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by Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer's Hymn to the Earth: Mother of AllHomer's Hymn to VenusHomer's Hymn to Minerva Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition; dated 1818. I sing the glorious Power with azure eyes,
Athenian Pallas! tameless, chaste, and wise,
Tritogenia, town-preserving Maid,
Revered and mighty; from his… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer's Hymn to the SunHomer's Hymn to MinervaHomer's Hymn to the Earth: Mother of All Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition; dated 1818. O universal Mother, who dost keep
From everlasting thy foundations deep,
Eldest of things, Great Earth, I sing of thee!
All shapes that have their… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer's Hymn to the MoonHomer's Hymn to the Earth: Mother of AllHomer's Hymn to the Sun Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition; dated 1818. Offspring of Jove, Calliope, once more
To the bright Sun, thy hymn of music pour;
Whom to the child of star-clad Heaven and Earth
Euryphaessa, large… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer's Hymn to Castor and PolluxHomer's Hymn to the SunHomer's Hymn to the Moon Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition; dated 1818. Daughters of Jove, whose voice is melody,
Muses, who know and rule all minstrelsy
Sing the wide-winged Moon! Around the earth,
From her immortal head in… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Stanzas from Calderon's Cisma ...Scenes from the Faust of Goethe Published in part (Scene 2) in "The Liberal", No. 1, 1822; in full, by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. SCENE 1.—PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN. THE LORD AND THE HOST OF HEAVEN. ENTER THREE ARCHANGELS. RAPHAEL:
The sun makes music as of old… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Scenes from the Magico ProdigiosoScenes from the Faust of GoetheStanzas from Calderon's Cisma de Inglaterra Translated by Medwin and corrected by Shelley. Published by Medwin, "Life of Shelley", 1847, with Shelley's corrections in ''. 1.
Hast thou not seen, officious with delight,
Move through the illumined… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley SonnetStanzas from Calderon's Cisma ...Scenes from the Magico Prodigioso From the spanish of Calderon. Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824; dated March, 1822. There is a transcript of Scene 1 among the Hunt manuscripts, which has been collated by Mr. Buxton Forman. SCENE 1: ENTER CYPRIAN,… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ugolino
Scenes from the Magico Prodigioso
Sonnet
From the Italian of Cavalcanti
Guido Cavalcanti to Dante Alighieri:
Published by Forman (who assigns it to 1815), "Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1876.
Returning from its daily quest, my Spirit
Changed thoughts and vile in thee doth weep to find:
It grieves me that… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: Adapted from the Vit...SonnetUgolino (Published by Medwin, "Life of Shelley", 1847, with Shelley's
corrections in italics [''].—ED.) Inferno 33, 22-75 Translated by Medwin and corrected by Shelley. Now had the loophole of that dungeon, still
Which bears the name of Famine's Tower from me,
And… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Matilda Gathering FlowersUgolinoFragment: Adapted from the Vita Nuova of Dante Published by Forman, "Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1876. What Mary is when she a little smiles
I cannot even tell or call to mind,
It is a miracle so new, so rare.
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn to MercuryHomer's Hymn to the MoonHomer's Hymn to Castor and Pollux Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition; dated 1818. Ye wild-eyed Muses, sing the Twins of Jove,
Whom the fair-ankled Leda, mixed in love
With mighty Saturn's Heaven-obscuring Child,
On Taygetus, that lofty mountain… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The First Canzone of the ConvitoFragment: Adapted from the Vit...Matilda Gathering Flowers From the Purgatorio Of Dante, Canto 28, Lines 1-51. Published in part (lines 1-8, 22-51) by Medwin, "The Angler in Wales", 1834, "Life of Shelley", 1847; reprinted in full by Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. And… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley SonnetMatilda Gathering FlowersThe First Canzone of the Convito From the Italian of Dante Published by Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862; dated 1820. 1.
Ye who intelligent the Third Heaven move,
Hear the discourse which is within my heart,
Which cannot be declared, it seems so new.
The Heaven whose course… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
From Vergil's Fourth Georgic
The First Canzone of the Convito
Sonnet
From the Italian of Dante
Published with "Alastor", 1816; reprinted, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.
DANTE ALIGHIERI TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI:
Guido, I would that Lapo, thou, and I,
Led by some strong enchantment, might ascend
A magic ship, whose charmed… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The SameSonnetFrom Vergil's Fourth Georgic Verses 360 et seq. Published by Locock, "Examination", etc., 1903. And the cloven waters like a chasm of mountains
Stood, and received him in its mighty portal
And led him through the deep's untrampled fountains He went in wonder through the path immortal
Of his… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley From Vergil's Tenth EclogueFrom Vergil's Fourth GeorgicThe Same (As revised by Mr. C.D. Locock.) Melodious Arethusa, o'er my verse
Shed thou once more the spirit of thy stream: (Two lines missing.) Who denies verse to Gallus? So, when thou
Glidest beneath the green and purple gleam
Of Syracusan waters,… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Pan, Echo, and the SatyrThe SameFrom Vergil's Tenth Eclogue Verses 1-26. Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870, from the Boscombe manuscripts now in the Bodleian. Mr. Locock ("Examination", etc., 1903, pages 47-50), as the result of his collation of the same manuscripts, gives a… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley From the Greek of MoschusFrom Vergil's Tenth EcloguePan, Echo, and the Satyr From the Greek of Moschus Published (without title) by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. There is a draft amongst the Hunt manuscripts. Pan loved his neighbour Echo—but that child
Of Earth and Air pined for the Satyr leaping;… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment of the Elegy on the D...Pan, Echo, and the SatyrFrom the Greek of Moschus Published with "Alastor", 1816. Tan ala tan glaukan otan onemos atrema Balle—k.t.l. When winds that move not its calm surface sweep
The azure sea, I love the land no more;
The smiles of the serene and tranquil deep
Tempt my… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment of the Elegy on the D...From the Greek of MoschusFragment of the Elegy on the Death of Bion From the Greek of Moschus Published from the Hunt manuscripts by Forman, "Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1876. Ye Dorian woods and waves, lament aloud,—
Augment your tide, O streams, with fruitless tears,
For the… Read more
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