Here held his pomp, and trail'd the pall
Of triumph, through the trophied hall;
And War was clad awhile in gorgeous weeds;
Amid the martial pageantries,

While Beauty's glance adjudg'd the prize,
And beam'd sweet influence on heroic deeds.
Where throngs of knights and barons bold,
In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold,
With store of ladies, whose bright eyes
Rain influence, and judge the prize. ..
And pomp, and feast, and revelry,
With masque and antique pageantry.
Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy
In sceptred pall come sweeping by.

That, fraught with drops of precious cure.
Drops that from my fountain pure
I have kept of precious cure.

He rolls his eyes, that witness huge dismay.
Round he throws his baleful eyes,

That witness'd huge affliction and dismay.

Smit with the love of the laconic boot.
Smit with the love of sacred song.

Where no crude surfeit, or intemperate joys

Of lawless Bacchus reign.

Where no crude surfeit reigns.

Of monumental oak.

Of pine, or monumental oak.

New Year 1788, 39-44.

Allegro, 119–28.

Penseroso, 97-8.

King's Birthday 1790, 21.

Comus, 912-13.
Newmarket, 94.

P. L. i. 56-7.

Ib. 107.
P. L. iii. 29.

Oxford Ale, 9-10.

Comus, 479.

Ib. 30.

Penseroso, 135

Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles,

That love to live within the one-curl'd Scratch,

With fun, and all the family of smiles.

Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,
Nods and Becks, and wreathed Smiles ...
And love to live in dimple sleek.

Grizzle Wig, 18-20.

Allegro, 27-30.,

DICTION

Adamantine (Marriage of King, 22, Ode for Music, 36, New Year 1786, 37); cf. P. L. i. 48, ii. 646, etc. (nine times more, including "adamant" and "adamantean”). Warton in two instances and Milton in four apply the word to arms. Eden's amaranthine grove (Marriage of King, 58, and cf. Approach of Summer, 45, and New Year 1786, 7); cf. P. L. xi. 78, iii. 352.

In mantle dank (Complaint of Cherwell, 42); cf. Comus, 891, P. L. ix. 179, etc. The dimply flood (Triumph of Isis, 15); cf. Comus, 119.

Flaunting ivy (Pleasures of Melancholy, 36); cf. Comus, 545.

Ivy's gadding spray (Inscription in a Hermitage, 24); cf. Lycidas, 40.
Honied flow'rs (The Hamlet, 43); cf. Lycidas, 140, Penseroso, 142.

Listed plain (Newmarket, 70); cf. Samson, 1087.

Morning's twilight-tinctur'd beam (The Hamlet, 5); cf. P. L. v. 285.

Shapes... trick'd by Fancy's pen (Vale-Royal Abbey, 82); cf. Penseroso, 123, Lycidas, 170.

Vi'let-woven couch (Pleasures of Melancholy, 189); cf. Comus, 233, Nativity, 187.

COWPER

When evening in her sober vest

Drew the grey curtain of the fading west.
Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad.

Where covert guile and artifice abound.

Whether of open war or covert guile.

These are thy glorious works, thou Source of good,
How dimly seen, how faintly understood!
Thine, and upheld by thy paternal care,
This universal frame, thus wondrous fair;
Thy power divine, and bounty beyond thought,
Adored and praised in all that thou hast wrought.
These are thy glorious works, eternal Truth. . . .
Then these thy glorious works.

They are thy witnesses, who speak thy power

Charity, 262-3.

P. L. iv. 598-9.

Ib. 285.
P. L. ii. 41.

Retirement, 87-92.

Hope, 742-50.

And goodness infinite. [Of created works as revealing God.] Task, v. 853-4.

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good,

Almighty! thine this universal frame,

Thus wondrous fair: thyself how wondrous then!

Unspeakable! who sitt'st above these Heavens

To us invisible, or dimly seen

In these thy lowest works; yet these declare

Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.

Delights unfelt before.
Pangs unfelt before.

When piping winds shall soon arise.
While rocking winds are piping loud.

A massy slab, in fashion square or round.
Extended wide

In circuit, undetermined square or round.

In the cushion fixed:

If cushion might be called what harder seemed.

The other Shape,

If shape it might be call'd that shape had none.

P. L. v. 153-9.

Retirement, 360.
P. L. ii. 703.

Mrs. Throckmorton's Bullfinch, 17.
Penseroso, 126.

Task, i. 21.

P. L. ii. 1047-8.

Ib. i. 54-5.

P. L. ii. 666-7; cf. i. 227-8.

(Similar parenthetical repetitions occur in The Task, i. 602-3, ii. 717,
754-5, v. 162-3, 871-2; Odyssey, ii. 449-50, 468–9.)

