Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822; pronounced ) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy. However, his major works were long visionary poems including Alastor, Adonais, The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound and the unfinished The Triumph of Life. Shelley's unconventional life and uncompromising idealism, combined with his strong skeptical voice, made him a notorious and much denigrated figure during his life. He became the idol of the next two or three generations of poets, including the major Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as William Butler Yeats and poets in other languages such as Jibanananda Das and Subramanya Bharathy). He was also admired by Karl Marx, Henry Stephens Salt, and Bertrand Russell. Famous for his association with his equally short-lived contemporaries John Keats and Lord Byron, he was married to novelist Mary Shelley.

to a skylark
 
 
Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
Bird thou never wert-
That from heaven or near it... [read poem]
the school-mistress
 
 
Auditæ voces, vagitus et ingens,
Infantunque animæ flentes in limine prim... [read poem]
adonais: an elegy on the death of john keats
 
 
I weep for Adonais--he is dead!
Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears
Thaw not ... [read poem]
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