The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume II

Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Publisher: Mint Editions
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781513287003
• eBook ISBN: 9781513287003
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume II (1914) compiles some of Percy Bysshe Shelley's best-known works as a leading poet, playwright, and political thinker of the nineteenth century. As a leading figure among the English Romantics, Shelley was a master of poetic form and tradition who recognized the need for radical change in the social order. His work has influenced such writers and intellectuals as Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, W. B. Yeats, and George Bernard Shaw. In "Ozymandias, " Shelley employs the language of archaeology to mask one of the greatest political poems of all time. The sonnet depicts a statue of an ancient king discovered in the Egyptian desert. Barely visible above the shifting sand, its pedestal reads "'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'" Juxtaposed with this language of bluster, the three remaining lines dispel the myth of power with expert precision: "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away." For Shelley, who identifies with the knowing, mischievous sculptor, the dominion of kings is nothing but hubris, a grain of sand in the vast expanse of time. In "To a Skylark, " Shelley immortalizes the song of a bird heard once and remembered forever: "The blue deep thou wingest, / And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest." As he longs to know the bird in order to mimic the celebratory nature of its song, Shelley reaches an understanding of the human condition, the tragic temperament of those who "look before and after, / And pine for what is not." Unlike the poet, who must struggle to achieve his song, the skylark soars and sings and remains above the world of men, whose "sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." This edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume II is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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, 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
• Fragments
• 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
• Cancelled Passage
• A Vision of the Sea
• The Cloud
• To a Skylark
• Ode to Liberty
• Cancelled Passage of the Ode to Liberty
• To—‘I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden’
• 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: ‘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
• 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
• 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
• A Note About the Author
• A Note from the Publisher