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The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems

Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)

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THE DAEMON OF THE WORLD
  
ALASTOR OR THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE
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THE REVOLT OF ISLAM
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PRINCE ATHANASE
  
ROSALIND AND HELEN
  
JULIAN AND MADDALO
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PROMETHEUS UNBOUND
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THE CENCI
  
THE MASK OF ANARCHY
  
PETER BELL THE THIRD
  
LETTER TO MARIA GISBORNE
  
THE WITCH OF ATLAS
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OEDIPUS TYRANNUS OR SWELLFOOT THE TYRANT
  
EPIPSYCHIDION
  
PASSAGES OF THE POEM, OR CONNECTED THEREWITH
  
ADONAIS
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HELLAS
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FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED DRAMA
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CHARLES THE FIRST
  
THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE
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EARLY POEMS
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1816
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1817
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1818
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1819
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1820
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1821
  
DIRGE FOR THE YEAR
  
TO NIGHT
  
TIME
  
LINES
  
FROM THE ARABIC: AN IMITAION
  
TO EMILIA VIVIANI
  
THE FUGITIVES
  
TO ------
  
SONG
  
MUTABILITY
  
LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON
  
SONNET: POLITICAL GREATNESS
  
THE AZIOLA
  
A LAMENT
  
REMEMBRANCE
  
TO EDWARD WILLIAMS
  
TO ------
  
TO ------
  
A BRIDAL SONG
  
EPITHALAMIUM
  
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME
  
LOVE, HOPE, DESIRE, AND FEAR
  
FRAGMENTS WRITTEN FOR HELLAS
  
FRAGMENT: ‘I WOULD NOT BE A KING’
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GINEVRA
  
EVENING: PONTE AL MARE, PISA
  
THE BOAT ON THE SERCHIO
  
MUSIC
  
SONNET TO BYRON
  
FRAGMENT ON KEATS
  
FRAGMENT: ‘METHOUGHT I WAS A BILLOW IN THE CROWD’
  
TO-MORROW
  
STANZA
  
FRAGMENT: 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’
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POEMS WRITTEN IN 1822
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TRANSLATIONS
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JUVENILIA

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FRAGMENT: ‘I WOULD NOT BE A KING’

I would not be a king—enough
Of woe it is to love;
The path to power is steep and rough,
And tempests reign above.
I would not climb the imperial throne;
'Tis built on ice which fortune's sun
Thaws in the height of noon.
Then farewell, king, yet were I one,
Care would not come so soon.
Would he and I were far away
Keeping flocks on Himalay!
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