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- # SHELLEY’S VISION
## Overview
"SHELLEY’S VISION" is a chapter within the [John Marr and Other Poems](arke:01KG8AJ5CWVMSM9AY2938E996H) poetry collection. It is a poem extracted from the source file [john_marr_and_other_poems.txt](arke:01KG89J19Y3FNVN5KWASY78BP4). The chapter consists of 19 lines of text.
## Context
This chapter is part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. It appears in sequence between [THE ENTHUSIAST](arke:01KG8AJH77F331DKW1NSTKB8CX) and [THE MARCHIONESS OF BRINVILLIERS](arke:01KG8AJH7747PFFZRF9KTM29Y1) within the [John Marr and Other Poems](arke:01KG8AJ5CWVMSM9AY2938E996H) collection.
## Contents
The chapter contains the poem "SHELLEY’S VISION," which describes a personal experience of the speaker. The speaker, "wandering late by morning seas," is weighed down by pain and "hate the censor pelted me." The poem continues with the speaker's changing perspective, seeing "the quivering phantom take / The likeness of St. Stephen crowned," leading to a sense of "self-reverence."
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- SHELLEY’S VISION
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- SHELLEY’S VISION
Wandering late by morning seas
When my heart with pain was low—
Hate the censor pelted me—
Deject I saw my shadow go.
In elf-caprice of bitter tone
I too would pelt the pelted one:
At my shadow I cast a stone.
When lo, upon that sun-lit ground
I saw the quivering phantom take
The likeness of St. Stephen crowned:
Then did self-reverence awake.
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- SHELLEY’S VISION