 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that rowle in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, Or dim suffusion veild. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...unfallen man. Milton feels the warmth of the light, but his tantalized eyes, repeating their loss, "roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn." That tiny chink of light seen "upon the eyes turning" was not always the universe. How often and, though... | |
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Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled. 
