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Shelley Poems

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Romantic poems of liberty, imagination, nature, revolt, and visionary music.

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Shelley Poems

Shelley Poems gathers public-domain verse by Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the central English Romantic poets of freedom, imagination, political hope, and lyrical intensity.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley died in 1822, and Shelley Poems was first published in 1820. These dates support the public-domain basis for this English original-language edition.

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The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Capítulo de préviaAlastor Or The Spirit Of SolitudePrévia

Alastor Or The Spirit Of Solitude

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THE poem entitled Alastor may be considered as allegorical of one of the most interesting situations of the human mind. It represents a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination inflamed and purified through familiarity with all that is excellent and majestic, to the contemplation of the universe. He drinks deep of the fountains of knowledge, and is still insatiate. The magnificence and beauty of the external world sinks profoundly into the frame of his conceptions, and affords to their modifications a variety not to be exhausted. So long as it is possible for his desires to point towards objects thus infinite and unmeasured, he is joyous, and tranquil, and self-possessed. But the period arrives when these objects cease to suffice. His mind is at length suddenly awakened and thirsts for intercourse with an intelligence similar to itself. He images to himself the Being whom he loves. Conversant with speculations of the sublimest and most perfect natures, the vision in which he embodies his own imaginations unites all of wonderful, or wise, or beautiful, which the poet, the philosopher, or the lover could depicture. The intellectual faculties, the imagination, the functions of sense, have their respective requisitions on the sympathy of corresponding powers in other human beings. The Poet is represented as uniting these requisitions, and attaching them to a single image. He seeks in vain for a prototype of his conception. Blasted by his disappointment, he descends to an untimely grave.

The picture is not barren of instruction to actual men. The Poet’s self-centred seclusion was avenged by the furies of an irresistible passion pursuing him to speedy ruin. But that Power which strikes the luminaries of the world with sudden darkness and extinction, by awakening them to too exquisite a perception of its influences, dooms to a slow and poisonous decay those meaner spirits that dare to abjure its dominion. Their destiny is more abject and inglorious as their delinquency is more contemptible and pernicious. They who, deluded by no generous error, instigated by no sacred thirst of doubtful knowledge, duped by no illustrious superstition, loving nothing on this earth, and cherishing no hopes beyond, yet keep aloof from sympathies with their kind, rejoicing neither in human joy nor mourning with human grief; these, and such as they, have their apportioned curse. They languish, because none feel with them their common nature. They are morally dead. They are neither friends, nor lovers, nor fathers, nor citizens of the world, nor benefactors of their country. Among those who attempt to exist without human sympathy, the pure and tender-hearted perish through the intensity and passion of their search after its communities, when the vacancy of their spirit suddenly makes itself felt. All else, selfish, blind, and torpid, are those unforeseeing multitudes who constitute, together with their own, the lasting misery and loneliness of the world. Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

“The good die first,

And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust.

Burn to the socket!’

December 14, 1815.

Nondum amabam, et amare amabam, quaerebam quid amarem, amans amare.

The Confessions of St. Augustine.

EARTH, ocean, air, belovèd brotherhood!

If our great Mother has imbued my soul

With aught of natural piety to feel

Your love, and recompense the boon with mine;

If dewy morn, and odorous noon, and even,

With sunset and its gorgeous ministers,

And solemn midnight’s tingling silentness;

If autumn’s hollow sighs in the sere wood,

And winter robing with pure snow and crowns

Of starry ice the grey grass and bare boughs;

If spring’s voluptuous pantings when she breathes

Her first sweet kisses, have been dear to me;

