Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions |
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All our law and story strow ' d With hymns , our psalms with artful terms inscrib ' d ,
Our Hebrew songs and harps in Babylon ... and their own 340 In fable , hymn , or
song , so personating Their Gods ridiculous , and themselves past shame .
All our law and story strow ' d With hymns , our psalms with artful terms inscrib ' d ,
Our Hebrew songs and harps in Babylon ... and their own 340 In fable , hymn , or
song , so personating Their Gods ridiculous , and themselves past shame .
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SONG . On MAY MORNING , N OW the bright morning star , day ' s harbinger , TV
Comes dancing from the east , and leads with her The flow ' ry May , who from
her green lap throws The yellow cowflip , and the pale primrose . Hail bounteous
...
SONG . On MAY MORNING , N OW the bright morning star , day ' s harbinger , TV
Comes dancing from the east , and leads with her The flow ' ry May , who from
her green lap throws The yellow cowflip , and the pale primrose . Hail bounteous
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... Guiding the fiery - wheeled throne , The Cherub Contemplation ; And the mute
Silence hist along , ' Less Philomel will deign a song , In her sweetest , saddest
plight , Smoothing the rugged brow of night , While Cynthia checks her dragon ...
... Guiding the fiery - wheeled throne , The Cherub Contemplation ; And the mute
Silence hist along , ' Less Philomel will deign a song , In her sweetest , saddest
plight , Smoothing the rugged brow of night , While Cynthia checks her dragon ...
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I . S O N G . I OOK Nymphs , and Shepherds look , L What sudden blaze of
majesty Is that which we from hence descry , Too divine to be mistook : This , this
is she To whom our vows and wishes bend ; Here our folemn search hath end .
I . S O N G . I OOK Nymphs , and Shepherds look , L What sudden blaze of
majesty Is that which we from hence descry , Too divine to be mistook : This , this
is she To whom our vows and wishes bend ; Here our folemn search hath end .
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S O N G . Spir . Back , Shepherds , back , enough your play , Till next sun - shine
holiday ; Here be without duck or nod 970 Other trippings to be trod Of lighter
toes , and such court guise As Mercury did first devise With the mincing Dryades
On ...
S O N G . Spir . Back , Shepherds , back , enough your play , Till next sun - shine
holiday ; Here be without duck or nod 970 Other trippings to be trod Of lighter
toes , and such court guise As Mercury did first devise With the mincing Dryades
On ...
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Page 198 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 164 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Page 171 - The Babe lies yet in smiling infancy, That on the bitter cross Must redeem our loss; So both Himself and us to glorify...
Page 262 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 190 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail...
Page 251 - The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.
Page 248 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas* is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Page 194 - But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak.
Page 191 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 248 - Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
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| Title | Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions |
| Author | John Milton |
| Editor | Thomas Newton |
| Publisher | J. Baskerville, 1759 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 25 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 390 pages |
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