be
idle 10 inquire" He adds The winter Of 1901
1902 was the turning point III Colcridscs HE
In the light OF that remark. a copy OF verses
oil IL Inns , fsl
in the following year is of interest. tn" poem
is addressed TO Asra,' an obvious anasram OF
sara. IL runs:
Are there two things, Of all which men possess,
That are so like each other and 50 near,
A. mutual Love seems nix" Ia Happiness
Dear ASrn. woman beyond utier1ncc d'ari
This Love, which rvrr willing at nay nrdrl;
Now in rs living iount doth h"avr and fall,
Now overlooking pour, thro' every part
OF ali my frame an nils ana changes an
Lke vernal waters Nprnging ny ihione9 now
This Love that seeming great beyond the power
OF growth. yet sccmcth ever more 10 grow.
Could transmnic the whole Ia one rich Dover
Of Happy Lf" ana syc IT AL , to IheT' AGO
Eternity
These lines belong 10 III" year 1903 when resi-
dcnce at tircta Hall, that is, with his family. he-
came 10 Colcrdac iHtolcrahle. 10 u~c Nh" wor!
of Mr. Campbell II will hardly he questioned
that they We're meant for Mrs. Co"rdg". But
they seem never = have been cent 10 her. P"F-
haps she was by this time weary of pocticll com
plinents which covered Int did not conceal Oh"
faults in her husband conduct. and the poet with
INDIGESTION allowed time 10 decide
the fate Of the poem Tines" vcrs's. row
printed for the first time" sIys Nj Campbell.
ace mpanc,l manuscript COPY of one oi ole
ridges poems presented 10 friend IN ls"|.
Accidentally or intentionally. they had been
started a-wlndcr.ns. One queries whether There
was not some hope IN the mind Of their author
that they would find IoIn !ahout way 10 tie
heart that frottcd much OVER hiS strange ways
and over the disease Of which he loIily CON-
plaincd but which hc secretly fcl with laudanuia.
Mr. Campbell naturally bciray >amc ."ptic>in
az 10 the wonderful ,torIcs--omc ot 'h'm tod
hy Colcrl.4r hm."!f-of AIs achievements II
Greek al cchool He noto- tho r1"is assertion
that he translated the hymns Of Sync~ins l"iofc
he was fifteen, aud chara 'tcr!,'~ II with the al
verb unhlushingiN' II should b" remembered
whenever men like Colcrlgo q. D. Quincy an"
IN question that no pcr.on Indicted N the ahu~'
Of opium j. capable Of telling III" truth ~ any
cesc where his own personality l. IL" th"inc.
But Mr. Campbell goes into the r"'im 81 IN"
needless when he suppress that Young 'ol"iiI-"
Guided III" Nco-rla'oni-l- lp moan, of laylors
English translation. IN Ito hre, place this trans
laflOn
the Geek itself II j. in Great part. ColcrId-r
says positively. incomprchcnsib'. In ia" -"conl
place. 10 boy ordinarily trained in Latin. ihcfe
was better way. Probably thor WIS not
yolum" of Nco-Pla-oni,t authorship in the library
Of Christi Hospital III Cclciiigr's tim" wh'r"
the creek t"Ni was not accompanied hy Latin
version at once clav and clear. II would not bee
hard 10 trace considerable percentage Of 'ol"- /
1,.'- frfp = In np
works which he must have e"cn N his yo1'h
BESIDES the pieces that boar upon NolcriI''s /
own life there are many other bits of petty. n"
complete. some m"Ic fragments which arc printed |
for the first time in this ;olumc or are noN
cucd after years Of forlctfulncS, from the tomb /
Of newspaper file. Many of th" additions are
worthless; others Of great ntercet for exam
Ne, the two parts OF the po IN, III" Tire Gravts
which were intended 70 prcc'dc tho part' In. |
,go printed in The FrichI" The Greek Gle |
with which Coleridge won the Browne clal at |
Camlrilg" IN 1892 has AT least the valu' %, |
II was not included in the Mtac
'antnhrigicnscS" for the closing years of hc
century and TN" opening dcca c of the
nineteenth, small book printed by Naipv IN |
1910, though the Latin prize poem of Buffer,
lolerdgcs successful competitor for the trn"n
scholarship, il there in all lis loratian GRANDEUR.
md many another not 20 good. The fact Ma,
olcrdgc did not take his degree possibly accounts
ror the omission. The ode wa on the slave tndr
The early versions Of " The Ancient Mariner" aud
If the play Rcmor-r' which was first lSnwn
under the title "Osoro. occupy considerable
place in the book The earliest versions a re- gwen
also Of certain poems for instance, DETECTION an
Ode" addressed TO Wordsworth, which in the
light of later years have a melancholy personal
interest The source Of all In" matcriil is
yivcn But the array Of appendices and rotes
rivcs the book the appearance of an ill-dIg,,tcd
and cause antcipations which are hap
ply found to be unjust.
BYRON AND POLIDORI
from The Pail Mall Gazette.
Eliza Harriet: daughter Of The late Gacano Polion.