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" Where the great sun begins his state, Rob'd in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every... "
The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author by S. Johnson - Page 188
by John Milton - 1807
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill : Sometimes walking not unseen By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the...eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state, Hobed in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman near...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill: Sometimes walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the...eastern gate, Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman near at...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill : Sometimes walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the...eastern gate, Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman near at...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill : Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the...eastern gate, Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at...
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Blake's Vision of the Poetry of Milton: Illustrations to Six Poems

Bette Charlene Werner - English poetry - 1986 - 328 pages
...Hillocks green Right against the Eastern Gate When the Great Sun begins his state Robed in Flames & amber Light The Clouds in thousand Liveries dight...the Milkmaid singeth blithe And the Mower whets his Scythe And every Shepherd tells his Tale Under the Hawthorn in the Dale. They are 11. 57—68 in The...
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Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance ...

Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...numerous images of labor in L'Allegro, the speaker is always looking at other people working. He watches the "Plowman near at hand, / Whistles o'er the Furrow'd...Milkmaid singeth blithe, / And the Mower whets his scythe" (62-65). Certainly, otium is a convention of the pastoral tradition, and its presence signals...
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C.S. Lewis: Always a Poet

Roland M. Kawano - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 100 pages
...lively din/Scatters the rear of darkness thin," and the various sun-greeters go about their tasks; While the Plowman near at hand, Whistles o'er the...the Milkmaid singeth blithe. And the Mower whets his scythe, And every Shepherd tells his tale Under the Hawthorn in the dale.9 The similarity of types...
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Music and Theatre in Handel's World: The Family Papers of James Harris, 1732 ...

Donald Burrows, Rosemary Dunhill, James Harris - Music - 2002 - 1268 pages
...Mirth, admit us of thy Crew, &c &c &c echoing shrill. Recit: Beard Or let me wander, not unseen By Hedge-row Elms on hillocks green. Right against the...Eastern Gate, Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames, & Amber Light. The Clouds in thousand Liveries dight. Song by Beard in the Sicilian...
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Complete Poems and Major Prose

John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...Comns, 395. Contrast HPen, 65. Right against the Eastern gate, Where the great Sun begins his state, 60 Rob'd in flames, and Amber light, The clouds in thousand...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....
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The Major Works

John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...From the side of some hoar hill,0 Through the high wood echoing shrill. Sometime walking not unseen By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state,0 60 Robed in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight,0 While the ploughman...
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