If no bright bird, insect, or gentle beast

I consciously have injured, but still loved

And cherished these my kindred; then forgive

This boast, belovèd brethren, and withdraw

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02Alastor Or The Spirit Of Solitude
  3. 03PREFACE
  4. 04The Daemon Of The World
  5. 05A FRAGMENT
  6. 06PART I
  7. 07The Revolt Of Islam
  8. 08A POEM IN TWELVE CANTOS
  9. 09PREFACE
  10. 10DEDICATION
  11. 11TO MARY — —
  12. 12CANTO I
  13. 13CANTO II
  14. 14CANTO III
  15. 15CANTO IV
  16. 16Prince Athanase1
  17. 17A FRAGMENT
  18. 18PART I
  19. 19PART II
  20. 20FRAGMENT II
  21. 21Rosalind And Helen
  22. 22A MODERN ECLOGUE
  23. 23ADVERTISEMENT
  24. 24Julian And Maddalo
  25. 25A CONVERSATION
  26. 26PREFACE
  27. 27CANCELLED FRAGMENTS OF JULIAN AND MADDALO
  28. 28Prometheus Unbound
  29. 29A LYRICAL DRAMA
  30. 30IN FOUR ACTS
  31. 31PREFACE
  32. 32DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
  33. 33ACT I
  34. 34ACT II
  35. 35The Cenci
  36. 36A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS
  37. 37DEDICATION, TO LEIGH HUNT, Esq.
  38. 38PREFACE
  39. 39DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
  40. 40ACT I
  41. 41ACT II
  42. 42ACT III
  43. 43ACT IV
  44. 44ACT V
  45. 45SONG
  46. 46The Mask Of Anarchy
  47. 47WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE MASSACRE AT MANCHESTER
  48. 48Peter Bell The Third
  49. 49By MICHING MALLECHO, ESQ.
  50. 50DEDICATION
  51. 51TO THOMAS BROWN, ESQ., THE YOUNGER, H.F.
  52. 52PROLOGUE
  53. 53PART THE FIRST
  54. 54DEATH
  55. 55PART THE SECOND
  56. 56THE DEVIL
  57. 57PART THE THIRD
  58. 58HELL
  59. 59PART THE FOURTH
  60. 60SIN
  61. 61PART THE FIFTH
  62. 62GRACE
  63. 63PART THE SIXTH
  64. 64DAMNATION
  65. 65Oedipus Tyrannus Or Swellfoot The Tyrant
  66. 66A TRAGEDY IN TWO ACTS
  67. 67ADVERTISEMENT
  68. 68DRAMATIS PERSONAE
  69. 69SCENE.—THEBES
  70. 70ACT I
  71. 71ACT II
  72. 72Charles The First
  73. 73DRAMATIS PERSONAE
  74. 74Letter To Maria Gisborne
  75. 75The Witch Of Atlas
  76. 76TO MARY
  77. 77THE WITCH OF ATLAS
  78. 78Epipsychidion
  79. 79VERSES ADDRESSED TO THE NOBLE AND UNFORTUNATE LADY, EMILIA V—–,
  80. 80NOW IMPRISONED IN THE CONVENT OF—–
  81. 81ADVERTISEMENT
  82. 82EPIPSYCHIDION
  83. 83Adonais
  84. 84AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS, AUTHOR OF ENDYMION, HYPERION, ETC.
  85. 85PREFACE
  86. 86Hellas
  87. 87A LYRICAL DRAMA
  88. 88PREFACE
  89. 89PROLOGUE TO HELLAS
  90. 90HELLAS
  91. 91DRAMATIS PERSONAE
  92. 92Fragments Of An Unfinished Drama
  93. 93The Triumph Of Life
  94. 94Early Poems [1814, 1815]
  95. 95STANZA, WRITTEN AT BRACKNELL
  96. 96STANZAS.—APRIL, 1814
  97. 97TO HARRIET
  98. 98TO MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN
  99. 99TO —–
