The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) (1797-1851) was an English romantic gothic novelist. She received an excellent education, which was unusual for girls at the time. She never went to school, but she was taught to read and write by Louisa Jones, and then educated in a broad range of subjects by her father, who gave her free access to his extensive library. In particular, she was encouraged to write stories, and one of these early works Mounseer Nongtongpaw was published by the Godwin Company's Juvenile Library when she was only eleven. One night, perhaps attributable to Galvani's report,...
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- POETICAL WORKS
- OXFORD EDITION.
- PREFACE.
- PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY
- POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839.
- PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- THE DAEMON OF THE WORLD.
- ALASTOR: OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE.
- ALASTOR: OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE.
- NOTE ON ALASTOR, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- THE REVOLT OF ISLAM.
- DEDICATION.
- CANTO 1.
- CANTO 2.
- CANTO 3.
- CANTO 4.
- CANTO 5.
- CANTO 6.
- CANTO 7.
- CANTO 8.
- CANTO 9.
- CANTO 10.
- CANTO 11.
- CANTO 12.
- NOTE ON THE “REVOLT OF ISLAM”, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- PRINCE ATHANASE.
- PART 2.
- FRAGMENT 2.
- FRAGMENT 3.
- FRAGMENT 4.
- FRAGMENT 5.
- FRAGMENT 6.
- ANOTHER FRAGMENT (A)
- ANOTHER FRAGMENT (B)
- ROSALIND AND HELEN.
- ROSALIND, HELEN, AND HER CHILD.
- NOTE BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- JULIAN AND MADDALO.
- CANCELLED FRAGMENTS OF JULIAN AND MADDALO.
- NOTE BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- PROMETHEUS UNBOUND.
- PREFACE.
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
- ACT 1.
- ACT 2.
- ACT 3.
- ACT 4.
- CANCELLED FRAGMENTS OF “PROMETHEUS UNBOUND”.
- NOTE ON “PROMETHEUS UNBOUND”, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- THE CENCI.
- DEDICATION, TO LEIGH HUNT, ESQ.
- THE CENCI.
- THE CENCI: A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS. DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
- ACT 1.
- ACT 2.
- ACT 3.
- ACT 4.
- ACT 5.
- NOTE ON THE CENCI, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- THE MASK OF ANARCHY.
- NOTE ON THE MASK OF ANARCHY, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- PETER BELL THE THIRD.
- PROLOGUE.
- PART 1.
- PART 2.
- PART 3.
- PART 4.
- PART 5.
- PART 6.
- PART 7.
- NOTE ON PETER BELL THE THIRD, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- LETTER TO MARIA GISBORNE.
- THE WITCH OF ATLAS.
- TO MARY (ON HER OBJECTING TO THE FOLLOWING POEM, UPON THE SCORE OF ITS CONTAINING NO HUMAN INTEREST).
- THE WITCH OF ATLAS.
- NOTE ON THE WITCH OF ATLAS, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- OEDIPUS TYRANNUS
- ACT 2.
- NOTE ON OEDIPUS TYRANNUS, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- EPIPSYCHIDION.
- EPIPSYCHIDION.
- FRAGMENTS CONNECTED WITH EPIPSYCHIDION.
- THREE EARLY DRAFTS OF THE PREFACE.
- PREFACE 2.
- PREFACE 3.
- PASSAGES OF THE POEM, OR CONNECTED THEREWITH.
- ADONAIS.
- ADONAIS.
- CANCELLED PASSAGES OF ADONAIS.
- PASSAGES OF THE POEM.
- HELLAS
- TO HIS EXCELLENCY
- PREFACE.
- PROLOGUE TO HELLAS.
- HELLAS.
- NOTES.
- FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED DRAMA.
- SCENE.—BEFORE THE CAVERN OF THE INDIAN ENCHANTRESS.
- CHARLES THE FIRST.
