Appendix: Southey and Lloyd MS versions of "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" in Parallel Texts Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles Rzepka Romantic Circles General Editor, Neil Fraistat General Editor, Steven E. Jones Technical Editor Laura Mandell 2010-10-15 4 kb poetryEEd.28appendix Romantic Circles, http://www.rc.umd.edu, University of Maryland College Park, MD October 20, 2010

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 Version 1: Southey Version of This Lime-Tree Bower, from the Griggs edition of Coleridge's letters, sent Monday, 17 July 1797, from Alfoxden, where Coleridge was visiting the Wordsworths, whom he had helped settle in that location three days before, the same day that Charles Lamb left for home. In this version, Sara Fricker is addressed as "Sister." Sara is, however, not included in the walking party in Coleridge's introductory epistolary paragraph. According to Griggs (I.195, fn 1), the Wordsworths arrived at Nether Stowey from Racedown on 2 July; Sara spilled the hot milk on C's foot on 4 July; and Charles Lamb arrived at Nether Stowey on 7 July, staying until 14 July, the day the Wordsworths moved into Alfoxden. The paragraph introducing the poem in Coleridge's letter reads as follows: Charles Lamb has been with me for a week—he left me Friday morning [7/14].—- / The second day after Wordsworth came to me dear Sara accidentally emptied a skillet of boiling milk on my foot, which confined me during the whole time of C. Lamb's stay & still prevents me from all walks longer than a furlong.— While Wordsworth, his Sister, & C. Lamb were out one evening; / sitting in the arbour of T. Poole's garden, which communicates with mine, I wrote these lines, with which I am pleased—— Version 2: Lloyd Version of This Lime-Tree Bower, sent to Charles Lloyd, ca. July 1797 (?) (evidence for dating not apparent). To judge from regularization of orthography and punctuation ("&" to "and"; dashes to commas, periods, semi-colons; etc.), fewer strikethroughs and revisions, and better conformity to the final published version of 1800, this seems to be a copy of Southey's, or a version following Southey's. In this version, "Sara" is substituted for the word "Sister" in the Southey version. This transcription comes from the original in the Berg Collection, NYPL. Text missing from torn sections is indicated in brackets and boldface, interpolated from the Southey version or the first published version in The Annual Anthology, 1800, as modified by demands of grammatical consistency (e.g., in fourth to last line). Southey and Lloyd MS versions of "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" in Parallel Texts Samuel Taylor Coleridge Appendix to "Thoughts in Prison" William Dodd Charles Rzepka Romantic Circles at the University of Maryland College Park Maryland October 20, 2010

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Southey MS Lloyd MS

Editor's note: First page, interior of multi-folded letter, which has a long strip partially torn off along most of the space furthest right of the folds, leaving the upper two inches or so intact.

At top of page, one line of the end of what looks like a note about "Ferns," perhaps last line of a note begun at the bottom of the page, a portion now missing, meant as citation for the asterisk before "foliage" in the text. A long solid line underscores this first line at the top, and then the poem begins.

