 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...  The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning - Page 333by Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 918 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...joined the former two. JOHN DRYUEN. TO MILTON. MILTON ! thon shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters...power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou liii'lst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1876 - 368 pages
...thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of haB and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower...dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst thou travel on life's common way, In... | |
 | Between whiles - 1877 - 448 pages
...ocellis caeruleis istis exiit orta Venus. Milton. MILToN ! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath need of thee : she is a fen of stagnant waters...dwelt apart; thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea ; pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. so didst thou travel on life's common way in cheerful... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...joined the former two. JOHN DRYDEN. TO MILTON. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters...to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, jiower. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea... | |
 | 1878 - 446 pages
...Triton blow his wreathed horn. VI, To MILTON. Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters:...dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 pages
...still ! -15 Composed in London, 1802. • MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters...dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice, whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free ; So didst thou travel on life's common way, In... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 376 pages
...make reply. Edmund Clnrtwt Stedma*. TO MILTON. MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour; England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters...dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free; So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...grave. SIE WILLIAM Joxn. SONNETS. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath need of thee. She is a fen Of stagnant waters....And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power ! Thy sou] was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whoso sound was like the sea; Pure as the... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - 1878 - 246 pages
...England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, th' heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their...dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1879 - 362 pages
...blow his wreathed horn. IX.— LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a" fen Of stagnant waters...dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In... | |
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