
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
By Percy Bysshe ShelleyLength40h 43m
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Most of Shelley's poetry reveals his philosophy, a combination of belief in the power of human love and reason, and faith in the perfectibility and ultimate progress of man. His lyric poems are superb in their beauty, grandeur and mastery of language.
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1PREFACE.
219A VISION OF THE SEA.
2PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY
220THE CLOUD.
3POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839.
221TO A SKYLARK.
4PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY.
222ODE TO LIBERTY.
5THE DAEMON OF THE WORLD.
223CANCELLED PASSAGE OF THE ODE TO LIBERTY.
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6ALASTOR: OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE.
224TO —.
7ALASTOR: OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE.
225ARETHUSA.
8NOTE ON ALASTOR, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
226SONG OF PROSERPINE WHILE GATHERING FLOWERS ON THE PLAIN OF ENNA.
9THE REVOLT OF ISLAM.
227HYMN OF APOLLO.
10DEDICATION.
228HYMN OF PAN.
11CANTO 1.
229THE QUESTION.
12CANTO 2.
230THE TWO SPIRITS: AN ALLEGORY.
13CANTO 3.
231ODE TO NAPLES.
14CANTO 4.
232AUTUMN: A DIRGE.
15CANTO 5.
233THE WANING MOON.
16CANTO 6.
234TO THE MOON.
17CANTO 7.
235DEATH.
18CANTO 8.
236LIBERTY.
19CANTO 9.
237SUMMER AND WINTER.
20CANTO 10.
238THE TOWER OF FAMINE.
21CANTO 11.
239AN ALLEGORY.
22CANTO 12.
240THE WORLD'S WANDERERS.
23NOTE ON THE "REVOLT OF ISLAM", BY MRS. SHELLEY.
241SONNET.
24PRINCE ATHANASE.
242LINES TO A REVIEWER.
25PART 2.
243FRAGMENT OF A SATIRE ON SATIRE.
26FRAGMENT 2.
244GOOD-NIGHT.
27FRAGMENT 3.
245BUONA NOTTE.
28FRAGMENT 4.
246ORPHEUS.
29FRAGMENT 5.
247FIORDISPINA.
30FRAGMENT 6.
248TIME LONG PAST.
31ANOTHER FRAGMENT (A)
249FRAGMENT: THE DESERTS OF DIM SLEEP.
32ANOTHER FRAGMENT (B)
250FRAGMENT: 'THE VIEWLESS AND INVISIBLE CONSEQUENCE'.
33ROSALIND AND HELEN.
251FRAGMENT: A SERPENT-FACE.
34ROSALIND, HELEN, AND HER CHILD.
252FRAGMENT: DEATH IN LIFE.
35NOTE BY MRS. SHELLEY.
253FRAGMENT: 'SUCH HOPE, AS IS THE SICK DESPAIR OF GOOD'.
36JULIAN AND MADDALO.
254FRAGMENT: 'ALAS! THIS IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT LIFE WAS'.
37CANCELLED FRAGMENTS OF JULIAN AND MADDALO.
255FRAGMENT: MILTON'S SPIRIT.
38NOTE BY MRS. SHELLEY.
256FRAGMENT: 'UNRISEN SPLENDOUR OF THE BRIGHTEST SUN'.
39PROMETHEUS UNBOUND.
257FRAGMENT: PATER OMNIPOTENS.
40PREFACE.
258FRAGMENT: TO THE MIND OF MAN.
41DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
259NOTE ON POEMS OF 1820, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
42ACT 1.
260POEMS WRITTEN IN 1821.
43ACT 2.
261DIRGE FOR THE YEAR.
44ACT 3.
262TO NIGHT.
45ACT 4.
263TIME.
46CANCELLED FRAGMENTS OF "PROMETHEUS UNBOUND".
264LINES.
47NOTE ON "PROMETHEUS UNBOUND", BY MRS. SHELLEY.
265FROM THE ARABIC: AN IMITATION.
48THE CENCI.
266TO EMILIA VIVIANI.
49DEDICATION, TO LEIGH HUNT, ESQ.
267THE FUGITIVES.
50THE CENCI.
268TO —.
51THE CENCI: A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS.
269SONG.
52DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
270MUTABILITY.
53ACT 1.
271LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON.
54ACT 2.
272SONNET: POLITICAL GREATNESS.
55ACT 3.
273THE AZIOLA.
56ACT 4.
274A LAMENT.
57ACT 5.
275REMEMBRANCE.
58NOTE ON THE CENCI, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
276TO EDWARD WILLIAMS.
59THE MASK OF ANARCHY.
277TO —.
60NOTE ON THE MASK OF ANARCHY, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
278TO —.
61PETER BELL THE THIRD.
279A BRIDAL SONG.
62PROLOGUE.
280EPITHALAMIUM.
63PART 1.
281ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME.
64PART 2.
282LOVE, HOPE, DESIRE, AND FEAR.
65PART 3.
283FRAGMENTS WRITTEN FOR HELLAS.
66PART 4.
284FRAGMENT: 'I WOULD NOT BE A KING'.
67PART 5.
285GINEVRA.
68PART 6.
286EVENING: PONTE AL MARE, PISA
69PART 7.
287THE BOAT ON THE SERCHIO.
70NOTE ON PETER BELL THE THIRD, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
288MUSIC.
71LETTER TO MARIA GISBORNE.
289SONNET TO BYRON.
72THE WITCH OF ATLAS.
290FRAGMENT: 'METHOUGHT I WAS A BILLOW IN THE CROWD'.
73TO MARY (ON HER OBJECTING TO THE FOLLOWING POEM, UPON THE SCORE OF ITS CONTAINING NO HUMAN INTEREST).
291TO-MORROW.
74THE WITCH OF ATLAS.
292STANZA.
75NOTE ON THE WITCH OF ATLAS, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
293FRAGMENT: A WANDERER.
76OEDIPUS TYRANNUS
294FRAGMENT: LIFE ROUNDED WITH SLEEP.
77ACT 2.
295FRAGMENT: 'I FAINT, I PERISH WITH MY LOVE!'.
78NOTE ON OEDIPUS TYRANNUS, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
296FRAGMENT: THE LADY OF THE SOUTH.
79EPIPSYCHIDION.
297FRAGMENT: ZEPHYRUS THE AWAKENER.
80EPIPSYCHIDION.
298FRAGMENT: RAIN.
81FRAGMENTS CONNECTED WITH EPIPSYCHIDION.
299FRAGMENT: 'WHEN SOFT WINDS AND SUNNY SKIES'.
82THREE EARLY DRAFTS OF THE PREFACE.
300FRAGMENT: 'AND THAT I WALK THUS PROUDLY CROWNED'.
83PREFACE 2.
301FRAGMENT: 'THE RUDE WIND IS SINGING'.
84PREFACE 3.
302FRAGMENT: 'GREAT SPIRIT'.
85PASSAGES OF THE POEM, OR CONNECTED THEREWITH.
303FRAGMENT: 'O THOU IMMORTAL DEITY'.
86ADONAIS.
304FRAGMENT: THE FALSE LAUREL AND THE TRUE.
87ADONAIS.
305FRAGMENT: MAY THE LIMNER.
88CANCELLED PASSAGES OF ADONAIS.
306FRAGMENT: BEAUTY'S HALO.
89PASSAGES OF THE POEM.
307FRAGMENT: 'THE DEATH KNELL IS RINGING'.
90HELLAS
308FRAGMENT: 'I STOOD UPON A HEAVEN-CLEAVING TURRET'.
91TO HIS EXCELLENCY
309NOTE ON POEMS OF 1821, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
92PREFACE.
310POEMS WRITTEN IN 1822.
93PROLOGUE TO HELLAS.
311THE ZUCCA.
94HELLAS.
312THE MAGNETIC LADY TO HER PATIENT.
95NOTES.
313LINES: 'WHEN THE LAMP IS SHATTERED'.
96FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED DRAMA.
314TO JANE: THE INVITATION.
97SCENE.—BEFORE THE CAVERN OF THE INDIAN ENCHANTRESS.
315TO JANE: THE RECOLLECTION.
98CHARLES THE FIRST.
316THE PINE FOREST OF THE CASCINE NEAR PISA.
99SCENE 2: A CHAMBER IN WHITEHALL. ENTER THE KING, QUEEN, LAUD, LORD STRAFTORD, LORD COTTINGTON, AND OTHER LORDS; ARCHY; ALSO ST. JOHN, WITH SOME GENTLEMEN OF THE INNS OF COURT.
317WITH A GUITAR, TO JANE.
100SCENE 3: THE STAR CHAMBER. LAUD, JUXON, STRAFFORD, AND OTHERS, AS JUDGES. PRYNNE AS A PRISONER, AND THEN BASTWICK.
318TO JANE: 'THE KEEN STARS WERE TWINKLING'.
101SCENE 4: HAMPDEN, PYM, CROMWELL, HIS DAUGHTER, AND YOUNG SIR HARRY VANE.
319A DIRGE.
102SCENE 5:
320LINES WRITTEN IN THE BAY OF LERICI.
103THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE.
321LINES: 'WE MEET NOT AS WE PARTED'.
104CANCELLED OPENING OF THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE.
322THE ISLE.
105EARLY POEMS [1814, 1815].
323FRAGMENT: TO THE MOON.
106STANZA, WRITTEN AT BRACKNELL.
324EPITAPH.
107STANZAS.—APRIL, 1814.
325NOTE ON POEMS OF 1822, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
108TO HARRIET.
