Category: Poetry
Portrait of Vondel _Frontispiece_ The Falling Morning Star Lucifer Apollion's Meeting with Belzebub and Belial Adam and Eve in Paradise before the Fall Chorus of Angels The Exaltation of Man Gabriel, the Herald and Interpreter of Heaven The Sorrowing Angels Michael, God's Fiel...
Portrait of Vondel _Frontispiece_ The Falling Morning Star Lucifer Apollion's Meeting with Belzebub and Belial Adam and Eve in Paradise before the Fall Chorus of Angels The Exal...
2. did. The ten years of drudgery in his old age compensated for alife-time of leisure and literary retirement; for after his marriage at twenty-six, the poet hosier wisely left his business affairs in the hands of his energetic and trustworth...
3. ACT I.My Belial hence hath sped on aery wings To see where lingers our Apollion, Whom for such flight most fit Chief Lucifer Hath sent to Earth that he might gain for him A better sen...
4. Act II.Ye speedy Spirits, stay our chariot now, God's Morning-star in its full zenith stands; Its height is reached; and lo! the moment comes When Lucifer must set before this star, Th...
5. ACT III.How oft belief proves but delusive hope! Alas! how things have changed. We deemed no rank Than ours more happy in this rising Realm,-- Yea, thought our state even like unto God'...
6. ACT IV.The whole of Heaven glows with the fierce blaze Of tumult and of treachery. I now Command thee, as ambassador from God, And His high Throne, to rise without delay And burn out w...
7. Act V.The whole of Heaven, from base to topmost crown Of her chief palaces, resounds with joy, As Michael's trumpets blow and banners wave. The field is won. Our shields shine splendi...