The Complete Poems and Major ProseFirst published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume. |
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Page 36
... Heav'n for pity thee so strictly doom? Oh no! for something in thy face did shine Above mortality that show'd thou wast divine. VI Resolve me then oh Soul most surely blest (If so it be that thou these plaints dost hear) Tell me bright ...
... Heav'n for pity thee so strictly doom? Oh no! for something in thy face did shine Above mortality that show'd thou wast divine. VI Resolve me then oh Soul most surely blest (If so it be that thou these plaints dost hear) Tell me bright ...
Page 37
... Heav'n aspire? X But oh! why didst thou not stay here below To bless us with thy heav'n-lov'd innocence, 65 To slake his wrath whom sin hath made our foe To turn Swift-rushing black perdition hence, Or drive away the slaughtering ...
... Heav'n aspire? X But oh! why didst thou not stay here below To bless us with thy heav'n-lov'd innocence, 65 To slake his wrath whom sin hath made our foe To turn Swift-rushing black perdition hence, Or drive away the slaughtering ...
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... Heav'n's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing, That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father work us a perpetual peace. II ...
... Heav'n's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing, That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father work us a perpetual peace. II ...
Page 46
... Heav'n and Earth in happier union. That with long beams the shame-fac't night array'd, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd, Harping in loud and solemn choir, With unexpressive notes to Heav'n's new-born Heir. But when of ...
... Heav'n and Earth in happier union. That with long beams the shame-fac't night array'd, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd, Harping in loud and solemn choir, With unexpressive notes to Heav'n's new-born Heir. But when of ...
Page 81
... Heav'n's heraldry whilere Enter'd the world, now bleeds to give us ease; Alas, how soon our sin Sore doth begin His Infancy to seize! O more exceeding love or law more just? Just law indeed, but more exceeding love! For we by rightful ...
... Heav'n's heraldry whilere Enter'd the world, now bleeds to give us ease; Alas, how soon our sin Sore doth begin His Infancy to seize! O more exceeding love or law more just? Just law indeed, but more exceeding love! For we by rightful ...
Contents
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173 | |
Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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Adam Aeneid ancient angels Areopagitica Aristotle Beast behold bishops Book called Chorus Christ Christian church Comus dark death delight divine doctrine doth E. M. W. Tillyard Earth Euripides evil eyes faith Father fear fire glory God's goddess gods grace Greek hand happy hast hath heart Heav'n heavenly Hell Hesiod holy honor human John John Milton Jove King Latin meaning learned less light live Lord Lycidas marriage Milton mind Muses nature night Ovid Ovid's Paradise Lost Paradise Regained peace perhaps Philistines Plato poem poet praise prelates Psalm Roman Samson Agonistes Satan says Serpent song SONNET soul spake spirit stars stood story sweet thee things thir thou thought Throne tion tradition translation Tree truth verse VIII virtue wings wisdom words Zeus