...Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave ; Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Bescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine,...Full sight of her, in Heaven without restraint,— Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shin'd So clear, as in no face with more delight. Came vested...

...DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Wiom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued...faint: Mine, as whom, wash'd from spot of childbed taiut, Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight...

...and of their train am I. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. 'Vf ETHOUGHT I saw my late-espoused Saint, * Bronght to me, like Alcestis, from the grave; Whom Jove's...her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, thongh pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the' Old...

...et noctis caligine caeci Ceraere censemus golem, lumenque diurnum. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like...Purification in the old law did save, And such as yet once moie I trust to have • Full sight of her in heaven without restraint; Came, vested all in white,...

...tenderness that reigns in the pa. thetic poetry of Milton : in the opening of tliis sonnet ; Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by foree, tho" pale and faint : and in the latter part of it, Her face was veil'd, yet to my fancied sight...

...world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. XVIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. MJETHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis;...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint...

...mask Content though bliryl, had I no better guide. vOL. IV. T XVIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOI'(;HT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint...

...not glide in with the stillness of night, and, enacting life, draw Milton's curtain t " Me thought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gare, Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom, wash'd from spot of childbed...

...world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON IltS DECEASED WIFE.* METHOUOHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the' old Law...

...voluptuous dignity and touching purity to Milton's delineation of the female character. " Melhought 1 saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis...in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more 1 trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint. Came vested all in white, pure as her...