Romantic

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792–1822

Major Works (3)

1. Hellas — Lyrical drama, 1822
2. Prometheus Unbound — Verse drama, 1820
3. The Cenci — Verse tragedy, 1819

Poems (308)

1. Ozymandias
2. Ode to the West Wind
3. Music, When Soft Voices Die
4. The Sunset
5. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
6. Mont Blanc
7. Fragment of a Ghost Story
8. Marianne’s Dream
9. To Constantia, Singing
10. To Constantia
11. To the Lord Chancellor
12. To William Shelley
13. That time is dead for ever, child
14. They die—the dead return not—Misery
15. Otho
16. Fragments Supposed to Be Parts of Otho
17. O That a Chariot of Cloud Were Mine
18. Fragment: To a Friend Released from Prison
19. Fragment: Satan Broken Loose
20. Fragment: Igniculus Desiderii
21. Lines to a Critic
22. To the Nile
23. Passage of the Apennines
24. The Past
25. O Mary dear, that you were here
26. On a Faded Violet
27. Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills
28. Scene from Tasso
29. Song for Tasso
30. Invocation to Misery
31. Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples
32. The Woodman and the Nightingale
33. Marenghi
34. Lift not the painted veil which those who live
35. Fragment: Apostrophe to Silence
36. Lines Written During the Castlereagh Administration
37. Song to the Men of England
38. Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819
39. What men gain fairly
40. A New National Anthem
41. Sonnet: England in 1819
42. An Ode, Written October, 1819, Before the Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty
43. Ode to Heaven
44. An Exhortation
45. The Indian Serenade
46. To Sophia [Miss Stacey]
47. My lost William, thou in whom
48. My dearest Mary, wherefore hast thou gone
49. On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery
50. Love’s Philosophy
51. The Birth of Pleasure
52. A gentle story of two lovers young
53. Fragment: Wedded Souls
54. Is it that in some brighter sphere
55. Fragment: Sufficient Unto the Day
56. When a lover clasps his fairest
57. Wake the serpent not
58. Fragment: Wine of the Fairies
59. Fragment: A Roman’s Chamber
60. The Sensitive Plant
61. A Vision of the Sea
62. The Cloud
63. To a Skylark
64. Ode to Liberty
65. I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden
66. Arethusa
67. Song of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers on the Plain of Enna
68. Hymn of Apollo
69. Hymn of Pan
70. The Question
71. The Two Spirits: An Allegory
72. Ode to Naples
73. Autumn: A Dirge
74. To the Moon
75. Death is here and death is there
76. Liberty
77. Summer and Winter
78. The Tower of Famine
79. An Allegory
80. The World’s Wanderers
81. Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there
82. Lines to a Reviewer
83. Fragment of a Satire on Satire
84. Good-night
85. Buona Notte
86. Orpheus
87. Fiordispina
88. Time Long Past
89. Alas! this is not what I thought life was
90. Fragment: Pater Omnipotens
91. Fragment: To the Mind of Man
92. Dirge for the Year
93. To Night
94. Time
95. Far, far away, O ye
96. From the Arabic: An Imitation
97. To Emilia Viviani
98. The Fugitives
99. Rarely, rarely, comest thou
100. Mutability
101. Lines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon
102. Sonnet: Political Greatness
103. The Aziola
104. A Lament
105. Remembrance
106. To Edward Williams
107. One word is too often profaned
108. When passion’s trance is overpast
109. A Bridal Song
110. Epithalamium
111. Epithalamium (Another Version)
112. Love, Hope, Desire, and Fear
113. Fragments Written for Hellas
114. I would not be a king
115. Ginevra
116. Evening: Ponte al Mare, Pisa
117. The Boat on the Serchio
118. Music
119. Sonnet to Byron
120. Methought I was a billow in the crowd
121. Fragment: The False Laurel and the True
122. I stood upon a heaven-cleaving turret
123. The Zucca
124. The Magnetic Lady to Her Patient
125. Lines: When the Lamp Is Shattered
126. To Jane: The Invitation
127. To Jane: The Recollection
128. The Pine Forest of the Cascine near Pisa
129. With a Guitar, to Jane
130. To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinkling
131. A Dirge
132. Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
133. Lines: We Meet Not as We Parted
134. The Isle
135. Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
136. Julian and Maddalo
137. The Mask of Anarchy
138. The Witch of Atlas
139. Epipsychidion
140. Adonais
141. A widow bird sate mourning for her Love
142. Hymn to the Spirit of Nature
143. The Poet's Dream
144. The Daemon of the World
145. To Mary (Dedication of The Revolt of Islam)
146. The Revolt of Islam
147. Prince Athanase
148. Rosalind and Helen
149. Peter Bell the Third
150. Letter to Maria Gisborne
151. To Mary (Dedication of The Witch of Atlas)
152. The Triumph of Life
153. Stanza, Written at Bracknell
154. Stanzas: April, 1814
155. To Harriet
156. To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
157. Mutability (We are as clouds…)
158. On Death
159. A Summer Evening Churchyard
