PREFACE. THE earliest pieces in these "Juvenile and Minor Poems were written before the writer had left school. Between the date of these and of the latest, there is an interval of six and forty years: as much difference, therefore, may be perceived in them as in the different stages of life from boyhood to old age. Some of the earliest appeared in a little volume, published at Bath in the autumn of 1794, with this title: "Poems, containing the Retrospect, &c., by Robert Lovell and Robert Southey, 1795;" and with this motto:— "Minuentur atræ Carmine curæ."- HORACE. At the end of that volume, "Joan of Arc" was announced as to be published by subscription. Others were published at Bristol, 1797, in a single volume, with this motto from Akenside: "Goddess of the lyre! With thee comes Majestic Truth; and, where Truth deigns to come, |