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So we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,

And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a roving
By the light of the moon.

February 28, 1817. 1830.

THE world is a bundle of hay,
Mankind are the asses who pull;
Each tugs it a different way,
And the greatest of all is John Bull.
November 5, 1820.

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STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA

OH, talk not to me of a name great in story;

The days of our youth are the days of our glory;

And the myrtle and ivy of sweet twoand-twenty

Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

What are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled?

'Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew be-sprinkled.

Then away with all such from the head that is hoary!

What care I for the wreaths that can only give glory!

Oh, FAME!-if I e'er took delight in thy praises,

1830.

1 See the note on page 254.

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The hope, the fear, the jealous care.
The exalted portion of the pain
And power of love, I cannot share,
But wear the chain.

But 'tis not thus--and 't is not here— Such thoughts should shake my soul nor now,

Where glory decks the hero's bier,
Or binds his brow.

The sword, the banner, and the field,
Glory and Greece, around me see!
The Spartan, borne upon his shield,
Was not more free.

Awake! (not Greece--she is awake!) Awake, my spirit! Think through whom

Thy life-blood tracks its parent lake,
And then strike home!

Tread those reviving passions down,
Unworthy manhood!-unto thee
Indifferent should the smile or frown
Of beauty be,

If thou regrett'st thy youth, why live?
The land of honorable death
Is here:-up to the field, and give
Away thy breath!

Seek out-less often sought than found→
A soldier's grave, for thee the best;
Then look around, and choose thy ground
And take thy rest.

At Missolonghi, January 22, 1824 October 29, 1824.

LIST OF REFERENCES

EDITIONS

**COMPLETE WORKS, 8 volumes, edited by H. Buxton Forman, 1876'79, new edition, 1882.- POETICAL WORKS, 3 volumes, edited from the original editions by R. H. Shepherd, 1888. -* POETICAL WORKS, 4 volumes, edited by G. E. Woodberry, The Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1892 (Centenary Edition). - POETICAL WORKS, 5 volumes, edited by H. Buxton Forman, 1892 (Aldine Edition). COMPLETE WORKS, 8 volumes, edited by N. H. Dole, 1904 (Laurel Edition). * POETICAL WORKS, 1 volume, edited by Edward Dowden, 1890 (Globe Edition). - * POETICAL WORKS, 1 volume, edited by G. E. Woodberry, 1901 (Cambridge Edition). ** POETICAL WORKS, 1 volume, edited by Thomas Hutchinson, with textual notes and new material, 1904 (Oxford Edition). — *LETTERS, collected and edited by Roger Ingpen, 2 volumes, 1909.

BIOGRAPHY

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MEDWIN (Thomas), Life of Shelley, 1847. HOGG (T. J.), Life of Shelley, 1858. MIDDLETON (C. S.), Shelley and his Writings, 1858. SHELLEY MEMORIALS, edited by Lady Shelley, 1859. GARNETT (Richard), Relics of Shelley, 1862. ROSSETTI (W. M.), Life of Shelley (prefixed to his edition of Shelley's Works), 1870. SMITH (G. B.), Shelley, A Critical Biography, 1877.-** SYMONDS (J. A.), Shelley (English Men of Letters Series), 1878.-JEAFFRESON (J. C.), The Real Shelley, 1885. DOWDEN (Edward), Life of Shelley (The standard biography, but not altogether satisfactory. Lacking both in frankness and in sympathy), 1886. — RABBE (Félix), Shelley, sa Vie et ses Œuvres, 1887; translated, 1888. SHARP (William), Shelley (Great Writers Series), 1887. SALT (H. S.), Shelley, A Biographical Study, 1896. - CLUTTON-BROCK (A.), Shelley: The Man and the Poet, 1909. (See also Mrs. Shelley's Notes to the Poems, Moore's Life of Byron, C. Kegan Paul's William Godwin, his Friends and Contemporaries, and Mrs. F. A. Marshall's The Life and Letters of Mary W. Shelley.)

