THE TEXT NEWLY COLLATED AND REVISED
AND EDITED WITH A MEMOIR AND NOTES
BY GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

M DCCC XCIV

PR 5402

1894

4.4

Copyright, 1892,

BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.

FRAGMENTS: PART II

CONTENTS

CHARLES THE FIRST

FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED DRAMA.

THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE

FRAGMENTS: PART III

MINOR FRAGMENTS

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3

41

51

TO MARY: "O MARY DEAR, THAT YOU WERE HERE

To MARY: "THE WORLD IS DREARY"

TO MARY: "MY DEAREST MARY, WHEREFORE HAST

LINES WRITTEN FOR THE POEM, TO WILLIAM SHELLEY 80

TO WILLIAM SHELLEY : "THY LITTLE FOOTSTEPS

To —: “O MIGHTY MIND, IN WHOSE DEEP STREAM

A LOST LEADER: "MY HEAD IS WILD WITH WEEPING

81

82

883

To

―: "FOR ME, MY FRIEND, IF NOT THAT TEARS

DID TREMBLE

84

MILTON'S SPIRIT

"MIGHTY EAGLE "

LAUREL: "WHAT ART THOU, PRESUMPTUOUS, WHO

INSPIRATION: "THOSE WHOM NOR POWER, NOR LYING

FAITH, NOR TOIL

TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.

"WHAT MEN GAIN FAIRLY ”

ROME: "ROME HAS FALLEN; YE SEE IT LYING

TO ITALY

"UNRISEN SPLENDOR"

66

TO ZEPHYR: "COME, THOU AWAKENER OF THE

66

THE WANING MOON: AND LIKE A DYING LADY,

TO THE MOON: "BRIGHT WANDERER, FAIR COQUETTE

91

TO THE MOON: "ART THOU PALE FOR WEARINESS

POETRY AND MUSIC: "How SWEET IT IS TO SIT AND

SONG OF THE FURIES: "WHEN A LOVER CLASPS HIS

FAIREST

94

"THE RUDE WIND IS SINGING 99

95

BEFORE AND AFTER: "THE BABE IS AT PEACE WITH-