A thousand fantasies
Begin to throng into my memory,
Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire,
And airy tongues thai syllable men's names
On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.

Comus, 205-9.
And the grass, therewith besprent,
Wither'd at dew so sweet and virulent.

Lamia, i. 148-9.
Of knot-grass dew-bes prent.

Comus, 542. Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth.

Nightingale, 12. Hid from the world in a low-delvèd lomb.

Fair Infant, 32. Deep in forest drear.

Robin Hood, 18. Of forests, and enchantments drear.

Penseroso, 119. Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn.

Hyperion, i. 2.
Sweet is the breath of Morn.

P. L. iv. 641.
Am I to leave this haven of my rest,
This cradle of my glory, this soft clime,
This calm luxuriance of blissful light,
These crystalline pavilions, and pure fanes?

Ib. i. 235-8.
“Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,”
Said then the lost Archangel, “this the seat
That we must change for Heaven? this mournful gloom
For that celestial light?”

P. L. i. 242-5.
When the chill rain begins at shut of eve.

Ib. ii. 36. Vanish’d unseasonably at shut of eve.

“The day is gone,” 5. At blushing shut of day.

Lamia, ii. 107. Return'd at shut of evening flowers.

P. L. ix. 278. Who cost her mother Tellus keener pangs.

Hyperion, ii. 54.
Which cost Ceres all that pain.

P. L. iv. 271.
With locks not oozy.
His oozy locks he laves.

Lycidas, 175.
Too full of joy and soft delicious warmth.

Ib. ii. 266.
This soft ethereal frame.

Lamia, ii. 89 (rejected reading).
The soft delicious air. ...
Their soft ethereal warmth.

P. L. ii. 400, 601.
In aid soft warble from the Dorian flute.

Hyperion, iii. 12. The Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders.

P. L. i. 550-1.

(By the touch
Of scent,) not far from roses. Turning round,
I saw an arbour with a drooping roof
Of trellis vines, and bells, and larger blooms,
Like floral censers, swinging light in air;
Before its wreathed doorway, on a mound
Of moss, was spread a feast of summer fruits,
Which, nearer seen, seem'd refuse of a meal
By angel tasted or our Mother Eve;
For empty shells were scatter'd on the grass,
And grape-stalks but half bare, and remnants more,
Sweet-smelling, whose pure kinds I could not know....
Among the fragrant husks and berries crush'd
Upon the grass.

Fall of Hyperion, i. 23-34, 52–3.
(A reference to P. L. V. 298–395; note particularly,

Ib. ii. 170.

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Ib. i. 303-4.

Ib. i. 443

Fruit of all kinds, in coat
Rough or smooth-rined, or bearded husk, or shell ...

... the grape ... many a berry ... then strews the ground With rose and odours from the shrub unfumed. .

So to the sylvan lodge They came, that like Pomona's arbour smiled, With flowerets deck'd and fragrant smells. . .

. Raised of grassy turf Their table was, and mossy seats had round. ..

P. L. v. 341-9, 377-9, 391-2.)
The embossed roof, the silent massy range
Of columns.

Ib. i. 83-4.
And love the high embowed roof,
With antic pillars massy proof.

Penseroso, 157-8.
A power within me of enormous ken,
To see as a god sees.
Al once, as far as Angels ken, he views.

P. L. i. 59.'
Which marries sweet sound with the grace of form.
Lap me in soft Lydian airs
Married to immortal verse.

Allegro, 136-7.
Mortal, that thou mayst understand aright,
I humanize my sayings to thine ear,
Making comparisons of earthly things.

Ib. ii. 1-3.
And what surmounts the reach
Of human sense I shall delineate so,
By likening spiritual to corporal forms,
As may express them best.

P. L. v. 571-4.
When winds are all wist.

Song of Four Fairies, 98. The winds, with wonder whist.

Nativity, 64.
As the fabled fair Hesperian tree,
Bearing a fruit more precious!

Otho the Great, IV. i. 82~3.
But Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree
Laden with blooming gold.

Comus, 393-4.
Trees ... whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind,
Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true.

P. L. iv. 248-50.
As if Night's chariot-wheels
Were clogg'd in some thick cloud ? O, changeful Love,
Let not her steeds with drowsy-footed pace.
Till an unusual stop of sudden silence
Gave respite to the drowsy-flighted steeds
That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep.

Comus, 552-4.
Nods, becks, and hints.

Ib. V. iv. 32.
Nods and Becks, and wreathed Smiles.

Allegro, 28.
In midmost Ind, beside Hydaspes cool. ...
To Pigmio, of Imaus sovereign.

Cap and Bells, 1, 29.
As when a vulture on I maus bred ...
Of Ganges or Hydas pes, Indian streams.

P. L. iii. 431-6.
Of faeries stooping on their wings sublime.

Ib. ii. 31-3.

