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  1. Jun 12, 2017 · A selection of Shelley's most celebrated and influential poems, from 'Ozymandias' to 'To a Skylark', with brief introductions and contexts. Explore the themes, styles and influences of the Romantic poet who declared poets to be the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

  2. Learn about the life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, a major English Romantic poet and a rebel against authority. Explore his themes, influences, love interests, and legacy in this comprehensive biography.

  3. Explore the best poems by the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, ranked by poetry experts. Read analyses of his works, such as 'Ozymandias', 'Mutability', 'Adonais', and more.

    • Ozymandias. I met a traveller from an antique land. Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone. Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
    • Love's Philosophy. The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean; The winds of heaven mix forever. With a sweet emotion;
    • Good-Night. Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill. Which severs those it should unite; Let us remain together still, Then it will be good night.
    • A Lament. O World! O Life! O Time! On whose last steps I climb, Trembling at that where I had stood before; When will return the glory of your prime?
    • O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead. Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
    • Thou on whose stream, mid the steep sky's commotion, Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed, Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,
    • Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams. The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay,
    • If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share. The impulse of thy strength, only less free.
  4. Read the full text of Ozymandias, a famous sonnet by Shelley that depicts the ruins of a tyrannical king and his hubris. Learn about the poem's historical and literary context, themes, and symbolism with a Poem Guide.

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  6. Feb 22, 2011 · The complete poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems; by Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 ; Hutchinson, Thomas