‘Mighty Eagle’

Another Fragment: To Music.

[Published in “Poetical Works”, 1839, 1st edition.
Dated 1817 (Mrs. Shelley).]

No, Music, thou art not the ‘food of Love.’
Unless Love feeds upon its own sweet self,
Till it becomes all Music murmurs of.

Supposed to Be Addressed to William Godwin.

[Published in 1882 (“Poetical Works of P. B. 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!