REMINISCENCES AND EARLY CRITICISM

*TRELAWNEY (E. J.), Recollections of Shelley and Byron. - HUNT (Leigh), Byron and some of his Contemporaries. - HUNT (Leigh), Autobiography. MEDWIN (Thomas), Shelley Papers. - MITFORD (Mary Russell), Recollections of a Literary Life. DE QUINCEY (T.), Essays on Poets. PEACOCK (Thomas Love), Memoirs of Percy Bysshe Shelley. MILLER (A. B.), Leigh Hunt in his Relations with Byron, Keats and Shelley.

LATER CRITICISM

*BAGEHOT (Walter),

BATES (E. S.), A Study of Shelley's Cenci, 1908. Literary Studies, 1879. - * BOURGET (Paul), Études et portraits. — BRADLEY (A. C.), Oxford Lectures on Poetry, 1909. — BRANDES (G. M. C.), Shelley und Lord Byron:

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Zwei litterarische Charakterbilder, 1904. - BROOKE (S. A.), Studies in Poetry, 1907 - *BROWNING (Robert), On the Poet, objective and subjective; and on Shelley as man and poet, 1852, 1881. CALVERT (G. H.), Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe, 1880. DOWDEN (Edward), French Revolution and English Literature: Essay VI, 1897. DOWDEN (Edward), Transcripts and Studies, 1888. - DOWDEN (Edward), Studies in Literature: Transcendental Movement and Literature; French Revolution and Literature, 1878. GARNETT (Richard), Essays of an Ex-Librarian: Shelley and Lord Beaconsfield, 1901. GOSSE (E.), Questions at Issue, 1893. HUTTON (R. H.), Literary Essays, 1871, 1888. - LANG (Andrew), Letters to Dead Authors, 1886. — MACDONALD (George), Imagination and Other Essays (1883), 1886. — MASSON (David), Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and Other Essays, 1874. - PAYNE (W. M.), The Greater English Poets of the Nineteenth Century, 1907. SCUDDER (V. D.), The Greek Spirit in Shelley and Browning. SHELSHAIRP (J. C.), Aspects of Poetry, 1881.LEY SOCIETY, Papers, 1888. - SLICER (T. R.), Shelley, an Appreciation. STEPHEN (Leslie), Hours in a Library, Vol. III: Godwin and Shelley, 1879, 1892. - SWINBURNE (A. C.), in Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Vol. III, new edition, 1904. SWINBURNE (A. C.), Essays and Studies, 1875: Notes on the Text of Shelley. - SYMONS (A.), The Romantic Movement in English Poetry, 1909. THOMSON (James), Biographical and Critical Studies, 1896. — *THOMPSON (Francis), Shelley, 1909; from the Dublin Review, July, 1908. - TODHUNTER (John), A Study of Shelley, 1880. *TRENT (W. P.), Authority of Criticism: A propos of Shelley, 1899. — *WOODBERRY (G. E.), Makers of Literature (1890), 1900. - WOODBERRY (G. E.), The Torch, 1905. YEATS (W. B)., Ideas of Good and Evil: The Philosophy of Shelley, 1903. ARNOLD (M.), Essays in Criticism, Second Series, 1888. —— CAINE (T. Hall), Cobwebs of Criticism, 1883. -DAWSON (W. J.), Makers of English Poetry (1890), 1906. - De VERE (Aubrey), Essays, Chiefly on Poetry, 1887 HANCOCK (A. E.), French Revolution and the English Poets, 1899. JOHNSON (C. F.), Three Americans and three Englishmen, 1886. LANG (Andrew), Poets' Country, 1907. — MORE (Paul E.), Shelburne Essays, Seventh Series, 1910. — ZANELLA (G.), Paralleli letterari: Shelley, Leopardi, 1885.

