Love
Mighty Eagle
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
Mighty eagle! thou that soarest
O’er the misty mountain forest,
And amid the light of morning
Like a cloud of glory hiest,
And when night descends defiest
The embattled tempests’ warning!
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Codex Note
Written 1817. Published 1882.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Mighty Eagle.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/167/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Mighty Eagle.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/167/.
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