 | 1909 - 502 ページ
...this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance after showers ; Nor grateful Evening mild ; nor silent Night, With...moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long shine these? for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes... | |
 | Thomas Wolfe - 1983 - 422 ページ
...rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistning with dew, nor fragrant showers. Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this...moon Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. Paradise Lost! [Eve to Adam, Book IV, II, 639-56] This is Decoration day, so I send you this beautiful... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 ページ
...land, nor herb, fruit, flow'r. Glist'ring with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful Ev'ning mild, nor silent Night With this her solemn Bird,...Moon, Or glittering Star-light without thee is sweet. (4.639-56) Eve's rondo, with its gracious, dancelike measures,57 recalls the imagery of Milton's early... | |
 | Angela Esterhammer - 1994 - 276 ページ
...land, nor herb, fruit, flow'r, Glist'ring with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful Ev'ning mild, nor silent Night With this her solemn Bird,...Moon, Or glittering Star-light without thee is sweet. (PL 4.650-6) Readers have often noted that, even in denying the attractiveness of nature without Adam's... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 ページ
...On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this...moon Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. An equally stunning passage at the end of Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" illustrates the use of parallelism... | |
 | Heinrich Franz Plett, Peter Lothar Oesterreich, Thomas O. Sloane - 1999 - 566 ページ
...On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this...moon, Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet. (PL 4: 639-56) Eve's contemplation wheels through the joys of a paradisal day, pivots on the "but"... | |
 | Dennis Danielson - 1999 - 320 ページ
...On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this...moon. Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet. (4.639—36) Lovely as this is, Adam's anbade or dawn song (5.16-11) is presented as a finer love poem,... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 504 ページ
...Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night, 655 With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. (IV.639-656) 60 The couple then make love, Milton thus radically insistent that there was sex before... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 ページ
...On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers. Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this...moon. Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long shine these, for whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 ページ
...On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this...moon Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet. JOHN MILTON ENGLISH (1608-1674) THE CYCLES Even like two little bank-dividing brooks Even like two... | |
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But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this her solemn... 
