 | Susan Stewart - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 472 pages
...manuscript subtitle indicates that Milton intended the poem to be "set on a clock-case." On Time Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on...plummet's pace; And glut thyself with what thy womb devours,Which is no more than what is false and vain, And merely mortal dross; So little is our loss,... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...a haunt of Pan. Like Erymanth, it is an mounts Lycttiti and Manalus (Georg. I, 16-17). ON TIME Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on...the heavy Plummet's pace; And glut thyself with what rhy womb devours, Which is no more than what is false and vain, 5 And merely mortal dross; So little... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...he had when he wrote it, and nothing satisfied anth what mu begun, left it unfinished. On Time Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on...leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace;0 And glut thyself with what thy womb devours,0 Which is no more than what is false and vain,... | |
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FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race ; Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace ; And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which is no more than what is false and vain, And merely mortal dross ;... 
