Milton's SonnetsDe Vinne Press, 1886 - 72 páginas |
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addressed to Cromwell admiration altogether Angel Bachelor of Arts back my night beauty blind called character charm Christ church Council criticism Cyriac Skinner dark day brought back delight doth dred Duke of Savoy England English Sonnet Epic epigram evil days excellence expression Fairfax fall'n Fancy feeling force fourteen lines genius Harvard College Heaven honoured imaginative inspiration Italian sonnets Italy Johnson L'Allegro Latin Secretary less literature living Lord Lycidas matter Milton's Sonnets mind never octave once pamphlet Paradise Regained PATTISON'S TRANSLATION perfect Piedmont poem poet poetical poetry possess praise Puritan quality of Milton's reader regard rhymes Samson Agonistes says scholar sestet Shakspere Shakspere's Sonnets Siege of Colchester Smectymnuus sonnet addressed sonnet to Cromwell sonnet was written Sonnets of Milton soul Soul-animating sweet sympathy thee things thou thought tion to-day truth twenty twenty-third birthday Vane voice wife Wordsworth write Paradise Lost
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Página 59 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His State Is kingly. Thousands...
Página 50 - Hast reared God's trophies, and his work pursued, While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath...
Página 29 - 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.
Página 27 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the bass of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Página 57 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Página 60 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all...
Página 62 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining ? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.
Página 10 - Of its own arduous fulness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see Its flowering crest impearled and orient. A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals The soul, — its converse, to what Power 'tis due...
Página 26 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Página 44 - CAPTAIN or Colonel, or Knight in arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee, for he knows the charms...