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by Percy Bysshe Shelley LibertyThe Tower of FamineSummer and Winter Published by Mrs. Shelley in "The Keepsake", 1829. Mr. C.W. Frederickson of Brooklyn possesses a transcript in Mrs. Shelley's handwriting. It was a bright and cheerful afternoon,
Towards the end of the sunny month of June,
When the north wind congregates in crowds
The… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley DeathSummer and WinterLiberty Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. 1.
The fiery mountains answer each other;
Their thunderings are echoed from zone to zone;
The tempestuous oceans awake one another,
And the ice-rocks are shaken round Winter's throne,
When the clarion of the Typhoon is blown… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To the Moon
Liberty
Death
Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.
1.
Death is here and death is there,
Death is busy everywhere,
All around, within, beneath,
Above is death—and we are death.
2.
Death has set his mark and seal
On all we are and all we feel,
On all we know and all we fear,
...
3.… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Waning MoonDeathTo the Moon Published (1) by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824, (2) by W.M. Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works", 1870. 1.
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,—
And ever changing, like… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Autumn: A DirgeTo the MoonThe Waning Moon Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
The moon arose up in the murky East,
A white and… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to NaplesThe Waning MoonAutumn: A Dirge Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. 1.
The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing,
The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying,
And the Year
On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead,
Is lying.
Come, Months, come away… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Two Spirits: An AllegoryAutumn: A DirgeOde to Naples (The Author has connected many recollections of his visit to Pompeii
and Baiae with the enthusiasm excited by the intelligence of the
proclamation of a Constitutional Government at Naples. This has given a
tinge of picturesque and descriptive imagery to… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The QuestionOde to NaplesThe Two Spirits: An Allegory Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. FIRST SPIRIT:
O thou, who plumed with strong desire
Wouldst float above the earth, beware!
A Shadow tracks thy flight of fire—
Night is coming!
Bright are the regions of the air,
And among the winds and… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn of PanThe Two Spirits: An AllegoryThe Question Published by Leigh Hunt (with the signature Sigma) in "The Literary Pocket-Book", 1822. Reprinted by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. Copies exist in the Harvard manuscript book, amongst the Boscombe manuscripts, and amongst Ollier manuscripts. 1.
I… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn of ApolloThe QuestionHymn of Pan 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.
From the forests and highlands
We come, we come;
From the river-girt islands,
Where loud… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley A Vision of the SeaThe Sensitive PlantComposed at Pisa, early in 1820 (dated 'March, 1820,' in Harvard manuscript), and published, with "Prometheus Unbound", the same year: included in the Harvard College manuscript book. Reprinted in the "Poetical Works", 1839, both editions.Part 1Part 2Part 3ConclusionCancelled… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Conclusion
Cancelled Passage
This stanza followed 3, 62-65 in the editio princeps, 1820, but was omitted by Mrs. Shelley from all editions from 1839 onwards. It is cancelled in the Harvard manuscript.
Their moss rotted off them, flake by flake,
Till the thick stalk stuck like a murderer's stake,
Where rags of loose… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Part 3
Cancelled Passage
Conclusion
Whether the Sensitive Plant, or that
Which within its boughs like a Spirit sat,
Ere its outward form had known decay,
Now felt this change, I cannot say.
Whether that Lady's gentle mind,
No longer with the form combined
Which scattered love, as stars do light,
Found sadness,… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Part 2
Conclusion
Part 3
Three days the flowers of the garden fair,
Like stars when the moon is awakened, were,
Or the waves of Baiae, ere luminous
She floats up through the smoke of Vesuvius.
And on the fourth, the Sensitive Plant
Felt the sound of the funeral chant,
And the steps of the bearers, heavy and slow,… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Part 1
Part 3
Part 2
There was a Power in this sweet place,
An Eve in this Eden; a ruling Grace
Which to the flowers, did they waken or dream,
Was as God is to the starry scheme.
A Lady, the wonder of her kind,
Whose form was upborne by a lovely mind
Which, dilating, had moulded her mien and motion
Like a sea-… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Part 2
Part 1
A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light.
And closed them beneath the kisses of Night.
And the Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems Written in 1818Poems Written in 1820Poems Written in 1819Lines Written During the Castlereagh AdministrationSong to the Men of EnglandSimiles for Two Political Characters of 1819Fragment: To the People of EnglandFragment: 'What Men Gain Fairly'.A New National AnthemSonnet: England in 1819An Ode, Written October,… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley An Ode, Written October, 1819Ode to the West WindOde to Heaven Published with "Prometheus Unbound", 1820. Dated 'Florence, December, 1819' in Harvard manuscript (Woodberry). A transcript exists amongst the Shelley manuscripts at the Bodleian Library. See Mr. C.D. Locock's "Examination", etc., page 39. CHORUS OF… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Sonnet: England in 1819Ode to HeavenAn Ode, Written October, 1819 Before the Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty Published with "Prometheus Unbound", 1820. Arise, arise, arise!
There is blood on the earth that denies ye bread;
Be your wounds like eyes
To weep for the dead, the dead, the dead.
What other grief… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley A New National AnthemAn Ode, Written October, 1819Sonnet: England in 1819 Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,—
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring,—
Rulers who neither see, nor… Read more
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