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Lines To A Reviewer

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Track 116 on The Complete Poetical Works Of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 2 
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[Published by Leigh Hunt, "The Literary Pocket-Book", 1823. These lines, and the "Sonnet" immediately preceding, are signed Sigma in the "Literary Pocket-Book".]

Alas, good friend, what profit can you see
In hating such a hateless thing as me?
There is no sport in hate where all the rage
Is on one side: in vain would you assuage
Your frowns upon an unresisting smile,
In which not even contempt lurks to beguile
Your heart, by some faint sympathy of hate.
Oh, conquer what you cannot satiate!
For to your passion I am far more coy
Than ever yet was coldest maid or boy
In winter noon. Of your antipathy
If I am the Narcissus, you are free
To pine into a sound with hating me.

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The Complete Poetical Works Of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 2
  1. 1.
    Stanza, Written At Bracknell
  2. 2.
    Stanzas.—April, 1814
  3. 3.
    To Harriet
  4. 4.
    To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
  5. 5.
    To —.’ Yet Look On Me.’
  6. 6.
    Mutability
  7. 7.
    On Death
  8. 8.
    A Summer Evening Churchyard
  9. 9.
    To —. ‘Oh! There are Spirits of The Air’
  10. 10.
    Lines: ‘The Cold Earth Slept Below’
  11. 11.
    The Sunset
  12. 12.
    Hymn To Intellectual Beauty
  13. 13.
    Fragment: Home
  14. 14.
    Marianne’s Dream
  15. 15.
    To Constantia, Singing
  16. 16.
    Stanzas 1 And 2
  17. 17.
    To Constantia
  18. 18.
    Fragment: To One Singing
  19. 19.
    A Fragment: To Music
  20. 20.
    Another Fragment: To Music
  21. 21.
    ‘Mighty Eagle’
  22. 22.
    To The Lord Chancellor
  23. 23.
    To William Shelley
  24. 24.
    From The Original Draft Of The Poem To William Shelley
  25. 25.
    On Fanny Godwin
  26. 26.
    Lines: ‘That Time is Dead For Ever’
  27. 27.
    Death
  28. 28.
    Otho
  29. 29.
    Fragments Supposed To Be Parts Of Otho
  30. 30.
    ‘O That A Chariot Of Cloud Were Mine’
  31. 31.
    Fragment: To A Friend Released From Prison
  32. 32.
    Fragment: Satan Broken Loose
  33. 33.
    Fragment: “Igniculus Desiderii”
  34. 34.
    Fragment: “Amor Aeternus”
  35. 35.
    Fragment: Thoughts Come And Go In Solitude
  36. 36.
    A Hate-Song
  37. 37.
    Lines To A Critic
  38. 38.
    Ozymandias
  39. 39.
    To The Nile
  40. 40.
    Passage Of The Apennines
  41. 41.
    The Past
  42. 42.
    To Mary —
  43. 43.
    On A Faded Violet
  44. 44.
    Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills
  45. 45.
    Scene From ‘Tasso’
  46. 46.
    The Two Spirits: An Allegory
  47. 47.
    Ode To Naples (Epode 1a)
  48. 48.
    Ode To Naples (Epode 2a)
  49. 49.
    Ode To Naples (Strophe 1)
  50. 50.
    Ode To Naples (Strophe 2)
  51. 51.
    Ode To Naples (Antistrophe 1a)
  52. 52.
    Ode To Naples (Antistrophe 2a)
  53. 53.
    Ode To Naples (Antistrophe 1b)
  54. 54.
    Ode To Naples (Antistrophe 2b)
  55. 55.
    Ode To Naples (Epode 1b)
  56. 56.
    Ode To Naples (Epode 2b)
  57. 57.
    Song For ‘Tasso’
  58. 58.
    Invocation To Misery
  59. 59.
    Stanzas Written In Dejection, Near Naples
  60. 60.
    The Woodman And The Nightingale
  61. 61.
    Marenghi
  62. 62.
    Sonnet (Lift not the painted veil...)
  63. 63.
    Fragment: To Byron
  64. 64.
    Fragment: Apostrophe To Silence
  65. 65.
    Fragment: The Lake’s Margin
  66. 66.
    Fragment: ‘My Head Is Wild With Weeping’
  67. 67.
    Fragment: The Vine-Shroud
  68. 68.
    Lines Written During The Castlereagh Administration
  69. 69.
    Song To The Men Of England
  70. 70.
    Similes For Two Political Characters Of 1819
  71. 71.
    Fragment: To The People Of England
  72. 72.
    National Anthem
  73. 73.
    An Ode, Written October, 1819, Before The Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty
  74. 74.
    Cancelled Stanza
  75. 76.
    An Exhortation
  76. 77.
    The Indian Serenade
  77. 78.
    Cancelled Passage
  78. 79.
    To Sophia [Miss Stacey]
  79. 80.
    To William Shelley II
  80. 81.
    To William Shelley III
  81. 82.
    To Mary Shelley
  82. 83.
    To Mary Shelley II
  83. 84.
    On The Medusa Of Leonardo Da Vinci In The Florentine Gallery
