Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 in Sussex, England, to a wealthy, politically conservative family—a background he would spend most of his life pushing against. In 1811, he got expelled from Oxford for co-authoring a pamphlet titled *The Necessity of Atheism*, which reveals a lot about who he was at just nineteen.…
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—BEREAVEMENT.
—ON THE DARK HEIGHT OF JURA.
—SISTER ROSA: A BALLAD.
—ST. IRVYNE’S TOWER.
—The Drowned Lover: Song. 1811; The Lake-Storm, Rossetti, 1870.
—THE DROWNED LOVER.
—VICTORIA.
): the jeweller, the toyman, the actor gains fame and wealth by the
). Rossetti proposes interminable, or inexterminable.
& J. Ollier in the spring of 1822. A transcript of the poem by
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A BALLAD.
A BRIDAL SONG.
A CHAMBER IN THE VATICAN.
A CONVERSATION.
A DIALOGUE.
A DIRGE.
A FOREST. IN THE BACKGROUND A CAVE.
A FRAGMENT.
A GARDEN OF THE CENCI PALACE.
A HALL OF THE PRISON.
A HATE-SONG.
A LAMENT.
A LYRICAL DRAMA.
A MODERN ECLOGUE.
A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM.
A PHILOSOPHICAL POEM, WITH NOTES.
A PINNACLE OF ROCK AMONG MOUNTAINS.
A POEM IN TWELVE CANTOS.
A SATYRIC DRAMA TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF EURIPIDES.
A SERPENT-FACE.
A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS.
A VISION OF THE SEA.
ACT 1.
ADAPTED FROM THE VITA NUOVA OF DANTE.
ADONAIS.
ADVERTISEMENT.
ALSO ST. JOHN, WITH SOME GENTLEMEN OF THE INNS OF COURT.
Amongst the late Mr. Fredk. Locker-Lampson’s collections at
AN ALLEGORY.
AN APARTMENT IN THE CASTLE OF PETRELLA.
AN APARTMENT IN THE CASTLE.
AN APARTMENT IN THE CENCI PALACE.
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS,
AN ODE, WRITTEN OCTOBER, 1819,
AND CHARLOTTE CORDAY.
AND PANTHEA, BORNE IN THE CAR WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE HOUR.
AND THERE THOU SHALT SERVE OTHER GODS, WHICH NEITHER THOU NOR THY
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE PRECEDING.
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME.
APOLLO STANDS BESIDE HIM.
APRIL 30, 1810.
ARETHUSA.
ASIA, ALONE.
AUDISNE HAEC AMPHIARAE, SUB TERRAM ABDITE?
AUGUST, 1810.
B. Ten years later a reprint ‘in exact facsimile’ of the Pisa
BEFORE THE CASTLE OF PETRELLA.
BRISTOL CHANNEL.
BULLS, AND ARRANGE THEMSELVES QUIETLY BEHIND THE ALTAR. THE IMAGE OF
BUONA NOTTE.
BY MICHING MALLECHO, ESQ.
CANCELLED FRAGMENTS OF JULIAN AND MADDALO.
CANCELLED FRAGMENTS OF THE ODE TO HEAVEN.
CANCELLED OPENING OF THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE.
CANCELLED OPENING.
CANCELLED PASSAGE OF MONT BLANC.
CANCELLED PASSAGE OF THE ODE TO LIBERTY.
CANCELLED PASSAGE.
CANCELLED STANZA OF THE MASK OF ANARCHY.
CANCELLED STANZA.
CHARLES THE FIRST.
CHORUS OF PRIESTS, ACCOMPANIED BY THE COURT PORKMAN ON MARROW-BONES
CLARIN AND MOSCON AS POOR SCHOLARS, WITH BOOKS.
Comma added at end of line:
Comma added elsewhere:
COMMUNICATES ITSELF TO THOSE WITHIN. DURING THE FIRST STROPHE, THE
CONCLUSION.
CONSTANTINOPLE.
Copies exist in the Harvard manuscript book, amongst the Boscombe
D. Locock’s “Examination”, etc., 1903, page 63.]
D., was issued by John Lane, in 1898. The punctuation of the original
DAMNATION.
DEATH.
DEDICATION, TO LEIGH HUNT, ESQ.
DEDICATION.
DESPAIR.
DIRGE FOR THE YEAR.
DOUBLE DAMNATION.
Dowden and Woodberry print rightly which also appears in Forman’s
DREAM
ENTER BERNARDO.
ENTER CENCI, LUCRETIA, BEATRICE, ORSINO, CAMILLO, NOBLES.
