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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

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II.

ALASTOR OR THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE

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THE REVOLT OF ISLAM

DEDICATION TO MARY --- ---

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III.

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VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

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PRINCE ATHANASE

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II.

ROSALIND AND HELEN

JULIAN AND MADDALO

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PROMETHEUS UNBOUND

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II.

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III.

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II.

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III.

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IV.

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III.

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V.

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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

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I.

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II.

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II.

PASSAGES OF THE POEM, OR CONNECTED THEREWITH

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PROLOGUE TO HELLAS

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FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED DRAMA

Scene.—Before the Cavern of the Indian Enchantress.

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CHARLES THE FIRST

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III.

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V.

THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE

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STANZA, WRITTEN AT BRACKNELL

STANZAS.—April, 1814

TO MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN

A SUMMER EVENING CHURCHYARD

FEELINGS OF A REPUBLICAN ON THE FALL OF BONAPARTE

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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1816

HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY

FRAGMENT OF A GHOST STORY

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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1817

MARIANNE'S DREAM

TO CONSTANTIA, SINGING

FRAGMENT: TO ONE SINGING

A FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC

ANOTHER FRAGMENT TO MUSIC

‘MIGHTY EAGLE’

TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR

TO WILLIAM SHELLEY

FROM THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF THE POEM TO WILLIAM SHELLEY

ON FANNY GODWIN

FRAGMENTS SUPPOSED TO BE PARTS OF OTHO

‘O THAT A CHARIOT OF CLOUD WERE MINE’

FRAGMENT: TO A FRIEND RELEASED FROM PRISON

FRAGMENT: SATAN BROKEN LOOSE

FRAGMENT: IGNICULUS DESIDERII

FRAGMENT: AMOR AETERNUS

FRAGMENT: THOUGHTS COME AND GO IN SOLITUDE

LINES TO A CRITIC

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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1818

PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES

ON A FADED VIOLET

LINES WRITTEN AMONG THE EUGANEAN HILLS

SCENE FROM ‘TASSO’

SONG FOR ‘TASSO’

INVOCATION TO MISERY

THE WOODMAN AND THE NIGHTINGALE

FRAGMENT: TO BYRON

FRAGMENT: APOSTROPHE TO SILENCE

FRAGMENT: THE LAKE'S MARGIN

FRAGMENT: ‘MY HEAD IS WILD WITH WEEPING’

FRAGMENT: THE VINE-SHROUD

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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

ODE TO THE WEST WIND

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: 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

THE SENSITIVE PLANT

A VISION OF THE SEA

SONG OF PROSERPINE

THE TWO SPIRITS: AN ALLEGORY

AUTUMN: A DIRGE

THE WANING MOON

SUMMER AND WINTER

THE TOWER OF FAMINE

THE WORLD'S WANDERERS

LINES TO A REVIEWER

FRAGMENT OF A SATIRE ON SATIRE

FRAGMENT: THE DESERTS OF DIM SLEEP

FRAGMENT: ‘THE VIEWLESS AND INVISIBLE CONSEQUENCE’

FRAGMENT: A SERPENT-FACE

FRAGMENT: DEATH IN LIFE

FRAGMENT: ‘SUCH HOPE, AS IS THE SICK DESPAIR OF GOOD’

FRAGMENT: ‘ALAS! THIS IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT LIFE WAS’

FRAGMENT: MILTON'S SPIRIT

FRAGMENT: ‘UNRISEN SPLENDOUR OF THE BRIGHTEST SUN’

FRAGMENT: PATER OMNIPOTENS

FRAGMENT: TO THE MIND OF MAN

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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1821

DIRGE FOR THE YEAR

FROM THE ARABIC: AN IMITAION

TO EMILIA VIVIANI

LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON

SONNET: POLITICAL GREATNESS

TO EDWARD WILLIAMS

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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EVENING: PONTE AL MARE, PISA

