Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems on Nature (56 Poems)

Scenes From The Faust Of Goethe (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)

SCENE 1.-PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN. THE LORD AND THE HOST OF HEAVEN. ENTER THREE ARCHANGELS. RAPHAEL:The sun makes music as of oldAmid the rival spheres of Heaven,On its predestined circle rolledWith thunder speed: the Angels evenDraw strength from gazing on its … Continue reading →

Queen Mab: Part VII. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)

SPIRIT ’I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met around the pile; The multitude was gazing silently; And as the culprit passed with dauntless mien, Tempered disdain in his unaltering eye, Mixed with … Continue reading →

Queen Mab: Part I. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)

HOW wonderful is Death, Death, and his brother Sleep! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue; The other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean’s wave It blushes o’er the world; Yet both so passing wonderful! Hath then the gloomy Power Whose reign … Continue reading →

Queen Mab: Part IV. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)

‘How beautiful this night! the balmiest sigh, Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening’s ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene. Heaven’s ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love … Continue reading →

Letter To Maria Gisborne (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)

The spider spreads her webs, whether she beIn poet’s tower, cellar, or barn, or tree;The silk-worm in the dark green mulberry leavesHis winding sheet and cradle ever weaves;So I, a thing whom moralists call worm,Sit spinning still round this decaying … Continue reading →

The Sensitive Plant (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)

PART 1.A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew,And the young winds fed it with silver dew,And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light.And closed them beneath the kisses of Night. And the Spring arose on the garden fair,Like the … Continue reading →

Queen Mab: Part V. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)

‘Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates the world; even as the leaves Which the keen frost-wind of the waning year Has scattered on the forest-soil and heaped For many … Continue reading →

Queen Mab: Part II. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)

If solitude hath ever led thy steps To the wild ocean’s echoing shore, And thou hast lingered there, Until the sun’s broad orb Seemed resting on the burnished wave, Thou must have marked the lines Of purple gold that motionless Hung o’er the sinking sphere; Thou must have … Continue reading →

Queen Mab: Part III. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)

‘Fairy!’ the Spirit said, And on the Queen of Spells Fixed her ethereal eyes, ’I thank thee. Thou hast given A boon which I will not resign, and taught A lesson not to be unlearned. I know The past, and thence I will essay to glean A … Continue reading →

Ode To Liberty (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)

Yet, Freedom, yet, thy banner, torn but flying,Streams like a thunder-storm against the wind.–BYRON. I.A glorious people vibrated againThe lightning of the nations: LibertyFrom heart to heart, from tower to tower, o’er Spain,Scattering contagious fire into the sky,Gleamed. My soul … Continue reading →