  100. 100MUTABILITY
  101. 101ON DEATH
  102. 102TO—–
  103. 103TO WORDSWORTH
  104. 104FEELINGS OF A REPUBLICAN ON THE FALL OF BONAPARTE
  105. 105LINES
  106. 106Poems Written In 1816
  107. 107THE SUNSET
  108. 108HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY
  109. 109MONT BLANC
  110. 110FRAGMENT: HOME
  111. 111FRAGMENT OF A GHOST STORY
  112. 112Poems Written In 1817
  113. 113MARIANNE’S DREAM
  114. 114TO CONSTANTIA, SINGING
  115. 115TO CONSTANTIA
  116. 116FRAGMENT: TO ONE SINGING
  117. 117A FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC
  118. 118ANOTHER FRAGMENT TO MUSIC
  119. 119‘MIGHTY EAGLE’
  120. 120TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR
  121. 121TO WILLIAM SHELLEY
  122. 122FROM THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF THE POEM TO WILLIAM SHELLEY
  123. 123ON FANNY GODWIN
  124. 124LINES
  125. 125DEATH
  126. 126OTHO
  127. 127FRAGMENTS SUPPOSED TO BE PARTS OF OTHO
  128. 128‘O THAT A CHARIOT OF CLOUD WERE MINE’
  129. 129FRAGMENT: TO A FRIEND RELEASED FROM PRISON
  130. 130FRAGMENT: SATAN BROKEN LOOSE
  131. 131FRAGMENT: THOUGHTS COME AND GO IN SOLITUDE
  132. 132A HATE-SONG
  133. 133LINES TO A CRITIC
  134. 134OZYMANDIAS
  135. 135Poems Written In 1818
  136. 136TO THE NILE
  137. 137PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES
  138. 138THE PAST
  139. 139TO MARY———
  140. 140ON A FADED VIOLET
  141. 141LINES WRITTEN AMONG THE EUGANEAN HILLS
  142. 142OCTOBER, 1818.
  143. 143SCENE FROM ‘TASSO’
  144. 144SONG FOR ‘TASSO’
  145. 145INVOCATION TO MISERY
  146. 146STANZAS
  147. 147THE WOODMAN AND THE NIGHTINGALE
  148. 148MARENGHI1
  149. 149SONNET
  150. 150FRAGMENT: TO BYRON
  151. 151FRAGMENT: APOSTROPHE TO SILENCE
  152. 152FRAGMENT: THE LAKE’S MARGIN
  153. 153FRAGMENT: ‘MY HEAD IS WILD WITH WEEPING’
  154. 154FRAGMENT: THE VINE-SHROUD
  155. 155Poems Written In 1819
  156. 156LINES WRITTEN DURING THE CASTLEREAGH ADMINISTRATION
  157. 157SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND
  158. 158SIMILES FOR TWO POLITICAL CHARACTERS OF 1819
  159. 159FRAGMENT: TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND
  160. 160FRAGMENT: ‘WHAT MEN GAIN FAIRLY’
  161. 161A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM
  162. 162SONNET: ENGLAND IN 1819
  163. 163AN ODE
  164. 164CANCELLED STANZA
  165. 165ODE TO HEAVEN
  166. 166CANCELLED FRAGMENTS OF THE ODE TO HEAVEN
  167. 167ODE TO THE WEST WIND1
  168. 168AN EXHORTATION
  169. 169THE INDIAN SERENADE
  170. 170CANCELLED PASSAGE
  171. 171TO SOPHIA [MISS STACEY]
  172. 172TO WILLIAM SHELLEY
  173. 173TO WILLIAM SHELLEY
  174. 174TO MARY SHELLEY
  175. 175TO MARY SHELLEY
  176. 176ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY
  177. 177LOVE’S PHILOSOPHY
  178. 178FRAGMENT: ‘FOLLOW TO THE DEEP WOOD’S WEEDS’
