# The sensitive plant

Author: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822; Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70189

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+sensitive+plant+Shelley&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

When Shelley wrote THE SENSITIVE PLANT he was drawing very near the end of his poetry. It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820. In the next winter—a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune—he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death. The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno. Their fragrance, as it exhaled on the wintry Italian sunshine, and the sense of their fading loveliness, added to certain graver influences of whic...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sensitive-plant-70189/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sensitive-plant-70189/chapters/2/index.md)