The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

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by  Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Complete Poetry of
Percy Bysshe Shelley
v o lDu m e t w o
edited by
Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat
The Johns Hopkins University Press
baltimore and london
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isbn0-8018-7874-8
All of the illustrations in this volume are used with the kind
permission of The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and
HisCircle, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox
andTildenFoundations.
Endpapers:Left to right: Cover and spine of The Esdaile Notebookand
Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: with Notes. (1813)
Frontispiece:“To Harriet,” the first poem in The Esdaile Notebookand,
revised, used as the dedication to Queen Mab
For
Hélène Dworzan (Reiman)
For she was beautiful—her beauty made
The bright world dim, and every thing beside
Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade:
The Witch ofAtlas
For
Pamela Wessling
Lamp of Earth! where’er thou movest
Its dim shapes are clad with brightness
And the souls of whom thou lovest
Walk upon the winds with lightness . . .
Prometheus Unbound
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Contents of Volume Two
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Editorial Overview xvii
Abbreviations xxxvii
TEXTS
The Esdaile Notebook 3
[Esd#1] To Harriet (“Whose is the love”) 7
[Esd#2] A sabbath Walk 8
[Esd#3] The Crisis 10
[Esd#4] Passion | (to the 11
[Esd#5] To Harriet (“Never, O never, shall yonder Sun”) 13
[Esd#6] Falshood and Vice | a Dialogue 14
[Esd#7] To the Emperors of Russia and Austria | who eyed the
battle of Austerlitz from the heights whilst Buonaparte
was active in the thickest of the fight 20
[Esd#8] To November 22
[Esd#9] Written on a beautiful day in Spring 23
[Esd#10] On leaving London for Wales. 24
[Esd#11] A winter’s day 27
[Esd#12] To Liberty 29
[Esd#13] On Robert Emmet’s tomb 31
[Esd#14] a Tale of Society as it is | from facts 1811 32
Supplement: Version in Letter to Hitchener, 7January 1812 39
[Esd#15] The solitary 1810 41
[Esd#16] The Monarch’s funeral| An Anticipation | 1810 42
[Esd#17] To the Republicans of North America 45
Supplement: Version in Letter to Hitchener, 14February 1812 48
[Esd#18] Written at Cwm Ellan 1811 49
[Esd#19] To Death 50
Supplement: Version in Hogg Manuscript, ca. 1810 54
[Esd#20] “Dark Spirit of the desart rude” 55
[Esd#21] “The pale, the cold and the moony smile” 57
[Esd#22] “Death-spurning rocks!” 59
[Esd#23] The Tombs 60
[Esd#24] To Harriet (“It is not blasphemy to hope”) 61
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[Esd#25] Sonnet: To Harriet | on her birth day, August 1, 1812 64
[Esd#26] Sonnet: To a balloon, laden with Knowledge 65
[Esd#27] Sonnet: On launching some bottles filled with Knowledge
into the Bristol Channel. 66
[Esd#28] Sonnet: On waiting for a wind to cross the Bristol Channel
from Devonshire to Wales. 66
[Esd#29] To Harriet (“Harriet! thy kiss to my soul is dear”) 67
[Esd#30] Mary to the Sea-Wind 68
[Esd#31] A retrospect of Times of Old 69
[Esd#32] The Voyage | A Fragment | Devonshire—August 1812 73
[Esd#33] A Dialogue—1809 84
Supplement: Version in Hogg Manuscript, ca. 1810 88
[Esd#34] 1810(“How eloquent are eyes!”) 89
Supplement: Version in Letter to Hogg, 18–19June 1811 91
[Esd#35] 1810(“Hopes that bud in youthful breasts”) 91
Supplement: Version in Letter to Hogg, 18–19June 1811 92
[Esd#36] September 23, 1809(“Moonbeam! leave the shadowy dale”) 93
Supplement: To the Moonbeamin Letter to Hogg, 17May 1811 94
[Poems about Mary]
Advertisement 95
[Esd#37] To Mary I 96
[Esd#38] To Mary II 97
[Esd#39] To Mary III 98
[Esd#40] To the Lover of Mary 100
[Esd#41] 1810(“Dares the Lama, most fleet”) 101
Supplement: Version in Letter to Hogg, 20April 1811 104
[Esd#42] 1809(“I will kneel at thine altar”) 105
[Esd#43] Fragment of a Poem, | the original idea of which was
suggested by the cowardly and infamous bombardment
of Copenhagen 106
Supplement: Version in Letter to Hogg, 11January 1811 108
[Esd#44] 1809| On an Icicle that clung to the grass of a grave 109
Supplement: Version in Letter to Hogg, 6January 1811 110
[Esd#45] 1808(“Cold are the Blasts”) 111
Supplement: Version in Hogg Manuscript, Late October or
November 1810 114
[Esd#46] 1809| Henry and Louisa | a Poem in two parts
The Parting | Part the First. | Scene—England 116
The Meeting | Part Second 124
[Esd#47] A Translation of | The Marsellois Hymn 131
Supplement: Stanza Included in Letter to Graham, ca. 19June 1811 134
[Esd#48] Written in very early youth 134
[Esd#49] Zeinab and Kathema 135
[Esd#50] The Retrospect. | Cwm Elan 1812 143
[Esd#51] The wandering Jew’s soliloquy 149
[Esd#52] To Ianthe. OctSeptr1813 150
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[Esd#53] Evening—to Harriet. Sep. 1813 151
[Esd#54] To Harriett (“Thy look of love”) 151
[Esd#55] “Full many a mind” 153
[Esd#56] May 1813: To Harriet ......... 153
[Esd#57] “Late was the night” 155
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[Esd#58] Febry28th1806— To St Irvyne 157
Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: with Notes. 159
To Harriett * * * * * [dedicatory poem] 164
Canto I 165
Canto II 173
Canto III 181
Canto IV 189
Canto V 197
Canto VI 205
Canto VII 213
Canto VIII 222
Canto IX 230
Notes. [Shelley’s Notes to Queen Mab] 239
Note 1(I.242–43) 239
Note 2(I.252–53) 239
Note 3(IV.178–79) 240
Note 4(V.1–2) 246
Note 5(V.4–6) 246
Note 6(V.58) 247
Note 7(V.93–94) 248
Note 8(V.112–13) 251
Note 9(V.189) 251
Note 10(VI.45–46) 255
Note 11(VI.171–73) 257
Note 12(VI.198) 258
Note 13(VII.13) 263
Note 14(VII.67) 278
Note 15(VII.135–36) 284
Note 16(VIII.203–7) 294
Note 17(VIII.211–12) 295
COMMENTARIES
The Esdaile Notebook 317
Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: with Notes. 491
Shelley’s Notes to Queen Mab 595
Contents ofVolume Two ix