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On receiving a curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the same

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I. To my Brother George

II. To ******

III. Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison

IV. "How many bards gild the lapses of time!

V. To a Friend who sent me some Roses

VI. To G. A. W. [Georgiana Augusta Wylie]

VII. "O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell"

VIII. To my Brothers

IX. "Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there "

X. "To one who has been long in city pent"

22XI. On first looking into Chapman's Homer

XII. On leaving some Friends at an early Hour

XIII. Addressed to Haydon

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Original Preface, rejected in favour of the foregoing

Rejected Title and Dedication

Book I

Book II

Book III

Book IV

LAMIA, ISABELLA, &c. [published in 1820]

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Isabella; or, the Plot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio

HYPERION, A VISION: attempted Reconstruction of the Poem

POSTHUMOUS AND FUGITIVE POEMS

Editor's Note before the Posthumous and Fugitive Poems

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Sonnet to Chatterton

Sonnet ["Oh how I love, on a fair summer's eve"]

Sonnet to a Young Lady who sent me a Laurel Crown

POSTHUMOUS AND FUGITIVE POEMS, continued.

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22-Sonnet on seeing the Elgin Marbles

Sonnet written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition

Sonnet ["After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains "]

Sonnet written on a Blank Space at the end of Chaucer's Tale of

The Floure and the Lefe

Sonnet to Haydon with the following

Sonnet on a Picture of Leander

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Sonnet on Leigh Hunt's Poem The Story of Rimini

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Fragment ["Where's the Poet?"]

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Fragment: Modern Love

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Fragment of The Castle Builder

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Fragment ["Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow,'

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Stanzas ["In a drear-nighted December,”]

Lines on seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair

Sonnet ["When I have fears that I may cease to be "]

Sonnet to Homer.

A Draught of Sunshine ["Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port,"]

Faery Song ["Shed no tear-O shed no tear! "]

Faery Song ["Ah! woe is me! poor silver-wing!"]

Song ["Spirit here that reignest! "]

Sonnet. The Human Seasons

Sonnet to the Nile

Sonnet on sitting down to read King Lear once again

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Sonnet to John Hamilton Reynolds

Sonnet ["Blue! 'Tis the life of heaven, —"]

What the Thrush said: Lines from a Letter to John Hamilton

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Dawlish Fair

Teignmouth : "Some Doggerel," sent in a Letter to B. R. Hay-

The Devon Maid: Stanzas sent in a Letter to B. R. Haydon

Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds

Fragment of an Ode to Maia, written on May Day 1818

Song ["Hush, hush! tread softly!"]

Extracts from an Opera

"O! were I one of the Olympian twelve,"

Daisy's Song.

Folly's Song

Song ["The Stranger lighted from his steed"]

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Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl!

Sharing Eve's Apple

Song ["I had a dove and the sweet dove died; "]

Sonnet to a Lady seen for a few Moments at Vauxhall

Acrostic: Georgiana Augusta Keats

Sonnet on visiting the Tomb of Burns

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