 O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how...  Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Page 238by John Milton - 1750Full view - About this book
 | Regina M. Schwartz, Schwartz Regina M. - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...23-26) Satan hates beams that only remind him of his paralysis of the will: "to thee I call, ... O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / I fell" (IV. 35-39). The sun inspires memory of his loss, but no ritual recompense, not in... | |
 | Vera J. Camden - Criticism - 1989 - 276 pages
...Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue. (17-26) 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down; Warring... | |
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