Read The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems Online
Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Literary Collections, #Poetry, #Classics, #English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, #English poetry
90 | | With diadem and scepter high advanced |
91 | | The lower still I fall, only supreme |
92 | | In misery. Such joy ambition finds! |
93 | | But say I could repent, and could obtain, |
94 | | By act of grace, my former state, how soon |
95 | | Would height recall high thoughts, how soon unsay |
96 | | |
97 | | Vows made in pain, as violent |
98 | | For never can true reconcilement grow |
99 | | Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep, |
100 | | Which would but lead me to a worse relapse |
101 | | And heavier fall. So should I purchase dear |
102 | | Short intermission, bought with double smart. |
103 | | This knows my punisher, therefore as far |
104 | | From granting He, as I from begging, peace. |
105 | | All hope excluded thus, behold, instead |
106 | | Of us |
107 | | Mankind created, and for him |
108 | | So farewell hope and, with hope, farewell fear, |
109 | | Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost. |
110 | | Evil, be thou my good: by thee at least |
111 | | Divided empire with Heav’n’s King I hold— |
112 | | By thee, and more than half |
113 | | As man ere long, and this new world, shall know. |
114 | | |
115 | | |
116 | | Which marred |
117 | | Him counterfeit, if any eye beheld. |
118 | | For Heav’nly minds from such distempers |
119 | | Are ever clear. |
120 | | Each perturbation |
121 | | |
122 | | That practised falsehood under saintly show, |
123 | | Deep malice to conceal, couched |
124 | | Yet not enough had practised |
125 | | Uriel, once warned, whose eye pursued him down |
126 | | The way he went, and on the Assyrian mount |
127 | | Saw him disfigured, more than could befall |
128 | | Spirit of happy sort. His gestures fierce |
129 | | He marked, and mad demeanor, |
130 | | As he supposed, all unobserved, unseen. |
131 | | |
132 | | Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, |
133 | | Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, |
134 | | |
135 | | Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides |
136 | | With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, |
137 | | Access denied. |
138 | | Insuperable |
139 | | Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, |
140 | | |
141 | | Shade above shade, a woody theater |
142 | | Of stateliest |
143 | | The verdurous wall of Paradise upsprung, |
144 | | |
145 | | |
146 | | And higher than that wall a circling row |
147 | | Of goodliest |
148 | | Blossoms and fruits at once |
149 | | Appeared, with gay enamelled |
150 | | On which the sun more glad impressed |
151 | | Than in fair evening cloud, or humid bow, |
152 | | When God hath show’red the earth. So lovely seemed |
153 | | That landscape. And of pure now purer |
154 | | Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires |
155 | | |
156 | | All sadness but despair. Now gentle gales, |
157 | | |
158 | | Native |
159 | | Those balmy spoils. |
160 | | Beyond the Cape of Hope, |
161 | | Mozambique, |
162 | | Sabean |
163 | | Of Araby the blest, |
164 | | Well pleased they slack |
165 | | Cheered with the grateful |
166 | | So entertained |
167 | | Who came their bane, |
168 | | |
169 | | That drove him, though enamored, from the spouse |
170 | | Of Tobit’s son, and with a vengeance sent |
171 | | |
172 | | |
173 | | Satan had journeyed on, pensive and slow, |
174 | | But further way found none, so thick entwined, |