THE BOAT ON THE SERCHIO

SONNET TO BYRON

FRAGMENT ON KEATS

FRAGMENT: ‘METHOUGHT I WAS A BILLOW IN THE CROWD’

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: ‘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

THE MAGNETIC LADY TO HER PATIENT

LINES: ‘WHEN THE LAMP IS SHATTERED’

TO JANE: THE INVITATION

TO JANE: THE RECOLLECTION

THE PINE FOREST OF THE CASCINE NEAR PISA

WITH A GUITAR, TO JANE

TO JANE: ‘THE KEEN STARS WERE TWINKLING’

LINES WRITTEN IN THE BAY OF LERICI

LINES: ‘WE MEET NOT AS WE PARTED’

FRAGMENT: TO THE MOON

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HYMN TO MERCURY

HOMER'S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX

HOMER'S HYMN TO THE MOON

HOMER'S HYMN TO THE SUN

HOMER'S HYMN TO THE EARTH: MOTHER OF ALL

HOMER'S HYMN TO MINERVA

HOMER'S HYMN TO VENUS

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II.

II.—KISSING HELENA

III.

III.—SPIRIT OF PLATO

IV.

IV.—CIRCUMSTANCE

FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF ADONIS

FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION

FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS

PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR

FROM VERGIL'S TENTH ECLOGUE

FROM VERGIL'S FOURTH GEORGIC

THE FIRST CANZONE OF THE CONVITO

MATILDA GATHERING FLOWERS

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SCENES FROM THE MAGICO PRODIGIOSO

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II.

III.

STANZAS FROM CALDERON'S CISMA DE INGLATERRA

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SCENES FROM THE FAUST OF GOETHE

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VII.

VIII.

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VERSES ON A CAT

FRAGMENT: OMENS

TO THE MOONBEAM

EYES: A FRAGMENT

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ORIGINAL POETRY BY VICTOR AND CAZIRE

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II.

II To Miss ------ [Harriet Grove] From Miss ------ [Elizabeth Shelley]

III.

IV.

V.

V. SONG DESPAIR

VI.

VI. SONG SORROW

VII.

VIII.

VIII. SONG Translated from the Italian

IX.

IX. SONG Translated from the German

X.

X THE IRISHMAN'S SONG

XI.

XII.

XII. SONG To --- [Harriet]

XIII.

XIII. SONG To --- [Harriet]

XIV.

XIV SAINT EDMOND'S EVE

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XVI.

XVII.

XVII. FRAGMENT, OR THE TRIUMPH OF CONSCIENCE

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POEMS FROM ST. IRVYNE, OR, THE ROSICRUCIAN

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II.

II.—‘On the Dark Height of Jura’

III.

III.—Sister Rosa: A Ballad

IV.

IV.—St. Irvyne's Tower

V.

V.—Bereavement

VI.

VI.—The Drowned Lover

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POSTHUMOUS FRAGMENTS OF MARGARET NICHOLSON

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THE SPECTRAL HORSEMAN

MELODY TO A SCENE OF FORMER TIMES

STANZA FROM A TRANSLATION OF THE MARSEILLAISE HYMN

BIGOTRY'S VICTIM

ON AN ICICLE THAT CLUNG TO THE GRASS OF A GRAVE

ON A FÊTE AT CARLTON HOUSE: FRAGMENT

TO MARY WHO DIED IN THIS OPINION

A TALE OF SOCIETY AS IT IS: FROM FACTS, 1811

TO THE REPUBLICANS OF NORTH AMERICA

ON ROBERT EMMET'S GRAVE

THE RETROSPECT: CWM ELAN, 1812

FRAGMENT OF A SONNET

THE DEVIL'S WALK

FRAGMENT OF A SONNET

ON LEAVING LONDON FOR WALES

THE WANDERING JEW'S SOLILOQUY

SONG FROM THE WANDERING JEW

FRAGMENT FROM THE WANDERING JEW

TO THE QUEEN OF MY HEART

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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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792-1822

The Clarendon Press

Oxford

1904