THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

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Books by the Shelley Clan -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary Shelley, her father William Godwin, and her mother Mary Wollstonecraft -- available from Seltzer Books

Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Defense of Poetry and Other Essays by Shelley

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Last Man by Mary Shelley

Caleb Williams by Godwin

Thoughts on Man by Godwin

Italian Letters by Godwin

A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Wollstonecraft

Memoris of the Author of A Vindication of Women by Godwin

Maria or the Wrongs of Women by Wollstonecraft

Mary by Wollstonecraft

all three volumes in a single file

OXFORD EDITION.

INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS.

EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A.

EDITOR OF THE OXFORD WORDSWORTH.

1914.

VOLUME I

PREFACE

PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839.

PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824.

THE DAEMON OF THE WORLD. A FRAGMENT.

ALASTOR: OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE.

THE REVOLT OF ISLAM.

PRINCE ATHANASE.

JULIAN AND MADDALO.

PROMETHEUS UNBOUND.

THE CENCI.

THE MASK OF ANARCHY.

PETER BELL THE THIRD.

LETTER TO MARIA GISBORNE.

THE WITCH OF ATLAS.

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS

EPIPSYCHIDION.

ADONAIS.

HELLAS

FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED DRAMA.

CHARLES THE FIRST.

THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE.

CANCELLED OPENING OF THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE.

VOLUME II

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.

ODE TO HEAVEN.

ODE TO THE WEST WIND.

AN EXHORTATION.

THE INDIAN SERENADE.

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'.

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