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Poem beginning ‘The tide of Time was at my feet’ and extant in two different versions. The first, headed ‘Stanzas’, dated 26 July 1833 and first published in 1969, uses sea and beach imagery to suggest a loss of hope; the speaker is left sadly pacing ‘the barren sand’. The second, dated 1834 and first published in 1953, adopts the title of ∗Calderón’s play and adds two further stanzas, one figuring ‘a dream of joy’ and the other suggesting its fleeting nature. The imagery is common in the poems mourning PBS but the ‘sudden shock’ which the piece seems to record is probably the ending of MWS’s relationship with Aubrey ∗Beauclerk in summer 1833 (LL 4.xxxvi).

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Garrett, M. (2019). L. In: The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Palgrave Literary Dictionaries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56639-3_12

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