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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE (1792-1822) Matches Found: 57 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LAMENT FOR PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there no fading of thy central fire Last Line: It is where it should be -- beside the good and brave! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Lament; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Dead, The A RED CARPET FOR SHELLEY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But this is nothing; an eccentric joke Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) ACID MEMENTO ONE, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: Lift not the painted veil which those who live Last Line: As dark eyes closed in an ecstasy of timelessness Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) AFTER A LECTURE ON SHELLEY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One broad, white sail in spezzia's treacherous bay Last Line: Say not that mercy has not one for him! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) AN ANGEL SINGS OF SHELLEY NEWLY DEAD, by THOMAS LAKE HARRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wreathe him with jonquils and anemones Last Line: Shelley the spirit lives eternally. Subject(s): Angels; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) BUONA NOTTE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ariel to miranda: - hear Last Line: It is to pluto that I go. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Williams, Jane CENCIAJA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I print, shelley, how it came to pass Last Line: That victor rules, this present year, in rome? Subject(s): Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Italians DEJECTION, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is warm, the sky is clear Subject(s): Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) EPITAPH FOR JOHN KNOTT OF SHEFFIELD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here lies a man that was knott born Last Line: And here he lies %and yet was knott Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) FRAGMENTS OF AN ODE TO SHELLEY, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since men have always crowned the tomb Last Line: And bathed his forehead in the pool of night. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) HAIKU, by ROD WILLMOT Poem Source First Line: A page of shelley Last Line: With passing clouds Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) HAIL TO THEE, BLITHE SPIRIT, by LAURA SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Soar for us, ace of flame and joy! For us, who have no wings Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) I HELD A SHELLEY MANUSCRIPT, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hands did numb to beauty Last Line: And I, as though tipping a pitcher of milk, %pour secrecy upon the dying page Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) LINES WRITTEN IN SWITZERLAND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What silence drear in england's oaky forest Last Line: . . . . . . Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Galileo (1564-1642); Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Switzerland; Truth; English; Galileo Galilei; Dramatists; Self-este MARY'S PRESENT, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: I'm not believing for a minute shelley's heart Last Line: Next to the plums? Stunning Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Women's Rights MEMORABILIA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, did you once see shelley plain, / and did he stop and speak to you Last Line: Well, I forget the rest. Variant Title(s): Shelley;something To Remember Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Writing & Writers MONT BLANC, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hand on my desk is my hand the everlasting Last Line: Of vacancy turn out to be a lover? Subject(s): Blanc, Mont; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) MUSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He takes shelley from the shelf Last Line: While the wife snores in bed. Subject(s): Marriage; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) ODE TO SHELLEY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou dead? Upon the hills once more Last Line: His own soul's voice, nor crave a brother's string. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Soul; Dead, The OZYMANDIAS REVISITED, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveller from an antique land Last Line: Of 17 west 4th street, oyster bay. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt those twin worlds, the world of sleep, which gave Last Line: Art first of praisers, being most praised here. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) QUATRAIN: ON A FLY-LEAF OF SHELLEY'S POEMS, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Herein all words are living things that die Last Line: With half-remembered cadences of song. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) RED CARPET FOR SHELLEY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But this is nothing; an eccentric joke Last Line: So presently you will be come and gone; %here's a strange road for you to walk on Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) ROME. AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS NEAR THE GRAVES OF SHELLEY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, then, was cestius / and what is he to me? Last Line: It is an ample fame. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Rome, Italy; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SAN TERENZO, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-april seemed like some november day Last Line: Flew forth, like shelley's spirit, to the sea! Subject(s): Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Italians SHELLEY, by ALEXANDER HAY JAPP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The odor of a rose: light of a star Last Line: And dwell in free aerial abodes. Alternate Author Name(s): Page, H. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Writing & Writers SHELLEY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Poet of the dead leaves driven like ghosts Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet of the dead leaves driven like ghosts Last Line: Afraid of my small windowless room %cold as a tomb of an infant emperor Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shelley, the ceaseless music of thy soul Last Line: That clasped thee like an overflowing heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knight-errant of the never-ending quest Last Line: Thy wild song rings in ocean's yearning speech! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY AND HARRIET WESTBROOK, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A star looked down from heaven and loved a flower Last Line: Refuse not, to a ruin'd rosebud -- tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY AND TRELAWNEY, by JULIA COOLEY ALTROCCHI Poem Text First Line: Beyond the walls of rome Last Line: Trelawney, the corsair! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Trelawney, Edward John (1792-1881); Graveyards SHELLEY'S ARETHUSA SET TO NEW MEASURES, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now arethusa from her snow couch rises Last Line: Seeking their way to love once more. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY'S ARETHUSA SET TO NEW MEASURES, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now arethusa from her snow couch rises Last Line: Seeking their way to love once more Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY'S CENTENARY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within a narrow span of time / three princes of the realm of rhyme Last Line: Smote him and slew. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron SHELLEY'S DEATH, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! And it was so! Thou wert then Last Line: As exiles for rough paths that help them to their home. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Dead, The SHELLEY'S DEATH, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: Shelley set out that day Last Line: Spiraling, his understanding %consumed Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Women's Rights SHELLEY'S SKYLARK, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere afield here something lies Last Line: Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme. Subject(s): Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Italians SHELLEY'S VISION, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering late by morning seas Last Line: Then did self-reverence awake. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SHELLEY; FOR THE CENTENARY OF HIS DEATH, JULY, 1922, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rebel for faith Last Line: Till it swoons with joy in the flood of day. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) SONNET TO PERCY IN ITALY, FROM ENGLAND, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I cannot come to your quaint italy Last Line: So do as your italians do, and cope Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Women's Rights SONNET: SHELLEY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because they thought his doctrines were not just Last Line: His seal hath not been set to man's decree. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) STANZAS ADDRESSED TO PERCY BYSSHE SHELLY, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forests, and lakes, the majesty of mountains Last Line: Whom faith in god has given a world beyond the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) STANZAS ON SHELLEY, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, not like ours that life was born Last Line: Her own unfolding, drew therein. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) THE BURIAL OF SHELLEY, by JAMES LAVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A peasant, where the wooded apennines Last Line: And that demoniac ride. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) THE GENERAL PUBLIC, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then Last Line: "thrice in the face. He made good sport that night." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) THE GRAVE OF SHELLEY, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed Last Line: Against the rocks of some wave-shattered steep. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE POETRY OF SHELLEY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See'st thou a skylark whose glistening winglets ascending Last Line: Wisdom and beauty and love are the treasures it brings down at eve. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) THINKING ABOUT SHELLEY, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arm over arm I swam out into the rain Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) THREE ENGLISH POETS (WORDSWORTH, SHELLEY, BROWNING), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read three poems in one changeful night Last Line: "the power and love are one: fight on! Rejoice!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO EDWARD DOWDEN (ON RECEIVING A COPY OF 'THE LIFE OF SHELLEY'), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, ere I slake my hunger, let me thank Last Line: Struck from man's lyric heartstrings, shall survive. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Biography; Dowden, Edward (1843-1913); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Biographers TO HARRIET SHELLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: As some blithe schooner sailing on the breast Last Line: The silent dark thereafter to inherit! Subject(s): Fate; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips 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 SHELLEY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shelley! Whose song so sweet was sweetest here Last Line: Kneels at thy feet and owns in shame a lie. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) TO SHELLEY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At shelley's birth Last Line: And the rekindling flame. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) 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 W.S.M., by HARRIET MONROE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, I send thee to the heights of song Last Line: Far in the blie where angels' feet have trod, %where earth is one with heaven, and man with god Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) |
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