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Without the meed of some melodious tear. - Lycidas (l. 14) [Tears] The pansy freaked with jet. - Lycidas (l. 144) [Pansies] Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies. - Lycidas (l. 149) [Amaranths] So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. - Lycidas (l. 168) [Stars] Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. - Lycidas (l. 171) [Morning] To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. - Lycidas (l. 193) [Change] Under the opening eyelids of the morn. - Lycidas (l. 26) [Morning] The gadding vine. - Lycidas (l. 40) [Vines] Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. - Lycidas (l. 70) [Fame : Proverbs] Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. - Lycidas (l. 78) [Fame] How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. - Mask of Comus (l. 476) [Philosophy] O fairest flower; no sooner blown but blaster, Soft, silken primrose fading timelessly. - Ode on the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough [Death] So when the sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. - Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity [Clouds] But O! as to embrace me she inclin'd I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night. - On His Deceased Wife [Disappointment] License they mean when they cry, Liberty! For who loves that, must first be wise and good. - On the Detraction which followed upon my Writing Certain Treatises [Liberty] Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not. - On the Late Massacre in Piedmont [Truth : Worship] Ring out ye crystal spheres! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the bass of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. - On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (st. 13), a hymn [Christmas : Music] Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels. - Paradise Lost [Matrimony] With high words, that bore Semblance of worth, not substance. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, 528) [Words] Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 1) [Books (First Lines) : Sin] What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate And courage never to submit or yield, And what is else not to be overcome. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 105) [War] If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil; Which ofttimes may succeed so as perhaps Shall grieve him, if I fail not, and disturb His inmost counsels from their destined aim. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 162) [Evil : Goodness] And out of good still to find means of evil. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 165) [Evil] The thunder, Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 174) [Thunder] What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 190) [Hope] Displaying page 16 of 30 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [16] 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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