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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: percy shelley Matches Found: 302 A BRIDAL SONG, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The golden gates of sleep [or, slumber] unbar Last Line: Come along! Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium A DIALOGUE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For my dagger is bathed in the blood of the brave Last Line: And I fear, dear destroyer, I shall not repine. A DIRGE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rough wind, that moanest loud Last Line: Wail, for the world's wrong. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A DREAM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I was a billow in the crowd Last Line: Gleamed like a pile of crags. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A FACE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His face was like a snake's - wrinkled and loose Last Line: And withered. Subject(s): Animals; Old Age; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers A GENTLE STORY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle story of two lovers young Last Line: From heaven, which none shall quench, to cheer the innocent? Subject(s): Innocence; Love A HATE-SONG, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hater he came and sat by a ditch Last Line: Gainst a woman that was a brute. Subject(s): Hate A LOST LEADER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head is wild with weeping for a grief Last Line: Among men's spirits should be cold and blind. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A ROMAN'S CHAMBER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cave which wild weeds cover Last Line: It was then a chasm for devils. Subject(s): Rome, Italy A SATIRE ON SATIRE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If gibbets, axes, confiscations, chains Last Line: Far better than to make innocent ink -- Subject(s): Southey, Robert (1774-1843) A SUMMER EVENING CHURCHYARD, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has swept from the wide atmosphere Last Line: That loveliest dreams perpetual watch did keep. A TALE OF SOCIETY AS IT IS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was an aged woman; and the years Last Line: Wake in this scene of legal misery. A VISION OF THE SEA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the terror of tempest. The rags of the sail Last Line: Whilst -- Subject(s): Sea; Ocean ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I weep for adonais -- he is dead Last Line: Beacons from the abode where the eternal are. Variant Title(s): Adonais Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Death; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ALAS! THIS IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT LIFE WAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ALASTOR; OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood! Last Line: Birth and the grave, that are not as they were. Variant Title(s): Invocation To Nature Subject(s): Immortality; Solitude; Loneliness AN ALLEGORY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A portal as of shadowy adamant Last Line: That shadows follow them where'er they go. AN EXHORTATION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chameleons feed on light and air Last Line: Oh, refuse the boon! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) AN ODE WRITTEN BEFORE THE SPANIARDS HAD RECOVERED LIBERTY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, arise, arise / there is blood on the earth that denies ye bread Last Line: Ye were injured, and that means memory. Variant Title(s): An Ode To The Assertors Of Liberty Subject(s): Freedom; Spain - History; Liberty ARETHUSA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arethusa arose / from her couch of snows Last Line: When they love but live no more. Subject(s): Alpheus; Arethusa AUTUMN: A DIRGE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing Last Line: And make her grave green with tear on tear. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall BEREAVEMENT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How stern are the woes of the desolate mourner Last Line: When woe fades away like the mist of the heath. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement BIGOTRY'S VICTIM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dares the lama, most fleet of the sons of the wind Last Line: What remains, but to curse him, -- to curse him and die? Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry CAUCASUS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fit throne for such a power! Magnificent! Last Line: Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now. Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians CAUCASUS (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight / the moon arose: and lo! The ethereal cliffs Last Line: Have spread their glories to the gaze of noon. Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians CHARLES THE FIRST, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Place for the marshal of the masque! Last Line: Except the mill-wheel's sound.' Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Church Of Scotland CONSEQUENCE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The viewless and invisible consequence Last Line: More ghastly than those deeds. CROWNED, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And that I walked thus proudly crowned withal Last Line: To-morrow dust, nor wear a dull decay. DAYBREAK, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day had awakened all things that be Last Line: From the lamp's death to the morning ray. Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise DEATH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They die - the dead return not - misery Last Line: These tombs, -- alone remain. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DESPAIR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And canst thou mock mine agony, thus calm Last Line: Cursing the power that ne'er made aught in vain. Subject(s): Despair DIRGE FOR THE YEAR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orphan hours, the year is dead Last Line: Follow with may's fairest flowers. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ELEGY ON THYRZA, SELS., by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion ENGLAND IN 1819, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king Last Line: Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: England In 1819 Subject(s): England; Hate; English EPIPSYCHIDION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet spirit! Sister of that orphan one Last Line: And come and be my guest -- for I am love's. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Sea; Viviani, Teresa Emilia; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Ocean EPITAPH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are two friends whose lives were undivided Last Line: For their two hearts in life were single-hearted. EPITHALAMIUM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, with all thine eyes look down! Last Line: Come along! Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium EPITHALAMIUM; ANOTHER VERSION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night! With all thine eyes look down! Last Line: May their children ever be! Subject(s): Wedding Song; Epithalamium EVENING, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou bright sun! Beneath the dark blue line Last Line: Pick flaws in our close-woven happiness. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING: PONTE A MARE, PISA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is set; the swallows are asleep Last Line: Which the keen evening star is shining through. Subject(s): Evening; Pisa, Italy; Sunset; Twilight EYES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How eloquent are eyes Last Line: Love, look thus again! Subject(s): Eyes FATAL VISION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say, when nights are dry and clean FEELINGS OF A REPUBLICAN ON THE FALL OF BONAPARTE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hated thee, fallen tyrant! I did groan Last Line: And bloody faith the foulest birth of time. Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) FFA, by RONALD BOYD KOERTGE Poem Source First Line: The girls are my favorites Last Line: School, another a essay riding inside %my percy shelley lunchbox FIORDISPINA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The season was the childhood of sweet june Last Line: The violet dies not till it' -- FOLLOW, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Follow to the deep wood's weeds Last Line: Of such work as I and you. FOR TRUTH AND WISDOM, FOREMOST OF THE BRAVE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography FRAGMENT (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, that a chariot of cloud were mine! Last Line: And the ... FRAGMENT (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! All is past - swift time has fled away Last Line: Can shriek in horror to the tempest's roar.' FRAGMENT (3), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When soft winds and sunny skies Last Line: Clouds and whirlwinds watch their prey. FRAGMENT OF A GHOST STORY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shovel of his ashes took Last Line: And her own spasm made her shake. FRAGMENT OF A SONNET TO HARRIET, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever as now with love and virtue's glow Last Line: Which force from mine such quick and warm return. Subject(s): Shelley, Harriet Westbrook FRAGMENT OF A SONNET. FAREWELL TO NORTH DEVON, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where man's profane and tainting hand Last Line: That load in grandeur cambria's emerald vales. Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Farewell; Parting FRAGMENT, SUPPOSED TO EPITHALAMIUM OF RAVAILLAC AND CORDAY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight now - athwart the murky air Last Line: I wake -- 't is done -- 't is o'er. Subject(s): Assassination; Corday, Charlotte (1768-1793); Ravaillac, Francois (1578-1610) FRAGMENT: AMOR AETERNUS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wealth and dominion fade into the mass Last Line: All that frail stuff which will be -- or which was. Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love FRAGMENT: THE VINE-SHROUD, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came like a dream in the dawn of life FROM THE ARABIC: AN IMITATION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My faint spirit was sitting in the light Last Line: It may bring to thee. GINEVRA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild, pale, and wonder-stricken, even as one Last Line: She shall sleep. GOOD NIGHT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good night? Ah! No; the hour is ill Last Line: They never say good-night. GREAT SPIRIT WHOM THE SEA OF BOUNDLESS THOUGHT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Giving a voice to its mysterious waves-- HE WANDERS, LIKE A DAY-APPEARING DREAM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HELLAS; A LYRICAL DRAMA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the day when all the sons of god Last Line: Oh, might it die or rest at last! Subject(s): Freedom; Greece; Liberty; Greeks HOME, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear home, thou scene of earliest hopes and joys Last Line: Bitterer than all thine unremembered tears. Subject(s): Home HOPE, FEAR, AND DOUBT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such hope, as is the sick despair of good Last Line: Is powerless, and the spirit ... HYMN OF APOLLO, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sleepless hours who watch me as I lie Last Line: Victory and praise in their own right belong. Variant Title(s): Song Of Appolo Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical HYMN OF PAN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the forests and highlands Last Line: At the sorrow of my sweet pipings. Variant Title(s): The Song Of Pan Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The awful shadow of some unseen power Last Line: To fear himself, and love all human kind. Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals I FAINT, I PERISH WITH MY LOVE! I GROW, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography I WOULD NOT BE A KING - ENOUGH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography INSPIRATION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those whom nor power, nor lying faith, nor toil Last Line: Me whom they cheer to be their minister. INVOCATION TO MISERY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, be happy! - sit near me Last Line: Where I am -- where thou hast been? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Pain; Suffering; Misery IS IT THAT IN SOME BRIGHTER SPHERE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography IS NOT TODAY ENOUGH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not today enough? Why do I peer Last Line: Charged with the load that makes thee faint and mourn? JULIAN AND MADDALO, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rode one evening with count maddalo Last Line: All happened -- but the cold world shall not know. Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips LAUREL, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou, presumptuous, who profanest Last Line: Are flowers which die almost before they sicken.' LETTER TO MARIA GISBORNE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spider spreads her webs, whether she be Last Line: To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new.' Subject(s): Gisborne, Maria; Godwin, William (1756-1836); Hogg, James (1770-1835); Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859) LIBERTY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fiery mountains answer each other Last Line: In the van of the morning light. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty LINES (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cold earth slept below Last Line: Might visit thee at will. Subject(s): Death; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Dead, The LINES (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That time is dead forever, child Last Line: In the light of life's dim morning. LINES (3), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far away, o ye Last Line: Many a day. LINES (4), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I walk in autumn's even Last Line: Summer's clouds, where are they now? LINES (5), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We meet not as we parted Last Line: For a moment so found, so lost! LINES CONNECTED WITH EPIPSYCHIDION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, my dear friend, is a new book for you Last Line: To one another by a voiceless tone? LINES TO A CRITIC, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honey from silkworms who can gather Last Line: How should I then hate thee? Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Hate LINES TO A REVIEWER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Good friend, what profit can you see Last Line: To pine into a sound with hating me. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics LINES WRITTEN DURING THE CASTLEREAGH ADMINISTRATION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Corpses are cold in the tomb Last Line: To the bed of the bride! Subject(s): England; Freedom; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; English; Liberty; Castlereagh, Viscount LINES WRITTEN FOR ADONAIS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And ever as he went he swept a lyre Last Line: Over the chasms of blue night -- LINES WRITTEN FOR HELLAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest of the destinies Last Line: Consuming all its forms of living death LINES WRITTEN FOR JULIAN AND MADDALO, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What think you the dead are Last Line: The which I make, and call it melody. LINES WRITTEN FOR MOUNT BLANC, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a voice, not understood by all Last Line: Descending on the pines -- the torrents pour. LINES WRITTEN FOR PROMETHEUS UNBOUND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a violet's gentle eye Last Line: Is full of light and love. LINES WRITTEN FOR THE INDIAN SERENADE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O pillow cold and wet with tears Last Line: Thou breathest sleep no more! LINES WRITTEN FOR THE ODE TO LIBERTY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within a cavern of man's trackless spirit Last Line: Till they become charged with the strength of flame. LINES WRITTEN FOR THE POEM TO WILLIAM SHELLEY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is now our dwelling-place Last Line: To hallow Subject(s): Shelley, William (1816-1819) LINES WRITTEN IN THE BAY OF LERICI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She left me at the silent time Last Line: Destroying life alone, not peace! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! Alive and so bold, o earth? Last Line: Shrouds me, the hopes that from his glory fled.' Variant Title(s): Napoleon Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) LOVE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it said thou canst not live Last Line: Disputes her silent reign. Subject(s): Love LOVE'S ATMOSPHERE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a warm and gentle atmosphere Last Line: The health of life's own life. Subject(s): Love LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The fountains mingle with the river Last Line: If thou kiss not me? Subject(s): Love; Love - Beginnings LOVE'S ROSES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hopes, that swell in youthful breasts Last Line: In which its vermeil splendors shine. LOVE, HOPE, DESIRE AND FEAR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And many there were hurt by that strong boy Last Line: Ever will be near. Subject(s): Desire; Fear; Hope; Love; Pleasure; Optimism MAGIC CAR MOVED ON, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fairy and the soul preceeded MARENGHI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let those who pine in pride or in revenge Last Line: The thought of his own country ... Subject(s): Italy; Italians MARIANNE'S DREAM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pale dream came to a lady fair Last Line: As any waking eyes can view. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares MELODY TO A SCENE OF FORMER TIMES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou indeed forever gone Last Line: A fiercer, deadlier agony! MERCURY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On his blooming face MIGHTY EAGLE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mighty eagle! Thou that soarest Last Line: The embattled tempests' warning! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles MILTON'S SPIRIT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that milton's spirit rose, and took Last Line: Prisons and citadels. Subject(s): Dreams; Milton, John (1608-1674); Nightmares MISS ELIZA HITCHENER LEAVES THE HOUSEHOLD OF PERCY SHELLEY, by ROBERT COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: He treats people like socks past darning Last Line: The claws he sharpens on mice like me MONT BLANC; LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The everlasting universe of things Last Line: Silence and solitude were vacancy? Subject(s): Alps; Chamonix, France; Mountains; Sleep; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips MUSIC, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pant for the music which is divine Last Line: Invites to love with her kiss divine -- Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUTABILITY (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon Last Line: Nought may endure but mutability. Subject(s): Mutability MUTABILITY (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flower that smiles today Last Line: Then wake to weep. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Transience; Impermanence MY THOUGHTS ARISE AND FADE IN SOLITUDE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography NATIONAL ANTHEM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God prosper, speed, and save Last Line: God save the queen! Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism O THOU IMMORTAL DEITY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ODE TO HEAVEN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Palace-roof of cloudless nights! Last Line: To tremble, gleam, and disappear. Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise ODE TO LIBERTY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A glorious people vibrated again Last Line: When they love but live no more. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty ODE TO NAPLES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood within the city disinterred Last Line: This city of thy worship, ever free! Subject(s): Naples, Italy ODE TO THE WEST WIND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being Last Line: If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Variant Title(s): Ode To The West Wind: I;the West Wind Subject(s): Autumn; Florence, Italy; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Theology; Ocean OEDIPUS TYRANNUS, OR SWELLFOOT THE TYRANT; A TRAGEDY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou supreme goddess! By whose power divine Last Line: [exeunt, in full cry; iona driving on the swine, with the empty green bag. OMENS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The owlet flaps his wings Last Line: Tidings of approaching death. Subject(s): Omens ON A FADED VIOLET, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The odor from the flower is gone Last Line: Is such as mine should be. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets ON A FETE AT CARLTON HOUSE; FRAGMENT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the mossy brink Last Line: Rapt in bright dreams of dawning royalty. ON A PAINTED WOMAN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To youths, who hurry thus away ON AN ICICLE THAT CLUNG TO THE GRASS OF A GRAVE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Take the pure gem to where southerly breezes Last Line: To shed on the grave of a heart so sincere. ON DEATH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pale, the cold, and the moony smile Last Line: With the fears and the love for that which we see? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON FANNY GODWIN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice did quiver as we parted Last Line: This word is all too wide for thee. Subject(s): Godwin, Fanny (d. 1816); Love; Love - Loss Of; Suicide ON HIMALAY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away on himalay Last Line: Keeping flocks on himalay. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers ON KEATS, WHO DESIRED THAT ON HIS TOMB SHOULD BE INSCRIBED:, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lieth one whose name was writ on water!' Last Line: A scroll of crystal, blazoning the name of adonais! Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets ON LEAVING LONDON FOR WALES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thee, cambria! For the unfettered wind Last Line: Let me not madly stain their righteous cause in gore. Subject(s): Cambria, Wales ON ROBERT EMMET'S GRAVE: 6, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No trump tells thy virtues - the grave where they rest Last Line: Shall pass like a mist from the light of thy name. Subject(s): Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ON ROBERT EMMET'S GRAVE: 7, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the storm-cloud that lowers o'er the daybeam is gone Last Line: She will smile through the tears of revival on thine. Subject(s): Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE DARK HEIGHT OF JURA', by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ghosts of the dead! Have I not heard your yelling ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky Last Line: Gazing in death on heaven from those wet rocks. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Florence, Italy; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters ONCE MORE DESCEND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ORPHEUS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not far from hence. From yonder pointed hill Last Line: In rivalry, but all entranced she listens. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus OTHO, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wert not, cassius, and thou couldst not be Last Line: Those may not know who cannot weep for them. OZYMANDIAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveler from an antique land Last Line: The lone and level sands stretch far away. Variant Title(s): Ozymandias Of Egypt Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deserts; Egypt; Fame; Food & Eating; Pride; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Time; Transience; Vanity; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Impermanence PADUA, THOU WITHIN THOSE WALLS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Italy PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, listen, mary mine Last Line: And the apennine walks abroad with the storm. Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) PETER BELL THE THIRD, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peter bells, one, two and three Last Line: How should it ever pass away? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) POETRY AND MUSIC, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet it is to sit and read the tales Last Line: Fills the dim pause! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets POLITICAL GREATNESS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame Last Line: Of hopes and fears, being himself alone. Subject(s): Politics & Government POUR FORTH HEAVEN'S WINE, IDAEAN GANYMEDE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography PRINCE ATHANESE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a youth, who, as with toil and travel Last Line: Double the western planet's serene flame. PROMETHEUS UNBOUND; A LYRICAL DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monarch of gods and daemons, and all spirits Last Line: This is alone life; joy, empire, and victory! Subject(s): Courage; Faith; Freedom; Supernatural; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed; Liberty QUEEN MAB: DEDICATION - TO HARRIET, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose is the love that, gleaming through the world Last Line: It consecrates to thine. QUEEN MAB; A PHILOSOPHICAL POEM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How wonderful is death Last Line: That through the casement shone. RAIN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fitful alternations of the rain Last Line: Drives through the gray and beamless atmosphere. Subject(s): Rain RAIN-WIND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gentleness of rain was in the wind Subject(s): Rain REMEMBRANCE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swifter far than summer's flight Last Line: Waste one hope, one fear for me. Variant Title(s): Lament REVOLT OF ISLAM; A POEM IN 12 CANTOS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So now my summer-task is ended, mary Last Line: The charmed boat approached, and there its haven found Subject(s): War ROME, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rome has fallen; ye see it lying Last Line: Nature is also undying. Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROSALIND AND HELEN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, my sweet rosalind Last Line: Are blessed as now helen and rosalind. SISTER ROSA: A BALLAD, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The death-bell beats! Last Line: A deep groan was answered from hell. SONG, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved -- alas! Our life is love Last Line: Breathes o'er the breezy streamlet's edge. Variant Title(s): Invocation;the Spirit Of Delight SONG OF PROSERPINE WHILE GATHERING FLOWERS ON PLAIN OF ENNA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sacred goddess, mother earth Last Line: On thine own child, proserpine. Subject(s): Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina SONG OF THE FURIES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a lover clasps his fairest Last Line: She remains, -- it fades away. SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men of england, wherefore plough Last Line: England be your sepulchre. Variant Title(s): True Freedom Subject(s): Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Manchester, England; Massacres; Liberty; Work; Workers SONNET, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift not the painted veil which those who live Last Line: For truth, and like the preacher found it not. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET ON LAUNCHING BOTTLES FILLED WITH KNOWLEDGE INTO BRISTOL CHANNEL, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vessels of heavenly medicine! May the breeze Last Line: To see their night of ignorance dispersed. Subject(s): Knowledge SONNET TO BYRON, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I esteemed you less, envy would kill Last Line: May lift itself in homage of the god. Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron SONNET. TO A BALLOON LADEN WITH KNOWLEDGE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright ball of flame that through the gloom of even Last Line: Shall dart like truth where falsehood yet has been. Subject(s): Balloons SONNET: TO THE NILE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Month after month the gathered rains descend Last Line: Like the great flood to egypt, ever be. Subject(s): Nile (river) ST. IRVYNE'S TOWER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How swiftly through heaven's wide expanse Last Line: Sinks the wretch in death at last.' STANZA WRITTEN FOR THE ODE WRITTEN IN 1819, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather, oh, gather Last Line: The dove and the serpent reconciled! STANZA. FROM A TRANSLATION OF THE MARSEILLAISE HYMN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble kings despised of man! Last Line: Which leads to death or victory ... Subject(s): Marseillaise, La; National Songs - France; French National Anthem STANZA. WRITTEN AT BRACKNELL, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy dewy looks sink in my breast Last Line: Had cankered then -- but crushed it not. STANZAS - APRIL, 1814, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away! The moor is dark beneath the moon Last Line: From the music of two voices, and the light of one sweet smile. Variant Title(s): Remorse Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, NEAR NAPLES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is warm, the sky is clear Last Line: Will linger, though enjoyed, like joy in memory yet. Subject(s): Adversity SUMMER AND WINTER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a bright and cheerful afternoon Last Line: Alas, then, for the homeless beggar old! TASSO, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No access to the duke! You have not said Last Line: On whom they fell! THE AZIOLA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you not hear the aziola cry? Last Line: Loved thee and thy sad cry. THE BIRTH OF PLEASURE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the creation of the earth Last Line: With a beauty clear and warm. Subject(s): Pleasure THE BOAT ON THE SERCHIO, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our boat is asleep on serchio's stream Last Line: It rushes to the ocean. Subject(s): Boats; Williams, Edward THE CENCI; A TRAGEDY: ACTS 1-3, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That matter of the murder is hushed up Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Despair; Gothic Drama; Hate; Italy; Italians THE CENCI; A TRAGEDY: ACTS 4-5, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She comes not, yet I left her even now Last Line: We are quite ready. Well -- 't is very well. Subject(s): Despair; Hate; Italy; Italians THE CLOUD, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers Last Line: I rise and upbuild it again. Subject(s): Clouds; Nature; Spring THE DESERTS OF SLEEP, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went into the deserts of dim sleep Last Line: Bounds this with its recesses wide and deep. Subject(s): Sleep THE DEVIL'S WALK, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, early in the morning Last Line: Bloodless as his coward soul. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish THE DROWNED LOVER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Faint are her limbs, and her footstep is weary Last Line: In eternity's bowers, a seat for thee there. Subject(s): Drowning THE FIERCE BEASTS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fierce beasts of the woods and wildernesses Last Line: Around its margin, heap the sand thereon. THE FLIGHT OF LOVE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lamp is shattered Last Line: When leaves fall and cold winds come. Variant Title(s): Lines Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of THE FUGITIVES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waters are flashing Last Line: Of his name! THE HEART'S TOMB, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And where is truth? On tombs? For such to thee Last Line: Unchangingly preserved and buried there. THE INDIAN SERENADE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I arise from dreams of thee Last Line: Where it will break at last! Variant Title(s): Lines To An Indian Air; Serenade;the Indian Girl's Song Subject(s): Desire; Love; Men THE ISLE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a little lawny islet Last Line: A lake's blue chasm. THE LADY OF THE SOUTH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faint with love, the lady of the south Last Line: Out of her eyes. THE MAGNETIC LADY TO HER PATIENT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, sleep on! Forget thy pain Last Line: My chain.' Subject(s): Hypnotism; Williams, Edward; Williams, Jane THE MASK OF ANARCHY; WRITTEN ON OCCASION OF MASSACRE AT MANCHESTER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay asleep in italy Last Line: Ye are many, they are few!' Variant Title(s): The Masque Of Anarchy Subject(s): Anarchism & Anarchists; Manchester, England; Massacres THE PAST, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou forget the happy hours Last Line: That joy, once lost, is pain. Subject(s): Past