- SCENE 2: A CHAMBER IN WHITEHALL. ENTER THE KING, QUEEN, LAUD, LORD STRAFFORD, LORD COTTINGTON, AND OTHER LORDS; ARCHY; ALSO ST. JOHN, WITH SOME GENTLEMEN OF THE INNS OF COURT.
- SCENE 3: THE STAR CHAMBER. LAUD, JUXON, STRAFFORD, AND OTHERS, AS JUDGES. PRYNNE AS A PRISONER, AND THEN BASTWICK.
- SCENE 4: HAMPDEN, PYM, CROMWELL, HIS DAUGHTER, AND YOUNG SIR HARRY VANE.
- SCENE 5:
- THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE.
- CANCELLED OPENING OF THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE.
- THE COMPLETE
- CONTENTS. EARLY POEMS [1814, 1815]:
- EARLY POEMS [1814, 1815].
- STANZA, WRITTEN AT BRACKNELL.
- STANZAS.—APRIL, 1814.
- TO HARRIET.
- TO MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN.
- MUTABILITY.
- ON DEATH.
- A SUMMER EVENING CHURCHYARD.
- TO —.
- TO WORDSWORTH.
- FEELINGS OF A REPUBLICAN ON THE FALL OF BONAPARTE.
- LINES.
- NOTE ON THE EARLY POEMS, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- POEMS WRITTEN IN 1816. THE SUNSET.
- HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY.
- MONT BLANC.
- CANCELLED PASSAGE OF MONT BLANC.
- FRAGMENT: HOME.
- FRAGMENT OF A GHOST STORY.
- NOTE ON POEMS OF 1816, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- POEMS WRITTEN IN 1817. MARIANNE’S DREAM.
- TO CONSTANTIA, SINGING.
- STANZAS 1 AND 2.
- FRAGMENT: TO ONE SINGING.
- A FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC.
- ANOTHER FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC.
- ‘MIGHTY EAGLE’.
- TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
- TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.
- FROM THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF THE POEM TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.
- ON FANNY GODWIN.
- LINES.
- DEATH.
- OTHO.
- FRAGMENTS SUPPOSED TO BE PARTS OF OTHO.
- ‘O THAT A CHARIOT OF CLOUD WERE MINE’.
- FRAGMENT: TO A FRIEND RELEASED FROM PRISON.
- FRAGMENT: SATAN BROKEN LOOSE.
- FRAGMENT: “IGNICULUS DESIDERII”.
- FRAGMENT: “AMOR AETERNUS”.
- FRAGMENT: THOUGHTS COME AND GO IN SOLITUDE.
- A HATE-SONG.
- LINES TO A CRITIC.
- OZYMANDIAS.
- NOTE ON POEMS OF 1817, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- POEMS WRITTEN IN 1818. TO THE NILE.
- PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES.
- THE PAST.
- TO MARY —.
- ON A FADED VIOLET.
- LINES WRITTEN AMONG THE EUGANEAN HILLS.
- SCENE FROM ‘TASSO’.
- SONG FOR ‘TASSO’.
- INVOCATION TO MISERY.
- STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, NEAR NAPLES.
- THE WOODMAN AND THE NIGHTINGALE.
- SONNET.
- FRAGMENT: TO BYRON.
- FRAGMENT: APOSTROPHE TO SILENCE.
- FRAGMENT: THE LAKE’S MARGIN.
- FRAGMENT: ‘MY HEAD IS WILD WITH WEEPING’.
- FRAGMENT: THE VINE-SHROUD.
- NOTE ON POEMS OF 1818, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- POEMS WRITTEN IN 1819. LINES WRITTEN DURING THE CASTLEREAGH ADMINISTRATION.
- SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND.
- SIMILES FOR TWO POLITICAL CHARACTERS OF 1819.
- FRAGMENT: TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.
- A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM.
- SONNET: ENGLAND IN 1819.
- AN ODE, WRITTEN OCTOBER, 1819, BEFORE THE SPANIARDS HAD RECOVERED THEIR LIBERTY.
- CANCELLED STANZA.
