L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and LycidasGlobe School Book Company, 1900 - 140 من الصفحات |
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adjective allusion beautiful beginning called character charming chastity cheerful Circe classic mythology common commonly Comus dance darkness daughters deities earth Edmund Waller Edward King Elder Brother enchanted English expression eyes fabled flocks goblin Goddess gods Greek Greek mythology hath heaven hence Herrick idea Il Penseroso Jonson Jove joys L'Allegro Lady lark Latin names lines literature look Ludlow Town Lycidas masque meaning Melancholy Milton meant Milton's day Milton's mind Mirth morning mountain Muse natural night note on L'Allegro noun nymph Orpheus Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passage pastoral poetry Penseroso personifications Plato poems poet poetic present probably queen river Roman Sabrina Samson Agonistes seems sense shades Shakespeare shepherds sing Smectymnuus song spirit star story swain sweet tell thee things thou thought Thyrsis verb Virgil virgin winds wings wood word writing written wrote youth
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الصفحة xxiv - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill: Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the Morn...
الصفحة 60 - Thus sang the uncouth swain to the oaks and rills, While the still morn went out with sandals gray ; He touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay...
الصفحة 57 - What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom Universal Nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore...
الصفحة 6 - Till the live-long daylight fail; Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat, How faery Mab the junkets eat...
الصفحة 19 - Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care, Confined and pestered in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being, Unmindful of the crown that Virtue gives, After this mortal change, to her true servants Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats.
الصفحة 60 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
الصفحة 6 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
الصفحة 58 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!
الصفحة 59 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
الصفحة 56 - And all their echoes, mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays.