percy bysshe shelley

Discover the life and poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley — the visionary Romantic poet of rebellion, idealism, and lyrical beauty.

To a Skylark

Shelley’s skylark, pure song in flight, teaches a difficult joy — art that consoles without denying human lack.

In “Mont Blanc,” Shelley tests the sublime as a pact between mind and mountain — perception making grandeur legible.

Shelley’s elegy for Keats rises from lament to luminous consolation — art and memory outlasting rumor and death.

Shelley’s playful persuasion argues that nature itself mingles and kisses — so should lovers, by a gentle law divine.

Shelley’s “Ozymandias” unveils the ruins of empire and the irony of power’s impermanence beneath desert sands.

Shelley’s ode harnesses a revolutionary wind — destroyer and preserver — to scatter verse like sparks toward renewal.