Category: Poetry
Preface Outlines of the Life of Milton TEXT: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity On Shakespeare L'Allegro Il Penseroso Arcades At a Solemn Music Comus Lycidas Sonnets: I. To the Nightingale II. On his having arrived at the Age of Twenty-three 68 VIII. When the Assault was inte...
Preface Outlines of the Life of Milton TEXT: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity On Shakespeare L'Allegro Il Penseroso Arcades At a Solemn Music Comus Lycidas Sonnets: I. To the...
2. Chapter 2It would be most interesting to know something of the daily routine of Milton's school, to ascertain what his pupils knew and could do when he had done with them. But we must re...
3. Chapter 3Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell, 5 Wh...
4. Chapter 4_Spirit._ Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air,...
5. Chapter 5_Eld. Bro._ I mean that too, but yet a hidden strength, Which, if Heaven gave it, may be termed her own. 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity: 420 She that has that is clad in co...
6. Chapter 6_Spir._ What! have you let the false enchanter scape? O ye mistook; ye should have snatched his wand, 815 And bound him fast. Without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of d...
7. Chapter 7Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council and her Treasury, Who lived in both unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till...
8. Chapter 8In L'Allegro we accompany the mirthful man through an entire day of his pleasures, from early morning to late evening. The melancholy man moves through a programme less definite...
9. Chapter 9The occasion of the poem was the coming of the Earl of Bridgewater to Ludlow Castle, to enter upon his official residence there as Lord President of Wales. The person chiefly co...
10. Chapter 10635. Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon. See 2 Henry VI. IV 2 195,--"Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon," and Hamlet IV 5 26,--"By his cockle hat and staff, And h...
11. Chapter 11105-106. These lines refer to certain markings on the water-plants of the Cam, said to be correctly described here by the poet. The dimness of the figures may suggest the great...