- ODE TO HEAVEN.
- CANCELLED FRAGMENTS OF THE ODE TO HEAVEN.
- ODE TO THE WEST WIND.
- AN EXHORTATION.
- THE INDIAN SERENADE.
- CANCELLED PASSAGE.
- TO SOPHIA [MISS STACEY].
- TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.
- TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.
- TO MARY SHELLEY.
- TO MARY SHELLEY.
- ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY.
- LOVE’S PHILOSOPHY.
- FRAGMENT: ‘FOLLOW TO THE DEEP WOOD’S WEEDS’.
- THE BIRTH OF PLEASURE.
- FRAGMENT: LOVE THE UNIVERSE TO-DAY.
- FRAGMENT: ‘A GENTLE STORY OF TWO LOVERS YOUNG’.
- FRAGMENT: LOVE’S TENDER ATMOSPHERE.
- FRAGMENT: WEDDED SOULS.
- FRAGMENT: ‘IS IT THAT IN SOME BRIGHTER SPHERE’.
- FRAGMENT: SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY.
- FRAGMENT: ‘YE GENTLE VISITATIONS OF CALM THOUGHT’.
- FRAGMENT: MUSIC AND SWEET POETRY.
- FRAGMENT: THE SEPULCHRE OF MEMORY.
- FRAGMENT: ‘WHEN A LOVER CLASPS HIS FAIREST’.
- FRAGMENT: ‘WAKE THE SERPENT NOT’.
- FRAGMENT: RAIN.
- FRAGMENT: A TALE UNTOLD.
- FRAGMENT: TO ITALY.
- FRAGMENT: WINE OF THE FAIRIES.
- FRAGMENT: A ROMAN’S CHAMBER.
- FRAGMENT: ROME AND NATURE.
- VARIATION OF THE SONG OF THE MOON.
- CANCELLED STANZA OF THE MASK OF ANARCHY.
- NOTE ON POEMS OF 1819, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- POEMS WRITTEN IN 1820. THE SENSITIVE PLANT.
- PART 2.
- CANCELLED PASSAGE.
- A VISION OF THE SEA.
- THE CLOUD.
- TO A SKYLARK.
- ODE TO LIBERTY.
- CANCELLED PASSAGE OF THE ODE TO LIBERTY.
- TO —.
- ARETHUSA.
- SONG OF PROSERPINE WHILE GATHERING FLOWERS ON THE PLAIN OF ENNA.
- HYMN OF APOLLO.
- HYMN OF PAN.
- THE QUESTION.
- THE TWO SPIRITS: AN ALLEGORY.
- ODE TO NAPLES.
- AUTUMN: A DIRGE.
- THE WANING MOON.
- TO THE MOON.
- DEATH.
- LIBERTY.
- SUMMER AND WINTER.
- THE TOWER OF FAMINE.
- AN ALLEGORY.
- THE WORLD’S WANDERERS.
- SONNET.
- LINES TO A REVIEWER.
- FRAGMENT OF A SATIRE ON SATIRE.
- GOOD-NIGHT.
- BUONA NOTTE.
- ORPHEUS.
- FIORDISPINA.
- TIME LONG PAST.
- FRAGMENT: THE DESERTS OF DIM SLEEP.
- FRAGMENT: ‘THE VIEWLESS AND INVISIBLE CONSEQUENCE’.
- FRAGMENT: A SERPENT-FACE.
- FRAGMENT: DEATH IN LIFE.
- FRAGMENT: ‘SUCH HOPE, AS IS THE SICK DESPAIR OF GOOD’.
- FRAGMENT: ‘ALAS! THIS IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT LIFE WAS’.
- FRAGMENT: MILTON’S SPIRIT.
- FRAGMENT: ‘UNRISEN SPLENDOUR OF THE BRIGHTEST SUN’.
- FRAGMENT: PATER OMNIPOTENS.
- FRAGMENT: TO THE MIND OF MAN.
