was unfavorable, they employed themselves with alterations in the rigging, and by building a boat of canvas and reeds, as light as possible, to have on board the other, for the convenience of landing in waters too shallow for the larger vessel. When Shelley was on board, he had his papers with him; and much of the Triumph of Life, was written as he sailed or weltered on that sea which was soon to engulf him."

Medwin, Life, ii. 180: "Shelley had also begun time The Triumph of Life, of which we have a fragment. It at this advanced very slowly, and in its present form it is impossible to know how he intended to treat the subject."

TEXT: 34 dawn, 1824, 18391,2, Forman, Dowden.

35 Bathed 18391,2, Forman, Dowden.

84 form frown 1824.

63 spurned 18391,2.

70 wood-lawn-interspersed 18391,2.

93 light upon 1824, 18391,2.

96 it omit, 1824.

98 lightenings Rossetti.

102 sun 1824, 18391”, Forman, Dowden ; sun: Ros

setti.

109 thunders 1824 thunder's 18392.

112 meet 18391,2; conqueror Rossetti conj.

131, 135 Rossetti conjectures the sense as follows:

:

Fled back like eagles to their native noon;
For those who put aside the diadem

Of earthly thrones or gems.

...

Whether of Athens or Jerusalem.

The text yields as much meaning as could be ex

pected from its incomplete state.

158 while omit, 18391,2.

168 To seek, to ...
Limping Rossetti.

to strain with limbs decayed 1824.

190 Feature of my thought; "Aware, 1824, 18391,2. 202 sentiment 18391,2.

TEXT: 204 Stained 1824, 18391,2.

238 name the 1824.

260 him omit, 1824.
281 omit 1824, 18391,2.

282 And then omit, 18391,2.

Mrs. Shelley's Note: "There is a chasm here in the MS. which it is impossible to fill. It appears from the context that other shapes pass and that Rousseau still stood beside the dreamer." The marks of hiatus are omitted by Forman and Dowden.

296 comest 18391,2.

311 year's dawn 18391,2.

361 Out of the deep cavern with 18391,2.

363 She glided 18391,2.

377 to 18391,2.

475 care 18391,2.

486 vale 18391,2.

496 tire 1824, 18391,2.

497 rode, like demons 18391,2.

534 wrapt 18391,2.

MS. Boscombe.

FRAGMENTS, PART III

Mrs. Shelley's Note, 18391, iii. 68: "In addition to such poems as have an intelligible aim and shape, many a stray idea and transitory emotion found imperfect and abrupt expression, and then again lost themselves in silence. As he never wandered without a book and without implements of writing, I find many such in his manuscript books, that scarcely bear record; while some of them, broken and vague as they are, will appear valuable to those who love Shelley's mind, and desire to trace its workings."

77 Home. From the Boscombe MS.

77 Fragment of a Ghost Story. From the Boscombe MS. 77 To Mary. Written at Este.

78 To Mary. Dated July, and referring probably to Mrs. Shelley's grief for the death of William.

79 To William Shelley. Dated June. Mrs. Shelley's Note,

1839, iii. 207, 210: Shelley had suffered severely from the death of our son during this summer. His heart, attuned to every kindly affection, was full of burning love for his offspring. No words can express the anguish he felt when his elder children were torn from him. When afterwards this child [William] died at Rome, he wrote, apropos of the English burying ground in that city — This spot is the repository of a sacred loss, of which the yearnings of a parent's heart are now prophetic; he is rendered immortal by love, as his memory is by death. My beloved child is buried here. I envy death the body far less than the oppressors the minds of those whom they have torn from me. The one can only kill the body, the other crushes the affections.'"

80 Lines written for the poem, To William Shelley. From the Boscombe MS. See Note on that poem.

81 To Emilia Viviani. Medwin, Life, ii. 66: "Shelley felt deeply the fate of poor Emilia, frequently wrote to her, and received from her in reply bouquets of flowers, in return for one of which he sent her the following exquisite madrigal." Dated March. The last three lines are from the Boscombe MS. through Garnett. See note on Epipsychidion.

