The British poets, including translations, Volume 171822 |
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... Leave them to God above . Him serve , and fear ! Of other creatures , as him pleases best , Wherever placed , let him dispose : joy thou In what he gives to thee , this Paradise And thy fair Eve . Heaven is for thee too high To know ...
... Leave them to God above . Him serve , and fear ! Of other creatures , as him pleases best , Wherever placed , let him dispose : joy thou In what he gives to thee , this Paradise And thy fair Eve . Heaven is for thee too high To know ...
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... leave attempt ; But us he sends upon his high behests For state , as Sovran King ; and to inure Our prompt obedience . Fast we found , fast shut , The dismal gates , and barricadoed strong ; But long ere our approaching heard within ...
... leave attempt ; But us he sends upon his high behests For state , as Sovran King ; and to inure Our prompt obedience . Fast we found , fast shut , The dismal gates , and barricadoed strong ; But long ere our approaching heard within ...
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... leave of speech implored , And humble deprecation , thus replied : Let not my words offend thee , Heavenly Power ! My Maker ! be propitious while I speak . Hast thou not made me here thy substitute , And these inferior far beneath me ...
... leave of speech implored , And humble deprecation , thus replied : Let not my words offend thee , Heavenly Power ! My Maker ! be propitious while I speak . Hast thou not made me here thy substitute , And these inferior far beneath me ...
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... leave not the faithful side That gave thee being , still shades thee , and protects . The wife , where danger or dishonor lurks , Safest and seemliest by her husband stays , Who guards her , or with her the worst endures . " To whom the ...
... leave not the faithful side That gave thee being , still shades thee , and protects . The wife , where danger or dishonor lurks , Safest and seemliest by her husband stays , Who guards her , or with her the worst endures . " To whom the ...
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... leaves , but minded not , as used To such disport before her through the field , From every beast ; more duteous at her call , Than at Circean call the herd disguised . He , bolder now , uncall'd before her stood , But as in gaze ...
... leaves , but minded not , as used To such disport before her through the field , From every beast ; more duteous at her call , Than at Circean call the herd disguised . He , bolder now , uncall'd before her stood , But as in gaze ...
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Adam angel answer'd appear'd aught beast behold bless'd bliss bring call'd Canaan canst Cherubim Cities of men cloud creatures Ctesiphon Cusco dark death delight descended divine dwell earth evil eyes fair faith fame Father fear foretold fruit glory gods grace ground guarded mount hand happy hath heard heart heaven heavenly hell highth hill Jesus king kingdom lest light live Lord lost Lycidas mankind Messiah Michael nigh night numbers Paradise PARADISE REGAINED Parthian pass'd peace racking torture reign replied return'd river Jordan sapience Satan Saviour saw'st seat seed seem'd serpent shalt shame sight Son of God soon spake Spirit stood sung sweet taste Tempter thee thence thine things thither thou art thou hast thou may'st thou saw'st thought throne thyself tree turn'd vex'd virtue voice whence wherein wings wonder
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Page 212 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 215 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove. As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 219 - Haste thee Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; 30 Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 231 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride; And if aught else, great bards beside, In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of tourneys and of trophies hung; Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Page 216 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint...
Page 127 - There is, said Michael, if thou well observe The rule of not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So mayst thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature. This is old age...
Page 216 - That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 57 - Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing, on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 232 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antic pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 200 - And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades ; See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...