One of this author's poems compares its subject to an Alcestis saved from "spot of childbed taint" by "purification in the old law", and presents a dream vision that ends when the poet wakes, after which its subject "fled, and day brought back my night". Another of this author's poems describes a time "when all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones", opens "Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints", and is about the murder of some Waldensians. This author's sonnets include (*) "Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint" and "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont", and one which ends with the line "They also serve who only st
One of this author's poems compares its subject to an Alcestis saved from "spot of childbed taint" by "purification in the old law", and presents a dream vision that ends when the poet wakes, after which its subject "fled, and day brought back my night". Another of this author's poems describes a time "when all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones", opens "Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints", and is about the murder of some Waldensians. This author's sonnets include (*) "Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint" and "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont", and one which ends with the line "They also serve who only stand and wait". "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent", also known as "On His Blindness", is the best-known sonnet by, for 10 points, which poet, who wrote Paradise Lost?
One of this author's poems compares its subject to an Alcestis saved from "spot of childbed taint" by "purification in the old law", and presents a dream vision that ends when the poet wakes, after which its subject "fled, and day brought back my night".
John Milton