Shelley's Poetry and Prose by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The billows that, in their unceasing swell,ĭash on thy beach, and every wave might seemĪn instrument in Time, the giant's grasp, In the same letter to Hitchener, Shelley copied two of his actual lyrics, including the poem first titled 'To Ireland' by William Michael Rossetti in his 1870 edition of Shelley's poetry: Which was when thou wert not, which shall be when thou perish

Thee, but 'the fixed and virtuous will,' the sacred sympathy of soul Yon monarch in his solitary pomp, is but theįungus of a winter day that thy light footstep presses intoĭust -Thou art a conqueror Time! all things give way before That for milleniums have defied the blast, and laughed at lightnings thouĭost crush to nought. Way-the Nations fall beneath thy noiseless footstep- pyramids Proceed thou giant conquering and to conquer. In Time the giant's grasp, to burst the barriers of Eternity

swell, dash on thy beach, and every wave might seem, an instrument thy shores, o Erin, and could count the billows that in their unceasing Of those moments, which part my friend and me. Roll on! and with each wave whose echoingsĭie, amid thy melancholy silentness shall die a moment too- one Lash, Erin's green isle on whose shores, this venturous arm would

Rolls between us.O thou Ocean, whose multitudinous billows ever The workshop that is the necessary condition of Shelley's texts in history is a complicated and notoriously vexed melange, involving poems Shelley unsuccessfully attempted to publish during his lifetime published poetry rife with errors because Shelley was not allowed to correct proof poetry and fragments that Shelley chose not to publish during his lifetime but which nonetheless constitute the 25-30% of his canon published posthumously the early editorial interventions of Mary Shelley and Shelley's friends the appropriation of Shelley's texts by literary pirates in the period between 18 family ownership of the poet's manuscripts and letters that restricted full access to all but selected scholars until after World War II the assignment of editorships of texts editorial rivalries in the reconstruction of the same textual situation and erroneous but self-empowering editorial assumptions that Shelley was innocent of grammar and didn't care about such details as spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.

Shelley's Poetry and Prose by Percy Bysshe Shelley