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When Surface talks

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Track 58 on The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol II 
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When Surface talks of other people's worth
He has the weakest memory on earth!
And when his own good deeds he deigns to mention,
His memory still is no whit better grown;
But then he makes up for it, all will own,
By a prodigious talent of invention.

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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol II
  1. 1.
    An Apology for Spencers
  2. 2.
    On a Late Marriage between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître
  3. 3.
    On an Amorous Doctor
  4. 4.
    Of smart pretty Fellows
  5. 5.
    On Deputy ——
  6. 6.
    To be ruled like a Frenchman
  7. 7.
    On Mr. Ross, usually Cognominated Nosy
  8. 8.
    Bob now resolves
  9. 9.
    Say what you will, Ingenious Youth
  10. 10.
    If the guilt of all lying
  11. 11.
    On an Insignificant
  12. 12.
    There comes from old Avaro’s grave
  13. 13.
    On a Slanderer
  14. 14.
    Lines in a German Student’s Album
  15. 15.
    [Hippona]
  16. 16.
    On a Reader of His Own Verses
  17. 17.
    On a Report of a Minister’s Death
  18. 18.
    [Dear Brother Jem]
  19. 19.
    Job’s Luck
  20. 20.
    On the Sickness of a Great Minister
  21. 21.
    [To a Virtuous Oeconomist]
  22. 22.
    [L’Enfant Prodigue]
  23. 23.
    On Sir Rubicund Naso
  24. 24.
    To Mr. Pye
  25. 25.
    [Ninety-Eight]
  26. 26.
    Occasioned by the Former
  27. 27.
    [A Liar by Profession]
  28. 28.
    To a Proud Parent
  29. 29.
    Rufa
  30. 30.
    On a Volunteer Singer
  31. 31.
    Occasioned by the Last
  32. 32.
    Epitaph on Major Dieman
  33. 33.
    On the Above
  34. 34.
    Epitaph on a Bad Man (Three Versions)
  35. 35.
    To a Certain Modern Narcissus
  36. 36.
    To a Critic
  37. 37.
    Always Audible
  38. 38.
    Pondere non Numero
  39. 39.
    The Compliment Qualified
  40. 40.
    What is an Epigram
  41. 41.
    Charles, grave or merry
  42. 42.
    An evil spirit’s on thee, friend
  43. 43.
    Here lies the Devil
  44. 44.
    To One Who Published in Print
  45. 45.
    Scarce any scandal
  46. 46.
    Old Harpy
  47. 47.
    To a Vain Young Lady
  48. 48.
    A Hint to Premiers and First Consuls
  49. 49.
    From me, Aurelia
  50. 50.
    For a House-Dog’s Collar
  51. 51.
    In vain I praise thee, Zoilus
  52. 52.
    Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser
  53. 53.
    Μωροσοφία, or Wisdom in Folly
  54. 54.
    Each Bond-street buck
  55. 55.
    From an Old German Poet
  56. 56.
    On the Curious Circumstance, That in the German
  57. 57.
    Spots in the Sun
  58. 58.
    When Surface talks
  59. 59.
    To my Candle
  60. 60.
    Epitaph on Himself
  61. 61.
    The Taste of the Times
  62. 62.
    On Pitt and Fox
  63. 63.
    An excellent adage
  64. 64.
    Comparative Brevity of Greek and English
  65. 65.
    On the Secrecy of a Certain Lady
  66. 66.
    Motto for a Transparency
  67. 67.
    Money, I’ve heard
  68. 68.
    Modern Critics
  69. 69.
    Written in an Album
  70. 70.
    To a Lady who requested me to Write a Poem upon Nothing
  71. 71.
    Sentimental
  72. 72.
    So Mr. Baker
  73. 73.
    Authors and Publishers
  74. 74.
    The Alternative
  75. 75.
    In Spain, that land
  76. 76.
    Inscription for a Time-piece
  77. 77.
    On the Most Veracious Anecdotist
  78. 78.
    Nothing speaks our mind
  79. 79.
    Epitaph of the Present Year on the Monument of Thomas Fuller
  80. 80.
    My Godmother’s Beard
  81. 81.
    Lines to Thomas Poole
  82. 82.
    To a Well-known Musical Critic
  83. 83.
    To T. Poole: An Invitation
  84. 84.
    Song, To be Sung by the Lovers of all the noble liquors
  85. 85.
    Drinking versus Thinking
  86. 86.
    The Wills of the Wisp
  87. 87.
    To Captain Findlay
  88. 88.
    On Donne’s Poem ‘To a Flea’
  89. 89.
    [Ex Libris S. T. C.]
  90. 90.
    ΕΓΩΕΝΚΑΙΠΑΝ
  91. 91.
    The Bridge Street Committee
  92. 92.
    Nonsense Sapphics
  93. 93.
    To Susan Steele
  94. 94.
    Association of Ideas
  95. 95.
    Verses Trivocular
  96. 96.
    Cholera Cured Before-hand
  97. 97.
    To Baby Bates
  98. 98.
    To a Child
  99. 99.
    Fragments from a Notebook
  100. 100.
    Fragments
  101. 101.
    Over my Cottage
  102. 102.
    [The Night-Mare Death in Life]
  103. 103.
    A Beck in Winter
  104. 104.
    [Not a Critic—But a Judge]
  105. 105.
    [De Profundis Clamavi]
  106. 106.
    Fragment of an Ode on Napoleon
  107. 107.
    Epigram on Kepler
  108. 108.
    [Ars Poetica]
  109. 109.
    Translation of the First Strophe of Pindar’s Second Olympic
  110. 110.
    Translation of a Fragment of Heraclitus
  111. 111.
    Imitated from Aristophanes
  112. 112.
    To Edward Irving
  113. 113.
    [Luther—De Dæmonibus]
  114. 114.
    The Netherlands
  115. 115.
    Elisa: Translated from Claudian
  116. 116.
    Profuse Kindness
  117. 117.
    Napoleon
  118. 118.
    The Three Sorts of Friends
  119. 119.
    Bo-Peep and I Spy—
  120. 120.
    A Simile
  121. 121.
    Baron Guelph of Adelstan. A Fragment
  122. 122.
    An Experiment for a Metre
  123. 123.
    Trochaics
  124. 124.
    The Proper Unmodified Dochmius
  125. 125.
    Iambics
  126. 126.
    Nonsense
  127. 127.
    A Plaintive Movement
  128. 128.
    Nonsense Verses
  129. 129.
    Nonsense (’I wish on earth to sing’)
  130. 130.
    There in some darksome shade’
  131. 131.
    Once again, sweet Willow, wave thee���
  132. 132.
    Songs of Shepherds, and rustical Roundelays’
  133. 133.
    A Metrical Accident
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