Poetry Catalog

Earth, Ocean, Air, beloved brotherhood!If our great Mother has imbued my soulWith aught of natural piety to feelYour love, and recompense the boon with mine;If dewy morn, and odorous noon, and even,With sunset and its gorgeous ministers,And solemn midnight’s tingling silentness;If autumn’s hollow sighs in the sere wood,And winter robing with pure snow and crownsOf starry ice … [Read more...] about Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude, By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

These are two friends whose lives were undivided;So let their memory be, now they have glidedUnder the grave; let not their bones be parted,For their two hearts in life were single-hearted. … [Read more...] about Epitaph, By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

There was a little lawny isletBy anemone and violet,Like mosaic, paven:And its roof was flowers and leavesWhich the summer’s breath enweaves,Where nor sun nor showers nor breezePierce the pines and tallest trees,Each a gem engraven;—Girt by many an azure waveWith which the clouds and mountains paveA lake’s blue chasm. … [Read more...] about The Isle, By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

1. We meet not as we parted,We feel more than all may see;My bosom is heavy-hearted,And thine full of doubt for me:—One moment has bound the free. 2. That moment is gone for ever,Like lightning that flashed and died—Like a snowflake upon the river—Like a sunbeam upon the tide,Which the dark shadows hide. 3. That moment from time was singledAs the first of a life … [Read more...] about We Meet Not as We Parted, By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

She left me at the silent timeWhen the moon had ceased to climbThe azure path of Heaven’s steep,And like an albatross asleep,Balanced on her wings of light,Hovered in the purple night,Ere she sought her ocean nestIn the chambers of the West.She left me, and I stayed aloneThinking over every toneWhich, though silent to the ear,The enchanted heart could hear,Like notes which die … [Read more...] about Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici, By: Percy Bysshe Shelley