Selected Shorter Poems and Prose WritingsRoutledge, 1988 - 265 pages Includes Comus, Lycidas, and extracts from the prose, such as the early pamphlet, Of Reformation, and the celebrated Areopagitica in defence of freedom of the press. |
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... Song Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy , cool , translucent wave , In twisted braids of lilies knitting ... songs of Sirens sweet , 850 860 870 By dead Parthenope's dear tomb , And fair Ligea's golden 51 [ 184-200 ]
... Song Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy , cool , translucent wave , In twisted braids of lilies knitting ... songs of Sirens sweet , 850 860 870 By dead Parthenope's dear tomb , And fair Ligea's golden 51 [ 184-200 ]
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... song In her sweetest , saddest plight , Smoothing the rugged brow of night While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er th'accustom'd oak . 60 Sweet bird , that shunn'st the noise of folly , Most musical , most melancholy ! Thee ...
... song In her sweetest , saddest plight , Smoothing the rugged brow of night While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er th'accustom'd oak . 60 Sweet bird , that shunn'st the noise of folly , Most musical , most melancholy ! Thee ...
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... song For the angels ' song to the shepherds , see Luke 2.13–14 and ' Nativity ' , 85–100 . love , or law a real question is the circumcision ( itself foreshadowing the crucifixion ) the culminating enactment of the Mosaic Law of the Old ...
... song For the angels ' song to the shepherds , see Luke 2.13–14 and ' Nativity ' , 85–100 . love , or law a real question is the circumcision ( itself foreshadowing the crucifixion ) the culminating enactment of the Mosaic Law of the Old ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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