Mr. John W. Hales, with whom I have had some correspondence on certain points such as this, regards sill as being here a various spelling of sell, which is certainly a good old word for seat, generally, but not always, a saddle. As sill (base or foundation) becomes interchangeable with sell when compounded with ground, so as to yield the forms ground-sill, ground-sell, and groundsel, the distinction between the two words would not be very clearly marked to most poetic minds, and certainly not to Shelley's. Mr. Hales points out that in Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, the word sylle for seat is cited from an early manuscript. Apropos of the interchangeableness of and i, the same gentleman has pointed out to me. that upriste is used as a noun for uprising, by Chaucer: this is a more reasonable derivation for Shelley's uprest than that given at page 406 of the first volume.

A Woodman whose rough heart was out of tune...

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Ah! faint are her limbs, and her footstep is weary,... IV.

1 In this Index of first lines are included those of the various scenes and cantos of the longer poems, and also several of lyrics in the text of such longer poems. In the examples of lyric drama which Shelley's works include there are numerous choruses and lyric movements, not following any express break, and yet opening fresh subjects so markedly, that the

first lines of them form landmarks

quite as distinct as the first lines of the shorter poems. It has been thought useful to include these in the present index, and also to insert the first lines of various fragments which have stood independently in other editions, but are now connected with other fragments. The lines which are on these grounds not strictly first lines are distinguished by asterisks (*).

Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurl'd

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,— ...
And can'st thou mock mine agony, thus calm

And earnest to explore within-around ...
And ever as he went he swept a lyre...
And, if my grief should still be dearer to me
And like a dying lady, lean and pale, ...
And many there were hurt by that strong boy,
And Peter Bell, when he had been...
And that I walk thus proudly crowned withal
*And the green Paradise which western waves
*And then came one of sweet and earnest looks,
*And what is that most brief and bright delight
And where is truth? On tombs ? for such to thee
And who feels discord now or sorrow?

Arethusa arose

Bear witness, Erin! when thine injured isle...
Before those cruel Twins, whom at one birth
Beside the dimness of the glimmering sea,

Best and brightest, come away!

*Bright clouds float in heaven,

Bright wanderer, fair coquette of heaven,...

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Brothers between you and me

Bring forth the prisoner Bastwick let the clerk

"Buona notte, buona notte !"-Come mai

By the mossy brink, ...

*Calm art thou as yon sunset! swift and strong

Camelions feed on light and air:

Come, be happy !—sit by me,

Dares the lama, most fleet of the sons of the wind,
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude
Daughters of Jove, whose voice is melody,

Dear home, thou scene of earliest hopes and joys,

Dearest, best and brightest,

England, farewell! thou who hast been my cradle, ...

Far, far away, O ye...

*Fear not the tyrants shall rule for ever,

*Fiend, I defy thee! with a calm, fixed mind,
Flourishing vine, whose kindling clusters glow
Follow to the deep wood's weeds,

For me, my friend, if not that tears did tremble
For my dagger is bathed in the blood of the brave,

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