Let the sweet mountain nymph thy favourite be,
With England's happiness proclaim Europa's Liberty. On Peace, 8-9.
The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

Allegro, 36.

DICTION

I admire how crystal-smooth it felt (Endymion, iii. 383); cf. P. L. i. 690, ii. 677,

etc. To sit upon an Alp (“Happy is England," 7), upon that alp (End. i. 666); cf. P.L.

ii. 620. Feel amain (End. ii. 12; also gazed amain, drive amain, etc., Lamia, ii. 151, Cap

and Bells, xxv. 9, etc.); cf. Lycidas, 111, P. L. ii. 165, 1024, etc. I see, astonied, that (Hyperion, ii. 165); cf. P. L. ix. 890. Begirt with ministring looks (End. i. 150); cf. P. L. i. 581, v. 868, P. R. ii. 213. The whole mammoth-brood (of the Titans, Hyp. i. 164); cf. P. L. i. 510–11, 576,

Samson, 1247. Arcs, and broad-belting colure (Hyp. i. 274); cf. P. L. ix. 66. Sly com peers (Cap and Bells, x. 7); cf. P. L. i. 127, iv. 974. Curtain'd canopies (End. ii. 618), fragrant-curtain'd love (“The day is gone," 7);

cf. Nativity, 230, Comus, 554. A darkling way (Eve of St. Agnes, xl. 4), darkling I listen (Nightingale, 51); cf.

P.L. iii. 39. Knowledge enormous (Hyp. iii. 113); cf. P. L. V. 297. My eternal essence ( = myself, Hyp. i. 232), that puny essence ( = Jove, ib. ii. 331);

cf. P. L. i. 138, 425, ii. 215, iii. 6, ix. 166, etc. Faded eyes (Hyp. i. 90); cf. P. L. i. 602. Trees Fledge the ... mountains (Ode to Psyche, 54-5), a fledgy sea-bird choir

(Staffa, 41), the swan ... on her fledgy breast (Otho, II. č. 102); cf. P. L. ii.

627, vii. 420. Eye of gordian snake (End. iii. 494), she (the snake) was a gordian shape (Lamia, i.

47); cf. P. L. iv. 347-8. I gratulate you (Otho, I. i. 55); cf. Comus, 949, P. R. iv. 438. Through ... griesly gapes (End. ii. 629); cf. P. L. i. 670, ii. 704, etc. Honied wings (End. ii. 997); cf. Penseroso, 142. Of bees in each case. That inlel to severe magnificence (Hyp. i. 211); cf. Comus, 839. The monstrous sea ( = peopled with monsters, End. iii. 69); cf. Lycidas, 158. Thunder ... Rumbles reluctant (Hyp. i. 60–61); cf. P. L. vi. 58, and Keats's note

on it (De Sélincourt's ed., p. 497). Of sciential brain (Lamia, i. 191); cf. P. L. ix. 837. Who 'sdains to yield to any (King Stephen, iï. 41), he 'sdeigned the swine-head (Stanzas on Brown, ii. 4); cf. P. L. iv.

50. The slope side of a suburb hill (Lamia, ii. 26), came slope upon the threshold of the

west (Hyp. i. 204); cf. Comus, 98, P. L. iv. 261, 591. Sovran voices (Hyp. iii. 115), her sovran shrine (Melancholy, iii. 6); cf. P. L. i.

246, 753, etc. Turn'd, syllabling thus (Lamia, i. 244); cf. Comus, 208. Herself, high-thoughled (Lamia, ii. 115), turn, sole-thoughted, to one Lady (Eve of

St. Agnes, v. 6), one-thoughted . . . love (“I cry your mercy,” 3); cf.
Comus, 6.

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APPENDIX B

POEMS IN NON-MILTONIC BLANK VERSE'

1667-1750 1680 RosCOMMON, Earl of. Horace's Art of Poetry, made English, 1680. 1692 FLETCHER, THOMAS. Translations of parts of books ii-iv of the Aeneid

(Poems on Several Occasions, 1692, pp. 120–32); Christ born, a pastoral

(ib. 133-8). 1697-8 POPE, WALTER. The wish (1697); Moral and political fables, done into

measured prose, etc. (1698). 1701-13 w. Watts, ISAAC. A sight of Christ (Horae Lyricae, 1706, pp. 65-9); To

Robert Atwood (ib. 146–52); To Sarissa (ib., 1709, pp. 174-8); True monarchy (ib. 188–90); True courage (ib. 191-3); Thoughts and medita

tions in a long sickness (Reliquiae Juveniles, 1734, pp. 172-83). 1702 Talbot, G. On the vision, etc., a dialogue.- Prefixed to Matthew Smith's

Vision, 1702. 1702–18 DENNIS, John. The monument, a poem to William III (Select Works, 1718,

i. 81-145); Battel of Ramellies (ib. 219–329); On the accession of King George (ib. 330-353); three translations, from the Bible and the Iliad

