The Complete Poems and Major ProseFirst published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume. |
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Page 12
... happy and glorious leader of the flock of Athena instead of traversing the frightful depths of hell in Char. on's boat. But Persephone broke the thread of your life,” angered because she saw you snatching so many victims from the black ...
... happy and glorious leader of the flock of Athena instead of traversing the frightful depths of hell in Char. on's boat. But Persephone broke the thread of your life,” angered because she saw you snatching so many victims from the black ...
Page 23
... happy spirits in Virgil's Elysium (Aen. VI, 644), which mingle at once with the blessing on “the dead which die in the Lord” (Rev. xiv, 13) and the “voice of the harpers harping with their harps” (Rev. xiv, 2) which St. John heard in ...
... happy spirits in Virgil's Elysium (Aen. VI, 644), which mingle at once with the blessing on “the dead which die in the Lord” (Rev. xiv, 13) and the “voice of the harpers harping with their harps” (Rev. xiv, 2) which St. John heard in ...
Page 39
... happy that by her brother's help her own task is cut short. “Leave the couch of an old man, O Aurora,” is the cry of Phoebus; “what pleasure is there in the bed of impotence? On the green lawns the hunter, Aeolides, is waiting for you ...
... happy that by her brother's help her own task is cut short. “Leave the couch of an old man, O Aurora,” is the cry of Phoebus; “what pleasure is there in the bed of impotence? On the green lawns the hunter, Aeolides, is waiting for you ...
Page 42
... ; Robert Herrick, An Ode on the Birth of Our Saviour; Richard Crashaw, In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God. I This is the Month, and this the happy morn 42 ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY.
... ; Robert Herrick, An Ode on the Birth of Our Saviour; Richard Crashaw, In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God. I This is the Month, and this the happy morn 42 ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY.
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... happy morn Wherein the Son of Heav'n's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing, That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father ...
... happy morn Wherein the Son of Heav'n's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing, That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father ...
Contents
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173 | |
Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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Adam Aeneid ancient angels Areopagitica Aristotle Beast behold bishops Book called Chorus Christ Christian church Comus dark death delight divine doctrine doth E. M. W. Tillyard Earth Euripides evil eyes faith Father fear fire glory God's goddess gods grace Greek hand happy hast hath heart Heav'n heavenly Hell Hesiod holy honor human John John Milton Jove King Latin meaning learned less light live Lord Lycidas marriage Milton mind Muses nature night Ovid Ovid's Paradise Lost Paradise Regained peace perhaps Philistines Plato poem poet praise prelates Psalm Roman Samson Agonistes Satan says Serpent song SONNET soul spake spirit stars stood story sweet thee things thir thou thought Throne tion tradition translation Tree truth verse VIII virtue wings wisdom words Zeus