The final version of this poem addresses a Lady, while previous versions had addressed Edmund, William, and Sara.  Its first stanza mentions the "New-moon winter-bright," an allusion to the epigraph from the "Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence."  Its line "still I gaze-and with how blank an eye!" is characteristic of its author's concern over his disengagement from his perceptions, a theme prompted by hearing his friend's Ode: Intimations of Immortality.  The seventh stanza opens with the line "Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind" in, FTP, this Coleridge poem des
The final version of this poem addresses a Lady, while previous versions had addressed Edmund, William, and Sara.  Its first stanza mentions the "New-moon winter-bright," an allusion to the epigraph from the "Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence."  Its line "still I gaze-and with how blank an eye!" is characteristic of its author's concern over his disengagement from his perceptions, a theme prompted by hearing his friend's Ode: Intimations of Immortality.  The seventh stanza opens with the line "Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind" in, FTP, this Coleridge poem describing "a grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear."
The final version of this poem addresses a Lady, while previous versions had addressed Edmund, William, and Sara.  
"Dejection: An Ode"