(ib. ii. 468–71). 1706 D'URFEY, THOMAS. Loyalty's glory.–Stories, Moral and Comical, 1706,

pp. 217-57. 1700 W. 1715 p. GROVE, HENRY. To Dr. Watts. – Works, 1747, iv, 391–2. 1708-11 ANON. (Short passages in) British Apollo, 1708-11, vol. i, nos. 50, 54, and supernumerary paper no. 7 (two pieces); vol. ii

, nos. 11, 15, 18, 22, 25, 39, 49, 53, 74, 76, 83, 92, 108, 114, 115, and supernumerary paper

no. 8 (two pieces); vol. iii, nos. 5, 13, 15, 18, 30, 55, 61; vol. iv, no. 5. 17132

Anon. Joseph's discovery of himself to his brethren, imitated from Grotius.

– Tate's Entire Set of the Monitors, 1713, vol. i, no. 8. ANON. Upon the crucifiction of our blessed Saviour. — Ib., no. 15, with a

supplement in no. 17. 1716

MONCK, MARY. (Translations from Della Casa, Marini, and Tasso.)

Marinda, 1716, pp. 87, 89, 91, 97–107, 132–3. 1718

HINCHLIFFE, WILLIAM. To Sylvia, an epistle (Poems Amorous, Moral, and

Divine, 1918, pp. 69-71); Upon Newton's Mathematical Principles,

translated from Halley (ib. 171-7). 1719 RICHARDSON, JONATHAN. (A translation from Dante, and a short original

piece, in Discourse on the Dignity, etc., of the Science of a Connoisseur.)

- Works, new ed., 1792, pp. 184-6, 229. 1720 ANON. On Homer.- Mist's Weekly Journal, no. 105, pp. 625-6 (Dec. 3,

1720). bef. 1721 W. PRIOR, MATTHEW. A prophecy.- Dialogues of the Dead, etc., ed. A. R.

Waller, Camb., 1907, p. 318. 1725? w. ARMSTRONG, JOHN. Imitations of Shakespeare: (Winter), Progne's dream,

A storm. - Miscellanies, 1770, i. 147–63. 1726 THOMSON, JAMES. (A short translation from Virgil's Georgics.)– Winter,

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1745

bef. 1729? CAREY, HENRY. The cypress-grove. - Poems on Several Occasions, 3d ed.,

1729, pp. 118-19. 1729

ANON. Timon and Flavia.- Miscellaneous Poems, ed. James Ralph, 1729,

pp. 43-52.
ANON. The courtier.-Ib. 73-9.
ANON. The lunatick.- Ib. 115-25.

ANON. Part of the third chapter of Job paraphras’d.- Ib. 208–11.
1729-39 RowE, ELIZABETH. To the unknown God, in Letters Moral and Enter-

taining, 1729 (Works, 1796, i. 94-6); many short unnamed fragments
(ib. 84-5,93, 101, 104-5, 126, 220, 269, 300-1, ii. 30, 54-5, 110, and, aby
another hand,” i. 168, 176–7); parts of Pastor Fido translated (ib. iii.
160-62); Devout soliloquies, in blank verse (ib. 195-245); Paraphrase

on Canticles, in blank verse (ib. 245-59).
1732 Anon. The happy savage.-Gent. Mag., ii. 718.
1739 Browne, Moses. The power and presence of God: a version of Psalm

139. – Poems on Various Subjects, 1739, PP. 447-50.
C. 1740 W. 1849-84 p. GRAY, THOMAS. Dante, canto 33, dell'Inferno.-Works, ed.

Gosse, 1884, i. 157-60.
1742 Anon. The muse's complaint to Strephon.-Scots Mag., iv. 166.

WINSTANLEY, JOHN. An address to the sepulchre of Prince George.

Poems, Dublin, 1742, pp. 69–71.
C. 1742 W. WARTON, JOSEPH. The dying Indian. - Biographical Memoirs, ed. Wooll,

1806, pp. 156–7.
bef. 1745 w. WARTON, THOMAS (the elder). A pastoral on the death of Bion, from

Moschus. - Poems, 1748, pp. 197–208.
1746 HILL, AARON. Free thoughts upon faith (Works, 2d ed., 1754, iv. 217-42);

Cleon to Lycidas, a time-piece (ib. 285-308). See also examples of vari-
ous passions (joy, fear, etc.) in his “Essay on the Art of Acting" (ib.

377-84).
1746 w. 1777 p. Anon. (Miss A. CROSFIELD?). A description of the Castle hills, near

Northallerton. - Town and Country Mag., ix. 605-6.
1747 ANON. An brutum sit machina?- Dodsley's Museum, 1747, iii. 380–84.
1748

WINGFIELD, RICHARD. To peace.-Gratulatio Academiae Cantabrigiensis

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