...Sleep's golden keys the dusky chambers of Persephone, and brings her back for a moment to light : — " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint, j Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save And such,...

...Tuscan air ? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. V.—ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more...

...honoured her memory with what Johnson (out upon him !) calls a poor sonnet; it is the one beginning Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis from the grave; which, in its solemn and tender strain of feeling and modulated harmony, reminds us of Dante. He never...

...gives such voluptuous dignity and touching purity to Milton's delineation of the female character. " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child -bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full...

...cold-hearted man Johnson endeavoured to make him appear, he would never have written as he did, — ON BI8 DECEASED WIFE. " Methought I saw my late espoused...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more...

...character of this excellent woman, he has left us that beautiful testimony, his twenty-second sonnet : Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of childbed taint, Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more...

...thought might lead me through the world's vam Content, though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE.* METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused...gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and fairu Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the old law did save, And...

...endeavoured to make him appear, he would never have written as he did, — ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. " Methoaght I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint. Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more...

...solemn and touching sonnets : — Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alccstis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad...whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification hi the old law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without...

...wife, who died in childbed, and to whose death we owe one of the most beautiful of his sonnets ; — Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, &c. and here it was that the great poet became totally blind. Milton resided in Petty France, from...