- NOTE ON POEMS OF 1820, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- POEMS WRITTEN IN 1821. DIRGE FOR THE YEAR.
- TO NIGHT.
- TIME.
- LINES.
- FROM THE ARABIC: AN IMITATION.
- TO EMILIA VIVIANI.
- THE FUGITIVES.
- TO —.
- SONG.
- MUTABILITY.
- LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON.
- SONNET: POLITICAL GREATNESS.
- THE AZIOLA.
- A LAMENT.
- REMEMBRANCE.
- TO EDWARD WILLIAMS.
- TO —.
- TO —.
- A BRIDAL SONG.
- EPITHALAMIUM.
- ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME.
- LOVE, HOPE, DESIRE, AND FEAR.
- FRAGMENTS WRITTEN FOR HELLAS.
- FRAGMENT: ‘I WOULD NOT BE A KING’.
- GINEVRA.
- EVENING: PONTE AL MARE, PISA
- THE BOAT ON THE SERCHIO.
- MUSIC.
- SONNET TO BYRON.
- FRAGMENT: ‘METHOUGHT I WAS A BILLOW IN THE CROWD’.
- TO-MORROW.
- STANZA.
- FRAGMENT: A WANDERER.
- FRAGMENT: LIFE ROUNDED WITH SLEEP.
- FRAGMENT: ‘I FAINT, I PERISH WITH MY LOVE!‘.
- FRAGMENT: THE LADY OF THE SOUTH.
- FRAGMENT: ZEPHYRUS THE AWAKENER.
- FRAGMENT: RAIN.
- FRAGMENT: ‘WHEN SOFT WINDS AND SUNNY SKIES’.
- FRAGMENT: ‘AND THAT I WALK THUS PROUDLY CROWNED’.
- FRAGMENT: ‘THE RUDE WIND IS SINGING’.
- FRAGMENT: ‘GREAT SPIRIT’.
- FRAGMENT: ‘O THOU IMMORTAL DEITY’.
- FRAGMENT: THE FALSE LAUREL AND THE TRUE.
- FRAGMENT: MAY THE LIMNER.
- FRAGMENT: BEAUTY’S HALO.
- FRAGMENT: ‘THE DEATH KNELL IS RINGING’.
- FRAGMENT: ‘I STOOD UPON A HEAVEN-CLEAVING TURRET’.
- NOTE ON POEMS OF 1821, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- POEMS WRITTEN IN 1822. THE ZUCCA.
- THE MAGNETIC LADY TO HER PATIENT.
- LINES: ‘WHEN THE LAMP IS SHATTERED’.
- TO JANE: THE INVITATION.
- TO JANE: THE RECOLLECTION.
- THE PINE FOREST OF THE CASCINE NEAR PISA.
- WITH A GUITAR, TO JANE.
- TO JANE: ‘THE KEEN STARS WERE TWINKLING’.
- A DIRGE.
- LINES WRITTEN IN THE BAY OF LERICI.
- LINES: ‘WE MEET NOT AS WE PARTED’.
- THE ISLE.
- FRAGMENT: TO THE MOON.
- EPITAPH.
- NOTE ON POEMS OF 1822, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- THE COMPLETE
- CONTENTS. TRANSLATIONS.
- EDITOR’S NOTES. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF EDITIONS. INDEX OF FIRST LINES.
- TRANSLATIONS.
- HYMN TO MERCURY.
- HOMER’S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX.
- HOMER’S HYMN TO THE MOON.
- HOMER’S HYMN TO THE SUN.
- HOMER’S HYMN TO THE EARTH: MOTHER OF ALL.
- HOMER’S HYMN TO MINERVA.
- HOMER’S HYMN TO VENUS.
- THE CYCLOPS.
- EPIGRAMS.
- 1.—TO STELLA.
- 2.—KISSING HELENA.
- 3.—SPIRIT OF PLATO.
- 4.—CIRCUMSTANCE.
- FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF ADONIS.
- FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION.
- FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS.
- PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR.
