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The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Preface by Mrs. Shelley
  3. 3Postscript in Second Edition of 1839
  4. 4Preface by Mrs. Shelley
  5. 5The Daemon of the World
  6. 6Alastor: Or, the Spirit of Solitude
  7. 7Alastor: Or, the Spirit of Solitude
  8. 8Note on Alastor, by Mrs. Shelley
  9. 9The Revolt of Islam
  10. 10Dedication
  11. 11Canto 1
  12. 12Canto 2
  13. 13Canto 3
  14. 14Canto 4
  15. 15Canto 5
  16. 16Canto 6
  17. 17Canto 7
  18. 18Canto 8
  19. 19Canto 9
  20. 20Canto 10
  21. 21Canto 11
  22. 22Canto 12
  23. 23Note on the “Revolt of Islam”, by Mrs. Shelley
  24. 24Prince Athanase
  25. 25Part 2 — Fragment 1
  26. 26Fragment 2
  27. 27Fragment 3
  28. 28Fragment 4
  29. 29Fragment 5
  30. 30Fragment 6
  31. 31Another Fragment (A)
  32. 32Another Fragment (B)
  33. 33Rosalind and Helen
  34. 34Rosalind, Helen, and Her Child
  35. 35Note by Mrs. Shelley
  36. 36Julian and Maddalo
  37. 37Cancelled Fragments of Julian and Maddalo
  38. 38Note by Mrs. Shelley
  39. 39Prometheus Unbound
  40. 40Preface
  41. 41Dramatis Personae
  42. 42Act 1 — Scene: A Ravine of Icy Rocks in the Indian Caucasus…
  43. 43Act 2
  44. 44Act 3
  45. 45Act 4
  46. 46Cancelled Fragments of “Prometheus Unbound”
  47. 47Note on “Prometheus Unbound”, by Mrs. Shelley
  48. 48The Cenci
  49. 49Dedication, to Leigh Hunt, Esq
  50. 50The Cenci
  51. 51The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts
  52. 52Act 1 — Scene 1.1: An Apartment in the Cenci Palace. Enter Count Ce…
  53. 53Act 2
  54. 54Act 3
  55. 55Act 4
  56. 56Act 5
  57. 57Note on the Cenci, by Mrs. Shelley
  58. 58The Mask of Anarchy
  59. 59Note on the Mask of Anarchy, by Mrs. Shelley
  60. 60Peter Bell the Third
  61. 61Prologue
  62. 62Part 1 — Death
  63. 63Part 2 — The Devil
  64. 64Part 3 — Hell
  65. 65Part 4 — Sin
  66. 66Part 5 — Grace
  67. 67Part 6 — Damnation
  68. 68Part 7 — Double Damnation
  69. 69Note on Peter Bell the Third, by Mrs. Shelley
  70. 70Letter to Maria Gisborne
  71. 71The Witch of Atlas
  72. 72To Mary (on Her Objecting to the Following Poem, Upon the Score of…
  73. 73The Witch of Atlas
  74. 74Note on the Witch of Atlas, by Mrs. Shelley
  75. 75Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot the Tyrant
  76. 76Act 2
  77. 77Note on Oedipus Tyrannus, by Mrs. Shelley
  78. 78Epipsychidion
  79. 79Epipsychidion
  80. 80Fragments Connected With Epipsychidion
  81. 81Three Early Drafts of the Preface
  82. 82Preface 2
  83. 83Preface 3
  84. 84Passages of the Poem, or Connected Therewith
  85. 85Adonais
  86. 86Adonais
  87. 87Cancelled Passages of Adonais
  88. 88Passages of the Poem
  89. 89Hellas
  90. 90To His Excellency
  91. 91Preface
  92. 92Prologue to Hellas
  93. 93Hellas
  94. 94Fragments of an Unfinished Drama
  95. 95Scene — Before the Cavern of the Indian Enchantress
  96. 96Charles the First
  97. 97Scene 2 — A Chamber in Whitehall…
  98. 98Scene 3 — The Star Chamber. Laud, Juxon, Strafford, and Others, as…
  99. 99Scene 4 — Hampden, Pym, Cromwell, His Daughter, and Young Sir Harry…
  100. 100Scene 5
  101. 101The Triumph of Life
  102. 102Cancelled Opening of the Triumph of Life
  103. 103Volume 2 — Oxford Edition. Including Materials Never Before Printed…
  104. 104Early Poems [1814, 1815]
  105. 105Stanza, Written at Bracknell
  106. 106Stanzas — April, 1814
  107. 107To Harriet
  108. 108To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
  109. 109Mutability
  110. 110On Death
  111. 111A Summer Evening Churchyard
  112. 112To—
  113. 113To Wordsworth
  114. 114Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte
  115. 115Lines
