On Death
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On Death
THERE IS NO WORK, NOR DEVICE, NOR KNOWLEDGE, NOR WISDOM,
IN THE GRAVE, WHITHER THOU GOEST.--Ecclesiastes.
The pale, the cold, and the moony smile
Which the meteor beam of a starless night
Sheds on a lonely and sea-girt isle,
Ere the dawning of morn's undoubted light,
Is the flame of life so fickle and wan
That flits round our steps till their strength is gone. _5
O man! hold thee on in courage of soul
Through the stormy shades of thy worldly way,
And the billows of cloud that around thee roll
Shall sleep in the light of a wondrous day, _10
Where Hell and Heaven shall leave thee free
To the universe of destiny.
This world is the nurse of all we know,
This world is the mother of all we feel,
And the coming of death is a fearful blow _15
To a brain unencompassed with nerves of steel;
When all that we know, or feel, or see,
Shall pass like an unreal mystery.
The secret things of the grave are there,
Where all but this frame must surely be, _20
Though the fine-wrought eye and the wondrous ear
No longer will live to hear or to see
All that is great and all that is strange
In the boundless realm of unending change.
Who telleth a tale of unspeaking death? _25
Who lifteth the veil of what is to come?
Who painteth the shadows that are beneath
The wide-winding caves of the peopled tomb?
Or uniteth the hopes of what shall be
With the fears and the love for that which we see? _30
About Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Summary
Volume 1
Preface
The Daemon of the World
Alastor: or, The Spirit of Solitude
The Revolt of Islam
Prince Athanase
Rosalind and Helen
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
Volume 2 - Early Poems 1814-1815
Note
Stanzas
To Harriet
To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
To --
Mutability
On Death
A Summer Evening Churchyard
To --
To Wordsworth
Feelings of a Republican
Lines
Note on the Early Poems
Poems Written in 1816
The Sunset
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Mont Blanc
Note on Poems of 1816
Poems Written in 1817
Marianne's Dream
To Constantia, Singing
A Fragment: To One Singing
A Fragment: To Music
Mighty Eagle
To the Lord Chancellor
To William Shelley
On Fanny Godwin
Lines
Death
Otho
`O That A Chariot of Cloud Were Mine'
Fragments:
A Hate Song
Lines to A Critic
Ozymandias
Note on Poems of 1817
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
Tasso
Invocation to Misery
Stanzas Written in Dejection
The Woodman and the Nightingale
Marenghi
Sonnet
Fragments:
Note on Poems of 1818
Poems Written in 1819
Lines Written During the Castlereagh Administration
Song to The Men of England
Similes
Fragment: To The People of England
Fragment: What Men Gain Fairly
A New National Anthem
Sonnet: England in 1819
An Ode
Cancelled Stanza
Ode to Heaven
Ode to The West Wind
An Exhortation
The Indian Serenade
To Sophia
To William Shelley
To Mary Shelley
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci
Love's Philosophy
Fragment:
The Birth of Pleasure
Fragment: Love the Universe Today
Fragment: A Gentle Story of Two Lovers Young
Fragment: Love's Tender Atmosphere
Fragment: Wedded Souls
Fragment: Is It That In Some Brighter Sphere
Fragment: Sufficient Unto The Day
Fragment: Ye Gentle Visitations of Calm Thought
Fragment: Music and Sweet Poetry
Fragment: The Sephulchre of Memory
Fragment: When A Lover Clasps His Fairest
Fragment: Wake The Serpent Not
Fragment: Rain
Fragment: A Tale Untold
Fragment: To Italy
Fragment: Wine of the Fairies
Fragment: A Roman's Chamber
Fragment: Rome and Nature
Variation of the Song of The Moon
Cancelled Stanza of The Mask of Anarchy
Note on Poems of 1819
Poems Written in 1820
The Sensitive Plant
A Vision of The Sea
The Cloud
To A Skylark
Ode To Liberty
To --
Arethusa
Song Of Prosperine
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
Lines to A Reviewer
Fragment of A Satire on Satire
Good Night
Orpheus
Fiordispina
Time Long Past
Fragments:
Note on Poems of 1820
Poems Written in 1821
Dirge For The Year
To Night
Time
Lines
From The Arabic: An Imitation
To Emilia Viviani
The Fugitives
To --
Song
Mutability
Lines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon
Sonnet: Political Greatness
The Aziola
A Lament
Remembrance
To Edward Williams
To --
A Bridal Song
Epithalamium
Love, Hope, Desire, and Fear
Fragments:
Ginerva
Evening: Ponte al Mare, Pisa
The Boat on the Serchio
Music
Sonnet to Byron
Fragments:
To-Morrow
Stanza
Fragments:
Note on Poems of 1821
Poems Written in 1822
The Zucca
The Magnetic Lady to Her Patient
Lines: When the Lamp is Shattered
To Jane:
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
Volume 3
Hymn to Mercury
Homer's Hymn to Castor and Pollux
Homer's Hymn to the Moon
Homer's Hymn to the Sun
Homer's Hymn to the Earth
Homer's Hymn to Minerva
Homer's Hymn to Venus
The Cyclops
Epigrams
Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Adonis
Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Bion
From the Greek of Moschus
Pan, Echo, and the Satyr
From Vergil's Tenth Eclogue
From Vergil's Fourth Georgic
Sonnet:
The First Canzone of the Convito
Matilda Gathering Flowers
Ugolino
Sonnet:
Scenes from the Magico Prodigioso
Stanzas from Calderon
Scenes from the Faust of Goethe
Volume 3 - Juvenilia
Queen Mab
Verses on a Cat
Fragment: Omens
Epitaphium
A Dialogue
To the Moonbeam
The Solitary
To Death
Love's Rose
Eyes: A Fragment
Original Poetry
Poems from St. Irvyne
Despair
Fragment
The Spectral Horseman
Melody
Bigotry's Victim
On An Icicle
Love
To A Star
To Mary Who Died In This Opinion
A Tale of Society As It Is:
To The Republicans of North America
To Ireland
The Retrospect
To Harriet:
Sonnet: To A Balloon Laden With Knowledge
Sonnet
The Devil's Walk
Farewell to North Devon
On Leaving London for Wales
The Wandering Jew's Soliloquy
Evening
To Ianthe
Song From The Wandering Jew
To The Queen of My Heart
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