From the Greek.
Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb?
To what sublime and star-ypaven home
Floatest thou?--
I am the image of swift Plato’s spirit,
Ascending heaven; Athens doth inherit
His corpse below.
More verses by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Fragments Written For Hellas
- Song. Translated From The German
- To William Shelley
- Fragment: Yes! All Is Past
- The False Laurel And The True