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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Keyword: percy shelley Matches Found: 302 A BRIDAL SONG, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography ALASTOR; OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: The viewless and invisible consequence Last Line: More ghastly than those deeds. CROWNED, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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's Biography Subject(s): Religion ENGLAND IN 1819, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography FRAGMENT (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source 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'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'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'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's Biography Last Line: Giving a voice to its mysterious waves-- HE WANDERS, LIKE A DAY-APPEARING DREAM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet's Biography HELLAS; A LYRICAL DRAMA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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 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's Biography I WOULD NOT BE A KING - ENOUGH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet's Biography INSPIRATION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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's Biography IS NOT TODAY ENOUGH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: Far, far away, o ye Last Line: Many a day. LINES (4), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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's Biography First Line: The fairy and the soul preceeded MARENGHI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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's Biography First Line: Art thou indeed forever gone Last Line: A fiercer, deadlier agony! MERCURY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On his blooming face MIGHTY EAGLE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography NATIONAL ANTHEM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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's Biography ODE TO HEAVEN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography ORPHEUS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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 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's Biography Subject(s): Italy PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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'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'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's Biography PRINCE ATHANESE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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'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's Biography First Line: How wonderful is death Last Line: That through the casement shone. RAIN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: The gentleness of rain was in the wind Subject(s): Rain REMEMBRANCE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: The waters are flashing Last Line: Of his name! THE HEART'S TOMB, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography THE SENSITIVE PLANT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: Summer was dead and autumn was expiring Last Line: Whilst this THRENOS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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'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'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'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 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 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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: Unrisen splendor of the brightest sun Last Line: With thy young brightness! VENICE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source 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'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'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'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'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's Biography WAR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: Ah! Whence you glare WHAT IS LOVE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source 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'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'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'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's Biography Subject(s): Sleep YE GENTLE VISITATIONS OF CALM THOUGHT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poet's Biography |
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