326EDITOR'S NOTES.
109TO MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN.
327BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF EDITIONS.
110MUTABILITY.
328INDEX OF FIRST LINES.
111ON DEATH.
329TRANSLATIONS.
112A SUMMER EVENING CHURCHYARD.
330HYMN TO MERCURY.
113TO —.
331HOMER'S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX.
114TO WORDSWORTH.
332HOMER'S HYMN TO THE MOON.
115FEELINGS OF A REPUBLICAN ON THE FALL OF BONAPARTE.
333HOMER'S HYMN TO THE SUN.
116LINES.
334HOMER'S HYMN TO THE EARTH: MOTHER OF ALL.
117NOTE ON THE EARLY POEMS, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
335HOMER'S HYMN TO MINERVA.
118POEMS WRITTEN IN 1816.
336HOMER'S HYMN TO VENUS.
119THE SUNSET.
337THE CYCLOPS.
120HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY.
338EPIGRAMS.
121MONT BLANC.
3391.—TO STELLA.
122CANCELLED PASSAGE OF MONT BLANC.
3402.—KISSING HELENA.
123FRAGMENT: HOME.
3413.—SPIRIT OF PLATO.
124FRAGMENT OF A GHOST STORY.
3424.—CIRCUMSTANCE.
125NOTE ON POEMS OF 1816, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
343FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF ADONIS.
126POEMS WRITTEN IN 1817.
344FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION.
127MARIANNE'S DREAM.
345FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS.
128TO CONSTANTIA, SINGING.
346PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR.
129STANZAS 1 AND 2.
347FROM VERGIL'S TENTH ECLOGUE.
130FRAGMENT: TO ONE SINGING.
348THE SAME.
131A FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC.
349FROM VERGIL'S FOURTH GEORGIC.
132ANOTHER FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC.
350SONNET.
133'MIGHTY EAGLE'.
351THE FIRST CANZONE OF THE CONVITO.
134TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
352MATILDA GATHERING FLOWERS.
135TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.
353FRAGMENT.
136FROM THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF THE POEM TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.
354UGOLINO.
137ON FANNY GODWIN.
355SONNET.
138LINES.
356SCENES FROM THE MAGICO PRODIGIOSO.
139DEATH.
357SCENE 2.
140OTHO.
358SCENE 3.
141FRAGMENTS SUPPOSED TO BE PARTS OF OTHO.
359STANZAS FROM CALDERON'S CISMA DE INGLATERRA.
142'O THAT A CHARIOT OF CLOUD WERE MINE'.
360SCENES FROM THE FAUST OF GOETHE.
143FRAGMENT: TO A FRIEND RELEASED FROM PRISON.
361SCENE 2.—MAY-DAY NIGHT.
144FRAGMENT: SATAN BROKEN LOOSE.
362JUVENILIA.
145FRAGMENT: "IGNICULUS DESIDERII".
363QUEEN MAB.
146FRAGMENT: "AMOR AETERNUS".
364TO HARRIET *****.
147FRAGMENT: THOUGHTS COME AND GO IN SOLITUDE.
365QUEEN MAB.
148A HATE-SONG.
366NOTES ON QUEEN MAB.
149LINES TO A CRITIC.
367SHELLEY'S NOTES.
150OZYMANDIAS.
368NOTE ON QUEEN MAB, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
151NOTE ON POEMS OF 1817, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
369FRAGMENT: OMENS.
152POEMS WRITTEN IN 1818.
370EPITAPHIUM.
153TO THE NILE.
371IN HOROLOGIUM.
154PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES.
372A DIALOGUE.
155THE PAST.
373TO THE MOONBEAM.
156TO MARY —.
374THE SOLITARY.
157ON A FADED VIOLET.
375TO DEATH.
158LINES WRITTEN AMONG THE EUGANEAN HILLS.
376LOVE'S ROSE.
159SCENE FROM 'TASSO'.
377EYES: A FRAGMENT.
160SONG FOR 'TASSO'.
378ORIGINAL POETRY BY VICTOR AND CAZIRE.
161INVOCATION TO MISERY.
3793. SONG.
162STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, NEAR NAPLES.
3804. SONG.
163THE WOODMAN AND THE NIGHTINGALE.
3815. SONG.
164SONNET.
3826. SONG.
165FRAGMENT: TO BYRON.
3837. SONG.
166FRAGMENT: APOSTROPHE TO SILENCE.
3848. SONG.
167FRAGMENT: THE LAKE'S MARGIN.
3859. SONG.
168FRAGMENT: 'MY HEAD IS WILD WITH WEEPING'.
38610. THE IRISHMAN'S SONG.
169FRAGMENT: THE VINE-SHROUD.
38711. SONG.
170NOTE ON POEMS OF 1818, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
38812. SONG.
171POEMS WRITTEN IN 1819.
