METHOUGHT I WAS A BILLOW IN THE CROWD. (FRAGMENT)
TO-MORROW.
STANZA.
A WANDERER. (FRAGMENT)
LIFE ROUNDED WITH SLEEP. (FRAGMENT)
I FAINT, I PERISH WITH MY LOVE!. (FRAGMENT)
THE LADY OF THE SOUTH. (FRAGMENT)
ZEPHYRUS THE AWAKENER. (FRAGMENT)
RAIN. (FRAGMENT)
WHEN SOFT WINDS AND SUNNY SKIES. (FRAGMENT)
AND THAT I WALK THUS PROUDLY CROWNED. (FRAGMENT)
THE RUDE WIND IS SINGING. (FRAGMENT)
GREAT SPIRIT. (FRAGMENT)
O THOU IMMORTAL DEITY. (FRAGMENT)
THE FALSE LAUREL AND THE TRUE. (FRAGMENT)
MAY THE LIMNER. (FRAGMENT)
BEAUTY’S HALO. (FRAGMENT)
THE DEATH KNELL IS RINGING. (FRAGMENT)
I STOOD UPON A HEAVEN-CLEAVING TURRET. (FRAGMENT)
THE ZUCCA.
THE MAGNETIC LADY TO HER PATIENT.
LINES: ‘WHEN THE LAMP IS SHATTERED’.
TO JANE: THE INVITATION.
TO JANE: THE RECOLLECTION.
THE PINE FOREST OF THE CASCINE NEAR PISA.
WITH A GUITAR, TO JANE.
TO JANE: ‘THE KEEN STARS WERE TWINKLING’.
A DIRGE.
LINES WRITTEN IN THE BAY OF LERICI.
LINES: ‘WE MEET NOT AS WE PARTED’.
THE ISLE.
TO THE MOON. (FRAGMENT)
EPITAPH.
ALASTOR: OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE
TO MARY —— ——
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO FIRST
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO SECOND
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO THIRD
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO FOURTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO FIFTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO SIXTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO SEVENTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO EIGHTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO NINTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO TENTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO ELEVENTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO TWELFTH
ROSALIND AND HELEN
JULIAN AND MADDALO: A CONVERSATION.
PETER BELL THE THIRD
THE MASK OF ANARCHY
THE WITCH OF ATLAS.
EPIPSYCHIDION.
ADONAIS.
THE DAEMON OF THE WORLD. PART 1.
THE DAEMON OF THE WORLD. PART 2.
PRINCE ATHANASE. PART 1.
PRINCE ATHANASE. PART 2.
LETTER TO MARIA GISBORNE
THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE.
HYMN TO MERCURY.
HOMER’S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX.
HOMER’S HYMN TO THE MOON.
HOMER’S HYMN TO THE SUN.
HOMER’S HYMN TO THE EARTH: MOTHER OF ALL.
HOMER’S HYMN TO MINERVA.
HOMER’S HYMN TO VENUS.
THE CYCLOPS.
SILENUS. ULYSSES. CHORUS OF SATYRS. THE CYCLOPS.
EPIGRAMS.
FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF ADONIS.
FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION.
PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR.
FROM VERGIL’S TENTH ECLOGUE.
FROM VERGIL’S FOURTH GEORGIC.
SONNET. DANTE ALIGHIERI TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI
THE FIRST CANZONE OF THE CONVITO.
MATILDA GATHERING FLOWERS.
FRAGMENT ADAPTED FROM THE VITA NUOVA OF DANTE.
SONNET FROM THE ITALIAN OF CAVALCANTI.
SCENES FROM THE MAGICO PRODIGIOSO.
STANZAS FROM CALDERON’S CISMA DE INGLATERRA.
SCENES FROM THE FAUST OF GOETHE.
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
A-D E-H I-L M-O P-S T-V W-Z
A BRIDAL SONG.
A DIALOGUE.
A DIRGE.
A FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC. (FRAGMENT)
A GENTLE STORY OF TWO LOVERS YOUNG. (FRAGMENT)
A HATE-SONG.
