I take the opportunity of expressing my acknowledgments to Miss K. Schlesinger, Miss De Alberti, and to Signor F. Bianco, for their able and zealous services in the preparation of portions of the volume. On behalf of the publisher I beg to acknowledge the kindness of Captain the Hon. F. L. King Noel, in sanctioning the examination and collation of the MS. of _Beppo_, now in his possession; and of Mrs. Horace Pym of Foxwold Chace, for permitting the portrait of Sheridan by Sir Joshua Reynolds to be reproduced for this volume. ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE. _May_ 5, 1901. CONTENTS OF VOL. IV. Preface to Vol. IV. of the Poems The Prisoner of Chillon. Introduction to _The Prisoner of Chillon_ 3 Sonnet on Chillon 7 Advertisement 9 _The Prisoner of Chillon_ 13 Poems of July-September, 1816. The Dream. Introduction to _The Dream_ 31 _The Dream_. First published, _Prisoner of Chillon, etc._, 1816 33 Darkness. First published, _Prisoner of Chillon, etc._, 1816 42 Churchill's Grave. First published, _Prisoner of Chillon, etc._, 1816 45 Prometheus. First published, _Prisoner of Chillon, etc_., 1816 48 A Fragment. First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 36 51 Sonnet to Lake Leman, First published, _Prisoner of Chillon, etc._, 1816 53 Stanzas to Augusta. First published, _Prisoner of Chillon, etc._, 1816 54 Epistle to Augusta. First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 38-41 57 Lines on hearing that Lady Byron was Ill. First published, 1831 63 MONODY ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. R. B. SHERIDAN. Introduction to _Monody, etc._ 69 _Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan,_ Spoken at Drury Lane Theatre, London 71 Manfred: A Dramatic Poem. Introduction to _Manfred_ 79 _Manfred_ 85 The Lament of Tasso. Introduction to _The Lament of Tasso_ 139 Advertisement 141 _The Lament of Tasso_ 143 Beppo: A Venetian Story.