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by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'What Men Gain Fairly'.Sonnet: England in 1819A New National Anthem Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition. 1.
God prosper, speed,and save,
God raise from England's grave
Her murdered Queen!
Pave with swift victory
The steps of Liberty,
Whom Britons own to be
Immortal Queen… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: To the People of EnglandA New National AnthemFragment: 'What Men Gain Fairly'. (Perhaps connected with that immediately preceding (Forman).-ED.) Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition. What men gain fairly—that they should possess,
And children may inherit idleness,
From him… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Cancelled Stanza of the Mask of AnarchyNote on Poems of 1819, By Mrs. Shelley Shelley loved the People; and respected them as often more virtuous, as always more suffering, and therefore more deserving of sympathy, than the great. He believed that a clash between the two classes of society was inevitable, and he… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Variation of the Song of the MoonNote on Poems of 1819, By Mrs. ShelleyCancelled Stanza of the Mask of Anarchy Published by H. Buxton Forman, "The Mask of Anarchy" ("Facsimile of Shelley's manuscript"), 1887. (for which stanzas 68, 69 have been substituted.) From the cities where from caves,
Like the dead… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Similes for Two Political Char...Fragment: 'What Men Gain Fairly'.Fragment: To the People of England Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. People of England, ye who toil and groan,
Who reap the harvests which are not your own,
Who weave the clothes which your oppressors wear,
And for your own… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: Rome and NatureCancelled Stanza of the Mask of AnarchyVariation of the Song of the Moon Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. ("Prometheus Unbound", Act 4.) As a violet's gentle eye
Gazes on the azure sky
Until its hue grows like what it beholds;
As a gray and empty mist… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: A Roman's ChamberVariation of the Song of the MoonFragment: Rome and Nature Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition. Rome has fallen, ye see it lying
Heaped in undistinguished ruin:
Nature is alone undying.
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: Wine of the FairiesFragment: Rome and NatureFragment: A Roman's Chamber Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition. 1.
In the cave which wild weeds cover
Wait for thine aethereal lover;
For the pallid moon is waning,
O'er the spiral cypress hanging
And the moon no cloud is staining… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: To ItalyFragment: A Roman's ChamberFragment: Wine of the Fairies Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. I am drunk with the honey wine
Of the moon-unfolded eglantine,
Which fairies catch in hyacinth bowls.
The bats, the dormice, and the moles
Sleep in the walls or under the… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: A Tale UntoldFragment: Wine of the FairiesFragment: To Italy Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. As the sunrise to the night,
As the north wind to the clouds,
As the earthquake's fiery flight,
Ruining mountain solitudes,
Everlasting Italy,
Be those hopes and fears on thee.
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: RainFragment: To ItalyFragment: A Tale Untold Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition. One sung of thee who left the tale untold,
Like the false dawns which perish in the bursting;
Like empty cups of wrought and daedal gold,
Which mock the lips with air, when they are thirsting… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment: 'Wake the Serpent Not'
Fragment: A Tale Untold
Fragment: Rain
Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.
The fitful alternations of the rain,
When the chill wind, languid as with pain
Of its own heavy moisture, here and there
Drives through the gray and beamless atmosphere.
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'When a Lover Clasps...Fragment: RainFragment: 'Wake the Serpent Not' Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition. Wake the serpent not—lest he
Should not know the way to go,—
Let him crawl which yet lies sleeping
Through the deep grass of the meadow!
Not a bee shall hear him… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: The Sepulchre of MemoryFragment: 'Wake the Serpent Not'Fragment: 'When a Lover Clasps His Fairest' Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition. 1.
When a lover clasps his fairest,
Then be our dread sport the rarest.
Their caresses were like the chaff
In the tempest, and be our laugh… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: Music and Sweet PoetryFragment: 'When a Lover Clasps...Fragment: The Sepulchre of Memory Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. And where is truth? On tombs? for such to thee
Has been my heart—and thy dead memory
Has lain from childhood, many a changeful year,
Unchangingly… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Song to the Men of EnglandFragment: To the People of EnglandSimiles for Two Political Characters of 1819 Published by Medwin, "The Athenaeum", August 25, 1832; reprinted by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839. Our title is that of 1839, 2nd edition. The poem is found amongst the Harvard manuscripts, headed "To S… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'Ye Gentle Visitatio...Fragment: The Sepulchre of MemoryFragment: Music and Sweet Poetry Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition. How sweet it is to sit and read the tales
Of mighty poets and to hear the while
Sweet music, which when the attention fails
Fills the dim pause… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: Sufficient Unto the DayFragment: Music and Sweet PoetryFragment: 'Ye Gentle Visitations of Calm Thought' Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. Ye gentle visitations of calm thought—
Moods like the memories of happier earth,
Which come arrayed in thoughts of little worth,
Like… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'Is It That in Some ...Fragment: 'Ye Gentle Visitatio...Fragment: Sufficient Unto the Day Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. Is not to-day enough? Why do I peer
Into the darkness of the day to come?
Is not to-morrow even as yesterday?
And will the day that follows change thy doom?… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: Wedded SoulsFragment: Sufficient Unto the DayFragment: 'Is It That in Some Brighter Sphere' Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. Is it that in some brighter sphere
We part from friends we meet with here?
Or do we see the Future pass
Over the Present's dusky glass?
Or what is that that… Read more
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