...ocean without rest ; They also serve who only stand and wait.' SOX.VET ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. MCTHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as yet once more...

...Sleep's golden keys the dusky chambers of Persephone, and brings her back for a moment to light : — " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint, j Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save And such,...

...thought might lead me through the world's vain Content, though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom, wash'd from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more...

...within a year, and he consecrated to her memory one of his simple, but solemn and touching sonnets : — s ` V j Ut <e I+ocU Q f - 㗠 ,ZP . " H L +@Z...k v g Z0 U ҙs ZZ - g + A? Y .= 2 T , wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such as yet once more...

...honoured her memory with what Johnson (out upon him !) calls a poor sonnet; it is the one beginning Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis from the grave; which, in its solemn and tender strain of feeling and modulated harmony, reminds us of Dante. He never...

...gives such voluptuous dignity and touching purity to Milton's delineation of the female character. " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child -bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more...

...thought might lead me through the world's vam Content, though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE.* METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused...gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and fairu Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the old law did save, And...

...and he consecrated to her memory one of hi* simple, but solemn and touching sonnets :— Mcthought be secret) ought to be done with greater gravity....unto him the point of the sword, said, Repent thce wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such as yet once more...

...solemn and touching sonnets : — Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alccstis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification hi the old law did save, And such as yet once more...

...wife, who died in childbed, and to whose death we owe one of the most beautiful of his sonnets ; — Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, &c. and here it was that the great poet became totally blind. Milton resided in Petty France, from...