...psychologist, were it only for the touching fidelity with which it portrays the feelings of those who find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion reil'd. There is, too, a pathos in those passages where blind Esther or poor Marion is spoken of, which...

...descent, and up to re-ascend, Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain...; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Peut-être du Très-Haut rayon co-éternel ( Si te nommer ainsi n'outrage point le ciel ) ! Que dis-je!...

...up to reascend, so Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sov'reign vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain...ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quench 'd their orbs, 25 Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses...

...and up to re-ascend, Though hard and rare : thee I re-visit safe, And feel thy sov'reign vital lamp, but thou Re-visit'st not these eyes, that roll in...ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenrti'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more Cease I to wander, where the Muses...

...thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that rowle in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, Or dim suffusion veild. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt...

...unfallen man. Milton feels the warmth of the light, but his tantalized eyes, repeating their loss, "roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn." That tiny chink of light seen "upon the eyes turning" was not always the universe. How often and, though...

...But now, in the prologue to book 3, Milton continues to suggest a better way, despite his blindness: Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Cleer Spring, or shadie Grove, or Sunnie Hill, Smit with the love of sacred song . . . [3.26-29] The...

...25-45). He revisits a lamp that may illuminate him, but does not enable him to see - "thou / Revist'st not these eyes, that roll in vain /To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn" (III. 22-24). Others have concluded that a writer's initial scopophilia, his observation of both real...

...18. Magdalo By jointure (the estate given to a wife in lieu of her dower) Mary is called 'Magdalene'. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses...haunt Clear Spring, or shady Grove, or Sunny Hill. 20. sonnets short lyrics, not necessarily, as here, poems fourteen lines in length. 21. beat passion....

...Aganippe well," Sonnet LXXIV), never mentioned "Aganippe," taken as the allusion in the lovely passage, "Yet not the more / Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt / Cleer Spring" (PL 3. 28). Why may not the "Cleer Spring" be that other Heliconian spring, Hippocrene...