The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2S. Andrus, 1852 |
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... Psalms 270 Paraphrase on Psalm cxiv . 299 Psalm cxxxvi . 299 POEMATA . ELEGIARUM LIBER : - I. Ad Carolum Deodatum II . In obitum Præconis Academici Cantabrigiensis III . In obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis IV . Ad Thomam Junium V. In ...
... Psalms 270 Paraphrase on Psalm cxiv . 299 Psalm cxxxvi . 299 POEMATA . ELEGIARUM LIBER : - I. Ad Carolum Deodatum II . In obitum Præconis Academici Cantabrigiensis III . In obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis IV . Ad Thomam Junium V. In ...
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... psalms with artful terms inscribed , Our Hebrew songs and harps , in Babylon , That pleased so well our victor's ear , declare That rather Greece from us these arts derived ; Ill imitated , while they loudest sing The vices of their ...
... psalms with artful terms inscribed , Our Hebrew songs and harps , in Babylon , That pleased so well our victor's ear , declare That rather Greece from us these arts derived ; Ill imitated , while they loudest sing The vices of their ...
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... psalms Singing everlastingly : That we on earth , with undiscording voice , May rightly answer that melodious noise ; As once we did , till disproportion'd sin Jarr'd against nature's chime , and with harsh din Broke the fair music that ...
... psalms Singing everlastingly : That we on earth , with undiscording voice , May rightly answer that melodious noise ; As once we did , till disproportion'd sin Jarr'd against nature's chime , and with harsh din Broke the fair music that ...
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... not I. You do the deeds , And your ungodly deeds find me the words . FROM SENECA . -There can be slain No sacrifice to God more acceptable , Than an unjust and wicked king . PSALM I. ( Done into verse 1653. ) BLESS'D is TRANSLATIONS . 269.
... not I. You do the deeds , And your ungodly deeds find me the words . FROM SENECA . -There can be slain No sacrifice to God more acceptable , Than an unjust and wicked king . PSALM I. ( Done into verse 1653. ) BLESS'D is TRANSLATIONS . 269.
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... PSALM II . ( Done August 8 , 1653 . ) - Terzette . WHY do the Gentiles tumult , and the nations Muse a vain thing , the kings of the earth upstand With power , and princes in their congregations Lay deep their plots together , through ...
... PSALM II . ( Done August 8 , 1653 . ) - Terzette . WHY do the Gentiles tumult , and the nations Muse a vain thing , the kings of the earth upstand With power , and princes in their congregations Lay deep their plots together , through ...
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aëre agni Amor angels ANTISTROPHE Atque aught behold canst choro cœli cœlo Comus Dagon dark death deeds Deûm didst divine domino jam domum impasti dost doth dread earth enemies etiam eyes fair fame father fear feast foes fræna glorious glory gods habet Hæc hand hath hear heard heaven hinc holy honour igne illa ille ipse Israel jam non vacat Jesus kings Lady Lord lumina Lycidas malè Manoah mihi mortal night numbers numina Nunc nymphs o'er Olympo PARADISE REGAINED peace Philistines praise PSALM Quà quæ quid quoque reign round sæpe Sams Samson Satan Saviour shades shalt shame shepherd sing Son of God song soul spirits strength sweet tempter thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tibi truth Tu quoque ulmo urbe virgin virtue voice wilt
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Page 207 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold ! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers...
Page 206 - Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next, Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. "Ah! who hath reft," quoth he, "my dearest pledge?
Page 220 - Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 216 - But hail! thou Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's...
Page 168 - And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 238 - She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Page 213 - While the cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, 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 hill, .Through the high wood echoing shrill.
Page 222 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars...
Page 216 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Page 159 - Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with sleep? Night hath better sweets to prove; Venus now wakes, and wakens Love. Come, let us our rites begin; Tis only daylight that makes sin, Which these dun shades will ne'er report. Hail, goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark-veil'd Cotytto, to whom the secret flame Of midnight torches burns!