Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was an English Romantic poet whose lyrics and political verse are some of the best known in the language. His work includes “Ozymandias,” “Ode to the West Wind,” “To a Skylark,” “The Cloud,” “Love’s Philosophy,” and “Adonais,” his elegy for John Keats, along with radical protest poems such as “The Mask of Anarchy” and “England in 1819.”
This collection is now complete: 155 poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley from Thomas Hutchinson’s Oxford edition of his Complete Poetical Works (1914), free to read. It covers his shorter poems and longer works such as Adonais and Epipsychidion; book-length poems such as Queen Mab, the verse dramas and the translations are not included.
Read a fuller life sketch on our About Percy Bysshe Shelley page. This Poetry Catalog archive gathers 155 poems by Shelley now live on the site—listed alphabetically below, with links to each full text. The texts follow the public domain Project Gutenberg edition of Thomas Hutchinson’s Oxford Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems
- Adonais
- Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
- An Allegory
- Arethusa
- Autumn: A Dirge
- The Aziola
- The Birth of Pleasure
- The Boat on the Serchio
- A Bridal Song
- The Cloud
- Death (Death Is Here and Death Is There)
- Death (They Die, the Dead Return Not)
- A Dirge
- Epipsychidion
- Epitaph
- Epithalamium
- Evening: Ponte Al Mare, Pisa
- An Exhortation
- Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte
- Fiordispina
- Fragment of a Ghost Story
- Fragment of a Satire on Satire
- Fragment on Keats
- Fragment: A Gentle Story of Two Lovers Young
- Fragment: A Roman's Chamber
- Fragment: Alas! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was
- Fragment: Apostrophe to Silence
- Fragment: I Stood Upon a Heaven-cleaving Turret
- Fragment: I Would Not Be a King
- Fragment: Igniculus Desiderii
- Fragment: Is It That in Some Brighter Sphere
- Fragment: Methought I Was a Billow in the Crowd
- Fragment: Pater Omnipotens
- Fragment: Satan Broken Loose
- Fragment: Sufficient Unto the Day
- Fragment: The False Laurel and the True
- Fragment: To a Friend Released from Prison
- Fragment: To the Mind of Man
- Fragment: Wake the Serpent Not
- Fragment: Wedded Souls
- Fragment: What Men Gain Fairly
- Fragment: When a Lover Clasps His Fairest
- Fragment: Wine of the Fairies
- Fragments Supposed to Be Parts of Otho
- Fragments Written for Hellas
- From the Arabic: An Imitation
- The Fugitives
- Ginevra
- Good-night
- A Hate-song
- Hymn of Apollo
- Hymn of Pan
- Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
- I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden (To —)
- The Indian Serenade
- Invocation to Misery
- The Isle
- Julian and Maddalo
- A Lament
- Letter to Maria Gisborne
- Liberty
- Lines (Far, Far Away)
- Lines (That Time Is Dead for Ever, Child)
- Lines (The Cold Earth Slept Below)
- Lines to a Critic
- Lines to a Reviewer
- Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills
- Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
- Lines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon
- Love's Philosophy
- Love, Hope, Desire, and Fear
- The Magnetic Lady to Her Patient
- Marenghi
- The Mask of Anarchy
- Mighty Eagle
- Mont Blanc
- Music (I Pant for the Music)
- Music, When Soft Voices Die (To —)
- Mutability (The Flower That Smiles To-day)
- Mutability (We Are as Clouds)
- A New National Anthem
- O That a Chariot of Cloud Were Mine
- Ode to Heaven
- Ode to Liberty
- Ode to Naples
- Ode to the West Wind
- An Ode, Written October 1819
- Oh! There Are Spirits of the Air (To —)
- On a Faded Violet
- On Death
- On Fanny Godwin
- On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery
- One Word Is Too Often Profaned (To —)
- Orpheus
- Otho
- Ozymandias
- Passage of the Apennines
- The Past
- The Pine Forest of the Cascine Near Pisa
- The Question
- Remembrance
- Scene from Tasso
- Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819
- Song (Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou)
- Song for Tasso
- Song of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers on the Plain of Enna
- Song to the Men of England
- Sonnet to Byron
- Sonnet: England in 1819
- Sonnet: Lift Not the Painted Veil
- Sonnet: Political Greatness
- Sonnet: Ye Hasten to the Grave
- Stanza
- Stanza, Written at Bracknell
- Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples
- Stanzas—April 1814
- Summer and Winter
- A Summer Evening Churchyard
- Time
- Time Long Past
- To a Skylark
- To Constantia
- To Constantia, Singing
- To Edward Williams
- To Emilia Viviani
- To Harriet
- To Jane: The Invitation
- To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinkling
- To Jane: The Recollection
- To Mary Shelley (My Dearest Mary Wherefore Hast Thou Gone)
- To Mary Shelley (The World Is Dreary)
- To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
- To Mary —
- To Night
- To Sophia (Miss Stacey)
- To the Lord Chancellor
- To the Moon
- To William Shelley (The Billows on the Beach Are Leaping)
- To William Shelley (Thy Little Footsteps on the Sands)
- To William Shelley (With What Truth May I Say)
- To Wordsworth
- To-morrow
- The Tower of Famine
- The Triumph of Life
- The Two Spirits: An Allegory
- A Vision of the Sea
- The Waning Moon
- We Meet Not as We Parted
- When Passion's Trance Is Overpast (To —)
- When the Lamp Is Shattered
- The Witch of Atlas
- With a Guitar, to Jane
- The Woodman and the Nightingale
- The World's Wanderers
- Yet Look on Me—Take Not Thine Eyes Away (To —)