StoryTitle("caps", "Il Penseroso ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hence, vain deluding joyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The brood of folly without father bred,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How little you bested,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or fill the fixéd mind with all your toyes;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dwell in som idle brain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As thick and numberless", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or likest hovering dreams", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The fickle Pensioners of Morpheus train.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But hail thou Goddes, sage and holy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hail divinest Melancholy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose Saintly visage is too bright", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To hit the Sense of human sight;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And therfore to our weaker view,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ore laid with black staid Wisdoms hue.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Black, but such as in esteem,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Prince Memnons sister might beseem,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or that Starr'd Ethiope Queen that strove", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To set her beauties praise above", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Sea Nymphs, and their powers offended.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet thou art higher far descended,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thee bright-hair'd Vesta long of yore,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To solitary Saturn bore;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His daughter she (in Saturns raign,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such mixture was not held a stain)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oft in glimmering Bowres, and glades", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He met her, and in secret shades", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of woody Ida's inmost grove,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whilst yet there was no fear of Jove.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Com pensive Nun, devout and pure,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sober, stedfast, and demure,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All in a robe of darkest grain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flowing with majestick train,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sable stole of Cipres Lawn,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over thy decent shoulders drawn.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Com, but keep thy wonted state,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With eev'n step, and musing gate,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And looks commercing with the skies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There held in holy passion still,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Forget thy self to Marble, till", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a sad Leaden downward cast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou fix them on the earth as fast.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And joyn with thee calm Peace, and Quiet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hears the Muses in a ring,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ay round about Joves Altar sing.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And adde to these retiréd Leasure,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That in trim Gardens takes his pleasure;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But first, and chiefest, with thee bring,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Him that yon soars on golden wing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Guiding the fiery-wheeléd throne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Cherub Contemplation,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the mute Silence hist along,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Less Philomel will daign a Song,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In her sweetest, saddest plight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Smoothing the rugged brow of night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While Cynthia checks her Dragon yoke,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gently o're th'accustom'd Oke;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweet Bird that shunn'st the noise of folly,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Most musicall, most melancholy!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thee Chauntress oft the Woods among,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I woo to hear thy eeven-Song;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And missing thee, I walk unseen", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the dry smooth-shaven Green.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To behold the wandring Moon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Riding neer her highest noon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like one that had bin led astray", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through the Heav'ns wide pathles way;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And oft, as if her head she bow'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stooping through a fleecy cloud.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oft on a Plat of rising ground,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I hear the far-off Curfeu sound,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over som wide-water'd shoar,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Swinging slow with sullen roar;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or if the Ayr will not permit,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Som still removéd place will fit,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where glowing Embers through the room", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Teach light to counterfeit a gloom,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Far from all resort of mirth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Save the Cricket on the hearth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or the Belmans drousie charm,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To bless the dores from nightly harm:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or let my Lamp at midnight hour,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be seen in som high lonely Towr,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where I may oft out-watch the Bear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With thrice great Hermes, or unsphear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The spirit of Plato to unfold", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What Worlds, or what vast Regions hold", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The immortal mind that hath forsook", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her mansion in this fleshly nook:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And of those Dæmons that are found", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In fire, air, flood, or under ground,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose power hath a true consent", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Planet, or with Element.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Som time let Gorgeous Tragedy", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Scepter'd Pall com sweeping by,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Presenting Thebs, or Pelops line,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or the tale of Troy divine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or what (though rare) of later age,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ennobléd hath the Buskind stage.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But, O sad Virgin, that thy power", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "M
ight raise Musæus from his bower", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such notes as warbled to the string,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And made Hell grant what Love did seek.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or call up him that left half told", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The story of Cambuscan bold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Camball, and of Algarsife,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And who had Canace to wife,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That own'd the vertuous Ring and Glass,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And of the wondrous Hors of Brass,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On which the Tartar King did ride;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if ought els, great Bards beside,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In sage and solemn tunes have sung,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Turneys and of Trophies hung;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Forests, and inchantments drear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where more is meant then meets the ear.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus night oft see me in thy pale career,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till civil-suited Morn appeer,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not trickt and frounc't as she was wont,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the Attick Boy to hunt,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Cherchef't in a comly Cloud,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While rocking Winds are Piping loud,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or usher'd with a shower still,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the gust hath blown his fill,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ending on the russling Leaves,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With minute drops from off the Eaves.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when the Sun begins to fling", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His flaring beams, me Goddes bring", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To archéd walks of twilight groves,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And shadows brown that Sylvan loves,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Pine, or monumental Oake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the rude Ax with heavéd stroke,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There in close covert by som Brook,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where no profaner eye may look,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hide me from Day's garish eie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While the Bee with Honied thie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That at her flowry work doth sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the Waters murmuring", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With such consort as they keep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Entice the dewy-feather'd Sleep;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let som strange mysterious dream,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wave at his Wings in Airy stream,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of lively portrature display'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Softly on my eye-lids laid.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And as I wake, sweet musick breath", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Above, about, or underneath,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sent by som spirit to mortals good,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or th'unseen Genius of the Wood.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But let my due feet never fail,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To walk the studious Cloysters pale,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And love the high embowéd Roof,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With antick Pillars massy proof,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And storied Windows richly dight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Casting a dimm religious light.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There let the pealing Organ blow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the full voic'd Quire below,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Service high, and Anthems cleer,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As may with sweetnes, through mine ear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dissolve me into extasies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And may at last my weary age", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Find out the peacefull hermitage,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Hairy Gown and Mossy Cell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where I may sit and rightly spell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And every Herb that sips the dew;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till old experience do attain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To somthing like Prophetic strain.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These pleasures Melancholy give,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I with thee will choose to live.", "") ?>
Poet("John Milton", "1608–1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>