Poems [a selection] ed. with life and notes by J.M. Ross1871 |
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... stood Unstain'd with hostile blood , The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sate still with awful eye , As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by . 55 135 60 V. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of 01 ...
... stood Unstain'd with hostile blood , The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sate still with awful eye , As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by . 55 135 60 V. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of 01 ...
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... green mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill , Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots . Their port was more than human , as they stood : 295 I took it for a faëry vision Of some gay 22 22 COMUS .
... green mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill , Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots . Their port was more than human , as they stood : 295 I took it for a faëry vision Of some gay 22 22 COMUS .
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... stood , harrow'd with grief and fear ; 565 And " O , poor hapless nightingale , " thought I , " How sweet thou sing'st , how near the deadly snare ! " Then down the lawns I ran with headlong haste , Through paths and turnings oft'n trod ...
... stood , harrow'd with grief and fear ; 565 And " O , poor hapless nightingale , " thought I , " How sweet thou sing'st , how near the deadly snare ! " Then down the lawns I ran with headlong haste , Through paths and turnings oft'n trod ...
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... stood , and call'd His legions , angel forms , who lay entranc't Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks 295 300 In Vallombrosa , where th ' Etrurian shades High over - arch't imbowr ; or scatter'd sedge Afloat , when with fierce ...
... stood , and call'd His legions , angel forms , who lay entranc't Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks 295 300 In Vallombrosa , where th ' Etrurian shades High over - arch't imbowr ; or scatter'd sedge Afloat , when with fierce ...
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... stood Their great commander ; -godlike shapes , and forms Excelling human ; princely Dignities , And Powers that erst in Heav'n sat on thrones ; 360 Though of their names in heav'nly records now Be no memorial , blotted out and ras'd By ...
... stood Their great commander ; -godlike shapes , and forms Excelling human ; princely Dignities , And Powers that erst in Heav'n sat on thrones ; 360 Though of their names in heav'nly records now Be no memorial , blotted out and ras'd By ...
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allusion ancient angels beauty Beelzebub bliss bright call'd called Canterbury Tales charm Chaucer Cicero classic clouds Comp Comus dark death deep deity delight denotes divine dread Earth English epithet eternal Euripides evil expression eyes fair father Fiend fire glory gods golden grace Greek hast hath Heav'n heav'nly Hell hill Homer Horace Hymn Il Penseroso Imaüs King L'Allegro lady Latin light lines Lord Lycidas meaning Milton Moloch mortal Muse myth Nativity night o'er onomatopoeic Ovid Paradise Lost PARADISE REGAINED Parthian passage perhaps phrase poem poet poetic probably reign repli'd Roman round Satan says seem'd sense shades Shakspeare Silius Italicus sing Smectymnuus song speaks Spenser Faery Queene spirit star stood sweet Tempter thee thence things thou thought throne Typhon verb verse Virgil Aen virtue winds wings word Zeus
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Page 159 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 40 - And all their echoes, mourn. The willows, and the hazel copses green, Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays.
Page 84 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 42 - Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves, Where other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 84 - 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 45 - Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 40 - Ay me! I fondly dream Had ye been there, . . . for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, 60 When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?
Page 10 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 44 - Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 46 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire ; that were low indeed, That were an ignominy...