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- No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
- O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear…
- From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.
- How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's…
- Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from…
- From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.
- Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
- O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy…
- how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though…
- Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus,…
- Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link…
- Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?
- That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate,…
- Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
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