Here he sang his witching lays Of that strange Mariner, and what befel, In mystic hour, the Lady Christabel.

And here, what time the Summer's breeze blew free, Came Lamb, the gentle-hearted child of glee; Here Wordsworth came, and wild-eyed Dorothy!

Now, all is silent but the taper light, Which, from these Cottage windows shone at night, Hath streamed afar.

The following year he published the Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and a selection from his grandfather's unpublished notebooks entitled Anima Poetae.

He then spent several years editing and annotating the poetical works of Lord Byron, which were published by John Murray in seven volumes between 1898 and 1903.