Poets of the English Language: Milton to GoldsmithWystan Hugh Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson Viking Press, 1950 - American Poetry (Collections) |
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... Trees of noblest kind for sight , smell , taste ; And all amid them stood the Tree of Life , High eminent , blooming Ambrosial Fruit Of vegetable Gold ; and next to Life Our Death the Tree of Knowledge grew fast by , Knowledge of Good ...
... Trees of noblest kind for sight , smell , taste ; And all amid them stood the Tree of Life , High eminent , blooming Ambrosial Fruit Of vegetable Gold ; and next to Life Our Death the Tree of Knowledge grew fast by , Knowledge of Good ...
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... Tree Of prohibition , root of all our woe ; Which when she saw , thus to her guide she spake . Serpent , we might have spar'd our coming hither , Fruitless to me , though Fruit be here to excess , The credit of whose vertue rest with ...
... Tree Of prohibition , root of all our woe ; Which when she saw , thus to her guide she spake . Serpent , we might have spar'd our coming hither , Fruitless to me , though Fruit be here to excess , The credit of whose vertue rest with ...
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... Tree is not as we are told , a Tree Of danger tasted , nor to evil unknown Op'ning the way , but of Divine effect To open Eyes , and make them Gods who taste ; And hath bin tasted such : the Serpent wise , Or not restraind as wee , or ...
... Tree is not as we are told , a Tree Of danger tasted , nor to evil unknown Op'ning the way , but of Divine effect To open Eyes , and make them Gods who taste ; And hath bin tasted such : the Serpent wise , Or not restraind as wee , or ...
Contents
Introduction | xiii |
General Principles | xxvi |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 1 |
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