ENTER MAMM0N, THE ARCH-PRIEST,
ENTER ORSINO AND GIACOMO.
ENTER PURGANAX.
ENTER SWELLFOOT, IN HIS ROYAL ROBES, WITHOUT PERCEIVING THE PIGS.
ENTER THREE ARCHANGELS.
EPIGRAMS.
EPIPSYCHIDION.
EPITAPH.
EPITAPHIUM.
FAREWELL TO NORTH DEVON.
FAUST, MEPHISTOPHELES.
FEELINGS OF A REPUBLICAN ON THE FALL OF BONAPARTE.
FIORDISPINA.
FRAGMENT FROM THE WANDERING JEW.
FRAGMENT OF A GHOST STORY.
FRAGMENT OF A SATIRE ON SATIRE.
FRAGMENT ON KEATS.
FRAGMENT, OR THE TRIUMPH OF CONSCIENCE.
FRAGMENT.
FRAGMENTS CONNECTED WITH EPIPSYCHIDION.
FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED DRAMA.
FRAGMENTS SUPPOSED TO BE PARTS OF OTHO.
FRAGMENTS WRITTEN FOR HELLAS.
FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS.
FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO.
FROM THE GREEK.
FROM THE ITALIAN OF CAVALCANTI.
FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE.
FROM THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF THE POEM TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.
FROM THE PURGATORIO OF DANTE, CANTO 28, LINES 1-51.
FROM THE SPANISH OF CALDERON.
Full stop added elsewhere:
GHASTA OR, THE AVENGING DEMON!!!
GIACOMO ALONE.
GINEVRA.
GOOD-NIGHT.
GRACE.
HAMPDEN, PYM, CROMWELL, HIS DAUGHTER, AND YOUNG SIR HARRY VANE.
He had been advised by a physician to live as much as possible in
HEAVEN.
HELL.
HELLAS.
HER OWN WORDS.
HOPE.
HYMN OF APOLLO.
HYMN OF PAN.
HYMN TO MERCURY. TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER.
I have excluded “The Wandering Jew”, having failed to satisfy
IN HOROLOGIUM.
INDIAN YOUTH AND LADY.
INFERNO 33, 22-75.
INTRODUCED BY A SERVANT,
INVOCATION TO MISERY.
JANUARY, 1810.
JULIAN AND MADDALO.
KNEELS ON THE STEPS OF THE ALTAR, AND SPEAKS IN TONES AT FIRST FAINT
LECHLADE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
LETTER TO MARIA GISBORNE.
LIBERTY.
LINES TO A CRITIC.
LINES TO A REVIEWER.
LINES WRITTEN AMONG THE EUGANEAN HILLS.
LINES WRITTEN DURING THE CASTLEREAGH ADMINISTRATION.
LINES WRITTEN IN THE BAY OF LERICI.
LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI.
LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON.
LINES.
LIST OF PUNCTUAL VARIATIONS.
LOVE, HOPE, DESIRE, AND FEAR.
LOVE.
Maglian called; and after dinner, and while walking with him on the
MARENGHI.
MARY W. SHELLEY.
MARZIO IS LED IN.
MELODY TO A SCENE OF FORMER TIMES.
MICHING MALLECHO.
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
MUSIC.
MUTABILITY.
O, FOLLOW, FOLLOW!
ODE TO HEAVEN.
ODE TO LIBERTY.
ODE TO NAPLES.
ODE TO THE WEST WIND.
ON A FADED VIOLET.
ON AN ICICLE THAT CLUNG TO THE GRASS OF A GRAVE.
ON DEATH.
ON FANNY GODWIN.
ON LAUNCHING SOME BOTTLES FILLED WITH KNOWLEDGE INTO THE BRISTOL CHANNEL.
ON LEAVING LONDON FOR WALES.
ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY.
ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI.
ORPHEUS.
OTHO.
OZYMANDIAS.
PASSAGES OF THE POEM, OR CONNECTED THEREWITH.
PASSAGES OF THE POEM.
PASSAGES OF THE PREFACE.
PERCY B. SHELLEY.
PETER BELL THE THIRD.
PIGNA, A MINISTER.
POEMS FROM ST. IRVYNE, OR, THE ROSICRUCIAN.
POEMS WRITTEN IN 1817.
POSTHUMOUS FRAGMENTS OF MARGARET MCHOLSON.
POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839.
POSTSCRIPT.
PRINCE ATHANASE.
PROM THE GREEK OF BION.
