Percy Bysshe Shelley

Here you will find the Poem Epigram III: Spirit of Plato of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

Epigram III: Spirit of Plato

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.