- FROM VERGIL’S TENTH ECLOGUE.
- THE SAME.
- FROM VERGIL’S FOURTH GEORGIC.
- SONNET.
- THE FIRST CANZONE OF THE CONVITO.
- MATILDA GATHERING FLOWERS.
- FRAGMENT.
- UGOLINO.
- SONNET.
- SCENES FROM THE MAGICO PRODIGIOSO.
- SCENE 2.
- SCENE 3.
- STANZAS FROM CALDERON’S CISMA DE INGLATERRA.
- SCENES FROM THE FAUST OF GOETHE.
- SCENE 2.—MAY-DAY NIGHT.
- JUVENILIA. QUEEN MAB.
- TO HARRIET *****.
- QUEEN MAB.
- NOTES ON QUEEN MAB. SHELLEY’S NOTES.
- NOTE ON QUEEN MAB, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
- FRAGMENT: OMENS.
- EPITAPHIUM.
- IN HOROLOGIUM.
- A DIALOGUE.
- TO THE MOONBEAM.
- THE SOLITARY.
- TO DEATH.
- LOVE’S ROSE.
- EYES: A FRAGMENT.
- ORIGINAL POETRY BY VICTOR AND CAZIRE.
- 3. SONG.
- 4. SONG.
- 5. SONG.
- 6. SONG.
- 7. SONG.
- 8. SONG.
- 9. SONG.
- 10. THE IRISHMAN’S SONG.
- 11. SONG.
- 12. SONG.
- 13. SONG.
- 14. SAINT EDMOND’S EVE.
- 15. REVENGE.
- 16. GHASTA OR, THE AVENGING DEMON!!!
- 17. FRAGMENT, OR THE TRIUMPH OF CONSCIENCE.
- POEMS FROM ST. IRVYNE, OR, THE ROSICRUCIAN.
- 1.—VICTORIA.
- 2.—ON THE DARK HEIGHT OF JURA.
- 3.—SISTER ROSA: A BALLAD.
- 4.—ST. IRVYNE’S TOWER.
- 5.—BEREAVEMENT.
- 6.—THE DROWNED LOVER.
- POSTHUMOUS FRAGMENTS OF MARGARET MCHOLSON.
- WAR.
- FRAGMENT: SUPPOSED TO BE AN EPITHALAMIUM OF FRANCIS RAVAILLAC AND CHARLOTTE CORDAY.
- DESPAIR.
- FRAGMENT.
- THE SPECTRAL HORSEMAN.
- MELODY TO A SCENE OF FORMER TIMES.
- STANZA FROM A TRANSLATION OF THE MARSEILLAISE HYMN.
- BIGOTRY’S VICTIM.
- ON AN ICICLE THAT CLUNG TO THE GRASS OF A GRAVE.
- LOVE.
- ON A FETE AT CARLTON HOUSE: FRAGMENT.
- TO A STAR.
- TO MARY WHO DIED IN THIS OPINION.
- A TALE OF SOCIETY AS IT IS: FROM FACTS, 1811.
- TO THE REPUBLICANS OF NORTH AMERICA.
- TO IRELAND.
- ON ROBERT EMMET’S GRAVE.
- THE RETROSPECT: CWM ELAN, 1812.
- FRAGMENT OF A SONNET.
- TO HARRIET.
- SONNET.
- SONNET.
- THE DEVIL’S WALK.
- FRAGMENT OF A SONNET.
- ON LEAVING LONDON FOR WALES.
- THE WANDERING JEW’S SOLILOQUY.
- EVENING.
- TO IANTHE.
- SONG FROM THE WANDERING JEW.
- FRAGMENT FROM THE WANDERING JEW.
- TO THE QUEEN OF MY HEART.
- NOTES ON THE TEXT AND ITS PUNCTUATION.
- PROMETHEUS UNBOUND.
- THE MASK OF ANARCHY.
- A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL EDITIONS OF SHELLEY’S POETICAL WORKS,
- INDEX OF FIRST LINES.
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