 But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 311872Full view - About this book
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...the Spirit cpilogitizes" slowly ascending and swaying to and fro as be sings the final song : " But now my task is smoothly done; I can fly or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend; And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals,... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, 1010 Youth and Joy : so Jove hath sworn. But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend ; 1015 And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals,... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1860 - 574 pages
...from her fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, Youlh and Joy; so Jove hath swom. But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where thebow'd welkin slow doth bend; And from thence can soar as soon To the comers of the moon. Mortals,... | |
 | David Masson - 1860 - 282 pages
...and weeds of Thyrsis, he stands forth in celestial freedom and beauty ; he seems to cry exultingly, " Now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run," to skim the earth, to soar above the clouds, to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow, and to inhale... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, 1010 Youth and Joy; so Jove hath sworn. But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can...Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, 1015 And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the" Moon. Mortals that would... | |
 | American essays - 1872 - 898 pages
...elegantly dressed," when the attendant spirit recites : — " New my ta^k is smoothly done, I caп fly or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end,...doth bend ; And from thence can soar As soon To the comers of the moon. Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue ; she alone is free, She can teach ye... | |
 | American essays - 1882 - 1040 pages
...liberty : — "I do fly, After summer, merrily," And the spirit in Comus is no less eager to be off : — "Now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end . " but not without a parting word of counsel, characteristic of a Miltonian spirit : "Mortals that... | |
 | American essays - 1882 - 1014 pages
...: — " I do fly, After summer, merrily," And the spirit in Comus is no less eager to be off : — "Now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end." but not without a parting word of counsel, characteristic of a Miltouian spirit : ''Mortals that would... | |
 | 1907 - 1082 pages
...No. I50.-Vol. XII. ["''^TN^a'pf^0-] Wednesday, October 17, 1906 WitkBys W.'f-AV ^ Leonard Will 1 But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run." — MILTON THE HON. C S. ROLLS At the age of twenty-nine, Mr. Rolls ha- achieved fame as one of the... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 748 pages
...west winds, with musky wing, About the cedared alleys fling Nard and Cassia's balmy smells. . . . But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can...Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend; And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow... | |
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