WorkPercy Bysshe Shelley
"To ———" ["When passion's trance is overpast"] (composed c. 1821; first published in Posthumous Poems
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
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Documented 1824–1845
Letters • Manuscripts
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Alastor," the soul sweeping like a breeze through nature; and some of the minor poems.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
Continuation of the same first-person 'we read then' enumeration of poems from the preceding childhood reading episode.
“A frail form, A phantom among men, companionless, As the last cloud of an expiring storm.”
Papers on Literature and Art
66-line excerpt range indicates a substantial quoted passage from Alastor.
“When still in childish years, the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" fell in our way... read aloud the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," torn by chance from the leaf of a foreign magazine.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · When still in childish years, the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" fell in our way
Explicit first-person biographical reading episode: poem 'fell in our way' in childhood and was 'read aloud.'
“though it be the desire of the moth for the Star.”
Fuller, Margaret. "On Love." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 121.
Inferred Fuller alludes to 'the desire of the moth for the Star' without naming Shelley or the poem; the phrase is the distinctive fourth stanza of Shelley's lyric 'To ——' (1821/1824).
“The next is from Shelley and was not, I feel pretty sure, in your volume.”
Fuller, Margaret. Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846. With an introduction by Julia Ward Howe. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903.