Paradise Regaind Book II
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet
At Jordan with the Baptist, and had
Him whom they heard so late expressly
Jesus Messiah,
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet
At Jordan with the Baptist, and had
Him whom they heard so late expressly
Jesus Messiah,
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued,
Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn,
Waked by the circling Hours, with rosy hand Unbarred the gates of light
There is a cave Within the mount of God, fast by his throne,
Theseus requests the God to tell his woes, Whence his maim'd brow, and whence his groans arose Whence thus the Calydonian stream reply'd, With twining reeds his careless tresses ty'd: Ungrateful is the tale; for who can bear, When conquer'd, to re...
And the font took them: let our laurels lie
Braid moonfern now with mystic
Because once more Goito gets, once more,
Sordello to itself
AM, to whom the story was unknown, As dead, deplor'd his metamorphos'd son: A cenotaph his name, and title kept, And Hector round the tomb, with all his brothers, wept
This pious office Paris did not share; Absent alone; and author of the war...
…Short partings do best, though: time wears out affections,
The absent love fades, a new one takes its place
With Menelaus away,
Helen's disinclination for
There are who lord it o'er their
With most prevailing tinsel: who
Their baaing vanities, to browse
The comfortable green and juicy
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd,
To sit indulgent, and with him partake Rural repast; permitting him the while Venial discourse unblam'd
I now must change Those notes to tragick; foul ...
TO J
ND,
OF
ON
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night
Of darkness visible so much be lent,
As half to show, half veil, the deep intent
Ye pow'rs
O Sovereign power of love
O grief
O balm
All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm,
The snow dissolv'd, no more is seen;
The fields and woods, behold
are green;
The changing year renews the plain,