A LAMENT.
A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM.
A ROMAN’S CHAMBER. (FRAGMENT)
A SERPENT-FACE. (FRAGMENT)
A SUMMER EVENING CHURCHYARD.
A TALE OF SOCIETY AS IT IS: FROM FACTS, 1811.
A TALE UNTOLD. (FRAGMENT)
A VISION OF THE SEA.
A WANDERER. (FRAGMENT)
ADONAIS.
ALAS! THIS IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT LIFE WAS. (FRAGMENT)
ALASTOR: OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE
AMOR AETERNUS. (FRAGMENT)
AN ALLEGORY.
AN EXHORTATION.
AN ODE, WRITTEN OCTOBER, 1819, BEFORE THE SPANIARDS HAD RECOVERED THEIR LIBERTY.
AND THAT I WALK THUS PROUDLY CROWNED. (FRAGMENT)
ANOTHER FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC. (FRAGMENT)
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE PRECEDING.
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME.
APOSTROPHE TO SILENCE. (FRAGMENT)
ARETHUSA.
AUTUMN: A DIRGE.
BEAUTY’S HALO. (FRAGMENT)
BEREAVEMENT.
BIGOTRY’S VICTIM.
BUONA NOTTE.
CANCELLED FRAGMENTS OF THE ODE TO HEAVEN.
CANCELLED PASSAGE OF MONT BLANC.
CANCELLED PASSAGE OF THE ODE TO LIBERTY.
CANCELLED PASSAGE.
CANCELLED PASSAGE.
CANCELLED STANZA OF THE MASK OF ANARCHY.
CANCELLED STANZA.
CHORUS OF SPIRITS:
CONCLUSION.
DAKRTSI DIOISO POTMON ‘APOTMON.
DEATH IN LIFE. (FRAGMENT)
DEATH.
DEATH.
DESPAIR.
DIRGE FOR THE YEAR.
EPIGRAMS.
EPIPSYCHIDION.
EPITAPH.
EPITAPHIUM.
EPITHALAMIUM.
EVENING. TO HARRIET.
EVENING: PONTE AL MARE, PISA
EYES: A FRAGMENT.
FAREWELL TO NORTH DEVON.
FEELINGS OF A REPUBLICAN ON THE FALL OF BONAPARTE.
FIORDISPINA.
FOLLOW TO THE DEEP WOOD’S WEEDS. (FRAGMENT)
FRAGMENT ADAPTED FROM THE VITA NUOVA OF DANTE.
FRAGMENT FROM THE WANDERING JEW.
FRAGMENT OF A GHOST STORY.
FRAGMENT OF A SATIRE ON SATIRE.
FRAGMENT OF A SONNET.
FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF ADONIS.
FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION.
FRAGMENT ON KEATS.
FRAGMENT, OR THE TRIUMPH OF CONSCIENCE.
FRAGMENT.
FRAGMENT: OMENS.
FRAGMENT: SUPPOSED TO BE AN EPITHALAMIUM OF FRANCIS RAVAILLAC AND CHARLOTTE CORDAY.
FRAGMENTS SUPPOSED TO BE PARTS OF OTHO.
FRAGMENTS WRITTEN FOR HELLAS.
FROM THE ARABIC: AN IMITATION.
FROM THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF THE POEM TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.
FROM VERGIL’S FOURTH GEORGIC.
FROM VERGIL’S TENTH ECLOGUE.
GHASTA OR, THE AVENGING DEMON!!!
GINEVRA.
GOOD-NIGHT.
GREAT SPIRIT. (FRAGMENT)
HOME. (FRAGMENT)
HOMER’S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX.
HOMER’S HYMN TO MINERVA.
HOMER’S HYMN TO THE EARTH: MOTHER OF ALL.
HOMER’S HYMN TO THE MOON.
HOMER’S HYMN TO THE SUN.
HOMER’S HYMN TO VENUS.
HYMN OF APOLLO.
HYMN OF PAN.
HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY.
HYMN TO MERCURY.