  116. 116Note on the Early Poems, by Mrs. Shelley
  117. 117Poems Written in 1816
  118. 118Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
  119. 119Mont Blanc
  120. 120Cancelled Passage of Mont Blanc
  121. 121Fragment: Home
  122. 122Fragment of a Ghost Story
  123. 123Note on Poems of 1816, by Mrs. Shelley
  124. 124Poems Written in 1817
  125. 125To Constantia, Singing
  126. 126Stanzas 1 and 2
  127. 127Fragment: To One Singing
  128. 128A Fragment: To Music
  129. 129Another Fragment: To Music
  130. 130‘Mighty Eagle’
  131. 131To the Lord Chancellor
  132. 132To William Shelley
  133. 133From the Original Draft of the Poem to William Shelley
  134. 134On Fanny Godwin
  135. 135Lines
  136. 136Death
  137. 137Otho
  138. 138Fragments Supposed to Be Parts of Otho
  139. 139‘O That a Chariot of Cloud Were Mine’
  140. 140Fragment: To a Friend Released From Prison
  141. 141Fragment: Satan Broken Loose
  142. 142Fragment: “Igniculus Desiderii”
  143. 143Fragment: “Amor Aeternus”
  144. 144Fragment: Thoughts Come and Go in Solitude
  145. 145A Hate-Song
  146. 146Lines to a Critic
  147. 147Ozymandias
  148. 148Note on Poems of 1817, by Mrs. Shelley
  149. 149Poems Written in 1818
  150. 150Passage of the Apennines
  151. 151The Past
  152. 152To Mary
  153. 153On a Faded Violet
  154. 154Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills
  155. 155Scene From ‘Tasso’
  156. 156Song for ‘Tasso’
  157. 157Invocation to Misery
  158. 158Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples
  159. 159The Woodman and the Nightingale
  160. 160Sonnet
  161. 161Fragment: To Byron
  162. 162Fragment: Apostrophe to Silence
  163. 163Fragment: The Lake’s Margin
  164. 164Fragment: ‘My Head Is Wild With Weeping’
  165. 165Fragment: The Vine-Shroud
  166. 166Note on Poems of 1818, by Mrs. Shelley
  167. 167Poems Written in 1819
  168. 168Song to the Men of England
  169. 169Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819
  170. 170Fragment: To the People of England
  171. 171A New National Anthem
  172. 172Sonnet: England in 1819
  173. 173An Ode, Written October, 1819, Before the Spaniards Had Recovered T…
  174. 174Cancelled Stanza
  175. 175Ode to Heaven
  176. 176Cancelled Fragments of the Ode to Heaven
  177. 177Ode to the West Wind
  178. 178An Exhortation
  179. 179The Indian Serenade
  180. 180Cancelled Passage — To Sophia [Miss Stacey]
  181. 181To William Shelley
  182. 182To William Shelley
  183. 183To Mary Shelley
  184. 184To Mary Shelley
  185. 185On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery
  186. 186Love’s Philosophy
  187. 187Fragment: ‘Follow to the Deep Wood’s Weeds’
  188. 188The Birth of Pleasure
  189. 189Fragment: Love the Universe To-Day
  190. 190Fragment: ‘A Gentle Story of Two Lovers Young’
  191. 191Fragment: Love’s Tender Atmosphere
  192. 192Fragment: Wedded Souls
  193. 193Fragment: ‘Is It That in Some Brighter Sphere’
  194. 194Fragment: Sufficient Unto the Day
  195. 195Fragment: ‘Ye Gentle Visitations of Calm Thought’
  196. 196Fragment: Music and Sweet Poetry
  197. 197Fragment: The Sepulchre of Memory
  198. 198Fragment: ‘When a Lover Clasps His Fairest’
  199. 199Fragment: ‘Wake the Serpent Not’
  200. 200Fragment: Rain
  201. 201Fragment: A Tale Untold
  202. 202Fragment: To Italy
  203. 203Fragment: Wine of the Fairies
  204. 204Fragment: A Roman’s Chamber
  205. 205Fragment: Rome and Nature — Variation of the Song of the Moon
  206. 206Cancelled Stanza of the Mask of Anarchy
  207. 207Note on Poems of 1819, by Mrs. Shelley
  208. 208Poems Written in 1820
  209. 209Part 2
  210. 210Cancelled Passage
  211. 211A Vision of the Sea
  212. 212The Cloud
