English Poems, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1873 |
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... hope Things not reveal'd , which th ' invisible King , Only Omniscient , hath supprest in night , To none communicable in Earth or Heaven ; Enough is left besides to search and know . But knowledge is as food , and needs no less Her ...
... hope Things not reveal'd , which th ' invisible King , Only Omniscient , hath supprest in night , To none communicable in Earth or Heaven ; Enough is left besides to search and know . But knowledge is as food , and needs no less Her ...
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... Inviting thee to . hear while I relate ; Fond , were it not in hope of thy reply : 195 200 205 For while I sit with thee , I seem in Heav'n , 210 And sweeter thy discourse is to my ear Than fruits 26 LAST POEMS , 1665-1671 .
... Inviting thee to . hear while I relate ; Fond , were it not in hope of thy reply : 195 200 205 For while I sit with thee , I seem in Heav'n , 210 And sweeter thy discourse is to my ear Than fruits 26 LAST POEMS , 1665-1671 .
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... hope , behold her , not far off , Such as I saw her in my dream , adorn'd With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow To make her amiable : on she came , 480 Led by her Heav'nly Maker , though unseen , 485 And guided by his voice ; nor ...
... hope , behold her , not far off , Such as I saw her in my dream , adorn'd With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow To make her amiable : on she came , 480 Led by her Heav'nly Maker , though unseen , 485 And guided by his voice ; nor ...
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... hope to be myself less miserable By what I seek , but others to make such As I , though thereby worse to me redound ; For only in destroying I find ease To my relentless thoughts ; and him destroy'd , Or won to what may work his utter ...
... hope to be myself less miserable By what I seek , but others to make such As I , though thereby worse to me redound ; For only in destroying I find ease To my relentless thoughts ; and him destroy'd , Or won to what may work his utter ...
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... hope to find His wish and best advantage , us asunder , Hopeless to circumvent us join'd , where each To other speedy aid might lend at need ; Whether his first design be to withdraw Our fealty from God , or to disturb Conjugal love ...
... hope to find His wish and best advantage , us asunder , Hopeless to circumvent us join'd , where each To other speedy aid might lend at need ; Whether his first design be to withdraw Our fealty from God , or to disturb Conjugal love ...
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Adam Æneid angel aught beast behold call'd Chorus Cicero cloud Comus creatures Dagon dark death deeds delight divine dwell E. P. and P. L. Earth enemies Euripides ev'ning evil eyes Faery Queene fair faith Father fear fruit Georgics giv'n glory gods hand Harapha hath heard heart Heav'n Heav'nly Hell highth hither honour Horace Iliad Keightley king labour lest light live Lord Manoa Metamorphoses Milton mind nigh night Odes Ovid Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Psalm rais'd reign repli'd return'd round Samson Samson Agonistes Satan Saviour seat seem'd sense serpent Shakespeare shalt shame sight Son of God soon Sophocles spake Spenser spirit stood strength sweet taste Tempter Thebez thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tree turn'd viii virtue voice Wedgwood whence wings words
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Page 60 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 140 - O goodness infinite, goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, Whether I should repent me now of sin By me done and occasion'd, or rejoice Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring. To GOD more glory, more good will to men From GOD, and over wrath grace shall abound. But say, if our Deliverer up to heav'n Must reascend, what will betide the...
Page 337 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim with the hallowed fire of His altar to touch...
Page 208 - Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves, Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke. Yet stay, let me not rashly call in doubt Divine prediction...
Page 209 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
Page 97 - Forsake me not thus, Adam! witness Heaven What love sincere and reverence in my heart I bear thee, and unweeting have offended, Unhappily deceived ! Thy suppliant I beg, and clasp thy knees; bereave me not Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel in this uttermost distress, 920 My only strength and stay. Forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As joined in injuries,...
Page 142 - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 68 - The fig-tree; not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 35 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 22 - Their distance argues, and their swift return Diurnal,) merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot, One day and night : in all their vast survey Useless besides ; reasoning, I oft admire, How nature wise and frugal could commit Such disproportions, with superfluous hand So many nobler bodies to create, Greater so manifold, to this one use...