Milton Lyrics: L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and LycidasLeach, Shewell, & Sanborn, 1893 - 102 pages |
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Æneid allusion beauty Ben Jonson charm chastity Circe Classical Dictionary College COMUS dance darkness daughter dear delight doth dragon Drayton Echo Edited ELDER BROTHER Elizabethan enchanted English Essay on Milton eyes Faery Queene fair famous flower gentle Goddess golden hath hear Heaven herb Il Penseroso immortal John Milton Jonson Jove KATHARINE LEE BATES King L'Allegro Lady lawn lines Listen Locrine Lord Brackley loved Lycidas lyric Macaulay's Essay masque Masson Melancholy Midsummer Night's Dream Mirth Muse Nearly ready night nymph o'er Odyssey Paradise Lost passage pastoral peace Penseroso Phædo Phoebus poem poet poetic poetry Romeo and Juliet Sabrina Scene SECOND BROTHER shades Shakespeare Shelley shepherd sing sister sits soft song Sonnet soul Spenser SPIRIT star story stream swain sweet thee thou art thought Thyrsis verse virgin Virtue wandering waves weeds Wellesley College winds wood words youth
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Page 27 - 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 sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop Queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended.
Page 74 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ah me ! I fondly dream, Had ye been there...
Page 32 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 30 - 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 65 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus. By the earthshaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
Page 76 - How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies' sake Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold?
Page 24 - 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 30 - 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 21 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings...
Page 32 - 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 massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.