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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