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by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'Alas! This Is Not W...Fragment: 'Unrisen Splendour o...Fragment: Milton's Spirit Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870. I dreamed that Milton's spirit rose, and took
From life's green tree his Uranian lute;
And from his touch sweet thunder flowed, and shook
All human… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'Such Hope, As Is th...Fragment: Milton's SpiritFragment: 'Alas! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was' Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. This fragment is joined by Forman with that immediately preceding. Alas! this is not what I thought life was.
I knew that there were… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: Death in LifeFragment: 'Alas! This Is Not W...Fragment: 'Such Hope, As Is the Sick Despair of Good' Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. Such hope, as is the sick despair of good,
Such fear, as is the certainty of ill,
Such doubt, as is pale Expectation's food
Turned while she tastes… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: A Serpent-FaceFragment: 'Such Hope, As Is th...Fragment: Death in Life Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. My head is heavy, my limbs are weary,
And it is not life that makes me move.
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: 'The Viewless and In...Fragment: Death in LifeFragment: A Serpent-Face Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870. His face was like a snake's—wrinkled and loose
And withered—
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: The Deserts of Dim SleepFragment: A Serpent-FaceFragment: 'The Viewless and Invisible Consequence' Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870. The viewless and invisible Consequence
Watches thy goings-out, and comings-in,
And...hovers o'er thy guilty sleep,
Unveiling every new-… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Time Long PastFragment: 'The Viewless and In...Fragment: The Deserts of Dim Sleep Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870. I went into the deserts of dim sleep—
That world which, like an unknown wilderness,
Bounds this with its recesses wide and deep—
by Percy Bysshe Shelley FiordispinaFragment: The Deserts of Dim SleepTime Long Past Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870. This is one of three poems (cf. "Love's Philosophy" and "Good-Night") transcribed by Shelley in a copy of Leigh Hunt's "Literary Pocket-Book" for 1819 presented by him to Miss Sophia… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley A Vision of the SeaTo a SkylarkThe Cloud Published with "Prometheus Unbound", 1820. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
The sweet buds every one,
When… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley OrpheusTime Long PastFiordispina Published in part (lines 11-30) by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824; in full (from the Boscombe manuscript) by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. The season was the childhood of sweet June,
Whose sunny hours from morning until noon
Went creeping through the day with… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Buona NotteFiordispinaOrpheus Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862; revised and enlarged by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870. A:
Not far from hence. From yonder pointed hill,
Crowned with a ring of oaks, you may behold
A dark and barren field, through which there flows,… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Good-NightOrpheusBuona Notte Published by Medwin, "The Angler in Wales, or Days and Nights of Sportsmen", 1834. The text is revised by Rossetti from the Boscombe manuscript. 1.
'Buona notte, buona notte!'—Come mai
La notte sara buona senza te?
Non dirmi buona notte,—che tu sai,
La notte sa star buona da per se… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment of a Satire on SatireBuona NotteGood-Night Published by Leigh Hunt over the signature Sigma, "The Literary Pocket-Book", 1822. It is included in the Harvard manuscript book, and there is a transcript by Shelley in a copy of "The Literary Pocket-Book", 1819, presented by him to Miss Sophia Stacey,… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Lines to a ReviewerGood-NightFragment of a Satire on Satire Published by Edward Dowden, "Correspondence of Robert Southey and Caroline Bowles", 1880. If gibbets, axes, confiscations, chains,
And racks of subtle torture, if the pains
Of shame, of fiery Hell's tempestuous wave,
Seen through the caverns of the… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley SonnetFragment of a Satire on SatireLines to a Reviewer Published by Leigh Hunt, "The Literary Pocket-Book", 1823. These lines, and the "Sonnet" immediately preceding, are signed Sigma in the "Literary Pocket-Book". Alas, good friend, what profit can you see
In hating such a hateless thing as me?
There is no… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The World's Wanderers
Lines to a Reviewer
Sonnet
Published by Leigh Hunt, "The Literary Pocket-Book", 1823. There is a transcript amongst the Ollier manuscripts, and another in the Harvard manuscript book.
Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there,
Ye restless thoughts and busy purposes
Of the idle brain, which… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley An AllegorySonnetThe World's Wanderers Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. 1.
Tell me, thou Star, whose wings of light
Speed thee in thy fiery flight,
In what cavern of the night
Will thy pinions close now? 2.
Tell me, Moon, thou pale and gray
Pilgrim of Heaven's homeless way,
In what depth… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Tower of FamineThe World's WanderersAn Allegory Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. 1.
A portal as of shadowy adamant
Stands yawning on the highway of the life
Which we all tread, a cavern huge and gaunt;
Around it rages an unceasing strife
Of shadows, like the restless clouds that haunt… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Summer and WinterAn AllegoryThe Tower of Famine Published by Mrs. Shelley in "The Keepsake", 1829. Mr. C.W. Frederickson of Brooklyn possesses a transcript in Mrs. Shelley's handwriting. Amid the desolation of a city,
Which was the cradle, and is now the grave
Of an extinguished people,—so that Pity Weeps o'… Read more
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Sensitive PlantThe CloudA Vision of the Sea Composed at Pisa early in 1820, and published with "Prometheus Unbound" in the same year. A transcript in Mrs. Shelley's handwriting is included in the Harvard manuscript book, where it is dated 'April, 1820.' 'Tis the terror of tempest. The rags of the sail
Are… Read more
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