Complete Poetical WorksT.Y. Crowell, 1920 - 627 pages |
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Page 20
... wing down into its re- pulsive obscurities . The crystal floor or wall of Heaven divides them from it ; underneath which , and unvisited of light , save what may glimmer through upon its nearer strata , it howls and rages and stagnates ...
... wing down into its re- pulsive obscurities . The crystal floor or wall of Heaven divides them from it ; underneath which , and unvisited of light , save what may glimmer through upon its nearer strata , it howls and rages and stagnates ...
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... wing about more easily , and where a glimmering dawn of the light from above begins also to appear . For a while in this calmer space he weighs his wings to behold at leisure ( II . 1046 ) the sight that is breaking upon him . And what ...
... wing about more easily , and where a glimmering dawn of the light from above begins also to appear . For a while in this calmer space he weighs his wings to behold at leisure ( II . 1046 ) the sight that is breaking upon him . And what ...
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... wings off again from the Sun's body , and , wheeling his steep flight towards the Earth , alights at length on the top of Niphates , near Eden . - - There is no need to follow the action of the poem farther in this Introduction . All ...
... wings off again from the Sun's body , and , wheeling his steep flight towards the Earth , alights at length on the top of Niphates , near Eden . - - There is no need to follow the action of the poem farther in this Introduction . All ...
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... wing . Where could'st thou words of such a compass find ? Whence furnish such a vast expense of mind ? Just Heaven , thee like Tiresias to requite , Rewards with prophecy thy loss of sight . Well might'st thou scorn thy readers to ...
... wing . Where could'st thou words of such a compass find ? Whence furnish such a vast expense of mind ? Just Heaven , thee like Tiresias to requite , Rewards with prophecy thy loss of sight . Well might'st thou scorn thy readers to ...
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... wings outspread , Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss , And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine , what is low raise and support ; That , to the highth of this great argument , I may assert Eternal Providence ...
... wings outspread , Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss , And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine , what is low raise and support ; That , to the highth of this great argument , I may assert Eternal Providence ...
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