WorkPercy Bysshe Shelley
Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples (composed 1818; first pub. in Posthumous Poems, 1824) Inferred
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) · composed 1818; first pub. in Posthumous Poems, 1824
InferredThe phrase "I could lie down like a tired child" quotes stanza 5 of Shelley's "Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples," composed December 1818 and published posthumously in Posthumous Poems. Fuller uses no attribution, relying on the distinctive phrasing to evoke the poem's melancholy register.
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Documented 1824–1843
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“And weep away this life of care." / I am indeed, a "tired child”
Fuller, Margaret. "On a Visit at Atheneum." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 122.
Inferred Fuller quotes two closely related phrases — 'And weep away this life of care' and 'a tired child' — both in quotation marks and both from the same Shelley stanza; she names no author or title.
“I feel as if 'I could lie down like a tired child' &c”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Inferred The phrase "I could lie down like a tired child" quotes stanza 5 of Shelley's "Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples," composed December 1818 and published posthumously in Posthumous Poems. Fuller uses no attribution, relying on the distinctive phrasing to evoke the poem's melancholy register.
Fuller uses no attribution, relying on the distinctive phrasing to evoke the poem's melancholy register.