 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...poet, or any normal human being, as Milton goes on to make clear in one of his most effective similes: As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at Sea North-East windes blow Sabean Odours from the spicie shoare Of Arable the blest,... | |
 | David Bromwich - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 320 pages
...birds are the animal spirits of nature, carolling in the air, like a careless lass. The gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes;...and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. - Paradise Lost, B. rv. The poets are called creators (jtoiT]Tcu, Makers), because with their magical... | |
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All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. 
