The Poetical Works of John Milton: Reprinted from the Best Editions, with Biographical Notice, EtcJ. W. Lovell, 1881 - 562 pages |
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... Beguiled by fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day , While smooth 26 PARADISE LOST .
... Beguiled by fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day , While smooth 26 PARADISE LOST .
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Reprinted from the Best Editions, with Biographical Notice, Etc John Milton. In amorous ditties all a summer's day , While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea , supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the ...
Reprinted from the Best Editions, with Biographical Notice, Etc John Milton. In amorous ditties all a summer's day , While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea , supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the ...
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... amorous delay . Nor those mysterious parts were then concealed ; Then was not guilty shame : dishonest shame Of nature's works , honour dishonourable , Sin - bred , how have ye troubled all mankind With shows instead , mere shows of ...
... amorous delay . Nor those mysterious parts were then concealed ; Then was not guilty shame : dishonest shame Of nature's works , honour dishonourable , Sin - bred , how have ye troubled all mankind With shows instead , mere shows of ...
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... amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus , that led The starry host , rode brightest , till the moon , Rising in clouded majesty , at length , Apparent queen , unveiled her ...
... amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus , that led The starry host , rode brightest , till the moon , Rising in clouded majesty , at length , Apparent queen , unveiled her ...
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... amorous delight . She disappeared , and left me dark ; I waked To find her , or for ever to deplore Her loss , and other pleasures all abjure . When out of hope , behold her , not far off , Such as I saw her in my dream , adorned With ...
... amorous delight . She disappeared , and left me dark ; I waked To find her , or for ever to deplore Her loss , and other pleasures all abjure . When out of hope , behold her , not far off , Such as I saw her in my dream , adorned With ...
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Adam agni amorous angels ANTISTROPHE arms aught beast behold Belial bliss bright cherub cherubim choro CHORUS cloud COMUS Dagon dark death deeds deep delight didst divine doth dread dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair faith Father fear fire fræna fruit glorious glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell hill honour ipse Israel King lest light live Lord Lycidas MANOAH Messiah mihi mind morn mortal night numina o'er Olympo pain Paradise peace Philistines praise quæ quire reign replied round SAMSON Satan seat serpent shade shalt shame sight Son of God song soon soul spake spirits stood strength sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tibi tree Tu quoque virtue voice whence wings wonder Zephyro
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Page 64 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 422 - Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 425 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But O, sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower ? Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left...
Page 30 - Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 462 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion...
Page 462 - He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin, then, Sisters of the sacred well That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring; Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string.
Page 63 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born ! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal Stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the Sun, Before the Heavens, thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising World of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and...
Page 424 - Gently o'er the accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 421 - Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses; And then in haste her bower she leaves With Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tanned haycock in the mead. Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday...
Page 408 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.