The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
English poetry
FRAGMENT: 'METHOUGHT I WAS A BILLOW IN THE CROWD'.
[Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870.]
Methought I was a billow in the crowd
Of common men, that stream without a shore,
That ocean which at once is deaf and loud;
That I, a man, stood amid many more
By a wayside..., which the aspect bore _5
Of some imperial metropolis,
Where mighty shapes--pyramid, dome, and tower--
Gleamed like a pile of crags--
***
TO-MORROW.
[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.]
Where art thou, beloved To-morrow?
When young and old, and strong and weak,
Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow,
Thy sweet smiles we ever seek,--
In thy place--ah! well-a-day! _5
We find the thing we fled--To-day.
***
STANZA.
[Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870.
Connected by Dowden with the preceding.]
If I walk in Autumn's even
While the dead leaves pass,
If I look on Spring's soft heaven,--
Something is not there which was
Winter's wondrous frost and snow, _5
Summer's clouds, where are they now?
***
FRAGMENT: A WANDERER.
[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.]
He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,
Through the dim wildernesses of the mind;
Through desert woods and tracts, which seem
Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.
***
FRAGMENT: LIFE ROUNDED WITH SLEEP.
[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.]
The babe is at peace within the womb;
The corpse is at rest within the tomb:
We begin in what we end.
***
FRAGMENT: 'I FAINT, I PERISH WITH MY LOVE!'.
[Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870.]
I faint, I perish with my love! I grow
Frail as a cloud whose [splendours] pale
Under the evening's ever-changing glow:
I die like mist upon the gale,
And like a wave under the calm I fail. _5
***
FRAGMENT: THE LADY OF THE SOUTH.
[Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870.]
Faint with love, the Lady of the South
Lay in the paradise of Lebanon
Under a heaven of cedar boughs: the drouth
Of love was on her lips; the light was gone
Out of her eyes-- _5
***
FRAGMENT: ZEPHYRUS THE AWAKENER.
[Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870.]
Come, thou awakener of the spirit's ocean,
Zephyr, whom to thy cloud or cave
No thought can trace! speed with thy gentle motion!
***
FRAGMENT: RAIN.
[Published by Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870.]
The gentleness of rain was in the wind.
***
FRAGMENT: 'WHEN SOFT WINDS AND SUNNY SKIES'.
[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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