THE PINE FOREST OF THE CASCINE NEAR PISA (1ST DRAFT OF 'TO JANE'), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest, best and brightest Last Line: Than calm in waters seen. Subject(s): Pine Trees; Pisa, Italy; Trees THE POET'S LOVER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am as a spirit who has dwelt Last Line: Clothing his wings with lightning. Variant Title(s): Fragment: Wedded Souls THE QUESTION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way Last Line: That I might there present it! -- oh! To whom? Variant Title(s): A Dream Of Spring;a Dream Of The Unknown;shelley's Lists Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Rivers; Spring; Planting; Planters THE RETROSPECT: CWM ELAN, 1812, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A scene, which wildered fancy viewed Last Line: Which thou hast flung upon my day. THE REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO 10, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was there a human spirit in the steed Last Line: With happy smiles, which sunk in white tranquillity. THE REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO 11, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She saw me not -- she heard me not -- alone Last Line: And smiled in gentle pride, and said, 'lo! I am he!' THE REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO 12, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The transport of a fierce and monstruous gladness Last Line: The charmed boat approached, and there its haven found. THE REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO 2, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The star-light smile of children, the sweet looks THE REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO 3, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts had sway o'er cythna's lonely slumber Last Line: Where ebon pines a shade under the starlight wove. THE REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO 4, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old man took the oars, and soon the bark Last Line: A light around my step which would not ever fade. THE REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO 5, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the utmost hill at length I sped Last Line: Which that delightful day with its own shadow blest. THE REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO 6, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the dimness of the glimmering sea Last Line: And fear, and all that dark despondence doth inherit. THE REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO 7, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we sate joyous as the morning ray Last Line: Deep thoughts; so to the ship we passed without a word. THE REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO 8, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sate beside the steersman then, and gazing Last Line: And felt a soft delight from what their spirits shook. THE REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO 9, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That night we anchored in a woody bay Last Line: She turned to me and smiled -- that smile was paradise! THE REVOLT OF ISLAM: DEDICATION AND CANTO 1, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So now my summer-task is ended, mary Last Line: Memories which found a tongue, as thus he silence broke. THE RUDE WIND IS SINGING, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THE SENSITIVE PLANT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sensitive plant in a garden grew Last Line: No light, being themselves obscure. Variant Title(s): To The Sensitive Plant;a Garden Subject(s): Permanence; Plants; Women; Planting; Planters THE SHADOW OF HELL, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A golden-winged angel stood Last Line: That burn continually in heaven. THE SOLITARY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude Last Line: Dull life's extremest goal. THE SPECTRAL HORSEMAN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the shriek that struck fancy's ear Last Line: And mingles its swell with the moonlight air. THE SUNSET, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There late was one within whose subtle being Last Line: This was the only moan she ever made. Subject(s): Imagination; Memory; Fancy THE TALE UNTOLD, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sung of thee who left the tale untold Last Line: Which mock the lips with air, when they are thirsting. THE TOWER OF FAMINE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the desolation of a city Last Line: Should be absorbed, till they to marble grew. THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Last Line: "then, what is life? I cried.' --" Subject(s): Life THE TWO SPIRITS: AN ALLEGORY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, who plumed with strong desire Last Line: He finds night day. THE UNATTAINED, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thirst and find no fill - to wail and wander Last Line: The half-created shadow. THE VINE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flourishing vine, whose kindling clusters glow Last Line: The rotting bones of dead antiquity. Subject(s): Vines And Vineyards THE WANDERING JEW, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brilliant orb of parting day Last Line: Come! For thy doom is misery.' Subject(s): Wandering Jew THE WANDERING JEW'S SOLILOQUY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the eternal triune, is it he Last Line: Drink deeply -- drain the cup of hate -- remit this I may die. Subject(s): Hate; Wandering Jew THE WANING MOON, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: And, like a dying lady lean and pale Last Line: A white and shapeless mass. Variant Title(s): To The Moon (3) Subject(s): Moon THE WITCH OF ATLAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How, my dear mary, are you critic-bitten Last Line: Scarcely believe much more than we can see. THE WOODMAN AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woodman whose rough heart was out of tune Last Line: And vex the nightingales in every dell. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE WORLD'S WANDERERS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, thou star, whose wings of light Last Line: On the tree or billow? THE ZUCCA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer was dead and autumn was expiring Last Line: Whilst this THRENOS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O world! O life! O time! Last Line: No more, -- o nevermore! Variant Title(s): A Lament Subject(s): Adversity TIME, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfathomable sea! Whose waves are years Last Line: Unfathomable sea? Subject(s): Sea; Time; Ocean TIME LONG PAST, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the ghost of a dear friend dead Last Line: From time long past. Subject(s): Past TO (BYRON), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mighty mind, in whose deep stream this age Last Line: Why dost thou curb not thine own sacred rage? Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron TO - (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Music, when soft voices die Last Line: Love itself shall slumber on. Variant Title(s): Music;memory Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Roses; Bereavement TO - (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One word is too often profaned Last Line: From the sphere of our sorrow? Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love TO - (3), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden Last Line: With which I worship thine. Subject(s): Admiration TO - (4), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For me, my friend, if not that tears did tremble Last Line: Which on the chains must prey that fetter humankind. Subject(s): Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859) TO - (5), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When passion's trance is overpast Last Line: And form all others, life and love. TO - (6), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet look on me - take not thine eyes away Last Line: Art kind when I am sick, and pity me. Subject(s): Love TO A SKYLARK, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thee, blithe spirit Last Line: The world should listen then -- as I am listening now. Variant Title(s): Ode To A Skylark Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Religion; Skylarks; Theology TO A STAR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet star, which gleaming o'er the darksome scene Last Line: Became enamoured -- Subject(s): Stars TO COLERIDGE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there are spirits of the air Last Line: Dark as it is, all change would aggravate. Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Poetry & Poets TO CONSTANTIA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose that drinks the fountain dew Last Line: Its growth Subject(s): Clairmont, Claire TO CONSTANTIA, SINGING (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus to be lost and thus to sink and die Last Line: Lingering, suspends my soul in its voluptuous flight. Subject(s): Clairmont, Claire; Singing & Singers; Songs TO CONSTANTIA, SINGING (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy voice, slow rising like a spirit, lingers Last Line: Such things the heart can feel and learn, but not forget! TO DEATH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death! Where is thy victory Last Line: To that mysterious strand. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO EDWARD WILLIAMS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The serpent is shut out from paradise Last Line: Happy yourself, you feel another's woe. Subject(s): Williams, Edward TO EMILIA VIVIANI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madonna, wherefore hast thou sent to me Last Line: Health like a heap of embers soon to fade. Subject(s): Flowers TO HARRIET, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not blasphemy to hope that heaven Last Line: That life my spirit consecrates to you. Subject(s): Shelley, Harriet Westbrook TO HARRIET (WRITTEN 1814), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy look of love has power to calm Last Line: And pity if thou canst not love. Subject(s): Shelley, Harriet Westbrook TO IANTHE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee, baby! For thine own sweet sake Last Line: The image of thy mother's loveliness. Subject(s): Babies; Shelley, Elizabeth Ianthe; Infants TO IRELAND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear witness, erin! When thine injured isle Last Line: When thou wert not, which shall be when thou perishest. Subject(s): Ireland; Irish TO ITALY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the sunrise to the night Last Line: Be those hopes and fears on thee. Subject(s): Italy; Italians TO JANE: KEEN STARS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The keen stars were twinkling Last Line: Are one. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Williams, Jane; Songs TO JANE: THE INVITATION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Best and brightest, come away! Last Line: In the universal sun. Variant Title(s): The Invitation Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Williams, Jane TO JANE: THE RECOLLECTION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the last day of many days Last Line: Than calm in waters seen. Variant Title(s): The Recollection Subject(s): Williams, Jane TO MARIA GISBORNE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In london, that great sea, whose ebb and flow Last Line: You and I know in london. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets TO MARY (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mary dear, that you were here! Last Line: The castle echo whispers 'here!' Subject(s): Absence; Shelley, Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin; Separation; Isolation TO MARY (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is dreary Last Line: And't is gone, when I should be gone too, mary. Subject(s): Grief; Shelley, Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin; Sorrow; Sadness TO MARY SHELLEY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dearest mary, wherefore hast thou gone Last Line: For thine own sake I cannot follow thee. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Shelley, Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin; Sorrow; Sadness TO MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine eyes were dim with tears unshed Last Line: To hide the love thou feel'st for me. Subject(s): Shelley, Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin TO MARY, WHO DIED IN THIS OPINION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden, quench the glare of sorrow Last Line: Such as forces thine to break. TO MUSIC, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, music, thou art not the 'food of love' Last Line: Till it becomes all music murmurs of. Subject(s): Music & Musicians TO MUSIC; A FRAGMENT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver key of the fountain of tears Last Line: Is laid asleep in flowers. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Sleep TO NIGHT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly walk o'er the western wave Last Line: Come soon, soon! Variant Title(s): Night;to The Night Subject(s): Death; Nature; Night; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Bedtime TO ONE SINGING, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit like a charmed bark doth swim Last Line: Its way adown some many-winding river. Subject(s): Singing & Singers TO PERCY SHELLEY, ON THE DEGRADING NOTIONS OF DEITY, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder, percy, that with jealous rage Last Line: Which his own lanthorn throws up from himself. