Percy Bysshe Shelley

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15 Minutes Of Love Poems - Volume 2 - "Love's Philosophy" & Many More

15 Minutes Of Love Poems - Volume 2 - "Love's Philosophy" & Many More

Love. What is love?The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive.Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is...

A Rhyme A Dozen - Music

A Rhyme A Dozen - Music

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded...

AlastorOr the Spirit of SolitudeAnd Other PoemsBy Percy Bysshe ShelleyNarrated by Denis DalyThis meditation on artistic creativity was written during the latter months of 1815, during a sojourn on the border of Windsor Forest. Critics have concurred...

Dirge for the Year

Dirge for the Year

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not...

Elegies & Laments

Elegies & Laments

In these more modern time perhaps our first thoughts of an Elegy or a Lament is for someone’s passing. Wreathed in grief and death we think of a headstone on a silent grave and the memories that shelter within our hearts, slowly receding from one...

John Keats - A Tribute in Verse

John Keats - A Tribute in Verse

Keats. The name is synonymous with great romantic poetry and great romantic poets. A short life but a legacy of works that few, if any, can rival.And of course his end was to be tragically romantic. Keats was returning one night to his home in...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Lines by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 13th, 2009. Author - Percy Bysshe Shelley. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

Lines: We Meet Not As We Parted

Lines: We Meet Not As We Parted

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Lines: "We Meet Not As We Parted," by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 3rd, 2010. Author - Percy Bysshe Shelley. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date -...

Music, when soft voices die

Music, when soft voices die

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Music, when soft voices die by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 27th, 2008. Author - Percy Bysshe Shelley. Narrator - LibriVox Community....

Ozymandias of Egypt

Ozymandias of Egypt

LibriVox volunteers bring you sixteen different recordings of Ozymandias of Egypt, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 20th, 2006. Author - Percy Bysshe Shelley. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Idealist, atheist, outcast, political radical and, of course, poet – Percy Bysshe Shelley was, in many ways, the epitome of the Romantic artist. His poetry was an outlet for his passionately-held and highly unpopular beliefs; beliefs which resulted in...

Percy Bysshe Shelley. Renaissance Man

Percy Bysshe Shelley. Renaissance Man

Percy Bysshe Shelley was able to distill big themes into brilliant poems.In this collection ‘The Masque of Anarchy’ captures the appalling terror of British troops killing and injuring their own people as they peacefully protest for the reform of...

Do men need poems?Is the gender of brawn and ‘can-do’ really a candidate for honeyed verse?Obviously yes. Through the centuries men seem to dominate the writing of poetry. From books of epics to quatrains of love poetry it seemed to be a man’s world....

Shelley - A Selection

Shelley - A Selection

Perhaps a handful of poets can truly claim to rest in our consciousness. Shelley is indeed amongst their number. This volume of his poetry, performed here by Vincent Price in a spellbinding reading, brings forth the true power of his words. Author -...

Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose

Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose

The English Romantic Period in literature featured a towering group of excellent poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. If we add in forerunners Burns and Blake, we have perhaps an unmatchable collection of writers for any era. Of...

Sister Rosa: A Ballad

Sister Rosa: A Ballad

LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 different recordings of Sister Rosa: A Ballad by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Author - Percy Bysshe Shelley. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

The Masque of Anarchy

The Masque of Anarchy

The Masque of Anarchy was Shelley's response to the Peterloo massacre at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, where 18 died and hundreds were injured, after Hussars charged into a rally for parliamentary reform. Written in Italy in 1819, the poem was not...

The Poetry of Birds

The Poetry of Birds

On a summer’s day we have perhaps all wish to take flight and view life and the world from the vantage point of a clear blue sky. Our feathered friends do it as a matter of course and in this volume some of our finest wordsmith’s speak with...

The Poetry of October

The Poetry of October

The tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the land prepares to give up more it its colourful coverings. On this and other themes our poets including Wordsworth, Rossetti, Arnold, Bryant and Alford have much to say. Among our readers...

The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley is one of the most revered figures in the English poetical landscape. Born on the 4th August 1792 he has, over the years, become rightly regarded as a major Romantic poet. Yet during his own lifetime little of his work was published....

The Poets of the 19th Century - Volume 4

The Poets of the 19th Century - Volume 4

This is a Century for the history books. The Chinese curse of living in interesting times could not be more suited.A small island continued its expansion across the globe bringing both good and evil in its march. Empires clashed. Revolution shook...

The Sea - An Element in Verse Volume 1

The Sea - An Element in Verse Volume 1

Who does not remember the immortal lines from childhood – ‘Break Break Break On Thy Cold Grey Stones’. The seas and oceans have a mystical power over us; from a playful day at the beach to the hysterical waves of the storm, this always changing...

The Sea - An Element in Verse Volume 2

The Sea - An Element in Verse Volume 2

Who does not remember the immortal lines from childhood – ‘Break Break Break On Thy Cold Grey Stones’. The seas and oceans have a mystical power over us; from a playful day at the beach to the hysterical waves of the storm, this always changing...

LibriVox volunteers bring you eight recordings of "To A Skylark." This is the Fortnightly Poetry for August 8, 2014.To A Skylark was completed by Shelley in late June 1820. It was inspired by an evening walk in the country near Livorno, Italy, with...

Zastrozzi, A Romance

Zastrozzi, A Romance

“Would Julia of Strobazzo’s heart was reeking on my dagger!”From the asthmatic urgency of its opening abduction scene to the Satanic defiance of the villain’s departure “with a wild convulsive laugh of exulting revenge”, this first of Shelley’s Gothic...