I FAINT, I PERISH WITH MY LOVE!. (FRAGMENT)
I STOOD UPON A HEAVEN-CLEAVING TURRET. (FRAGMENT)
I WOULD NOT BE A KING. (FRAGMENT)
IGNICULUS DESIDERII. (FRAGMENT)
IN HOROLOGIUM.
INVOCATION TO MISERY.
IS IT THAT IN SOME BRIGHTER SPHERE. (FRAGMENT)
JULIAN AND MADDALO: A CONVERSATION.
LECHLADE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
LETTER TO MARIA GISBORNE
LIBERTY.
; LIFE ROUNDED WITH SLEEP. (FRAGMENT)
LINES TO A CRITIC.
LINES TO A REVIEWER.
LINES WRITTEN AMONG THE EUGANEAN HILLS.
LINES WRITTEN DURING THE CASTLEREAGH ADMINISTRATION.
LINES WRITTEN IN THE BAY OF LERICI.
LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI.
LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON.
LINES.
LINES.
LINES.
LINES: ‘WE MEET NOT AS WE PARTED’.
LINES: ‘WHEN THE LAMP IS SHATTERED’.
LOVE THE UNIVERSE TO-DAY. (FRAGMENT)
LOVE, HOPE, DESIRE, AND FEAR.
LOVE.
LOVE’S PHILOSOPHY.
LOVE’S ROSE.
LOVE’S TENDER ATMOSPHERE. (FRAGMENT)
MADDALO, A COURTIER. MALPIGLIO, A POET. PIGNA, A MINISTER. ALBANO, AN USHER.
MARENGHI.
MARIANNE’S DREAM.
MATILDA GATHERING FLOWERS.
MAY THE LIMNER. (FRAGMENT)
MELODY TO A SCENE OF FORMER TIMES.
METHOUGHT I WAS A BILLOW IN THE CROWD. (FRAGMENT)
MIGHTY EAGLE’.
MILTON’S SPIRIT. (FRAGMENT)
MONT BLANC.
MUSIC AND SWEET POETRY. (FRAGMENT)
MUSIC.
MUTABILITY.
MUTABILITY.
MY HEAD IS WILD WITH WEEPING. (FRAGMENT)
NOTE ON POEMS OF 1816, BY MRS. SHELLEY.
O THAT A CHARIOT OF CLOUD WERE MINE’.
O THOU IMMORTAL DEITY. (FRAGMENT)
ODE TO HEAVEN.
ODE TO LIBERTY.
ODE TO NAPLES.
ODE TO THE WEST WIND.
ON A FADED VIOLET.
ON A FETE AT CARLTON HOUSE: FRAGMENT.
ON AN ICICLE THAT CLUNG TO THE GRASS OF A GRAVE.
ON DEATH.
ON FANNY GODWIN.
ON KEATS, WHO DESIRED THAT ON HIS TOMB SHOULD BE INSCRIBED —
ON LAUNCHING SOME BOTTLES FILLED WITH KNOWLEDGE INTO THE BRISTOL CHANNEL.
ON LEAVING LONDON FOR WALES.
ON ROBERT EMMET’S GRAVE.
ON THE DARK HEIGHT OF JURA.
ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY.
ORPHEUS.
OTHO.
OZYMANDIAS.
PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR.
PART 1.
PART 2.
PART 3.
PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES.
PATER OMNIPOTENS. (FRAGMENT)
PETER BELL THE THIRD
PRINCE ATHANASE. PART 1.
PRINCE ATHANASE. PART 2.
PROMETHEUS UNBOUND”, ACT 4.)
QUEEN MAB.
RAIN. (FRAGMENT)
RAIN. (FRAGMENT)
REMEMBRANCE.
REVENGE.
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO EIGHTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO ELEVENTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO FIFTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO FIRST
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO FOURTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO NINTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO SECOND
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO SEVENTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO SIXTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO TENTH
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO THIRD
REVOLT OF ISLAM: CANTO TWELFTH
ROME AND NATURE. (FRAGMENT)
ROSALIND AND HELEN
SAINT EDMOND’S EVE.
