...gorse, and heather. With one only omission, the conception of the poet is realised. " Straight the eye hath caught new pleasures, While the landscape round it measures : Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast, The labouring clouds do...

...state Robed in Flames & amber Light The Clouds in thousand Liveries dight While the Plowman near at hand Whistles o'er the Furrow'd Land And the Milkmaid...Shepherd tells his Tale Under the Hawthorn in the Dale. They are 11. 57—68 in The Works of John Milton, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 36. Blake's comments on his illustration,...

...The last star in the tail of the Little Bear is the Pole-star, called also the Cynosure. Milton says: Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures While the landscape round it measures. Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies The Cynosure...

...gradually reveals itself. Just before the mid-point of 'L'Allegro' 'the Milkmaid singeth blithe' (line 65), And every Shepherd tells his tale Under the Hawthorn in the dale. (lines 67-8) As evening comes on folk tales are told: Then to the Spicy Nut-brown Ale, With stories...

...The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whisdes o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale52 Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape...

...pastoral, in all the scenes of agriculture. I can truly say, Here the ploughman near at hand Whistles o er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe. And the mower whets his scvthe. And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. In the village front is an...

...calendar eye gives way to the urban appetite for an innocent, recreative and idyllic 'countryside'. 'Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures / While the landscape round it measures' writes Milton, as poets learn to conjure grand prospects, genteel citizens armed with emblem books...

...in L'Allegro, the speaker is always looking at other people working. He watches the "Plowman near at hand, / Whistles o'er the Furrow'd Land, / And the...singeth blithe, / And the Mower whets his scythe" (62-65). Certainly, otium is a convention of the pastoral tradition, and its presence signals L'Allegro's...

...rear of darkness thin," and the various sun-greeters go about their tasks; While the Plowman near at hand, Whistles o'er the Furrow'd Land, And the Milkmaid...Shepherd tells his tale Under the Hawthorn in the dale.9 The similarity of types of dawn images are obvious. It is not necessary to ask whether Lewis...

...thousand Liveries dight. Song by Beard in the Sicilian Taste There the Plowman near at Hand Whistles o're the furrow'd Land, And the Milkmaid singeth blithe,...Scythe, And every Shepherd tells his Tale Under the Hawthern in the1 Dale. Thus past the day to bed they creep, By whispring Winds soon lull'd asleep....