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XXIV.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edited by Harry Buxton Forman | In Four Volumes Volume I. [II. III. IV.] London | Reeves and Turner 196 Strand | 1876.

XXV.

The Complete | Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Text carefully revised with Notes and A Memoir, | by | William Michael Rossetti. | In Three Volumes. | Vol. I. [II. III.] London: E. Moxon, Son, And Co., | Dorset Buildings, Salisbury Square, E.C. |

1878.

XXVI.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Given from His Own Editions and Other Authentic Sources | Collated with many Manuscripts and with all Editions of Authority | Together with Prefaces and Notes | His Poetical Translations and Fragments | and an Appendix of | Juvenilia | [Publisher's Device.] Edited by Harry Buxton Forman | In Two Volumes. | Volume I. [II.] London | Reeves and Turner, 196, Strand | 1882.

XXVII.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edited by | Edward Dowden | London | Macmillan and Co., Limited | New York: The Macmillan Company | 1900.

XXVIII.

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edited with a Memoir by H. Buxton Forman In Five Volumes [Publisher's Device.] Vol. I. (II. III. IV. V.] London | George Bell and Sons | 1892.

XXIX.

The Complete Poetical Works | of Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Text newly collated and revised | and Edited with a Memoir and Notes By George Edward Woodberry | Centenary Edition | In Four Volumes Volume I. [II. III. IV.] [Publisher's Device.] London | Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. | Limited | 1893.

XXX.

An Examination of the Shelley Manuscripts In the Bodleian Library Being a collation thereof with the printed | texts, resulting in the publication of several long fragments hitherto unknown, | and the introduction of many improved readings into Prometheus Unbound, and other poems, by | C. D. Locock, B.A. | Oxford | At the Clarendon Press | 1903.

The early poems from the Esdaile MS. book, which are included in this edition by the kind permission of the owner of the volume, Charles E. J. Esdaile, Esq., appeared for the first time in Professor Dowden's Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in the year 1887.

One poem from the same volume, entitled The Wandering Jew's Soliloquy, was printed in one of the Shelley Society Publications (Second Series, No. 12), a reprint of The Wandering Jew, edited by Mr. Bertram Dobell, in 1887.

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Ah! faint are her limbs, and her footstep is weary
Ah! grasp the dire dagger and couch the fell spear
Ah! quit me not yet, for the wind whistles shrill
Ah, sister! Desolation is a delicate thing.

Ah! sweet is the moonbeam that sleeps on yon fountain
Alas! for Liberty!

Alas, good friend, what profit can you see

Alas! this is not what I thought life was

Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurled
Amid the desolation of a city

Among the guests who often stayed

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king

And can'st thou mock mine agony, thus calm
And earnest to explore within-around
And ever as he went he swept a lyre.
And, if my grief should still be dearer to me
And like a dying lady, lean and pale
And many there were hurt by that strong boy
And Peter Bell, when he had been
And said I that all hope was fled

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And that I walk thus proudly crowned withal
And the cloven waters like a chasm of mountains

And when the old man saw that on the green

And where is truth? On tombs? for such to thee

And who feels discord now or sorrow?

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Ask not the pallid stranger's woe
At the creation of the Earth

Away! the moor is dark beneath the moon

Bear witness, Erin! when thine injured isle
Before those cruel Twins, whom at one birth
Beside the dimness of the glimmering sea
Best and brightest, come away!.
Break the dance, and scatter the song

Bright ball of flame that through the gloom of even
Bright clouds float in heaven

Bright wanderer, fair coquette of Heaven

Brothers! between you and me

'Buona notte, buona notte!'-Come mai

By the mossy brink

Chameleons feed on light and air

Cold, cold is the blast when December is howling

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Dares the lama, most fleet of the sons of the wind
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude

Darkness has dawned in the East

Daughters of Jove, whose voice is melody

Dear home, thou scene of earliest hopes and joys
Dearest, best and brightest.

Death is here and death is there.

Death! where is thy victory?

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Follow to the deep wood's weeds

For me, my friend, if not that tears did tremble
For my dagger is bathed in the blood of the brave

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For your letter, dear [Hattie], accept my best thanks.
From all the blasts of heaven thou hast descended
From the cities where from caves

From the ends of the earth, from the ends of the earth
From the forests and highlands

From unremembered ages we

Gather, O gather.

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Ghosts of the dead! have I not heard your yelling
God prosper, speed, and save

Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill

Great Spirit whom the sea of boundless thought
Guido, I would that Lapo, thou, and I

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

Hail to thee, Cambria! for the unfettered wind.
Hark! the owlet flaps her wing

Hark! the owlet flaps his wings

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Hast thou not seen, officious with delight

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He came like a dream in the dawn of life

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He wanders, like a day-appearing dream

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Hell is a city much like London.

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Here I sit with my paper, my pen and

Her hair was brown, her sphered eyes were brown
Her voice did quiver as we parted

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'Here lieth One whose name was writ on water

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His face was like a snake's-wrinkled and loose.

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Honey from silkworms who can gather

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Hopes, that swell in youthful breasts .

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How eloquent are eyes.

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How, my dear Mary,—are you critic-bitten.

How stern are the woes of the desolate mourner.

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How sweet it is to sit and read the tales
How swiftly through Heaven's wide expanse
How wonderful is Death

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I am afraid these verses will not please you, but.

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for Adonais-he is dead!.

I went into the deserts of dim sleep
I would not be a king-enough
If gibbets, axes, confiscations, chains
If I esteemed you less, Envy would kill
If I walk in Autumn's even

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In the cave which wild weeds cover
In the sweet solitude of this calm place
Inter marmoreas Leonorae pendula colles
Is it that in some brighter sphere
Is it the Eternal Triune, is it He.
Is not to-day enough? Why do I peer
It is not blasphemy to hope that Heaven
It is the day when all the sons of God
It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky
It was a bright and cheerful afternoon
Kissing Helena, together

Let there be light! said Liberty.
Let those who pine in pride or in revenge
Life of Life! thy lips enkindle

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Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Like the ghost of a dear friend dead.
Listen, listen, Mary mine

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