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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
  
LINES WRITTEN DURING THE CASTLEREAGH ADMINISTRATION
  
SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND
  
SIMILES FOR TWO POLITICAL CHARACTERS OF 1819
  
FRAGMENT: TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND
  
FRAGMENT: ‘WHAT MEN GAIN FAIRLY’
  
A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM
  
SONNET: ENGLAND IN 1819
  
AN ODE
  
ODE TO HEAVEN
  
ODE TO THE WEST WIND
  
AN EXHORTATION
  
THE INDIAN SERENADE
  
TO SOPHIA [MISS STACEY]
  
TO WILLIAM SHELLEY
  
TO WILLIAM SHELLEY
  
TO MARY SHELLEY
  
TO MARY SHELLEY
  
ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY
  
LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY
  
FRAGMENT: ‘FOLLOW TO THE DEEP WOOD'S WEEDS’
  
THE BIRTH OF PLEASURE
  
FRAGMENT: LOVE THE UNIVERSE TO-DAY
  
FRAGMENT: ‘A GENTLE STORY OF TWO LOVERS YOUNG’
  
FRAGMENT: LOVE'S TENDER ATMOSPHERE
  
FRAGMENT: WEDDED SOULS
  
FRAGMENT: ‘IS IT THAT IN SOME BRIGHTER SPHERE’
  
FRAGMENT: SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY
  
FRAGMENT: ‘YE GENTLE VISITATIONS OF CALM THOUGHT’
  
FRAGMENT: MUSIC AND SWEET POETRY
  
FRAGMENT: THE SEPULCHRE OF MEMORY
  
FRAGMENT: ‘WHEN A LOVER CLASPS HIS FAIREST’
  
FRAGMENT: ‘WAKE THE SERPENT NOT’
  
FRAGMENT: RAIN
  
FRAGMENT: A TALE UNTOLD
  
FRAGMENT: TO ITALY
  
FRAGMENT: WINE OF THE FAIRIES
  
FRAGMENT: A ROMAN'S CHAMBER
  
FRAGMENT: ROME AND NATURE
  
VARIATION OF THE SONG OF THE MOON
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1820
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1821
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1822
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TRANSLATIONS
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JUVENILIA

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FRAGMENT: THOUGHTS COME AND GO IN SOLITUDE

My thoughts arise and fade in solitude,
The verse that would invest them melts away
Like moonlight in the heaven of spreading day:
How beautiful they were, how firm they stood,
Flecking the starry sky like woven pearl!
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