  213. 213To a Skylark
  214. 214Ode to Liberty
  215. 215Cancelled Passage of the Ode to Liberty
  216. 216To—
  217. 217Arethusa
  218. 218Song of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers on the Plain of Enna
  219. 219Hymn of Apollo
  220. 220Hymn of Pan
  221. 221The Question
  222. 222The Two Spirits: An Allegory
  223. 223Ode to Naples
  224. 224Autumn: A Dirge
  225. 225The Waning Moon
  226. 226To the Moon
  227. 227Death
  228. 228Liberty
  229. 229Summer and Winter
  230. 230The Tower of Famine
  231. 231An Allegory
  232. 232The World’s Wanderers
  233. 233Sonnet
  234. 234Lines to a Reviewer
  235. 235Fragment of a Satire on Satire
  236. 236Good-Night
  237. 237Buona Notte
  238. 238Orpheus
  239. 239Fiordispina
  240. 240Time Long Past
  241. 241Fragment: The Deserts of Dim Sleep
  242. 242Fragment: ‘The Viewless and Invisible Consequence’
  243. 243Fragment: A Serpent-Face · Fragment: Death in Life — Fragment: ‘Suc…
  244. 244Fragment: ‘Alas! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was’
  245. 245Fragment: Milton’s Spirit
  246. 246Fragment: ‘Unrisen Splendour of the Brightest Sun’
  247. 247Fragment: Pater Omnipotens
  248. 248Fragment: To the Mind of Man
  249. 249Note on Poems of 1820, by Mrs. Shelley
  250. 250Poems Written in 1821
  251. 251To Night
  252. 252Time
  253. 253Lines
  254. 254From the Arabic: An Imitation
  255. 255To Emilia Viviani
  256. 256The Fugitives
  257. 257To—
  258. 258Song
  259. 259Mutability
  260. 260Lines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon
  261. 261Sonnet: Political Greatness
  262. 262The Aziola
  263. 263A Lament
  264. 264Remembrance
  265. 265To Edward Williams
  266. 266To—
  267. 267To—
  268. 268A Bridal Song
  269. 269Epithalamium
  270. 270Another Version of the Same
  271. 271Love, Hope, Desire, and Fear
  272. 272Fragments Written for Hellas
  273. 273Fragment: ‘I Would Not Be a King’
  274. 274Ginevra
  275. 275Evening: Ponte Al Mare, Pisa
  276. 276The Boat on the Serchio
  277. 277Music
  278. 278Sonnet to Byron
  279. 279Fragment: ‘Methought I Was a Billow in the Crowd’
  280. 280To-Morrow
  281. 281Stanza
  282. 282Fragment: A Wanderer
  283. 283Fragment: Life Rounded With Sleep
  284. 284Fragment: ‘I Faint, I Perish With My Love!‘
  285. 285Fragment: The Lady of the South
  286. 286Fragment: Zephyrus the Awakener
  287. 287Fragment: Rain — Fragment: ‘When Soft Winds and Sunny Skies’
  288. 288Fragment: ‘And That I Walk Thus Proudly Crowned’
  289. 289Fragment: ‘The Rude Wind Is Singing’
  290. 290Fragment: ‘Great Spirit’
  291. 291Fragment: ‘O Thou Immortal Deity’
  292. 292Fragment: The False Laurel and the True
  293. 293Fragment: May the Limner
  294. 294Fragment: Beauty’s Halo — Fragment: ‘The Death Knell Is Ringing’
  295. 295Fragment: ‘I Stood Upon a Heaven-Cleaving Turret’
  296. 296Note on Poems of 1821, by Mrs. Shelley
  297. 297Poems Written in 1822
  298. 298The Magnetic Lady to Her Patient
  299. 299Lines: ‘When the Lamp Is Shattered’
  300. 300To Jane: The Invitation
  301. 301To Jane: The Recollection
  302. 302The Pine Forest of the Cascine Near Pisa
  303. 303With a Guitar, to Jane
  304. 304To Jane: ‘The Keen Stars Were Twinkling’
  305. 305A Dirge
  306. 306Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
  307. 307Lines: ‘We Meet Not as We Parted’
  308. 308The Isle
  309. 309Fragment: To the Moon
  310. 310Epitaph
  311. 311Note on Poems of 1822, by Mrs. Shelley
  312. 312Volume 3 — Oxford Edition. Including Materials Never Before Printed…
  313. 313Translations…
  314. 314Hymn to Mercury
  315. 315Homer’s Hymn to Castor and Pollux
  316. 316Homer’s Hymn to the Moon
