The Complete Poetical Works, vol 2 | Page 2

OF A SATIRE ON SATIRE.
GOOD-NIGHT.
BUONA NOTTE.
ORPHEUS.
FIORDISPINA.
TIME LONG PAST.
FRAGMENTS:
THE DESERTS OF DIM SLEEP.
'THE VIEWLESS AND
INVISIBLE CONSEQUENCE'.
A SERPENT-FACE.
DEATH
IN LIFE.
'SUCH HOPE, AS IS THE SICK DESPAIR OF
GOOD'.
'ALAS THIS IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT LIFE WAS'.

MILTON'S SPIRIT.
'UNRISEN SPLENDOUR OF THE
BRIGHTEST SUN'.
PATER OMNIPOTENS.
TO THE MIND
OF MAN.
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:
A WANDERER.
LIFE ROUNDED WITH SLEEP.
'I FAINT, I
PERISH WITH MY LOVE'.
THE LADY OF THE SOUTH.

ZEPHYRUS THE AWAKENER.
RAIN.
'WHEN SOFT
WINDS AND SUNNY SKIES'.
'AND THAT I WALK THUS
PROUDLY CROWNED'.
'THE RUDE WIND IS SINGING'.

'GREAT SPIRIT'.
'O THOU IMMORTAL DEITY'.
THE
FALSE LAUREL AND THE TRUE.
MAY THE LIMNER.

BEAUTY'S HALO.
'THE DEATH KNELL IS RINGING'.
'I
STOOD UPON A HEAVEN-CLEAVING TURRET'.
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.
***
EARLY POEMS [1814, 1815].
[The poems which follow appeared, with a few exceptions, either in the
volumes published from time to time by Shelley himself, or in the
"Posthumous Poems" of 1824, or in the "Poetical Works" of 1839, of
which a second and enlarged edition was published by Mrs. Shelley in
the same year. A few made their first appearance in some fugitive

publication--such as Leigh Hunt's "Literary Pocket-Book"--and were
subsequently incorporated in the collective editions. In every case the
editio princeps and (where this is possible) the exact date of
composition are indicated below the title.]
***
STANZA, WRITTEN AT BRACKNELL.
[Composed March, 1814. Published in Hogg's "Life of Shelley", 1858.]
Thy dewy looks sink in my breast;
Thy gentle words stir poison there;

Thou hast disturbed the only rest
That was the portion of despair!

Subdued to Duty's hard control, _5 I could have borne my wayward
lot:
The chains that bind this ruined soul
Had cankered then--but
crushed it not.
***
STANZAS.--APRIL, 1814.
[Composed at Bracknell, April, 1814. Published with "Alastor", 1816.]
Away! the moor is dark beneath the moon,
Rapid clouds have drank
the last pale beam of even:
Away! the gathering winds will call the
darkness soon,
And profoundest midnight shroud the serene lights of
heaven.
Pause not! The time is past! Every voice cries, Away! _5 Tempt not
with one last tear thy friend's ungentle mood:
Thy lover's eye, so
glazed and cold, dares not entreat thy stay: Duty and dereliction guide
thee back to solitude.
Away, away! to thy sad and silent home;
Pour bitter tears on its
desolated hearth; _10 Watch the dim shades as like ghosts they go and
come,
And complicate strange webs of melancholy mirth.

The leaves of wasted autumn woods shall float around thine head: The
blooms of dewy spring shall gleam beneath thy feet:
But thy soul or
this world must fade in the frost that binds the dead, _15 Ere midnight's
frown and morning's smile, ere thou and peace may meet.
The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose,
For the
weary winds are silent, or the moon is in the deep: Some respite to its
turbulence unresting ocean knows;
Whatever moves, or toils, or
grieves, hath its appointed sleep. _20
Thou in the grave shalt rest--yet till the phantoms flee
Which that
house and heath and garden made dear to thee erewhile, Thy
remembrance, and repentance, and deep musings are not free From the
music of two voices and the light of one sweet smile.
NOTE:
_6 tear 1816; glance 1839.
***
TO HARRIET.
[Composed May, 1814. Published (from the Esdaile manuscript) by
Dowden, "Life of Shelley", 1887.]
Thy look of love has power to calm
The stormiest passion of my soul;

Thy gentle words are drops of balm
In life's too bitter bowl;
No
grief is mine, but that alone _5 These choicest blessings I have known.
Harriet! if all who long