Love
Fragment: Milton’s Spirit
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Love
I dreamed that Milton’s spirit rose, and took
From life’s green tree his Uranian lute;
And from his touch sweet thunder flowed, and shook
All human things built in contempt of man,—
And sanguine thrones and impious altars quaked,
Prisons and citadels...
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Codex Note
Written 1820. Published 1870.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Milton’s Spirit.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/194/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Milton’s Spirit.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/194/.
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