MILTON

by: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

      MIGHTY-MOUTH'D inventor of harmonies,
      O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity,
      God-gifted organ-voice of England,
      Milton, a name to resound for ages;
      Whose Titan angels, Gabriel, Abdiel,
      Starr'd from Jehovah's gorgeous armories,
      Tower, as the deep-domed empyrean
      Rings to the roar of an angel onset!
      Me rather all that bowery loneliness,
      The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring,
      And bloom profuse and cedar arches
      Charm as a wanderer out in ocean,
      Where some refulgent sunset of India
      Streams o'er a rich ambrosial ocean isle,
      And crimson-hued the stately palm-woods
      Whisper in odorous heights of even.

'Milton' is reprinted from English Poems. Ed. Edward Chauncey Baldwin. New York: American Book Company, 1908.

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