Paradise Lost : Book XII. (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon,Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel pausedBetwixt the world destroyed ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon,Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel pausedBetwixt the world destroyed ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's earSo charming left his voice, that he a whileThought him still speaking, still stood ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that nameIf rightly thou art called, whose voice divineFollowing, above the Olympian hill I soar,Above ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sungBy one man's disobedience lost, now singRecovered Paradise to all mankind,By one man's firm ...
I.This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded maid and Virgin Mother ...
Hence, vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!How little you bestedOr fill the fixed mind with all your ...
Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, ...
Thou Shepherd that dost Israel keepGive ear in time of need,Who leadest like a flock of sheepThy loved Josephs seed,That ...
This rich Marble doth enterrThe honour'd Wife of Winchester,A Vicounts daughter, an Earls heir,Besides what her vertues fairAdded to her ...
Let us with a gladsome mind Praise the Lord for he is kind; For his mercies aye endure, Ever faithful, ever sure. Let us ...
Answer me when I callGod of my righteousness;In straights and in distressThou didst me disinthrallAnd set at large; now spare,Now ...
Here lieth one who did most truly prove,That he could never die while he could move,So hung his destiny never ...
Here lieth one who did most truly prove,That he could never die while he could move,So hung his destiny never ...
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'n's joy,Sphere-born harmonious Sisters, Voice and Verse,Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employDead ...
When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent ...
Here lies old Hobson, Death hath broke his girt,And here alas, hath laid him in the dirt,Or els the ways ...
Cyriac, this three years' day these eyes, though clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing ...
Lady that in the prime of earliest youth,Wisely hath shun'd the broad way and the green,And with those few art ...
Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son,Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire,Where shall we sometimes meet, and ...
When I consider how my light is spent,Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,And that one talent ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
I It was the Winter wilde, While the Heav'n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in aw ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
XXII Cyriac, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of ...
Hence, vain deluding Joys, ............The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested ............Or fill the fixed mind ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
This rich Marble doth enterr The honour'd Wife of Winchester, A Vicounts daughter, an Earls heir, Besides what her vertues ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Thou Shepherd that dost Israel keep Give ear in time of need, Who leadest like a flock of sheep Thy ...
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