  179. 179THE BIRTH OF PLEASURE
  180. 180FRAGMENT: LOVE THE UNIVERSE TO-DAY
  181. 181FRAGMENT: ‘A GENTLE STORY OF TWO LOVERS YOUNG’
  182. 182FRAGMENT: LOVE’S TENDER ATMOSPHERE
  183. 183FRAGMENT: WEDDED SOULS
  184. 184FRAGMENT: ‘IS IT THAT IN SOME BRIGHTER SPHERE’
  185. 185FRAGMENT: SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY
  186. 186FRAGMENT: ‘YE GENTLE VISITATIONS OF CALM THOUGHT’
  187. 187FRAGMENT: MUSIC AND SWEET POETRY
  188. 188FRAGMENT: THE SEPULCHRE OF MEMORY
  189. 189FRAGMENT: ‘WHEN A LOVER CLASPS HIS FAIREST’
  190. 190FRAGMENT: ‘WAKE THE SERPENT NOT’
  191. 191FRAGMENT: RAIN
  192. 192FRAGMENT: A TALE UNTOLD
  193. 193FRAGMENT: TO ITALY
  194. 194FRAGMENT: WINE OF THE FAIRIES
  195. 195FRAGMENT: A ROMAN’S CHAMBER
  196. 196FRAGMENT: ROME AND NATURE
  197. 197VARIATION OF THE SONG OF THE MOON
  198. 198CANCELLED STANZA OF THE MASK OF ANARCHY
  199. 199Poems Written In 1820
  200. 200THE SENSITIVE PLANT
  201. 201PART SECOND
  202. 202PART THIRD
  203. 203CONCLUSION
  204. 204A VISION OF THE SEA
  205. 205THE CLOUD
  206. 206TO A SKYLARK
  207. 207Poems Written In 1821
  208. 208DIRGE FOR THE YEAR
  209. 209TO NIGHT
  210. 210TIME
  211. 211LINES
  212. 212FROM THE ARABIC: AN IMITATION
  213. 213TO EMILIA VIVIANI
  214. 214THE FUGITIVES
  215. 215TO—–
  216. 216SONG
  217. 217MUTABILITY
  218. 218LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON
  219. 219SONNET: POLITICAL GREATNESS
  220. 220THE AZIOLA
  221. 221A LAMENT
  222. 222REMEMBRANCE
  223. 223TO EDWARD WILLIAMS
  224. 224TO—–
  225. 225TO—–
  226. 226A BRIDAL SONG
  227. 227EPITHALAMIUM
  228. 228ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME
  229. 229LOVE, HOPE, DESIRE, AND FEAR
  230. 230FRAGMENTS WRITTEN FOR HELLAS
  231. 231FRAGMENT: ‘I WOULD NOT BE A KING’
  232. 232GINEVRA
  233. 233THE DIRGE
  234. 234EVENING: PONTE AL MARE, PISA
  235. 235THE BOAT ON THE SERCHIO
  236. 236MUSIC
  237. 237Poems Written In 1822
  238. 238THE ZUCCA
  239. 239THE MAGNETIC LADY TO HER PATIENT
  240. 240LINES: ‘WHEN THE LAMP IS SHATTERED’
  241. 241TO JANE: THE INVITATION
  242. 242TO JANE: THE RECOLLECTION
  243. 243THE PINE FOREST OF THE CASCINE NEAR PISA
  244. 244WITH A GUITAR, TO JANE
  245. 245Translations
  246. 246HYMN TO MERCURY
  247. 247Juvenilia
  248. 248QUEEN MAB
  249. 249Original Poetry
  250. 250BY VICTOR AND CAZIRE
  251. 251I
  252. 252II
  253. 253III. SONG
  254. 254IV. SONG
  255. 255V. SONG
  256. 256VI. SONG
  257. 257VII. SONG
  258. 258VIII. SONG
  259. 259IX. SONG
  260. 260X
  261. 261THE IRISHMAN’S SONG
  262. 262Poems From St. Irvyne, Or, The Rosicrucian
  263. 263III.—SISTER ROSA: A BALLAD
  264. 264Posthumous Fragments Of Margaret Nicholson
  265. 265ADVERTISEMENT
  266. 266WAR

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