  317. 317Homer’s Hymn to the Sun
  318. 318Homer’s Hymn to the Earth: Mother of All
  319. 319Homer’s Hymn to Minerva
  320. 320Homer’s Hymn to Venus
  321. 321The Cyclops
  322. 322Epigrams — 1 — To Stella
  323. 3232 — Kissing Helena
  324. 3243 — Spirit of Plato
  325. 3254 — Circumstance
  326. 326Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Adonis
  327. 327Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Bion. From the Greek of Moschus
  328. 328From the Greek of Moschus
  329. 329Pan, Echo, and the Satyr. From the Greek of Moschus
  330. 330From Vergil’s Tenth Eclogue
  331. 331The Same
  332. 332From Vergil’s Fourth Georgic
  333. 333Sonnet. From the Italian of Dante
  334. 334The First Canzone of the Convito. From the Italian of Dante
  335. 335Matilda Gathering Flowers. From the Purgatorio of Dante, Canto 28,…
  336. 336Fragment
  337. 337Ugolino
  338. 338Sonnet. From the Italian of Cavalcanti
  339. 339Scenes From the Magico Prodigioso. From the Spanish of Calderon
  340. 340Scene 1 — Enter Cyprian, Dressed as a Student; Clarin and Moscon as…
  341. 341Scene 2
  342. 342Scene 3 — The Daemon Tempts Justina, Who Is a Christian
  343. 343Stanzas From Calderon’s Cisma de Inglaterra
  344. 344Scenes From the Faust of Goethe
  345. 345Scene 2 — May-Day Night
  346. 346Juvenilia
  347. 347To Harriet *****
  348. 348Queen Mab
  349. 349Notes on Queen Mab
  350. 350Note on Queen Mab, by Mrs. Shelley
  351. 351Fragment: Omens — Epitaphium
  352. 352In Horologium
  353. 353A Dialogue
  354. 354To the Moonbeam
  355. 355The Solitary
  356. 356To Death
  357. 357Love’s Rose
  358. 358Eyes: A Fragment
  359. 359Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire
  360. 3603 — Song
  361. 3614 — Song
  362. 3625 — Song
  363. 3636 — Song
  364. 3647 — Song
  365. 3658 — Song
  366. 3669 — Song
  367. 36710 — The Irishman’s Song
  368. 36811 — Song
  369. 36912 — Song
  370. 37013 — Song
  371. 37114 — Saint Edmond’s Eve
  372. 37215 — Revenge
  373. 37316 — Ghasta or, The Avenging Demon!!!
  374. 37417 — Fragment, or the Triumph of Conscience
  375. 375Poems From St. Irvyne, or, the Rosicrucian
  376. 3761 — Victoria
  377. 3772 — On the Dark Height of Jura
  378. 3783 — Sister Rosa: A Ballad
  379. 3794 — St. Irvyne’s Tower
  380. 3805 — Bereavement
  381. 3816 — The Drowned Lover
  382. 382Posthumous Fragments of Margaret McHolson
  383. 383War
  384. 384Fragment: Supposed to Be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and C…
  385. 385Despair
  386. 386Fragment
  387. 387The Spectral Horseman
  388. 388Melody to a Scene of Former Times
  389. 389Stanza From a Translation of the Marseillaise Hymn
  390. 390Bigotry’s Victim
  391. 391On an Icicle That Clung to the Grass of a Grave
  392. 392Love
  393. 393On a Fete at Carlton House: Fragment
  394. 394To a Star
  395. 395To Mary Who Died in This Opinion
  396. 396A Tale of Society as It Is: From Facts, 1811
  397. 397To the Republicans of North America
  398. 398To Ireland
  399. 399On Robert Emmet’s Grave
  400. 400The Retrospect: Cwm Elan, 1812
  401. 401Fragment of a Sonnet. To Harriet
  402. 402To Harriet
  403. 403Sonnet
  404. 404Sonnet. On Launching Some Bottles Filled With Knowledge Into the Br…
  405. 405The Devil’s Walk
  406. 406Fragment of a Sonnet
  407. 407On Leaving London for Wales
  408. 408The Wandering Jew’s Soliloquy
  409. 409Evening. To Harriet
  410. 410To Ianthe
  411. 411Song From the Wandering Jew
  412. 412Fragment From the Wandering Jew
  413. 413To the Queen of My Heart
  414. 414Notes on the Text and Its Punctuation
  415. 415Prometheus Unbound
  416. 416The Mask of Anarchy

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