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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... live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon where we hope to find , And think to burst out into sudden blaze , Comes ... lives , and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all - judging Jove : As he pronounces lastly on ...
... live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon where we hope to find , And think to burst out into sudden blaze , Comes ... lives , and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all - judging Jove : As he pronounces lastly on ...
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... live with her and live with thee In unreproved pleasures free : To hear the lark begin his flight , And singing startle the dull night From his watchtower in the skies , Till the dappled dawn doth rise , Then to come in spite of sorrow ...
... live with her and live with thee In unreproved pleasures free : To hear the lark begin his flight , And singing startle the dull night From his watchtower in the skies , Till the dappled dawn doth rise , Then to come in spite of sorrow ...
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... live - long ' . The idea , common in Renaissance writing ( including Shakespeare's own sonnets ) , that poetry outlasts the monuments of hu- man fame and glory is an adaptation of the thirtieth poem in the third book of Horace's Odes ...
... live - long ' . The idea , common in Renaissance writing ( including Shakespeare's own sonnets ) , that poetry outlasts the monuments of hu- man fame and glory is an adaptation of the thirtieth poem in the third book of Horace's Odes ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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