 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 pages
...dark The sable-stoled sorcerers bear his worshipp'd ark. »***»» So when the sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave,...flocking shadows pale Troop to the infernal jail, Each fetter'd ghost slips to his several grave ; And the yellow-skirted fays Fly after the night-steeds,... | |
 | John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...swadling bands controul the damned crew. XXVI So when the Sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, a3o Pillows his chin upon an Orient wave, The flocking shadows pale, Troop to th'infernall jail, Each fetter'd Ghost slips to his severall grave, And the yellow-skirted Fayes, 235... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...twine : Our Babe, to show his Godhead true, Can in his swaddling bands control the damned crew. XXVI So, when the Sun in bed. Curtained with cloudy red,...after the night-steeds, leaving their moon-loved maze. XXVII But see ! the Virgin blest Hath laid her Babe to rest, Time is our tedious song should here have... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 168 pages
...of Christ's Nativity" that had been written nine years before but would not be published until 1645? "So when the sun in bed, / Curtained with cloudy red, / Pillows his chin upon an orient wave." (stanza xxvi) This is the rising sun; quaintness is mitigated by connection made with the Son of God.... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...Godhead true, Can in his swadling hands controul the damned crew. xxvi So when the Sun in bed, Curtain d with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an Orient wave, The flocking shadows pale. Troop to tVinf email jail, Eachfetter'd Ghotf slips to his sever all grave, And the yellow'skirted Fayes, Fly... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...Curtained with cloudy red, 230 Pillows his chin upon an orient wave, The flocking shadows pale Troop to th' infernal jail, Each fettered ghost slips to his several...after the night-steeds, leaving their moon-loved maze. 27 But see, the Virgin blest Hath laid her Babe to rest: Time is our tedious song should here have... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...His swaddling bands control the damned crew', but also for the most grotesque conceit of the poem: So when the sun in bed, Curtained with cloudy red,...The flocking shadows pale Troop to the infernal jail . . . In fact, we need the violence of these lines in order to feel the contrast in the final picture:... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. 7542 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' 7543 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' But see the virgin blest, Hath laid her babe to rest. Time... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - History - 1998 - 204 pages
...as well as dawn, death as well as birth, loss as well as renewal: So when the Sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an Orient wave, The flocking shadows pale, Troop to th'infernal Jail, Each fetter'd Ghost slips to his several grave, And the yellow-skirted Fayes, Fly... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - History - 2000 - 434 pages
...city. 43. Eyes. Our Babe, to show his Godhead true, Can in his swaddling bands control the damned 26 So when the sun in bed Curtained with cloudy red,...an orient wave, The flocking shadows pale Troop to th 'infernal jail; Each fettered ghost slips to his several grave, And the yellow-skirted fays Fly... | |
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Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine : Our Babe, to show his Godhead true, Can in his swaddling bands control the damned crew. XXVI So, when the Sun in bed. Curtained with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave, The flocking shadows pale Troop... 
