...hallow'd feet , and warbling flow , Nightly I visit; nor sometimes forget Those other two equall'd with me in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maonides , And Tiresias and Phincus , prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious...

...examples of it abundantly; compare this from Milton: — nor sometimes forget 10 Those other two equal with me in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Mseonides — with this from Goethe: — Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, 15 Sich ein Character...

...in fate, (So were I equalled with them in renown !) Blind Thamyris and blind Maconides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns...

...reflects on his own sightless eyes, Milton's thoughts turn to the nightingale singing in darkness: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious...numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. How consciously Keats remembered this passage one cannot...

...at the beginning of Book III of Paradise Lost: . . . nor sometimes forget Those other two equall'd with me in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious...

...thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit: nor sometimes forget Those other two equall'd with me in Fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus Prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious...

...and morn "where the Muses haunt /Clear Spring, or shady Grove, or Sunny HUP (3.27-28), Then feed[s] on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. (3.37-40) Eve sings her nocturn as she and Adam move...

...thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit: nor sometime forget Those other two equall'd with me in Fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maonides. (HU5-35) Maonides is Homer and Thamyris is the bard mentioned in the Iliad who was blinded...

...habits, which are philomelic, and their singing habits, which are also philomelic — like Milton's own: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings darkling. (37-39; my emphasis)^1 It may also be that "They rolled their r's, there, in the land of the citrons"...

...darkness: So were I equalled with them in renown. Blmd Thaniyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that...voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Smgs darklmg, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. (3.34-40) The figure of the melancholy...