the Ferns in high & dry situations are branchy. _____________________________________________ Well — , they are gone ; ! and here must I remain, Lam'd by the scathe of fire, lonely and faint, This lime-tree bower my prison. Prison. They, meantime, My friends, whom I may never meet again, On springy* Coleridge's note: *elastic I mean springey heath, Heath, along the hill-top edge Edge Wand'ring well-pleased, look down on grange or dell [ ] Or deep fantastic that deep gloomy Rift, where many an Ash Wander delighted, Delighted wander, and look down, perchance, On that same rifted Dell, where many an the wet Ash Twists it's wild limbs beside above the ferny rock , Whose plumy plumey ferns **Coleridge's note: **the ferns, that grow in moist places, grow five or six together & form a complete 'Prince of Wales's Feather'- i.e. plumey.— [See note to Lloyd letter, top line of page 1, "ferns" and "branchey"— Ed.] for ever nod and drip Spray'd by the waterfall. But chiefly thou, My gentle-hearted Charles! thou, Thou, who hast pin'd And hunger'd after Nature nature many a year, In the great City pent, winning thy Thy way, With sad yet bowed soul, thro' evil and pain And strange calamity . —- ! Ah slowly sink Behind the western ridge ; , thou glorious Sun! Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orb, Orb, Ye purple Heath-flowers! Heath flowers! Richlier burn, ye Clouds! Live in the yellow Light, light, ye distant Groves! And kindle, Thou blue Ocean! So my Friend Struck with joy's deepest calm, and gazing round deep calm may stand, as I have stood, [ ] Silent, with swimming sense; yea, gazing round On the wide view,+Coleridge's note: +You remember, I am a Berkleian.— may gaze landscape, gaze till all doth seem Less gross than bodily , — a living Thing That acts acts upon the mind, and with such hues As cloathe the Almighty Spirit, when he makes Spirits perceive His his presence! — A Delight                                                           A Delight [ ] Comes sudden on my heart, and I am glad As I myself were there! Nor in this bower, Want I sweet sounds or pleasing shapes. This little lime-tree bower, have I not seen [ ] Much that has sooth'd me. Pale beneath the Light                                                           I watch'd Hung the transparent foliage; and I watch'd [ ] Many a sunny leaf, and lov'd to see The sunshine of each broad transparent Leaf The shadow of the Leaf and lov'd to mark Broke by the shadows of the Leaf or Stem The shadow of the Leaf & Stem above Which hung above it: Dappling it's sunshine! and And that Wall-nut wall-nut Tree Was richly-ting'd: and a deep radiance lay Full on the ancient ivy Ivy, which usurps Those fronting elms, and now, with blackest mass m[ass] Makes their dark foliage gleam a lighter hue Makes their dark *foliage gleam a lighter hue Thro' the last late twilight: Twilight: and tho' the rapid bat Bat Wheels silent by ,  and not a swallow twitters, Yet still the solitary humble-bee Humble-bee Sings in the bean-flower.— Henceforth I shall know k[now]Editor's note: The next line, beginning apparently with the capital letter "T," is cut or torn off from the bottom of the page. Four lines are written as a separate group, lengthwise perpendicular to rest of text, into the right-hand margin, at the top of the page, in a different hand. The beginnings of all four of these lines are missing, from the page margin having been torn vertically up to this point, and then off to the right. Professor Andrew Stauffer suggests that whoever clipped the signature from the bottom of the page overleaf realized s/he was mutilating the poem on this side, and restored the missing lines in the upper margin of the first page. That nature ne'er deserts the [That nature ne'er de]serts the wise Wise & and pure; No scene so narrow, but [No waste so vacant, but] may well employ Each faculty of sense, and [Each faculty of sense, and] keep the Heart Awake to Love & Beauty: [Awake to Love and Beauty!] and sometimes Editor's note: Overleaf: At center of page, addressed to "Charles Lloyd Junior/Birmingham" with postmark "Bridgewater." 'Tis well to be bereav'd bereft of promis'd good, Good, That we may lift the soul, & and contemplate With lively joy Joy the joys , we cannot share. My Sister, Sara, & and my Friends! when the last Rook Beat it's straight path along the dusky Air Homewards, I bless'd it ; — deeming, it's black wing Wing Had cross'd the flood orb and blaze of setting day Had cross'd the mighty Orb's dilated Blaze Cross'd, like a speck, the blaze of setting day, While ye [While ye] stood gazing; or, when all was still, Flew creaking [Flew creakin]g o'er your heads, and had a charm For you, my Sister [For you, my] Sara & my Friends! to whom No sound is [No sound is] dissonant, which tells of Life ! . S. T. Coleridge [ ] observe the 'creek! creek! creek! which the Editor's note: Note at bottom of page—partially torn [ ] with it's wings, I believe)—when flying high [R]emember me with the best [illegible] of Editor's note: Farewell at bottom of page—partially torn [ ] to her, whom you love—& believe [ ]ver Editor's note: Closing and signature seem to be missing—cut out by a collector? James Dykes Campbell, in his Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London: Macmillan, 1893) notes of the poem's series of revisions, on page 592: "The text of the Annual Anthology [1800, the poem's first appearance in print] differs hardly at all from that of 1829 [a collected edition in three volumes], but at some date unknown to me Coleridge took a pen and, in his own copy [of the 1829 edition], reduced the poem, practically, to its original version as sent to Lloyd [i.e., Version 2 of this parallel edition]."