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

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

FRAGMENT: MILTON'S SPIRIT

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

I dreamed that Milton's spirit rose, and took
From 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, 5
Prisons and citadels. . .

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