Shelley, Percy Bysshe: Fragment: Milton's Spirit

Fragment: Milton's Spirit (English)

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...

Uploaded by	Góz Adrienn
Publisher	Rossetti, "Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.", 1870
Source of the quotation	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Milton%27s_Spirit