The Complete Poems and Major ProseFirst published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume. |
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Page 11
... hands to the Goddess of Fate, you descendants of Iapetus+ who inhabit the pendulous orb of the earth. If Death, the grievous rover from Tartarus, once summons you, alas! it is vain to try delays and tricks. The journey through the ...
... hands to the Goddess of Fate, you descendants of Iapetus+ who inhabit the pendulous orb of the earth. If Death, the grievous rover from Tartarus, once summons you, alas! it is vain to try delays and tricks. The journey through the ...
Page 52
... hand to help her, and beside his rosy mother is the stripling Cupid. For such poets, then, grand banquets are ... hands stainless. His character should be like yours, O Priest, when, glorious with sacred vest. ments and lustral water ...
... hand to help her, and beside his rosy mother is the stripling Cupid. For such poets, then, grand banquets are ... hands stainless. His character should be like yours, O Priest, when, glorious with sacred vest. ments and lustral water ...
Page 70
... hand, Whistles o'er the Furrow'd Land, And the Milkmaid singeth blithe, 65 And the Mower whets his scythe, And every Shepherd tells his tale Under the Hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the ...
... hand, Whistles o'er the Furrow'd Land, And the Milkmaid singeth blithe, 65 And the Mower whets his scythe, And every Shepherd tells his tale Under the Hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the ...
Page 92
... hand, his Glass in the other; with him a rout of Monsters, headed like sundry sorts of wild Beasts, but otherwise like Men and Women, their Apparel glistering. They come in making a riotous and unruly noise, with Torches in their hands ...
... hand, his Glass in the other; with him a rout of Monsters, headed like sundry sorts of wild Beasts, but otherwise like Men and Women, their Apparel glistering. They come in making a riotous and unruly noise, with Torches in their hands ...
Page 136
... hand at the last and closed his eyes as he lay peacefully dying, and have said, “Farewell! remember me in your flight to the stars.' “Go home unfed, for your master has no time for you, my lambs. Though I shall never weary of your ...
... hand at the last and closed his eyes as he lay peacefully dying, and have said, “Farewell! remember me in your flight to the stars.' “Go home unfed, for your master has no time for you, my lambs. Though I shall never weary of your ...
Contents
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173 | |
Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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Adam Aeneid ancient angels Areopagitica Aristotle Beast behold bishops Book called Chorus Christ Christian church Comus dark death delight divine doctrine doth E. M. W. Tillyard Earth Euripides evil eyes faith Father fear fire glory God's goddess gods grace Greek hand happy hast hath heart Heav'n heavenly Hell Hesiod holy honor human John John Milton Jove King Latin meaning learned less light live Lord Lycidas marriage Milton mind Muses nature night Ovid Ovid's Paradise Lost Paradise Regained peace perhaps Philistines Plato poem poet praise prelates Psalm Roman Samson Agonistes Satan says Serpent song SONNET soul spake spirit stars stood story sweet thee things thir thou thought Throne tion tradition translation Tree truth verse VIII virtue wings wisdom words Zeus