 MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are...  The Household Book of Poetry - Page 417edited by - 1882 - 862 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1880 - 248 pages
...through the world's vain mask, Content, though blind, had I no better guide. JOHN MILTON. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath...again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. Milton. Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath...again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1880 - 362 pages
...Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. IX.—LONDON, 1802. MlLTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath...again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...a great master, and the wonder is that the impression and the thrill is not more enduring : Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath...again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy sou! was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...light, Closed his eyes in endless night. GRAY. III. Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour.1 England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant...again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...Voice be heard by thee ! (1802 or 1803 ?) MILTON, WRITTEN IN LO^TOON, SEPTEMBER 1802. Milton ! them should'st be living at this hour : England hath need...selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; d give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 618 pages
...laws. XIV. LONDON, I80z. MILTON I thou should'stbe living at this hour: England hath need of thce : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and...again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pages
...cause ls gone ! our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. XIV. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at...again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea , Pure... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two. JOHN DRYDEX. SOXNET. To MILTO.V. MILTON ! Furnish 'd friends to cheer my way! 570 571 'Twas...hasten Homeward, heavenward, to my God ! Oh how slowly 1 Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. ccx y LONDON, 180S. A TV/TILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath...again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as... | |
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