Bars and bolts

Grew rusty by disuse, and massy gates
Forgot their office, opening with a touch.
Every bolt and bar

Of massy iron or solid rock with ease

Unfastens: on a sudden open fly.

As one who, long in thickets and in brakes

Entangled, winds now this way and now that...

Or having long in miry ways been foiled
And sore discomfited, from slough to slough
Plunging, and half despairing of escape,

If chance at length he finds a greensward smooth
And faithful to the foot, his spirits rise,
He chirrups brisk his ear-erecting steed,
And winds his way with pleasure and with ease.
As one who long detained on foreign shores
Pants to return.

As one who, long in populous city pent,
Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air,
Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe
Among the pleasant villages and farms
Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight...
If chance with nymph-like step fair virgin pass,
What pleasing seem'd, for her now pleases more.
Vernal airs breathe mild.

Airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field.

Overlaid with clear translucent glass.
Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave.

The voluble and restless earth.

This less volubil Earth.

By which he reigns; next him, high arbiter,

Chance governs all.

P. L. ii. 907-10.

(Cf. P. L. ii. 960-67, where Discord is mentioned in connection with Chaos.)

Arrowy sleet.

Sharp sleet of arrowy showers.

Ib. v. 140.
P. R. iii. 324.

(But cf. Gray's Fatal Sisters, 3, "Iron-sleet of arrowy shower.")

[The effect of the fall of man upon the animals, as described in The Task, vi. 368-83,

was probably suggested by Paradise Lost, x. 710-14, xi. 182-90.]

Fixed motionless, and petrified with dread.
In stony fetters fix'd and motionless.

Sheer o'er the craggy barrier.

Sheer o'er the chariot front.

Sheer o'er the crystal battlements.

The looms of Ormus, and the mines of Ind.

The wealth of Ormus and of Ind.

And Saba's spicy groves.

Sabaean odours from the spicy shore.

From yonder withered spray.

O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray.

Ib. vi. 538.

Comus, 819.

Ib. vi. 554.
Iliad, xvi. 494.
P. L. i. 742.

Task, vi. 806.
P. L. ii. 2.

Ib. vi. 807.
P. L. iv. 162.

To the Nightingale, 2.
Nightingale sonnet, 1.

(The riming word is "May” in each case.)

(Said by a woman to her husband in each case. Cowper has similar lines, ib. viii. 240-41, xiv. 97, Odyssey, i. 81.)

Covert (as a noun, Task, i. 233, Iliad, viii. 305); cf. P. L. iii. 39, iv. 693, etc.
Vapours dank (Task, i. 438, iii. 499); cf. P. L. vii. 441, ix. 179, etc.
Ever-during brass (Task, v. 710, Odyssey, xi. 704); cf. P. L. iii. 45, vii. 206.
Hedge-row shrubs (Retirement, 419, and cf. Task, i. 173); cf. Allegro, 58.
Horrent (Iliad, vii. 69, xiii. 413); cf. P. L. ii. 513. Of arms in each case.
Small interval between (Iliad, iii. 134, x. 191, xiii. 734, xvi. 557); cf. P. L. vi. 105.
Of space between combatants in each case.

Intestine war (Mutual Forbearance, 48); cf. P. L. vi. 259, ii. 1001.

Massy (Task, i. 21, 59, ii. 746, Iliad, xiii. 620, 1007); cf. P. L. i. 285, 703, etc.
Misdeems (Task, iv. 685); cf. P. L. ix. 301,
P. R. i. 424.

Nitrous air (Task, iii. 32); cf. P. L. iv. 815, vi. 512.

Oary barks (Iliad, ii. 193, xviii. 318, Odyssey, iii. 205); cf. P. L. vii. 440.

O'erleap (of barriers, Task, ii. 55, iii. 681, Table Talk, 302); cf. P. L. iv. 181, 583. Shagg'd (Iliad, xv. 378); cf. Comus, 429.

Smit with (Task, v. 560); cf. P. L. iii. 29.

Speculative height (Task, i. 289, Jackdaw, 13); cf. P. L. xii. 588–9, P. R. iv. 236.
Tempest (as a verb, Iliad, xv. 168); cf. P. L. vii. 412. Pointed out by Cowper.
Tricked with flowers (Task, vi. 992); cf. Penseroso, 123, Lycidas, 170.
Unwieldy joy (Queen's Visit to London, 20); cf. P. L. iv. 345, vii. 411. Of sea-
monsters in the first and third cases.

Well attired (of a plant, Task, vi. 168); cf. Lycidas, 146.