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by Percy Bysshe Shelley To -MutabilitySong Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. There is a transcript in the Harvard manuscript book. 1.
Rarely, rarely, comest thou,
Spirit of Delight!
Wherefore hast thou left me now
Many a day and night?
Many a weary night and day
'Tis since thou art fled away. 2.
How shall ever… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Fugitives
Song
To -
Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory—
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley To Emilia VivianiTo -The Fugitives Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems". 1824. 1.
The waters are flashing,
The white hail is dashing,
The lightnings are glancing,
The hoar-spray is dancing—
Away! The whirlwind is rolling,
The thunder is tolling,
The forest is swinging,
The minster bells ringing—… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley From the Arabic: An ImitationThe FugitivesTo Emilia Viviani Published, (1) by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824; (2, 1) by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862; (2, 2 and 3) by H. Buxton Forman, "Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1876. 1.
Madonna, wherefore hast thou sent to me
Sweet-basil and mignonette?… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley LinesTo Emilia VivianiFrom the Arabic: An Imitation Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. There is an intermediate draft amongst the Bodleian manuscripts. See Locock, "Examination", etc., 1903, page 13. 1.
My faint spirit was sitting in the light
Of thy looks, my love;
It panted for thee like the… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'I Stood Upon a Heav...Note on Poems of 1821, by Mrs. Shelley My task becomes inexpressibly painful as the year draws near that which sealed our earthly fate, and each poem, and each event it records, has a real or mysterious connection with the fatal catastrophe. I feel that I am incapable of putting… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'The Death Knell Is Ringing'Note on Poems of 1821, by Mrs. ShelleyFragment: 'I Stood Upon a Heaven-Cleaving Turret' I stood upon a heaven-cleaving turret
Which overlooked a wide Metropolis—
And in the temple of my heart my Spirit
Lay prostrate, and with parted lips did kiss
The dust of Desolations [… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: Beauty's HaloFragment: 'I Stood Upon a Heav...Fragment: 'The Death Knell Is Ringing' ('This reads like a study for "Autumn, A Dirge"' (Locock). Might it not
be part of a projected Fit v. of "The Fugitives"?—ED.) Published by Mr. C.D. Locock, "Examination", etc., 1903. The death knell is ringing
The… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: May the LimnerFragment: 'The Death Knell Is Ringing'Fragment: Beauty's Halo Published by Mr. C.D. Locock, "Examination", etc, 1903. Thy beauty hangs around thee like
Splendour around the moon—
Thy voice, as silver bells that strike
Upon
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: The False Laurel and the TrueFragment: Beauty's HaloFragment: May the Limner This and the three following Fragments were edited from manuscript Shelley D1 at the Bodleian Library and published by Mr. C.D. Locock, "Examination", etc., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903. They are printed here as belonging… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'O Thou Immortal Deity'Fragment: May the LimnerFragment: The False Laurel and the True Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. 'What art thou, Presumptuous, who profanest
The wreath to mighty poets only due,
Even whilst like a forgotten moon thou wanest?
Touch not those leaves… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'Great Spirit'Fragment: The False Laurel and the TrueFragment: 'O Thou Immortal Deity' Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition. O thou immortal deity
Whose throne is in the depth of human thought,
I do adjure thy power and thee
By all that man may be, by all that he is not,
By… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'The Rude Wind Is Singing'Fragment: 'O Thou Immortal Deity'Fragment: 'Great Spirit' Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870. Great Spirit whom the sea of boundless thought
Nurtures within its unimagined caves,
In which thou sittest sole, as in my mind,
Giving a voice to its… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'And That I Walk Thu...Fragment: 'Great Spirit'Fragment: 'The Rude Wind Is Singing' Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. The rude wind is singing
The dirge of the music dead;
The cold worms are clinging
Where kisses were lately fed.
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'When Soft Winds and...Fragment: 'The Rude Wind Is Singing'Fragment: 'And That I Walk Thus Proudly Crowned' Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. And that I walk thus proudly crowned withal
Is that 'tis my distinction; if I fall,
I shall not weep out of the vital day,
To-… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Time
From the Arabic: An Imitation
Lines
Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.
1.
Far, far away, O ye
Halcyons of Memory,
Seek some far calmer nest
Than this abandoned breast!
No news of your false spring
To my heart's winter bring,
Once having gone, in vain
Ye come again.
2.
Vultures, who build… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: RainFragment: 'And That I Walk Thu...Fragment: 'When Soft Winds and Sunny Skies' Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. When soft winds and sunny skies
With the green earth harmonize,
And the young and dewy dawn,
Bold as an unhunted fawn,
Up the windless heaven is gone,—… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment: Zephyrus the Awakener
Fragment: 'When Soft Winds and...
Fragment: Rain
Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870.
The gentleness of rain was in the wind.
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: The Lady of the SouthFragment: RainFragment: Zephyrus the Awakener Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870. Come, thou awakener of the spirit's ocean,
Zephyr, whom to thy cloud or cave
No thought can trace! speed with thy gentle motion!
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'I Faint, I Perish w...Fragment: Zephyrus the AwakenerFragment: The Lady of the South Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870. Faint with love, the Lady of the South
Lay in the paradise of Lebanon
Under a heaven of cedar boughs: the drouth
Of love was on her lips; the light… Read more
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