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 ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sungBy one man's disobedience lost, now singRecovered Paradise to all mankind,By one man's firm ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remainedAt Jordan with the Baptist, and had seenHim whom they heard so late expressly calledJesus ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stoodA while as mute, confounded what to say,What to reply, confuted and ...
I.O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted,Soft silken Primrose fading timeless lie,Summers chief honour if thou hadst outlastedBleak winters ...
Thy Land to favour graciouslyThou hast not Lord been slack,Thou hast from hard CaptivityReturned Jacob back.Th' iniquity thou didst forgiveThat ...
OH how comely it is and how revivingTo the Spirits of just men long opprest!When God into the hands of ...
Here lies old Hobson, Death hath broke his girt,And here alas, hath laid him in the dirt,Or els the ways ...
Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race,Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets ...
Fairfax, whose name in armes through Europe ringsFilling each mouth with envy, or with praise,And all her jealous monarchs with ...
Lady that in the prime of earliest youth,Wisely hath shun'd the broad way and the green,And with those few art ...
I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggsBy the known rules of antient libertie,When strait a barbarous noise ...
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!My hasting days fly on with ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
IX Lady that in the prime of earliest youth, Wisely hath shun'd the broad way and the green, And with ...
I It was the Winter wilde, While the Heav'n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in aw ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Fairfax, whose name in armes through Europe rings Filling each mouth with envy, or with praise, And all her jealous ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
I O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken Primrose fading timelesslie, Summers chief honour if thou hadst ...
IT was the Winter wilde, While the Heav'n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in aw to ...
Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the ...
Thy Land to favour graciously Thou hast not Lord been slack, Thou hast from hard Captivity Returned Jacob back. Th' ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a ...
When Faith and Love, which parted from thee never, Had ripened thy just soul to dwell with God, Meekly thou ...
OH how comely it is and how reviving To the Spirits of just men long opprest! When God into the ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
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