Appendix

The Contents of Shelley’s Volumes of Verse Published in His Lifetime

Original Poetry; by Victor and Cazire by Shelley and his sister Elizabeth (London: J. J. Stockdale, 1810)

Letter (‘Here I sit with my paper, my pen and my ink’)

Letter: To Miss —– —– From Miss —— ——

Song (‘Cold, cold is the blast when December is howling’)

Song (‘Come —–! sweet is the hour’)

Song: Despair

Song: Sorrow

Song: Hope

Song: Translated from the Italian

Song: Translated from the German

The Irishman’s Song

Song (‘Fierce roars the midnight storm’)

Song: To —–—– (‘Ah! sweet is the moonbeam that sleeps on yon fountain’)

Song: To —–—– (‘Stern, stern is the voice of fates fearfull command’)

Saint Edmond’s Eve [The discovery that this poem was plagiarized from Matthew (‘Monk’) Lewis, Tales of Terror (1801), caused the volume to be withdrawn]

Revenge

Ghasta; or, The Avenging Demon!!!

Fragment, or The Triumph of Conscience

Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Being Poems found amongst the Papers of that Noted Female who attempted the Life of the King in 1786, edited by John Fitzvictor (Oxford: J. Munday, 1810)

‘Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurl’d’

Fragment. Supposed to be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Cordé

Despair (‘And can’st thou mock mine agony, thus calm’)

Fragment (‘Yes! all is past—swift time has fled away’)

The Spectral Horseman

Melody to a Scene of Former Times

Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: With Notes (printed privately, 1813; first unauthorized edition: London: William Clark, 1821)

Dedication: To Harriet*****

Queen Mab

Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude: and Other Poems (London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy and Carpenter and Son, 1816)

Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude

O! there are spirits of the air

Stanzas.—April, 1814

Mutability

‘The pale, the cold, and the moony smile’

A Summer-Evening Church-Yard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire

To Wordsworth

Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte

Superstition

Sonnet. From the Italian of Dante

Translated from the Greek of Moschus

The Daemon of the World. A Fragment

Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser (London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones and C. and J. Ollier, 1817), withdrawn and reissued as The Revolt of Islam; A Poem, in Twelve Cantos (London: C. and J. Ollier, 1818)

Dedication: To Mary —— —–

Laon and Cyntha

[or]

Dedication: To Mary —— —–

The Revolt of Islam

Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems (London: C. and J. Ollier, 1819)

Rosalind and Helen

Lines Written among the Euganean Hills, October, 1818

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

Sonnet. Ozymandias

The Cenci. A Tragedy, in Five Acts, [printed in] Italy (London: C. and J. Ollier, 1819)

The Cenci

Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems (London: C. and J. Ollier, 1820)

Prometheus Unbound

The Sensitive-Plant

A Vision of the Sea

Ode to Heaven

An Exhortation

Ode to the West Wind

An Ode [Written, October, 1819, before the Spaniards had recovered their Liberty]

The Cloud

To a Sky-Lark

Ode to Liberty

Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant. A Tragedy. In Two Acts. Translated from the Original Doric (London: J. Johnston, 1820)

Oedipus Tyrannus

Epipsychidion: Verses Addressed to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilia V—–, Now Imprisoned in the Convent of —– (London: C. and J. Ollier, 1821)

Epipsychidion

Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion Etc. (Pisa: ‘With the types of Didot’, 1821)

Adonais

Hellas: A Lyrical Drama (London: C. and J. Ollier, 1822)

Hellas: A Lyrical Drama

Written on hearing the news of the death of Napoleon