The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins: Complete in One VolumeJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1867 - English poetry |
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... light On the firm brimstone , and fill all the plain ; A multitude , like which the populous north Poured never from her frozen loins , to pass Rhene or the Danaw , when her barb'rous sons Came like a deluge on the south , and spread ...
... light On the firm brimstone , and fill all the plain ; A multitude , like which the populous north Poured never from her frozen loins , to pass Rhene or the Danaw , when her barb'rous sons Came like a deluge on the south , and spread ...
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... light , Secure , and at the bright'ning orient beam Purge off this gloom : the soft delicious air , To heal the scar of these corrosive fires , Above his fellows , with monarchal pride , Conscious of highest worth , unmoved , thus spake ...
... light , Secure , and at the bright'ning orient beam Purge off this gloom : the soft delicious air , To heal the scar of these corrosive fires , Above his fellows , with monarchal pride , Conscious of highest worth , unmoved , thus spake ...
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... light and bliss , among The gods who live at ease , where I shall reign At thy right hand voluptuous , as beseems Thy daughter and thy darling , without end . " Thus saying , from her side the fatal key , Sad instrument of all our wo ...
... light and bliss , among The gods who live at ease , where I shall reign At thy right hand voluptuous , as beseems Thy daughter and thy darling , without end . " Thus saying , from her side the fatal key , Sad instrument of all our wo ...
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... light ; when straight behold the throne Of Chaos , and his dark pavilion spread Wide on the wasteful deep ; with him enthroned Sat sable vested Night , eldest of things , The consort of his reign ; and by them stood Orcus and Ades , and ...
... light ; when straight behold the throne Of Chaos , and his dark pavilion spread Wide on the wasteful deep ; with him enthroned Sat sable vested Night , eldest of things , The consort of his reign ; and by them stood Orcus and Ades , and ...
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... Light ! offspring of Heaven first born ! | About him all the sanctities of Heaven Or of the eternal coeternal beam Stood thick as stars , and from his sight received May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light , Beatitude past ...
... Light ! offspring of Heaven first born ! | About him all the sanctities of Heaven Or of the eternal coeternal beam Stood thick as stars , and from his sight received May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light , Beatitude past ...
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Page 162 - Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills, and they To heaven. Their martyred blood and ashes sow O'er all the...
Page 8 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 155 - I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth Save the cricket on the hearth Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 154 - Hard by a cottage chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis met Are at their savoury dinner set Of herbs and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses...
Page 158 - 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 155 - The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshy nook: And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptr'd pall come sweeping by Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage.
Page 154 - 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. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 162 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 135 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, and what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 153 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...