PROMETHEUS UNBOUND.
PRYNNE AS A PRISONER, AND THEN BASTWICK.
PUNCTUAL VARIATIONS.
RAIN.
RAVINE IS SPLIT, AND THE PHANTASM OF JUPITER RISES, SURROUNDED BY
REMEMBRANCE.
REVENGE.
ROSALIND AND HELEN.
SAINT EDMOND’S EVE.
SCENE 2.
SCENES FROM THE FAUST OF GOETHE.
SHAKESPEARE.
SHOWING THE VARIOUS PRINTED SOURCES OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS EDITION.
SIMILES FOR TWO POLITICAL CHARACTERS OF 1819.
SIN.
SONG FROM THE WANDERING JEW.
SONG OF PROSERPINE WHILE GATHERING FLOWERS ON THE PLAIN OF ENNA.
SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND.
SONG.
SONNET TO BYRON.
SONNET.
SONNET. FROM THE ITALIAN OF CAVALCANTI.
SONNET. FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE.
SORROW.
SPURS, AND A HUNTING-CAP, BUCKISHLY COCKED ON ONE SIDE, AND TUCKING UP
STANZA FROM A TRANSLATION OF THE MARSEILLAISE HYMN.
STANZA, WRITTEN AT BRACKNELL.
STANZA.
STANZAS 1 AND 2.
STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, NEAR NAPLES.
STROPHE 1.
STROPHE 2.
SUMMER AND WINTER.
SUPPOSED TO BE ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM GODWIN.
SYMPHONY.
THE AUTHOR.
THE AZIOLA.
THE BAG
THE BIRTH OF PLEASURE.
THE BOAT ON THE SERCHIO.
THE CAR PAUSES WITHIN A CLOUD ON THE TOP OF A SNOWY MOUNTAIN.
THE CAVE OF DEMOGORGON.
THE CENCI.
THE CLOUD.
THE DAEMON GOES OUT AT ONE DOOR,
THE DAEMON TEMPTS JUSTINA, WHO IS A CHRISTIAN.
THE DEVIL.
THE DIRGE.
THE ENCHANTRESS COMES FORTH.
THE FALSE LAUREL AND THE TRUE.
THE FUGITIVES.
THE INDIAN SERENADE.
THE IRISHMAN’S SONG.
THE ISLE.
THE MAGNETIC LADY TO HER PATIENT.
THE MASK OF ANARCHY.
THE MASQUE OF THE INNS OF COURT.
THE PAST.
THE PINE FOREST OF THE CASCINE NEAR PISA.
THE REVOLT OF ISLAM.
THE SAME.
THE SENSITIVE PLANT.
THE SOLITARY.
THE SPECTRAL HORSEMAN.
THE SUNSET.
THE TOWER OF FAMINE.
THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE.
THE UPPER END OF THE TEMPLE.
THE WANING MOON.
THE WITCH OF ATLAS.
THE WOODMAN AND THE NIGHTINGALE.
THE ZUCCA.
There is a copy amongst the Shelley manuscripts at the Bodleian
THERE IS NO WORK, NOR DEVICE, NOR KNOWLEDGE, NOR WISDOM,
THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A.
TIME LONG PAST.
TIME.
TO A BALLOON LADEN WITH KNOWLEDGE.
TO A SKYLARK.
TO A STAR.
TO CONSTANTIA, SINGING.
TO CONSTANTIA.
TO DEATH.
TO EDWARD WILLIAMS.
TO EMILIA VIVIANI.
TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839.
TO HARRIET.
TO IANTHE.
TO IRELAND.
TO MARY
TO MARY SHELLEY.
TO MARY WHO DIED IN THIS OPINION.
TO MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN.
TO NIGHT.
TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
TO THE MOON.
TO THE MOONBEAM.
TO THE NILE.
TO THE QUEEN OF MY HEART.
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF NORTH AMERICA.
TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824.
TO THOMAS BROWN, ESQ., THE YOUNGER, H.F.
TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.
TO WORDSWORTH.
TO-MORROW.
TRANSLATED BY MEDWIN AND CORRECTED BY SHELLEY.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.
TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN.
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL DORIC.
TRANSLATIONS.
TWO YOUNG FAUNS ARE SITTING ON A ROCK LISTENING.
UGOLINO.
UNCANCELLED PASSAGE.
UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED?
VARIATION OF THE SONG OF THE MOON.
VERSES ON A CAT.
WAR.
WITH A GUITAR, TO JANE.
WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE MASSACRE AT MANCHESTER.