NOTE BOOKS

OF

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

FROM THE ORIGINALS IN THE
LIBRARY OF W. K. BIXBY

DECIPHERED, TRANSCRIBED, AND EDITED,
WITH A FULL COMMENTARY BY

H. BUXTON FORMAN, C.B.

IN THREE VOLUMES

PRINTED FOR MEMBERS OF

THE BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY

BOSTON, M CM XI

CONTENTS OF PART II

"Yet look on me": a Fragment in Spenserian

Snatch of verse: "I have had a dream tonight"

Variant: "I awakened from a dream"

The Roman's Chamber ("In the cave which wild

weeds cover") .

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9

An Anacreontic: "Thou art fair & few are fairer"

A Snatch of Verse: "How sweet it is to sit & read

the tales"

A Snatch of Verse and Prose: "Rome has fallen,'
Friendship: Opening of the Essay

To William Godwin: "Mighty Eagle thou that

soarest"

A Line of Verse: "And from a wilderness of

human Crimes"

Fragments: "Wake the serpent not-"

"The cotton poplar's down"

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To Knowledge ("O sudden & incon-
stant light")

Draft of The Mask of Anarchy.

A Snatch of Verse: "Child of Despair and De-

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98

Shelley's Excursus on the Imagery of Shake-

speare and the Greek Tragedians

Fragments: "The fitful alternations of the rain" 107

"A swift & hidden spirit of decay". 108

Doggerel lines: "A daughter mother & a grand-

mother"

Rejected Draft of "Lift not the painted veil"

A Jotting from Pindar.

Unfinished Lines on the Lake Poets.

Fragment of Draft: Lines to a Reviewer

Jottings from the 13th Olympian Ode of Pindar,
with Notes .

118

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122

A Jotting from the 14th Olympian Ode of Pindar 121

Fragment of Verse: "From the Spade" etc.

Quatrain: "He wanders, like a day-appearing

dream"

Line added to above and cancelled: "Him have I

Notes on the Agamemnon of Eschylus.

Draft of the Ode to Heaven

Draft of the unfinished Poem to William Shelley 152

Fragment: "One atom of golden cloud, like a fiery

star".

Draft of An Exhortation

Fragment: "The vale is like a vast Metropolis"

. 159