  84. 85.
    Love’s Philosophy
  85. 86.
    Fragment: ‘Follow To The Deep Wood’s Weeds’
  86. 87.
    The Birth Of Pleasure
  87. 88.
    Fragment: Love The Universe To-Day
  88. 89.
    Fragment: ‘A Gentle Story Of Two Lovers Young’
  89. 90.
    Fragment: Love’s Tender Atmosphere
  90. 91.
    Fragment: Wedded Souls
  91. 92.
    Fragment: ‘Ye Gentle Visitations Of Calm Thought’
  92. 93.
    Fragment: Sufficient Unto The Day
  93. 94.
    Fragment: Music And Sweet Poetry
  94. 95.
    Variation Of The Song Of The Moon
  95. 96.
    The Sensitive Plant Part I
  96. 97.
    The Sensitive Plant Part II
  97. 98.
    The Sensitive Plant Part III
  98. 99.
    A Vision Of The Sea
  99. 100.
    The Cloud
  100. 101.
    To A Skylark
  101. 102.
    Ode To Liberty
  102. 103.
    Arethusa
  103. 104.
    Song Of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers On The Plain Of Enna
  104. 105.
    Hymn Of Apollo
  105. 106.
    Hymn Of Pan
  106. 107.
    The Question
  107. 108.
    Autumn: A Dirge
  108. 109.
    The Waning Moon
  109. 110.
    To The Moon
  110. 111.
    Liberty
  111. 112.
    Summer And Winter
  112. 113.
    The Tower Of Famine
  113. 114.
    An Allegory
  114. 115.
    The World’s Wanderers
  115. 116.
    Lines To A Reviewer
  116. 117.
    Fragment Of A Satire On Satire
  117. 118.
    Good-Night
  118. 119.
    Buona Notte
  119. 120.
    Orpheus
  120. 121.
    Fiordispina
  121. 122.
    Time Long Past
  122. 123.
    Fragment: The Deserts Of Dim Sleep
  123. 124.
    Fragment: ‘The Viewless And Invisible Consequence’
  124. 125.
    Fragment: A Serpent-Face
  125. 126.
    Fragment: Death In Life
  126. 127.
    Fragment: ‘Such Hope, As Is The Sick Despair Of Good’
  127. 128.
    Fragment: ‘Alas! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was’
  128. 129.
    Fragment: Milton’s Spirit
  129. 130.
    Fragment: ‘Unrisen Splendour Of The Brightest Sun’
  130. 131.
    Fragment: Pater Omnipotens
  131. 132.
    Fragment: To The Mind Of Man
  132. 133.
    Dirge For The Year
  133. 135.
    Time
  134. 136.
    From The Arabic: An Imitation
  135. 137.
    To Emilia Viviani
  136. 138.
    The Fugitives
  137. 139.
    Song
  138. 140.
    Mutability II (The flower that smiles today...)
  139. 141.
    Lines Written On Hearing The News Of The Death Of Napoleon
  140. 142.
    Sonnet: Political Greatness
  141. 143.
    The Aziola
  142. 144.
    A Lament
  143. 145.
    Remembrance
  144. 146.
    To Edward Williams
  145. 147.
    Epithalamium
  146. 148.
    Love, Hope, Desire, And Fear
  147. 149.
    Fragments Written For Hellas
  148. 150.
    Fragment: ‘I Would Not Be A King’
  149. 151.
    Ginevra
  150. 152.
    Evening: Ponte Al Mare, Pisa
  151. 153.
    The Boat On The Serchio
  152. 154.
    Music
  153. 155.
    Sonnet To Byron
  154. 156.
    Fragment On Keats
  155. 157.
    Fragment: ‘Methought I Was A Billow In The Crowd’
  156. 158.
    To-Morrow
  157. 159.
    Fragment: A Wanderer
  158. 160.
    Fragment: Life Rounded With Sleep
  159. 161.
    Fragment: ‘I Faint, I Perish With My Love!’
  160. 162.
    Fragment: The Lady Of The South
  161. 163.
    Fragment: Zephyrus The Awakener
  162. 164.
    Fragment: Rain
  163. 165.
    Fragment: ‘When Soft Winds And Sunny Skies’
  164. 166.
    Fragment: ‘And That I Walk Thus Proudly Crowned’
  165. 167.
    Fragment: ‘The Rude Wind Is Singing’
  166. 168.
    Fragment: ‘Great Spirit’
  167. 169.
    Fragment: ‘O Thou Immortal Deity’
  168. 170.
    Fragment: The False Laurel And The True
  169. 171.
    Fragment: May The Limner
  170. 172.
    Fragment: Beauty’s Halo
  171. 173.
    Fragment: ‘The Death Knell Is Ringing’
  172. 174.
    Fragment: ‘I Stood Upon A Heaven-Cleaving Turret’
  173. 175.
    The Zucca
  174. 176.
    The Magnetic Lady To Her Patient
  175. 177.
    Lines: ‘When The Lamp Is Shattered’
  176. 178.
    To Jane: The Invitation
  177. 179.
    To Jane: The Recollection
  178. 180.
    The Pine Forest Of The Cascine Near Pisa
  179. 181.
    With A Guitar, To Jane
  180. 182.
    To Jane: ‘The Keen Stars Were Twinkling’
  181. 183.
    Lines Written In The Bay Of Lerici
  182. 184.
    Lines: ‘We Meet Not As We Parted’
  183. 185.
    The Isle
  184. 186.
    Fragment: To The Moon
  185. 187.
    Epitaph
  186. Ode to the West Wind
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