ENGLISH CLASSICS

MILTON

R. C. BROWNE

ENGLISH POEMS

BY

JOHN MILTON

EDITED

WITH LIFE, INTRODUCTION, AND SELECTED NOTES

BY

R. C. BROWNE, M.A.

ASSOCIATE OF KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON

NEW EDITION, REVISED

VOL. II

George W. Avaus.

Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

M DCCC LXXIII

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MIGHTY-MOUTH'D INVENTOR

O SKILL'D TO SING OF TIME
GOD GIFTED ORGAN-VOICE OF ENGLAND,
MILTON, A NAME TO RESOUND FOR AGES;
WHOSE TITAN ANGELS, GABRIEL, ABDIEL,
STARR'D FROM JEHOVAH'S GORGEOUS ARMOURIES,
TOWER, AS THE DEEP DOMED EMPYREAN
RINGS TO THE ROAR OF AN ANGEL ONSET-
ME RATHER ALL THAT BOWERY LONELINESS,
THE BROOKS OF EDEN MAZILY MURMURING,
AND BLOOM PROFUSE AND CEDAR
CHARM, AS A WANDERER OUT IN
WHERE SOME REFULGENT SUNSET
STREAMS O'ER A RICH AMBROSIAL
AND CRIMSON-HUED THE STATELY
WHISPER IN ODOROUS HEIGHTS OF

ARCHES

OCEAN,

OF HARMONIES,

OR ETERNITY,

OF INDIA

OCEAN ISLE,

PALM WOODS

EVEN.

Tennyson.