Early Poems [1814, 1815]
Stanza, Written at Bracknell
Stanzas — April, 1814
To Harriet
To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
To — . ‘Yet Look on Me’
Mutability. On Death
A Summer Evening Churchyard
To — . ‘Oh! There Are Spirits of the Air’. To Wordsworth
Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte
Lines: ‘The Cold Earth Slept Below’
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
The Same: Stanzas 1 and 2. To Constantia
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: ‘That Time Is Dead for Ever’
Death
Otho
Fragments Supposed to Be Parts of Otho
‘O That a Chariot of Cloud Were Mine’
Fragments: To a Friend Released From Prison. Satan Broken Loose. Igniculus Desiderii. Amor Aeternus. 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
Marenghi
Sonnet: ‘Lift Not the Painted Veil’
Fragments: To Byron. Apostrophe to Silence. The Lake’s Margin. ‘My Head Is Wild With Weeping’. 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
Fragment: ‘What Men Gain Fairly’
A New National Anthem
Sonnet: England in 1819
An Ode Written October, 1819
Cancelled Stanza
Ode to Heaven
Ode to the West Wind
An Exhortation
The Indian Serenade
Cancelled Passage
To Sophia [Miss Stacey]
To William Shelley, 1
To William Shelley, 2
To Mary Shelley, 1
To Mary Shelley, 2. On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci
Love’s Philosophy
Fragment: ‘Follow to the Deep Wood’s Weeds’
The Birth of Pleasure
FRAGMENTS: LOVE THE UNIVERSE TO-DAY. ‘A GENTLE STORY OF TWO LOVERS YOUNG’. LOVE’S TENDER ATMOSPHERE. WEDDED SOULS. ’IS IT THAT IN SOME BRIGHTER SPHERE’. SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY. ‘YE GENTLE VISITATIONS OF CALM THOUGHT’. MUSIC AND SWEET POETRY. THE SEPULCHRE OF MEMORY. ‘WHEN A LOVER CLASPS HIS FAIREST’. ‘WAKE THE SERPENT NOT’. RAIN. A TALE UNTOLD. TO ITALY. WINE OF THE FAIRIES. A ROMAN’S CHAMBER. ROME AND NATURE.
Variation of the Song of the Moon
Cancelled Stanza of the Mask of Anarchy
Note by Mrs. Shelley
Poems Written in 1820
The Sensitive Plant
Cancelled Passage
A Vision of the Sea
The Cloud
To a Skylark
Ode to Liberty
Cancelled Passage
To — . ‘I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden’
Arethusa
Song of Proserpine
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: ‘Ye Hasten to the Grave!‘
Lines to a Reviewer
Fragment of a Satire on Satire
Good-Night
Buona Notte
Orpheus
Fiordispina
Time Long Past
FRAGMENTS: THE DESERTS OF DIM SLEEP. ‘THE VIEWLESS AND INVISIBLE CONSEQUENCE’. A SERPENT-FACE. DEATH IN LIFE. ‘SUCH HOPE, AS IS THE SICK DESPAIR OF GOOD’. ‘ALAS THIS IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT LIFE WAS’. MILTON’S SPIRIT. ‘UNRISEN SPLENDOUR OF THE BRIGHTEST SUN’. PATER OMNIPOTENS. 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: ‘Far, Far Away’. From the Arabic: An Imitation
To Emilia Viviani
The Fugitives
To — . ‘Music, When Soft Voices Die’
Song: ‘Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou’
Mutability
Lines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon
Sonnet: Political Greatness
The Aziola
A Lament
Remembrance
To Edward Williams
To — . ‘One Word Is Too Often Profaned’
To — . ‘When Passion’s Trance Is Overpast’
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 on Keats
Fragment: ‘Methought I Was a Billow in the Crowd’. To-Morrow
Stanza: ‘If I Walk in Autumn’s Even’
FRAGMENTS: A WANDERER. LIFE ROUNDED WITH SLEEP. ‘I FAINT, I PERISH WITH MY LOVE’. THE LADY OF THE SOUTH. ZEPHYRUS THE AWAKENER. RAIN. ‘WHEN SOFT WINDS AND SUNNY SKIES’. ’AND THAT I WALK THUS PROUDLY CROWNED’. ‘THE RUDE WIND IS SINGING’. ‘GREAT SPIRIT’. ‘O THOU IMMORTAL DEITY’. THE FALSE LAUREL AND THE TRUE. MAY THE LIMNER. BEAUTY’S HALO. ‘THE DEATH KNELL IS RINGING’. ‘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 poems which follow appeared, with a few exceptions, either in the volumes published from time to time by Shelley himself, or in the “Posthumous Poems” of 1824, or in the “Poetical Works” of 1839, of which a second and enlarged edition was published by Mrs. Shelley in the same year. A few made their first appearance in some fugitive publication—such as Leigh Hunt’s “Literary Pocket-Book”—and were subsequently incorporated in the collective editions. In every case the editio princeps and (where this is possible) the exact date of composition are indicated below the title.]