38913. SONG.
172LINES WRITTEN DURING THE CASTLEREAGH ADMINISTRATION.
39014. SAINT EDMOND'S EVE.
173SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND.
39115. REVENGE.
174SIMILES FOR TWO POLITICAL CHARACTERS OF 1819.
39216. GHASTA OR, THE AVENGING DEMON!!!
175FRAGMENT: TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.
39317. FRAGMENT, OR THE TRIUMPH OF CONSCIENCE.
176A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM.
394POEMS FROM ST. IRVYNE, OR, THE ROSICRUCIAN.
177SONNET: ENGLAND IN 1819.
3951.—VICTORIA.
178AN ODE, WRITTEN OCTOBER, 1819, BEFORE THE SPANIARDS HAD RECOVERED THEIR LIBERTY.
3962.—ON THE DARK HEIGHT OF JURA.
179CANCELLED STANZA.
3973.—SISTER ROSA: A BALLAD.
180ODE TO HEAVEN.
3984.—ST. IRVYNE'S TOWER.
181CANCELLED FRAGMENTS OF THE ODE TO HEAVEN.
3995.—BEREAVEMENT.
182ODE TO THE WEST WIND.
4006.—THE DROWNED LOVER.
183AN EXHORTATION.
401POSTHUMOUS FRAGMENTS OF MARGARET MCHOLSON.
184THE INDIAN SERENADE.
402WAR.
185CANCELLED PASSAGE.
403FRAGMENT: SUPPOSED TO BE AN EPITHALAMIUM OF FRANCIS RAVAILLAC AND CHARLOTTE CORDAY.
186TO SOPHIA [MISS STACEY].
404DESPAIR.
187TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.
405FRAGMENT.
188TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.
406THE SPECTRAL HORSEMAN.
189TO MARY SHELLEY.
407MELODY TO A SCENE OF FORMER TIMES.
190TO MARY SHELLEY.
408STANZA FROM A TRANSLATION OF THE MARSEILLAISE HYMN.
191ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY.
409BIGOTRY'S VICTIM.
192LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY.
410ON AN ICICLE THAT CLUNG TO THE GRASS OF A GRAVE.
193FRAGMENT: 'FOLLOW TO THE DEEP WOOD'S WEEDS'.
411LOVE.
194THE BIRTH OF PLEASURE.
412ON A FETE AT CARLTON HOUSE: FRAGMENT.
195FRAGMENT: LOVE THE UNIVERSE TO-DAY.
413TO A STAR.
196FRAGMENT: 'A GENTLE STORY OF TWO LOVERS YOUNG'.
414TO MARY WHO DIED IN THIS OPINION.
197FRAGMENT: LOVE'S TENDER ATMOSPHERE.
415A TALE OF SOCIETY AS IT IS: FROM FACTS, 1811.
198FRAGMENT: WEDDED SOULS.
416TO THE REPUBLICANS OF NORTH AMERICA.
199FRAGMENT: 'IS IT THAT IN SOME BRIGHTER SPHERE'.
417TO IRELAND.
200FRAGMENT: SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY.
418ON ROBERT EMMET'S GRAVE.
201FRAGMENT: 'YE GENTLE VISITATIONS OF CALM THOUGHT'.
419THE RETROSPECT: CWM ELAN, 1812.
202FRAGMENT: MUSIC AND SWEET POETRY.
420FRAGMENT OF A SONNET.
203FRAGMENT: THE SEPULCHRE OF MEMORY.
421TO HARRIET.
204FRAGMENT: 'WHEN A LOVER CLASPS HIS FAIREST'.
422SONNET.
205FRAGMENT: 'WAKE THE SERPENT NOT'.
423SONNET.
206FRAGMENT: RAIN.
424THE DEVIL'S WALK.
207FRAGMENT: A TALE UNTOLD.
425FRAGMENT OF A SONNET.
208FRAGMENT: TO ITALY.
426ON LEAVING LONDON FOR WALES.
209FRAGMENT: WINE OF THE FAIRIES.
427THE WANDERING JEW'S SOLILOQUY.
210FRAGMENT: A ROMAN'S CHAMBER.
428EVENING.
211FRAGMENT: ROME AND NATURE.
429TO IANTHE.
212VARIATION OF THE SONG OF THE MOON.
430SONG FROM THE WANDERING JEW.
213CANCELLED STANZA OF THE MASK OF ANARCHY.
431FRAGMENT FROM THE WANDERING JEW.
214NOTE ON POEMS OF 1819, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
432TO THE QUEEN OF MY HEART.
215POEMS WRITTEN IN 1820.
433NOTES ON THE TEXT AND ITS PUNCTUATION.
216THE SENSITIVE PLANT.
434PROMETHEUS UNBOUND.
217PART 2.
435THE MASK OF ANARCHY.
218CANCELLED PASSAGE.