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Milton's Minor Poems: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas, Ed. for ... Professor John Milton,John Aikin No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 124 - I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 69 - lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat ' 105 To earn his cream-bowl duly set, / When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That- ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, no And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks
Page 66 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee 25 Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; 30 Sport that wrinkled Care derides, • And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic
Page 122 - slow doth bend, 1015 And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb 1020 Higher than the sphery chime ; * Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. 1
Page 72 - Thou fix them on the earth as fast. And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, 45 Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing ; And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure; 50 But,
Page 125 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock by fountain, shade, and rill; Together both, ere the high lawns appeared 25 Under the opening eyelids of the Morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn, Battening
Page 67 - Or the twisted eglantine ; While the cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin ; 50 And to the stack, or the barn-door Stoutly struts his dames before : Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar
Page 74 - 2 The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold 90 The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook; 3 And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or underground, Whose power hath a true consent
Page 73 - Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, 70 And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore,
Page 127 - much fame in Heaven expect thy meed.' O fountain Arethuse, and thou honoured flood, 85 Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was of a higher mood; But now my oat proceeds, And listens to the Herald of the Sea That came in Neptune's plea. 90 He asked the waves, and asked the felon