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by Percy Bysshe Shelley Love's RoseOriginal Poetry by Victor and CazireEyes: A Fragment Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870; dated 1810. Included (four unpublished eight-line stanzas) in the Esdaile manuscript book.) How eloquent are eyes!
Not the rapt poet's frenzied lay
When the soul's wildest feelings… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley To DeathEyes: A FragmentLove's Rose Published (without title) by Hogg, "Life of Shelley", 1858; dated 1810. Included in the Esdaile manuscript book. 1.
Hopes, that swell in youthful breasts,
Live not through the waste of time!
Love's rose a host of thorns invests;
Cold, ungenial is the clime,
Where its honours… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The SolitaryLove's RoseTo Death Published (without title) by Hogg, "Life of Shelley", 1858; dated 1810. Included (under the title, "To Death") in the Esdaile manuscript book. Death! where is thy victory?
To triumph whilst I die,
To triumph whilst thine ebon wing
Enfolds my shuddering soul?
O Death! where is thy… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley A DialogueTo DeathThe Solitary Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870; dated 1810. Included in the Esdaile manuscript book. 1.
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude
To live alone, an isolated thing?
To see the busy beings round thee spring,
And care for none; in thy calm solitude,
A… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley In HorologiumThe SolitaryA Dialogue Published (without title) by Hogg, "Life of Shelley", 1858; dated 1809. Included in the Esdaile manuscript book. DEATH:
For my dagger is bathed in the blood of the brave,
I come, care-worn tenant of life, from the grave,
Where Innocence sleeps 'neath the peace-giving sod,
And… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment from the Wandering JewTo the Queen of My Heart Published as Shelley's by Medwin, "The Shelley Papers", 1833, and by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition; afterwards suppressed as of doubtful authenticity. 1.
Shall we roam, my love,
To the twilight grove,
When the moon is rising bright;
Oh… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Song from the Wandering JewTo the Queen of My HeartFragment from the Wandering Jew Published as Shelley's by Medwin, "Life of Shelley", 1847, 1 page 56. The Elements respect their Maker's seal!
Still Like the scathed pine tree's height,
Braving the tempests of the night
Have I 'scaped the flickering flame.
Like… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley To IantheFragment from the Wandering JewSong from the Wandering Jew Published as Shelley's by Medwin, "Life of Shelley", 1847, 1 page 58. See yon opening flower
Spreads its fragrance to the blast;
It fades within an hour,
Its decay is pale—is fast.
Paler is yon maiden;
Faster is her heart's decay;
Deep with… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley EveningSong from the Wandering JewTo Ianthe Published by Dowden, "Life of Shelley", 1887. Composed September, 1813. I love thee, Baby! for thine own sweet sake;
Those azure eyes, that faintly dimpled cheek,
Thy tender frame, so eloquently weak,
Love in the sternest heart of hate might wake;
But more when o'er… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley EpitaphiumA DialogueIn Horologium Published by Medwin, "Life of Shelley", 1847; dated 1809. Inter marmoreas Leonorae pendula colles
Fortunata nimis Machina dicit horas.
Quas MANIBUS premit illa duas insensa papillas
Cur mihi sit DIGITO tangere, amata, nefas?
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Wandering Jew's SoliloquyTo IantheEvening TO HARRIET. Published by Dowden, "Life of Shelley", 1887. Composed July 31, 1813. O thou bright Sun! beneath the dark blue line
Of western distance that sublime descendest,
And, gleaming lovelier as thy beams decline,
Thy million hues to every vapour lendest,
And… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley On Leaving London for WalesEveningThe Wandering Jew's Soliloquy Published (from the Esdaile manuscript book) by Bertram Dobell, 1887. Is it the Eternal Triune, is it He
Who dares arrest the wheels of destiny
And plunge me in the lowest Hell of Hells?
Will not the lightning's blast destroy my frame?
Will not… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment of a SonnetThe Wandering Jew's SoliloquyOn Leaving London for Wales Published (from the Esdaile manuscript book) by Dowden, "Life of Shelley", 1887; dated November, 1812. Hail to thee, Cambria! for the unfettered wind
Which from thy wilds even now methinks I feel,
Chasing the clouds that roll in wrath… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Devil's Walk
On Leaving London for Wales
Fragment of a Sonnet
FAREWELL TO NORTH DEVON.
Published (from the Esdaile manuscript book) by Dowden, "Life of Shelley", 1887; dated August, 1812.
Where man's profane and tainting hand
Nature's primaeval loveliness has marred,
And some few souls of the high bliss… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley SonnetFragment of a SonnetThe Devil's Walk A BALLAD. Published as a broadside by Shelley, 1812. 1.
Once, early in the morning, Beelzebub arose,
With care his sweet person adorning,
He put on his Sunday clothes. 2.
He drew on a boot to hide his hoof,
He drew on a glove to hide his claw,
His horns were… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sonnet
The Devil's Walk
Sonnet
On Launching Some Bottles Filled with Knowledge into the Bristol Channel.
Published from the Esdaile manuscript book by Dowden, "Life of Shelley", 1887; dated August, 1812.
Vessels of heavenly medicine! may the breeze
Auspicious waft your dark green forms to shore;
Safe may ye stem… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Harriet
Sonnet
Sonnet
To a Balloon Laden with Knowledge.
Published from the Esdaile manuscript book by Dowden, "Life of Shelley", 1887; dated August, 1812.
Bright ball of flame that through the gloom of even
Silently takest thine aethereal way,
And with surpassing glory dimm'st each ray
Twinkling amid the dark… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment of a Sonnet
Sonnet
To Harriet
Published, 5-13, by Forman, "Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1876; 58-69, by Shelley, "Notes to Queen Mab", 1813; and entire (from the Esdaile manuscript book) by Dowden, "Life of Shelley", 1887; dated 1812.
It is not blasphemy to hope that Heaven
More perfectly will give those… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Retrospect: Cwm Elan, 1812
To Harriet
Fragment of a Sonnet
To Harriet.
Published from the Esdaile manuscript book by Dowden, "Life of Shelley", 1887; dated August 1, 1812.
Ever as now with Love and Virtue's glow
May thy unwithering soul not cease to burn,
Still may thine heart with those pure thoughts o'erflow… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley On Robert Emmet's GraveFragment of a SonnetThe Retrospect: Cwm Elan, 1812 Published from the Esdaile manuscript book by Dowden, "Life of Shelley", 1887. A scene, which 'wildered fancy viewed
In the soul's coldest solitude,
With that same scene when peaceful love
Flings rapture's colour o'er the grove,
When… Read more
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