StoryTitle("caps", "On His Deceased Wife") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Methought I saw my late espouséd Saint", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whom Joves great Son to her glad Husband gave,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rescu'd from death by force though pale and faint.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mine as whom washt from spot of child-bed taint,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Purification in the old Law did save,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And such, as yet once more I trust to have", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Came vested all in white, pure as her mind:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Her face was vail'd, yet to my fancied sight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shin'd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So clear, as in no face with more delight.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But O as to embrace me she enclin'd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.", "") ?>
Poet("John Milton", "1608–1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>