SATAN BROKEN LOOSE. (FRAGMENT)
SCENE FROM ‘TASSO’.
SCENES FROM THE FAUST OF GOETHE.
SCENES FROM THE MAGICO PRODIGIOSO.
SILENUS. ULYSSES. CHORUS OF SATYRS. THE CYCLOPS.
SIMILES FOR TWO POLITICAL CHARACTERS OF 1819.
SISTER ROSA: A BALLAD.
SONG FOR ‘TASSO’.
SONG FROM THE WANDERING JEW.
SONG OF PROSERPINE WHILE GATHERING FLOWERS ON THE PLAIN OF ENNA.
SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND.
SONG.
SONG. AH! GRASP THE DIRE DAGGER AND COUCH THE FELL SPEAR
SONG. COLD, COLD IS THE BLAST WHEN DECEMBER IS HOWLING
SONG. COME (HARRIET)! SWEET IS THE HOUR
SONG. DESPAIR.
SONG. FIERCE ROARS THE MIDNIGHT STORM
SONG. HOPE.
SONG. OH! WHAT IS THE GAIN OF RESTLESS CARE
SONG. SORROW.
SONG. TO — (HARRIET).
SONG. TO (HARRIET).
SONNET FROM THE ITALIAN OF CAVALCANTI.
SONNET TO BYRON.
SONNET.
SONNET.
SONNET. DANTE ALIGHIERI TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI
SONNET: ENGLAND IN 1819.
SONNET: POLITICAL GREATNESS.
ST. IRVYNE’S TOWER.
STANZA FROM A TRANSLATION OF THE MARSEILLAISE HYMN.
STANZA, WRITTEN AT BRACKNELL.
STANZA.
STANZAS 1 AND 2.
STANZAS FROM CALDERON’S CISMA DE INGLATERRA.
STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, NEAR NAPLES.
STANZAS. — APRIL, 1814.
STROPHE 1.
STROPHE 2.
SUCH HOPE, AS IS THE SICK DESPAIR OF GOOD. (FRAGMENT)
SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY. (FRAGMENT)
SUMMER AND WINTER.
SUPPOSED TO BE ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM GODWIN.
SYMPHONY.
THE AZIOLA.
THE BIRTH OF PLEASURE.
THE BOAT ON THE SERCHIO.
THE CLOUD.
THE CYCLOPS.
THE DAEMON OF THE WORLD. PART 1.
THE DAEMON OF THE WORLD. PART 2.
THE DEATH KNELL IS RINGING. (FRAGMENT)
THE DESERTS OF DIM SLEEP. (FRAGMENT)
THE DEVIL’S WALK.
THE DIRGE.
THE DROWNED LOVER.
THE FALSE LAUREL AND THE TRUE. (FRAGMENT)
THE FIRST CANZONE OF THE CONVITO.
THE FUGITIVES.
THE INDIAN SERENADE.
THE IRISHMAN’S SONG.
THE ISLE.
THE LADY OF THE SOUTH. (FRAGMENT)
THE LAKE’S MARGIN. (FRAGMENT)
THE MAGNETIC LADY TO HER PATIENT.
THE MASK OF ANARCHY
THE PAST.
THE PINE FOREST OF THE CASCINE NEAR PISA.
THE QUESTION.
THE RETROSPECT: CWM ELAN, 1812.
THE RUDE WIND IS SINGING. (FRAGMENT)
THE SENSITIVE PLANT.
THE SEPULCHRE OF MEMORY. (FRAGMENT)
THE SOLITARY.
THE SPECTRAL HORSEMAN.
THE SUNSET.
THE TOWER OF FAMINE.
THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE.
THE TWO SPIRITS: AN ALLEGORY.
THE VIEWLESS AND INVISIBLE CONSEQUENCE. (FRAGMENT)
THE VINE-SHROUD. (FRAGMENT)
THE WANDERING JEW’S SOLILOQUY.
THE WANING MOON.
THE WITCH OF ATLAS.