160. Oh! there are spirits of the air
161. To Wordsworth
162. Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte
163. The cold earth slept below
164. Fragment: Home
165. Fragment: To One Singing
166. A Fragment: To Music
167. Another Fragment: To Music
168. Mighty Eagle
169. On Fanny Godwin
170. Wealth and dominion fade into the mass
171. Fragment: Thoughts Come and Go in Solitude
172. A Hate-Song
173. Fragment: To Byron
174. Fragment: The Lake’s Margin
175. My head is wild with weeping for a grief
176. Fragment: The Vine-Shroud
177. To William Shelley (Thy little footsteps on…)
178. To Mary Shelley
179. Follow to the deep wood’s weeds
180. Fragment: Love the Universe To-Day
181. Fragment: Love’s Tender Atmosphere
182. Ye gentle visitations of calm thought
183. Fragment: Music and Sweet Poetry
184. Fragment: The Sepulchre of Memory
185. Fragment: Rain
186. Fragment: A Tale Untold
187. Fragment: To Italy
188. Fragment: Rome and Nature
189. The Waning Moon
190. Fragment: The Deserts of Dim Sleep
191. The viewless and invisible Consequence
192. Fragment: A Serpent-Face
193. Fragment: Death in Life
194. Such hope, as is the sick despair of good
195. Fragment: Milton’s Spirit
196. Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun
197. Fragment on Keats
198. To-Morrow
199. If I walk in Autumn’s even
200. Fragment: A Wanderer
201. Fragment: Life Rounded with Sleep
202. Fragment: I Faint, I Perish with My Love!
203. Fragment: The Lady of the South
204. Fragment: Zephyrus the Awakener
205. Fragment: Rain (The gentleness of rain…)
206. When soft winds and sunny skies
207. And that I walk thus proudly crowned withal
208. The rude wind is singing
209. Great Spirit whom the sea of boundless thought
210. O thou immortal deity
211. Fragment: May the Limner
212. Fragment: Beauty’s Halo
213. The death knell is ringing
214. Fragment: To the Moon
215. Epitaph
216. Hymn to Mercury
217. Homer’s Hymn to Castor and Pollux
218. Homer’s Hymn to the Moon
219. Homer’s Hymn to the Sun
220. Homer’s Hymn to the Earth: Mother of All
221. Homer’s Hymn to Minerva
222. Homer’s Hymn to Venus
223. To Stella
224. Kissing Helena
225. Spirit of Plato
226. Circumstance
227. Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Adonis
228. Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Bion
229. From the Greek of Moschus
230. Pan, Echo, and the Satyr
231. From Vergil’s Tenth Eclogue
232. From Vergil’s Fourth Georgic
233. Sonnet: Dante Alighieri to Guido Cavalcanti
234. The First Canzone of the Convito
235. Matilda Gathering Flowers
236. Fragment: Adapted from the Vita Nuova of Dante
237. Ugolino
238. Sonnet: Guido Cavalcanti to Dante Alighieri
239. Stanzas from Calderon’s Cisma de Inglaterra
240. To Harriet (Dedication of Queen Mab)
241. Queen Mab
242. Verses on a Cat
243. Fragment: Omens
244. Epitaphium
245. In Horologium
246. A Dialogue
247. To the Moonbeam
248. The Solitary
249. To Death
250. Love’s Rose
251. Eyes: A Fragment
252. Here I sit with my paper, my pen and my ink
253. To Miss — — [Harriet Grove] from Miss — — [Elizabeth Shelley]
254. Cold, cold is the blast when December is howling
255. Come [Harriet]! sweet is the hour
256. Song: Despair
257. Song: Sorrow
258. Song: Hope
259. Song: Translated from the Italian
260. Song: Translated from the German
261. The Irishman’s Song
262. Fierce roars the midnight storm
263. Song: To [Harriet]
264. Song: To [Harriet] (Stern, stern is the…)
265. Saint Edmond’s Eve
266. Revenge
267. Ghasta; or, The Avenging Demon
268. Fragment, or the Triumph of Conscience
269. Victoria
270. On the Dark Height of Jura
271. Sister Rosa: A Ballad
272. St. Irvyne’s Tower
273. Bereavement
274. The Drowned Lover
275. War
276. Despair
277. Yes! all is past—swift time has fled away
278. The Spectral Horseman
279. Melody to a Scene of Former Times
280. Stanza from a Translation of the Marseillaise Hymn
281. Bigotry’s Victim
282. On an Icicle That Clung to the Grass of a Grave
283. Love
284. On a Fete at Carlton House: Fragment
285. To a Star
286. To Mary Who Died in This Opinion
287. A Tale of Society as It Is: From Facts, 1811
288. To the Republicans of North America
289. To Ireland
290. On Robert Emmet’s Grave
291. The Retrospect: Cwm Elan, 1812
292. To Harriet (Ever as now with…)
293. To Harriet (It is not blasphemy…)
294. To a Balloon Laden with Knowledge
295. On Launching Some Bottles Filled with Knowledge into the Bristol Channel
296. The Devil’s Walk
297. Farewell to North Devon
298. On Leaving London for Wales
299. The Wandering Jew’s Soliloquy
300. To Harriet (O thou bright Sun!…)
301. To Ianthe
302. Song from the Wandering Jew
303. Fragment from the Wandering Jew
304. To the Queen of My Heart
305. To — (Yet look on me—take not thine eyes away)
306. Fragment: To the People of England
307. Fragment: Supposed to Be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Corday
308. Fragments Connected with Epipsychidion

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