 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; Or dim suffusion veiled. Yet not the more So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Cease I... | |
 | John A. Ramsaran - 1973 - 246 pages
...thee I revisit safe. And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that rowle in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn: So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, Or dim suffusion veild. (PL, III, 1-26) So much the rather thou Celestial... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 1983 - 207 pages
...thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that rowle in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, Or dim suffusion veild. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...unfallen man. Milton feels the warmth of the light, but his tantalized eyes, repeating their loss, "roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn." That tiny chink of light seen "upon the eyes turning" was not always the universe. How often and, though... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...to rehearse that nightly he visits Muses' haunt. He "revisits" the sun, but it "revisit'st not" his eyes, "that roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn" (III. 23-24). While the seasons "return," "not to me returns/ Day" (III. 41-42). But he neither hates... | |
 | 1993 - 412 pages
...thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that rowle in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, Or dim suffusion veild. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1994 - 290 pages
...Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn. 65 In the second place, the inset passage helps Hunt to establish his credentials as a romantic poet... | |
 | Valeria Finucci, Regina Schwartz - 1994 - 281 pages
...a lamp that may illuminate him, but that does not enable him to see—"Thou / Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn" (3.22-24). Descriptions of Milton's ideology of male domination must survive this narrator's complaint... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...intensely personal: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital beam; but thou Revisit 'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn. After the heavy Latinate diction which began the book ('Bright effluence of bright essence increate'),... | |
 | Patsy Griffin - 1995 - 228 pages
...thee unblamed .... Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled. No doubt but the thoughts of this vital lamp... | |
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Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled. 