THE WOODMAN AND THE NIGHTINGALE.
THE WORLD’S WANDERERS.
THE ZUCCA.
THOUGHTS COME AND GO IN SOLITUDE. (FRAGMENT)
TIME LONG PAST.
TIME.
TO — .
TO — .
TO — .
TO — .
TO — .
TO — .
TO A BALLOON LADEN WITH KNOWLEDGE.
TO A FRIEND RELEASED FROM PRISON. (FRAGMENT)
TO A SKYLARK.
TO A STAR.
TO BYRON. (FRAGMENT)
TO CONSTANTIA, SINGING.
TO CONSTANTIA.
TO DEATH.
TO EDWARD WILLIAMS.
TO EMILIA VIVIANI.
TO HARRIET *****.
TO HARRIET.
TO HARRIET.
TO IANTHE.
TO IRELAND.
TO ITALY. (FRAGMENT)
TO JANE: ‘THE KEEN STARS WERE TWINKLING’.
TO JANE: THE INVITATION.
TO JANE: THE RECOLLECTION.
TO MAR
Y —— ——
TO MARY — .
TO MARY SHELLEY.
TO MARY SHELLEY.
TO MARY WHO DIED IN THIS OPINION.
TO MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN.
TO MISS —— (HARRIET GROVE) FROM MISS —— (ELIZABETH SHELLEY).
TO NIGHT.
TO ONE SINGING. (FRAGMENT)
TO SOPHIA (MISS STACEY).
TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
TO THE MIND OF MAN. (FRAGMENT)
TO THE MOON.
TO THE MOON. (FRAGMENT)
TO THE MOONBEAM.
TO THE NILE.
TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. (FRAGMENT)
TO THE QUEEN OF MY HEART.
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF NORTH AMERICA.
TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.
TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.
TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.
TO WORDSWORTH.
TO-MORROW.
UNTITLED.
UNRISEN SPLENDOUR OF THE BRIGHTEST SUN. (FRAGMENT)
VARIATION OF THE SONG OF THE MOON.
VERSES ON A CAT.
VICTORIA.
WAKE THE SERPENT NOT. (FRAGMENT)
WAR.
WEDDED SOULS. (FRAGMENT)
WHAT MEN GAIN FAIRLY. (FRAGMENT)
WHEN A LOVER CLASPS HIS FAIREST. (FRAGMENT)
WHEN SOFT WINDS AND SUNNY SKIES. (FRAGMENT)
WINE OF THE FAIRIES. (FRAGMENT)
WITH A GUITAR, TO JANE.
YE GENTLE VISITATIONS OF CALM THOUGHT. (FRAGMENT)
ZEPHYRUS THE AWAKENER. (FRAGMENT)
The Poetic Dramas
The Soho House, Birmingham, where Shelley attended several meetings of the Lunar Society, held by Matthew Boulton, one of Britain’s leading industrialists.
THE CENCI
This five-act tragedy was written in the summer of 1819 and was inspired by the life of the Italian Beatrice Cenci. Shelley composed the play at Rome and at Villa Valsovano near Livorno, publishing it later in the same year. The Cenci is set in Rome in 1599, narrating how a young woman was executed for the pre-meditated murder of her tyrannical father. It was a well-known true story that had been handed down orally and documented in the Annali d’Italia, a twelve-volume chronicle of Italian history written by Ludovico Antonio Muratori in 1749. The events occurred during the Pontificate of Pope Clement VIII.
Shelley tried to have the drama staged, describing it as “totally different from anything you might conjecture that I should write; of a more popular kind ... written for the multitude.” The playwright expressed to his publisher Charles Ollier that he was confident that the play “will succeed as a publication.” However, the play was not performed in its day, most likely due to its themes of incest and parricide, and so was first performed in England as late as 1922, when it was staged in London.
The 1819 title page
CONTENTS
Introductory Note
Author’s Preface
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V
Beatrice Cenci (1577-1599) was an Italian noblewoman made famous as the protagonist of a lurid murder trial in Rome.
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