The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Milton's Spirit

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FRAGMENT: MILTON'S SPIRIT

[Published by Rossetti, Complete P. W. of P. B. S., 1870.]

I dreamed that Milton's spirit rose, and tookFrom life's green tree his Uranian lute;^[1] And from his touch sweet thunder flowed, and shook All human things built in contempt of man,—And sanguine thrones and impious altars quaked, 5Prisons and citadels. . .

↑ Fragment: Milton's Spirit 2 lute Uranian cj. A. C. Bradley.

[1] Fragment: Milton's Spirit 2 lute Uranian cj. A. C. Bradley.

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