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by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Edward Williams
To -
To -
Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.
1.
One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it,
One feeling too falsely disdained
For thee to disdain it;
One hope is too like despair
For prudence to smother,
And pity from thee more dear
Than that from another.
2.
I can… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley RemembranceTo -To Edward Williams Published in Ascham's edition of the "Poems", 1834. There is a copy amongst the Trelawny manuscripts. 1.
The serpent is shut out from Paradise.
The wounded deer must seek the herb no more
In which its heart-cure lies:
The widowed dove must cease to haunt a bower
Like that from… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley A LamentTo Edward WilliamsRemembrance Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824, where it is entitled "A Lament". Three manuscript copies are extant: The Trelawny manuscript ("Remembrance"), the Harvard manuscript ("Song") and the Houghton manuscript-the last written by Shelley on a flyleaf of a copy of… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The AziolaRemembranceA Lament Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. 1.
O world! O life! O time!
On whose last steps I climb,
Trembling at that where I had stood before;
When will return the glory of your prime?
No more—Oh, never more! 2.
Out of the day and night
A joy has taken flight;
Fresh… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Sonnet: Political GreatnessA LamentThe Aziola Published by Mrs. Shelley in "The Keepsake", 1829. 1.
'Do you not hear the Aziola cry?
Methinks she must be nigh,'
Said Mary, as we sate
In dusk, ere stars were lit, or candles brought;
And I, who thought
This Aziola was some tedious woman,
Asked, 'Who is Aziola?'… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Lines Written on Hearing the N...The AziolaSonnet: Political Greatness Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. There is a transcript, headed "Sonnet to the Republic of Benevento", in the Harvard manuscript book. Nor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame,
Nor peace, nor strength, nor skill in arms or… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley MutabilitySonnet: Political GreatnessLines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon Published with "Hellas", 1821. What! alive and so bold, O Earth?
Art thou not overbold?
What! leapest thou forth as of old
In the light of thy morning mirth,
The last of the flock of the starry fold?
Ha! leapest… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Song
Lines Written on Hearing the N...
Mutability
Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. There is a fair draft amongst the Boscombe manuscripts.
1.
The flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow dies;
All that we wish to stay
Tempts and then flies.
What is this world's delight?
Lightning that mocks the night… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley To NightDirge for the Year Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824, and dated January 1, 1821. 1.
Orphan Hours, the Year is dead,
Come and sigh, come and weep!
Merry Hours, smile instead,
For the Year is but asleep.
See, it smiles as it is sleeping,
Mocking your untimely weeping. 2.
As an… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems Written in 1819Poems Written in 1821Poems Written in 1820The Sensitive PlantA Vision of the SeaThe CloudTo a SkylarkCancelled Passage of the Ode to LibertyTo -ArethusaSong of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers on the Plain of EnnaHymn of ApolloHymn of PanThe QuestionThe Two Spirits: An AllegoryOde to NaplesAutumn: A… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Song of Proserpine While Gathe...Hymn of PanHymn of Apollo Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. There is a fair draft amongst the Shelley manuscripts at the Bodleian. See Mr. C.D. Locock's "Examination", etc., 1903, page 25. 1.
The sleepless Hours who watch me as I lie,
Curtained with star-… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley ArethusaHymn of ApolloSong of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers on the Plain of Enna Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. There is a fair draft amongst the Shelley manuscripts at the Bodleian Library. See Mr. C.D. Locock's "Examination," etc., 1903, page 24. 1.
Sacred Goddess, Mother… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley To -Song of Proserpine While Gathe...Arethusa Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824, and dated by her 'Pisa, 1820.' There is a fair draft amongst the Shelley manuscripts at the Bodleian Library. See Mr. C.D. Locock's "Examination", etc., 1903, page 24. 1.
Arethusa arose
From her couch of snows
In… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Cancelled Passage of the Ode to Liberty
Arethusa
To -
Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.
1.
I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden,
Thou needest not fear mine;
My spirit is too deeply laden
Ever to burthen thine.
2.
I fear thy mien, thy tones, thy motion,
Thou needest not fear mine;
Innocent is the… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley To a SkylarkTo -Cancelled Passage of the Ode to Liberty Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. Within a cavern of man's trackless spirit
Is throned an Image, so intensely fair
That the adventurous thoughts that wander near it
Worship, and as they kneel, tremble and wear
The splendour of its… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: To the Mind of ManNote on Poems of 1820, by Mrs. Shelley We spent the latter part of the year 1819 in Florence, where Shelley passed several hours daily in the Gallery, and made various notes on its ancient works of art. His thoughts were a good deal taken up also by the project of a steamboat,… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: Pater OmnipotensNote on Poems of 1820, by Mrs. ShelleyFragment: To the Mind of Man Edited, published and here placed as the preceding. Thou living light that in thy rainbow hues
Clothest this naked world; and over Sea
And Earth and air, and all the shapes that be
In peopled darkness of this wondrous… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The CloudCancelled Passage of the Ode to LibertyTo a Skylark Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with "Prometheus Unbound" in the same year. There is a transcript in the Harvard manuscript. Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'Unrisen Splendour o...Fragment: To the Mind of ManFragment: Pater Omnipotens Edited from manuscript Shelley E 4 in the Bodleian Library, and published by Mr. C.D. Locock, "Examination" etc., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903. Here placed conjecturally amongst the compositions of 1820, but of uncertain date… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: Milton's SpiritFragment: Pater OmnipotensFragment: 'Unrisen Splendour of the Brightest Sun' Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun,
To rise upon our darkness, if the star
Now beckoning thee out of thy misty throne
Could thaw the clouds which wage an… Read more
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