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The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems

Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)

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THE DAEMON OF THE WORLD
  
ALASTOR OR THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE
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THE REVOLT OF ISLAM
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PRINCE ATHANASE
  
ROSALIND AND HELEN
  
JULIAN AND MADDALO
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PROMETHEUS UNBOUND
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THE CENCI
  
THE MASK OF ANARCHY
  
PETER BELL THE THIRD
  
LETTER TO MARIA GISBORNE
  
THE WITCH OF ATLAS
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OEDIPUS TYRANNUS OR SWELLFOOT THE TYRANT
  
EPIPSYCHIDION
  
PASSAGES OF THE POEM, OR CONNECTED THEREWITH
  
ADONAIS
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HELLAS
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FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED DRAMA
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CHARLES THE FIRST
  
THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE
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EARLY POEMS
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1816
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1817
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1818
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1819
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1820
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1821
  
DIRGE FOR THE YEAR
  
TO NIGHT
  
TIME
  
LINES
  
FROM THE ARABIC: AN IMITAION
  
TO EMILIA VIVIANI
  
THE FUGITIVES
  
TO ------
  
SONG
  
MUTABILITY
  
LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON
  
SONNET: POLITICAL GREATNESS
  
THE AZIOLA
  
A LAMENT
  
REMEMBRANCE
  
TO EDWARD WILLIAMS
  
TO ------
  
TO ------
  
A BRIDAL SONG
  
EPITHALAMIUM
  
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME
  
LOVE, HOPE, DESIRE, AND FEAR
  
FRAGMENTS WRITTEN FOR HELLAS
  
FRAGMENT: ‘I WOULD NOT BE A KING’
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GINEVRA
  
EVENING: PONTE AL MARE, PISA
  
THE BOAT ON THE SERCHIO
  
MUSIC
  
SONNET TO BYRON
  
FRAGMENT ON KEATS
  
FRAGMENT: ‘METHOUGHT I WAS A BILLOW IN THE CROWD’
  
TO-MORROW
  
STANZA
  
FRAGMENT: A WANDERER
  
FRAGMENT: LIFE ROUNDED WITH SLEEP
  
FRAGMENT: ‘I FAINT, I PERISH WITH MY LOVE!’
  
FRAGMENT: THE LADY OF THE SOUTH
  
FRAGMENT: ZEPHYRUS THE AWAKENER
  
FRAGMENT: RAIN
  
FRAGMENT: ‘WHEN SOFT WINDS AND SUNNY SKIES’
  
FRAGMENT: ‘AND THAT I WALK THUS PROUDLY CROWNED’
  
FRAGMENT: ‘THE RUDE WIND IS SINGING’
  
FRAGMENT: ‘GREAT SPIRIT’
  
FRAGMENT: ‘O THOU IMMORTAL DEITY’
  
FRAGMENT: THE FALSE LAUREL AND THE TRUE
  
FRAGMENT: MAY THE LIMNER
  
FRAGMENT: BEAUTY'S HALO
  
FRAGMENT: ‘THE DEATH KNELL IS RINGING’
  
FRAGMENT: ‘I STOOD UPON A HEAVEN-CLEAVING TURRET’
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1822
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TRANSLATIONS
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JUVENILIA

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FRAGMENT OF A GHOST STORY

A shovel of his ashes took
From the hearth's obscurest nook,
Muttering mysteries as she went.
Helen and Henry knew that Granny
Was as much afraid of Ghosts as any,
And so they followed hard—
But Helen clung to her brother's arm,
And her own spasm made her shake.
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