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Freedom; God; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Liberty TO SIDMOUTH AND CASTLEREAGH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As from an ancestral oak Last Line: Two vipers tangled into one. Variant Title(s): Similes For Two Political Characters Of 1819 Subject(s): Addington, Henry, Viscount Sidmouth; England; Politics & Government; Statesmen; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Tyranny & Tyrants; Villains In Literature; English; Castlereagh, Viscount TO SILENCE; A FRAGMENT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence! Oh, well are death and sleep and thou Last Line: Among lone mountains in some ... Subject(s): Silence TO SOPHIA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art fair, and few are fairer Last Line: Is my heart when thine is near it. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Stacey, Sophia TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy country's curse is on thee, darkest crest Last Line: This curse should be a blessing. Fare thee well! Subject(s): Child Custody; Fathers TO THE MOON (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou pale for weariness Last Line: That finds no object worth its constancy? Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOON (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright wanderer, fair coquette of heaven Last Line: One fair as -- Subject(s): Moon TO THE MOONBEAM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonbeam, leave the shadowy vale Last Line: Seem in my breast but joys to the pangs that rankle there. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People of england, ye who toil and groan Last Line: And nurse them from the cradle to the grave ... Subject(s): England; English TO THE QUEEN OF MY HEART, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall we roam, my love Last Line: What I dare not in broad day-light. TO THE REPUBLICANS OF NORTH AMERICA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers! Between you and me Last Line: Balm thee with its dying tear. Subject(s): Mexico TO THE SAME (PERCY SHELLEY, ON THE DEGRADING NOTIONS OF DEITY), by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet, percy, not for this, should he whose eye Last Line: Be still with thine own task in unison. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Freedom; God; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Liberty TO WILLIAM SHELLEY (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The billows on the beach are leaping around it Last Line: A patriot's birthright thou mayst claim! Subject(s): Death - Children; Shelley, William (1816-1819); Death - Babies TO WILLIAM SHELLEY (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lost william, thou in whom Last Line: A patriot's birthright thou mayst claim! Subject(s): Death - Children; Shelley, William (1816-1819); Death - Babies TO WILLIAM SHELLEY (3), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy little footsteps on the sands Last Line: When we returned to gaze on thee -- Subject(s): Death - Children; Shelley, William (1816-1819); Death - Babies TO WORDSWORTH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet of nature, thou hast wept to know Last Line: Thus having been, that thou shouldst cease to be. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO ZEPHYR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, thou awakener of the spirit's ocean Last Line: No thought can trace! Speed with thy gentle motion! TODAY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who feels discord now or sorrow? Last Line: Darkening life's labyrinthine way. TOMORROW, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou, beloved tomorrow? Last Line: We find the thing we fled -- to-day. Subject(s): Time TORPOR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head is heavy, my limbs are weary Last Line: And it is not life that makes me move. TRIBUTE TO AMERICA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a people mighty in its youth Last Line: Nay, start not at the name -- america! Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America TROUBLE WITH KEATS, by STODDARD KING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Keats had his faults, as may be learned Last Line: But don his proud through battered kelly %and split a quart with percy shelley Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets UNRISEN SPLENDOR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unrisen splendor of the brightest sun Last Line: With thy young brightness! VENICE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-girt city! Thou hast been Subject(s): Italy VERSES ON A CAT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cat in distress Last Line: To make them hold their jaw! Subject(s): Animals; Cats VERSES WRITTEN ON RECEIVING A CELANDINE IN A LETTER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of thee, fair celandine Last Line: Love sold, hope dead, and honour broken VICTORIA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas dead of the night, when I sat in my dwelling Last Line: I wildly then called on the tempest to bear me -- VIEW FROM THE EUGANEAN HILLS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many a green isle needs must be Last Line: And the earth grow young again. Variant Title(s): Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills;written In The Euganean Hills, North Italy Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death; Italy; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sin; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Dead, The; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WAKE THE SERPENT NOT - LEST HE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WAR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurled Last Line: Which tears from earth peace, innocence and love. Subject(s): War WAR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Whence you glare WHAT IS LOVE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou demandest what is love? Is it that powerful Subject(s): Love WHAT MEN GAIN FAIRLY; FORMAN JOINS WITH THIS PROCEEDING, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What men gain fairly, that they should possess Last Line: Left in the nakedness of infamy. WINE OF EGLANTINE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am drunk with the honey wine Last Line: Of the fairies bear those bowls so new! Variant Title(s): Elfin Music Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Fairies; Elves WITH A GUITAR, TO JANE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ariel to miranda - take Last Line: For our beloved jane alone. Variant Title(s): To A Lady, With A Guitar Subject(s): Guitars; Williams, Jane WITHIN THE ORB ITSELF, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep YE GENTLE VISITATIONS OF CALM THOUGHT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography |
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