StoryTitle("caps", "L'Allegro") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hence loathéd Melancholy", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Stygian Cave forlorn", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2SQ", "", "'Mongst horrid shapes, and shreiks, and sights unholy.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Find out som uncouth cell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where brooding darknes spreads his jealous wings,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the night-Raven sings;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There, under Ebon shades, and low-brow'd Rocks,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As ragged as thy Locks,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But com thou Goddes fair and free,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Heav'n ycleap'd Euphrosyne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And by men, heart-easing Mirth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whom lovely Venus, at a birth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With two sister Graces more ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To Ivy-crownéd Bacchus bore;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or whether (as som Sager sing)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The frolick Wind that breathes the Spring,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Zephir with Aurora playing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As he met her once a Maying,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There on Beds of Violets blew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And fresh-blown Roses washt in dew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So bucksom, blith, and debonair.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jest and youthful Jollity,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nods, and Becks, and Wreathéd Smiles,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such as hang on Hebe's cheek,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And love to live in dimple sleek; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sport that wrincled Care derides,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Laughter holding both his sides.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Com, and trip it as ye go", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the light fantastick toe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in thy right hand lead with thee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Mountain Nymph, sweet Liberty;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if I give thee honour due,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mirth, admit me of thy crue", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To live with her, and live with thee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In unreprovéd pleasures free;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To hear the Lark begin his flight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And singing startle the dull night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From his watch-towre in the skies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till the dappled dawn doth rise;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then to com in spight of sorrow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And at my window bid good morrow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through the Sweet-Briar, or the Vine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or the twisted Eglantine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While the Cock with lively din,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scatters the rear of darknes thin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And to the stack, or the Barn dore,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stoutly struts his Dames before,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oft list'ning how the Hounds and horn", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chearly rouse the slumbring morn,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From the side of som Hoar Hill, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through the high wood echoing shrill.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Som time walking not unseen", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By Hedge-row Elms, on Hillocks green,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Right against the Eastern gate,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wher the great Sun begins his state, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rob'd in flames, and Amber light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The clouds in thousand Liveries dight.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While the Plowman neer at hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whistles ore the Furrow'd Land,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the Milkmaid singeth blithe, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the Mower whets his sithe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And every Shepherd tells his tale", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under the Hawthorn in the dale.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Streit mine eye hath caught new pleasures", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whilst the Lantskip round it measures, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Russet Lawns, and Fallows Gray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the nibling flocks do stray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mountains on whose barren brest", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The labouring clouds do often rest:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Meadows trim with Daisies pide, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shallow Brooks, and Rivers wide.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Towers, and Battlements it sees", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Boosom'd high in tufted Trees,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wher perhaps som beauty lies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes. ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hard by, a Cottage chimney smokes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From betwixt two agéd Okes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where Corydon and Thyrsis met,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are at their savory dinner set ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Hearbs, and other Country Messes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then in haste her Bowre she leaves,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Thestylis to bind the Sheaves;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or if the earlier season lead", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the tann'd Haycock in the Mead, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Som times with secure delight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The up-land Hamlets will invite,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the merry Bells ring round,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the jocond rebecks sound", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To many a youth, and many a maid, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dancing in the Chequer'd shade;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And young and old com forth to play", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On a Sunshine Holyday,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till the live-long day-light fail,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then to the Spicy Nut-brown Ale,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With stories told of many a feat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How Faery Mab the junkets eat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She was pincht, and pull'd the sed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he by Friars Lanthorn led", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tells how the drudging Goblin swet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To ern his Cream-bowle duly set,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When in one night, ere glimps of morn,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His shadowy Flale hath thresh'd the Corn", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That ten day-labourers could not end,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then lies him down the Lubbar Fend,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And stretch'd out all the Chimney's length,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Basks at the fire his hairy strength;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Crop-full out of dores he flings,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ere the first Cock his Mattin rings.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus don the Tales, to bed they creep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By whispering Windes soon lull'd asleep.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Towred Cities please us then,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the busie humm of men,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In weeds of Peace high triumphs hold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With store of Ladies, whose bright eies", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rain influence, and judge the prise", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To win her Grace, whom all commend.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There let Hymen oft appear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Saffron robe, with Taper clear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And pomp, and feast, and revelry,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With mask, and antique Pageantry,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such sights as youthfull Poets dream", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On Summer eeves by haunted stream.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then to the well-trod stage anon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If Jonsons learnéd Sock be on,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or sweetest Shakespear fancies childe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Warble his native Wood-notes wilde,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And ever against eating Cares,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lap me in soft Lydian Aires,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Married to immortal verse", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such as the meeting soul may pierce", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In notes, with many a winding bout", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of linckéd sweetnes long drawn out,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With wanton heed, and giddy cunning,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The melting voice through mazes running;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Untwisting all the chains that ty", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The hidden soul of harmony.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That Orpheus self may heave his head", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From golden slumber on a bed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of heapt Elysian flowres, and hear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such streins as would have won the ear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Pluto, to have quite set free", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His half regain'd Eurydice.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These delights, if thou canst give,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mirth with thee, I mean to live.", "") ?>
Poet("John Milton", "1608–1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>