 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...  Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose - Page 427edited by - 1910 - 756 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1876 - 622 pages
...rest ; They, also, serve who only stand and wait." m. TO MILTON. WOEISWORTB Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath need of thee...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 ; Pure as the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 574 pages
...fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. XIV. LONDON 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee...dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh I raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a... | |
 | Between whiles - 1877 - 448 pages
...meas peperit flammas obtutus, ocellis caeruleis istis exiit orta Venus. Milton. MILToN ! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath need of thee...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 ; pure as the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two. JOHN DRYDEN. TO MILTON. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee...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... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 pages
...And all that mighty heart is lying still ! -15 Composed in London, 1802. • MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee...; 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 ; Pure as... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - English poetry - 1878 - 376 pages
...spear, And mark the Trojan arrows make reply. Edmund Clnrtwt Stedma*. TO MILTON. MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour; England hath need of thee...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; Pure as the... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...steal inglorious to the silent grave. SIE WILLIAM Joxn. SONNETS. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath need of thee....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... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. VI, To MILTON. Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee:...; 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; Pure as the... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 pages
...mark the Trojan arrows make reply. Clarenet SteJmam. TO MILTON. 79 TO MILTON. MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour; England hath need of thee:...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; Pure as the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1879 - 362 pages
...from the sea ; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. IX.— LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee...; 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 : Pure as the... | |
| |
