 And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through...  Comus: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of ... - Page 119by John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 124 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...unseen: Sweet Bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee Chantress oft the Woods among, I woo to hear thy Even-Song; And...thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven Green. (lines 61 -6) At the centre of 'II Penseroso' is the poetic tower, site of mystical communion and poetic... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...continual revolutions of the moon, which also suggested to Milton the same idea. To behold the wandering moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray In the heaven's wide, pathless way. // Penseroso The introduction of Christianity brought the allegorical... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song; And,...noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, 70 And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 234 pages
...leisure" and "the cherub contemplation," and the speaker actually participates in the melancholy mood: "I woo to hear thy Even-Song; / And missing thee, I walk unseen / On the dry smooth-shaven Green" (11. 64-66). The insistent first-person demands and participation ("I hear the far-off Curfew sound";... | |
 | David G. Hartwell, Milton T. Wolf - Fiction - 1996 - 806 pages
...angry in a red room, and unhappy people are only exasperated by sunshine and birdsong. Do you remember: And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noun. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven... | |
 | Roberta J. M. Olson, Jay M. Pasachoff - Art - 1999 - 412 pages
...dressed in academic garb [Fig. 52], Blake rendered fanciful meteors to illustrate IlPenseroso 77, 67-70: To behold the wandring moon Riding near her highest...noon Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way. However, the terror that Blake ascribes to the passage in his notes is... | |
 | Dietrich Jäger - American fiction - 1998 - 340 pages
...neue Weise zu räumlichen Realitätszusammenhängen verbunden ("II Penseroso", Z. 65-68, 71-84): ... I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven Green, To behold the wandring Moon, Riding near her highest noon And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a Plat of rising ground,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Penseroso' Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! 7501 7/ Penseroso' choolboys) go forth into a world tha wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. 7502 7/ Penseroso' Where glowing embers through the room... | |
 | Elizabeth Pepper - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2002 - 68 pages
...two beside. —SAMUEL COLERIDGE / walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heav 'n 's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow 'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...60 Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee chauntress oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy even-song; And...unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon,0 Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's... | |
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