Selected Shorter Poems and Prose WritingsIncludes Comus, Lycidas, and extracts from the prose, such as the early pamphlet, Of Reformation, and the celebrated Areopagitica in defence of freedom of the press. |
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... eye may look Hide me from day's garish eye , While the bee with honey'd thigh That at her flowery work doth sing And ... eyes . And may at last my weary age 130 140 150 160 Find out the peaceful hermitage , The hairy gown and 123 [ 240-2 ]
... eye may look Hide me from day's garish eye , While the bee with honey'd thigh That at her flowery work doth sing And ... eyes . And may at last my weary age 130 140 150 160 Find out the peaceful hermitage , The hairy gown and 123 [ 240-2 ]
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... EYES , THOUGH CLEAR ' Cyriack , this three years ' day these eyes , though clear To outward view of blemish or of spot , Bereft of sight their seeing have forgot , Nor to their idle orbs doth day appear Or sun or moon or star throughout ...
... EYES , THOUGH CLEAR ' Cyriack , this three years ' day these eyes , though clear To outward view of blemish or of spot , Bereft of sight their seeing have forgot , Nor to their idle orbs doth day appear Or sun or moon or star throughout ...
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... EYES , THOUGH CLEAR ' Like the last , this sonnet , though not printed ( in the post- humous Letters of State ) until 1694 , was probably written in the mid - 1650s ( Milton had become totally blind by 1952 ) . 1-2 clear of blemish or ...
... EYES , THOUGH CLEAR ' Like the last , this sonnet , though not printed ( in the post- humous Letters of State ) until 1694 , was probably written in the mid - 1650s ( Milton had become totally blind by 1952 ) . 1-2 clear of blemish or ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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