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TRIBUTES IN VERSE

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*BROWNING, Memorabilia; Pauline; etc. - BOURGET (Paul), Sur un Volume de Shelley. AGANOOR, Leggenda Eterna: Pel Monumento a Shelley, 1900.- PALGRAVE (F. T.), Lyrical Poems: Two Graves at Rome. - FORMAN (Alfred), Sonnets: Two Sonnets to Shelley. LANG (A.), Lines on the Inaugural Meeting of the Shelley Society. *THOMSON (James), Shelley, a Poem. *ROSSETTI (D. G.), Five English Poets: Percy Bysshe Shelley. *ROSSETTI (W. M.), Shelley's Heart. DE VERE (Aubrey), Lines composed at Lerici. HUNT (Leigh), Sonnet to Shelley. LANGFORD (J. A.), Shelley. – *TABB (J. B.), Shelley, a Sonnet. HAYNE (P. H.), Poems, 1855: Shelley. PIKE (Albert), Tribute to Shelley, 1835. TAYLOR (Bayard), Ode to Shelley. - ROBERTS (C. G. D.), Ave! An Ode for the Shelley Centenary. *WOODBERRY (G. E.), Poems: Shelley, a Sonnet; Shelley's House. *WATSON (William), *Shelley's Centenary; To Edward Dowden on his Life of Shelley; Quatrain to Harriet Shelley. CARMAN (Bliss), By the Aurelian Wall: The White Gull. - PARKES (B. R.), Gabriel (a poem on the Life of Shelley), 1856. — *CARDUCCI (G.), Odi barbare: Presso di l'Urna di Shelley; translated, in The Independent, December, 1906. -VAN DYKE (Henry), The White Bees, 1909: Two Sonnets; from the Atlantic, November, 1906. — DUCLO (Estelle), Shelley; in Book News, April, 1908. THOMAS (Edith M.), The Guest at the Gate, 1909: Bion and Adonaïs; from the Century, 1906. — SCHEFFAUER (H.), Looms of Life, 1909: The Fire Funeral.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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*FORMAN (H. B.), The Shelley Library; an Essay in Bibliography, 1886. SALEM PUBLIC LIBRARY, Special Reading List. ANDERSON (J. P.), Appendix to Sharp's Life of Shelley

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Watch the dim shades as like ghosts they go and come.

And complicate strange webs of melancholy mirth.

The leaves of wasted autumn woods shall float around thine head: The blooms of dewy spring shall gleam beneath thy feet:

But thy soul or this world must fade in the frost that binds the dead, Ere midnight's frown and morning's smile, ere thou and peace may meet.

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose,

For the weary winds are silent, or the moon is in the deep:

Whatever moves, or toils, or grieves, hath its appointed sleep.

Thou in the grave shalt rest-yet till the phantoms flee

Which that house and heath and garden made dear to thee erewhile, Thy remembrance, and repentance, and deep musings are not free

From the music of two voices and the light of one sweet smile.

1814. 1816.

TO COLERIDGE1

ΔΑΚΡΥΣΙ ΔΙΟΙΣΩ ΠΟΤΜΟΝ ΑΠΟΤΜΟΝ

OH! THERE are spirits of the air,

And genii of the evening breeze, And gentle ghosts, with eyes as fair Such lovely ministers to meet As star-beams among twilight trees :

Oft

hast thou turned from men thy lonely feet.

With mountain winds, and babbling springs,

And moonlight seas, that are the voice Of these inexplicable things

When they did answer thee; but they Thou didst hold commune, and rejoice Cast, like a worthless boon, thy love

away.

And thou hast sought in starry eyes

Beams that were never meant for thine,

1 The poem beginning "Oh, there are spirits in the air" was addressed in idea to Coleridge, whom he never knew; and at whose character he could only guess imperfectly, through his writings, and accounts he heard of him from some who knew him well. He regarded his change of opinions as rather an act of will than

Some respite to its turbulence unresting conviction, and believed that in his inner heart

ocean knows;

1 See Dowden's Life of Shelley, Vol. I., pp. 410-411.

he would be haunted by what Shelley considered the better and holier aspirations of his youth. (From Mrs. Shelley's Note on the Early Poems.) See also Dowden's Life of Shelley, Vol. I., p. 472 and note.

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