 | Paul Hammond - English literature - 2002 - 484 pages
...hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign 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. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...Though hard and rare: 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 quencht thir Orbs, 25 Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where... | |
 | David Loewenstein - Literary Collections - 2004 - 160 pages
...Satan and the devils repeatedly find themselves throughout the poem: "thou / Revisit 'st not these eyes, that roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn" ( 3.22-4). The motif of the poet's precarious, exhilarating flight recurs in the invocation to Book... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain0 To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs. Or dim suffusion veiled. Yet not the more0 Cease I to wander where... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 544 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... | |
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