 Those other two, equalled with me in fate So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling,...  Paradise Lost - Page 69by John Milton - 1850 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 pages
...reflects on his own sightless eyes, Milton's thoughts turn to the nightingale singing in darkness: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious...and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. How consciously Keats remembered this passage one cannot say, but it contains the whole kernel of the... | |
 | Robert Bridges - Church music - 870 pages
...exhibit how he broke up his fynes, will serve well: in Paradise Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings...Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach ofEv'n or Morn. These fynes are gratly... | |
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