...and that of many of Shelley's poems. An extract from The Revolt of Islam will help to verify this. Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear friend, when first The clouds that, wrapt me from this world did pass. I do remember well the hour which burst My spirit's sleep....

...wild islands green, With framed for my lone boat a lone retreat Of moss-grown trees and weeds, shall I be seen: But beside thee, where still my heart has...clouds which wrap this world from youth did pass. 20 I do remember well the hour which burst My spirits' sleep: a fresh May-dawn it was, When I walked...

...islands green, Which framed for my lone boat a lone retreat Of moss-grown trees and weeds, shall I be seen: But beside thee, where still my heart has ever been. (CW, I, 251: LC, Dedication, ll. 1-18) That Shelley employs chivalric imagery, with its rigid gender...

...islands green, Which framed for my lone boat a lone retreat Of moss-grown trees and weeds, shall I be seen: But beside thee, where still my heart has ever been. (10-18) His poetic task complete, Shelley returns his attention from work to love, from his public...

...verse he had underlined in his red book: "The toil which stole from thee so many an hour, Is ended "Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear Friend, when...The clouds which wrap this world from youth did pass "Thou Friend, whose presence on my wintry heart Fell, like bright Spring upon some herbless plain;...

...brighter resolution of manlike duty. In these lines, Shelley refers to his painful days at Eton : — " Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear friend, when first The clouds which wrap thia world from youth did pass. I do remember well the hour, which burst My spirit's sleep, a fresh...

...islands green, Which framed for my lone boat a lone retreat Of moss-grown trees and weeds, shall I be seen : But beside thee, where still my heart has ever been. Thoughts of great deeds were mine, dear Friend, when first The clouds which wrap this world from youth...