Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792-1822 / Male / English
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AdonaisI weep for Adonais—he is dead! / O, weep for Adonais! though our tears / Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!
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A LamentO World! O Life! O Time! / On whose last steps I climb, / Trembling at that where I had stood before;
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An ExhortationChameleons feed on light and air: / Poets’ food is love and fame: / If in this wide world of care
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Art Thou Pale For WearinessArt thou pale for weariness / Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, / Wandering companionless
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Asia: From Prometheus UnboundMy soul is an enchanted boat, / Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float / Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing;
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A Widow Bird Sate Mourning For Her LoveA widow bird sate mourning for her Love / Upon a wintry bough; / The frozen wind crept on above,
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BereavementHow stern are the woes of the desolate mourner / As he bends in still grief o’er the hallowed bier, / As enanguished he turns from the laugh of the scorner,
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England In 1819An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,— / Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who / Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring,—
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Feelings Of A Republican On The Fall Of BonaparteI hated thee, fallen tyrant! I did groan / To think that a most unambitious slave, / Like thou, shouldst dance and revel on the grave
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From The Arabic (An Imitation)My faint spirit was sitting in the light / Of thy looks, my love; / It panted for thee like the hind at noon
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