The British Poets, Volume 2Little, Brown & Company, 1866 |
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... . ) ' Rise up , my wif , my love , my lady free , The turtle's vois is heard , myn owen swete ! The winter is gon , with all his raines wete ! Come forth now , ' & c . My fairest , my espous'd , my latest found , 2 PARADISE LOST .
... . ) ' Rise up , my wif , my love , my lady free , The turtle's vois is heard , myn owen swete ! The winter is gon , with all his raines wete ! Come forth now , ' & c . My fairest , my espous'd , my latest found , 2 PARADISE LOST .
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... with more delighted ear , Divine instructor , I have heard , than when 540 545 Cherubic songs by night from neighbouring hills Aereal music send : nor knew I not 550 To be both will and deed created free ; BOOK V. 23.
... with more delighted ear , Divine instructor , I have heard , than when 540 545 Cherubic songs by night from neighbouring hills Aereal music send : nor knew I not 550 To be both will and deed created free ; BOOK V. 23.
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... heard ; 555 And we have yet large day , for scarce the sun Hath finish'd half his journey , and scarce begins His other half in the great zone of heaven . Thus Adam made request , and Raphael , After short pause , assenting thus began ...
... heard ; 555 And we have yet large day , for scarce the sun Hath finish'd half his journey , and scarce begins His other half in the great zone of heaven . Thus Adam made request , and Raphael , After short pause , assenting thus began ...
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... heard no more in heaven ; he of the first , If not the first arch - angel , great in power , In favor and preeminence , yet fraught With envy against the Son of God , that day Honour'd by his great Father , and proclaim'd Messiah King ...
... heard no more in heaven ; he of the first , If not the first arch - angel , great in power , In favor and preeminence , yet fraught With envy against the Son of God , that day Honour'd by his great Father , and proclaim'd Messiah King ...
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... heard . Servant of GOD , well done , well hast thou fought The better fight , who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth , in word mightier than they in arms ; And for the testimony of truth hast borne ...
... heard . Servant of GOD , well done , well hast thou fought The better fight , who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth , in word mightier than they in arms ; And for the testimony of truth hast borne ...
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Adam Adamus Exsul angels answer'd appear'd aught beast behold Bentl Bentley bliss bright call'd Canaan cherubim cloud creatures dark days of heaven death delight divine Du Bartas Dunster dwell Dyce earth eternal ev'ning evil eyes fair faith Father fear Fenton fruit glory ground hand happy hast hath heard heart heaven heavenly hell hill king lest light live mankind may'st Messiah Milton's own edition morn Newton nigh night Ovid Paradise PARADISE LOST PARADISE REGAINED quæ rais'd reign reply'd return'd sacred sapience Satan Saviour seat seem'd serpent Shakesp shalt sight Son of God soon spake Spens spirits stars stood sweet taste tempter thee thence thine things thither thou thou art thou hast thought throne thyself Todd tree turn'd vex'd Virg virtue voice wand'ring whence wings words
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Page 5 - Thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these Thy lowest works : yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels...
Page 228 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil ! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Page 6 - His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Join voices, all ye living souls ; ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Page 1 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 167 - But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
Page 106 - By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung, As thitherward endeavouring, and upright Stood on my feet : about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams ; by these, Creatures that liv'd and mov'd, and walk'd or flew ; Birds on the branches warbling ; all things smil'd With fragrance, and with joy my heart o'erflow'd.
Page 94 - To God's eternal house direct the way, A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.
Page 1 - Why sleep'st thou, Eve? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields To the night-warbling bird, that now awake Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd song, now reigns Full orb'd the moon, and with more pleasing light Shadowy sets off the face of things, in vain, If none regard; heaven wakes with all his eyes, Whom to behold but thee, nature's desire?
Page 102 - Rise on the earth ; or earth rise on the sun ; He from the east his flaming road begin, Or she from west her silent course advance, With inoffensive pace that spinning sleeps On her soft axle ; while she paces even, And bears thee soft with the smooth air along; Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid ; Leave them to God above; him serve and fear.
Page 99 - Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide. Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric' scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...