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 39
... sweet spices and the scent of Paphian” roses from her lovely lips? Behold, her towering brow is girdled with a sacred grove as Idaean Ops"? is turreted with pines. She twines her dewy hair with various bloom and with her flowers seems ...
... sweet spices and the scent of Paphian” roses from her lovely lips? Behold, her towering brow is girdled with a sacred grove as Idaean Ops"? is turreted with pines. She twines her dewy hair with various bloom and with her flowers seems ...
Page 43
... sweet: O run, prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet; Have thou the honor first, thy Lord to greet, And join thy voice unto the Angel Choir, From out his secret Altar toucht with hallow'd fire. THE HYMN ...
... sweet: O run, prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet; Have thou the honor first, thy Lord to greet, And join thy voice unto the Angel Choir, From out his secret Altar toucht with hallow'd fire. THE HYMN ...
Page 51
... sweet songs through you! Now also for you the Thracian lyre,” inlaid with gold and gently touched by a skilled hand, is sounding; and in tapestried halls you have the music of the harp that rules the dancing feet of maidens by its ...
... sweet songs through you! Now also for you the Thracian lyre,” inlaid with gold and gently touched by a skilled hand, is sounding; and in tapestried halls you have the music of the harp that rules the dancing feet of maidens by its ...
Page 61
... sweet. Only be gracious enough to grant, if any maiden is ever to be mine, that a single dart shall transfix the destined lovers.191 These are the monuments to my wantonness that with a perverse spirit and a trifling purpose I once ...
... sweet. Only be gracious enough to grant, if any maiden is ever to be mine, that a single dart shall transfix the destined lovers.191 These are the monuments to my wantonness that with a perverse spirit and a trifling purpose I once ...
Page 66
... sweet, 15 Quickly found a lover meet; The Virgin choir for her request The God that sits at marriage feast; He at their invoking came But with a scarce-well-lighted flame; 2O And in his Garland as he stood, Ye might discern a Cypress ...
... sweet, 15 Quickly found a lover meet; The Virgin choir for her request The God that sits at marriage feast; He at their invoking came But with a scarce-well-lighted flame; 2O And in his Garland as he stood, Ye might discern a Cypress ...
Contents
3 | |
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