The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/'Mighty Eagle'

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

'MIGHTY EAGLE'

SUPPOSED TO BE ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM GODWIN

[Published in 1882 (P. W. of B. P. S.) by Mr. H. Buxton Forman, C.B., by whom it is dated 1817.]

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 5
The embattled tempests' warning!