 MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are...  A New Library of Poetry and Song - Seite 791von William Cullen Bryant - 1877Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 Seiten
...Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. London, 1802 Milton!1 thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath...to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:... | |
 | Rushworth M. Kidder - 2009 - 242 Seiten
..."virtue" embodied by John Milton, whose epic poem Paradise Lost had appeared 135 years earlier. Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour England hath...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; . . . (Sonnet VIII, "London, 1802") The impulse to condemn the ethical present — "We are selfish... | |
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