82 To From the Boscombe MS. Rossetti conjectures that Byron is addressed.

83 To Byron. Medwin, The Shelley Papers, p. 37:

"What

his real opinion of Byron's powers was may be collected from a sonnet he once showed me, and which the subject of it never saw. The sentiments accord well with that diffidence of his own powers, that innate modesty which always distinguished him. It begins thus" [Here follow 1-7].

Medwin, Life, ii. 35: “That he thought Byron a great poet is proved by a sonnet, of which I forget two of the lines, but which Byron never saw." [Here follow 1-7, the alternate reading 8-11 noted, and 12-14.]

Rossetti revises and completes the sonnet from the

Boscombe MS., where also the introductory prose is

found.

84 A Lost Leader. From the Boscombe MS., though Gar

nett.

84 On Keats. TEXT: monthless 18392. MS. Boscombe. 84 To From the Boscombe MS. Rossetti conjectures that the lines are addressed to Leigh Hunt; Forman, that they may be a cancelled passage of Rosalind and Helen.

From the Boscombe MS.

85 On Milton's Spirit. 85 "Mighty Eagle." From the Frederickson MS., being written on the back of a letter received from Godwin of the date April 29, 1817. Forman conjectures that Godwin is addressed, but only on this very slender ground. TEXT: 4 hiest the word is doubtful in the MS. 86 Laurel. Mrs. Shelley does not separate the lines into question and answer.

86" Once more descend." From the Boscombe MS.

87 Inspiration. From the Boscombe MS.

87 To the People of England. From the Boscombe MS. 88 To Italy. From the Boscombe MS.

88 Unrisen Splendor. From the Boscombe MS.

89 To Zephyr. From the Boscombe MS., through Garnett. "Follow." From the Boscombe MS.

The Rain-Wind. From the Boscombe MS. through Gar

nett.

90 The Vine. From the Boscombe MS. through Garnett. The Waning Moon. TEXT 5 in the murky Earth

18392.

To the Moon II. From the Boscombe MS.

92 The Lady of the South. From the Boscombe MS., through Garnett.

TEXT: 3 drouth Forman conj., Dowden || drought Rossetti. 93 Wine of Eglantine. TEXT: 3 bowls Boscombe MS. || buds 1824, 18391,2.

MS. Boscombe.

94 A Roman's Chamber, ii. 2, 3 transpose Forman, Dowden. 95 The Shadow of Hell. From Boscombe MS. through

96 Consequences. From the Boscombe MS., through Gar

nett.

A Hate-Song. Rossetti's Note: "Mr. Browning has
furnished me with this amusing absurdity, retailed to
him by Leigh Hunt. It seems that Hunt and Shelley
were talking one day (probably in or about 1817)
concerning Love-Songs; and Shelley said that he did.
n't see why Hate-Songs also should not be written,
and that he could do them; and on the spot he im-
provised these lines of doggerel.”
A Face. From the Boscombe MS. Shelley (from Bo-
logna) to Peacock, November 9, 1818: "There are
several [pictures] of Guercino, which they said were
very fine. I dare say they were, for the strength
and complication of his figures made my head turn
round. One, indeed, was certainly powerful. It was
the representation of the founder of the Carthusians
exercising his austerities in the desert, with a youth
as his attendant, kneeling beside him at an altar: on
another altar stood a skull and a crucifix; and around
were the rocks and the trees of the wilderness. I
never saw such a figure as this fellow. His face was
wrinkled like a dried snake's skin, and drawn in long
hard lines his very hands were wrinkled." Mrs.
Shelley, Essays and Letters, ii. 159, 160.

97 The Poet's Lover. From the Boscombe MS.

98 "Is it that in some brighter sphere." From the Boscombe MS.

99 Torpor. From the Boscombe MS.

"Is not to-day enough." From the Boscombe MS. 100 " To thirst and find no fill." Mrs. Shelley's Note, 18391,

iii. 69: “And then again this melancholy trace of the sad thronging thoughts, which were the well whence he drew the idea of Athanase, and express the restless, passion-fraught emotions of one whose sensibility, kindled to too intense a life, perpetually preyed upon itself." [Here follows the fragment.] Forman conjectures that it is a cancelled passage of Julian and Maddalo.