English Poems, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1885 |
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Adam Æneid angel answer'd aught beast behold call'd Chorus Cicero cloud Comus creatures Dagon dark death deeds delight divine dwell E. P. and P. L. Earth enemies Euripides evil eyes Faery Queene fair faith Father fear fruit Georgics giv'n glory gods hand Harapha hath heard heart Heav'n Heav'nly Hell highth honour Horace Iliad Keightley king labour lest light live Lord Manoa Metamorphoses Milton mind nigh night Odes Ovid Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Psalm rais'd reign repli'd return'd round Samson Samson Agonistes Satan Saviour seat seem'd sense serpent Shakespeare shalt shame sight Son of God soon Sophocles spake Spenser spirit stars stood strength sweet taste Tempter Thebez thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tree turn'd viii virtue voice Wedgwood whence winds wings words
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Page 60 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 252 - When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
Page 139 - And evil turn to good; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness ! Full of doubt I stand, Whether I should repent me now of sin By me done and occasion'd, or rejoice Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring; To God more glory, more good will to men From God, and over wrath grace shall abound.
Page 143 - For God is also in sleep ; and dreams advise, Which he hath sent propitious, some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep : but now lead on — In me is no delay : with thee to go, Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence.
Page 16 - But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes Directed in devotion, to adore And worship God supreme, who made him chief •Of all his works : therefore the omnipotent Eternal Father, for where is not he Present?
Page 208 - Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves, Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke. Yet stay, let me not rashly call in doubt Divine prediction...
Page 142 - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 35 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 68 - The fig-tree; not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 110 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory, Or monument to ages, and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums and fruits and flowers. In yonder nether world where shall I seek His bright appearances, or footstep trace...