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Sonnet XXIII:
Methought I saw my late
espoused saint Methought I saw my late
espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great...
- in my
heart there was a kind of
fighting That
would not let me sleep.
Methought I lay
Worse than the
mutines in the bilboes. Rashly— And prais'd be rashness...
- he go
about to
expound this dream.
Methought I was—there is no man can tell what.
Methought I was,—and
methought I had,—but man is but a
patched fool...
- / That
weren trewe in
lovyng al hire lyves." Milton's
famous sonnet, "
Methought I Saw My Late
Espoused Saint", c. 1650,
alludes to the myth, with the...
- drawn, and were
purely for show:
Looking on the
lines Of my boy's face,
methought I did
recoil Twenty-three years, and saw
myself unbreech'd In my green...
- lamp-light
gloating o'er, She
shall press, ah, nevermore! Then,
methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed from an
unseen censer Swung by seraphim...
- that noise, Ruin,
destruction at the
utmost point. Man. Of ruin
indeed methought I
heard the noise. Oh it continues, they have
slain my son. Chor. Thy...
- and the two
reunite after Titania pronounces "what
visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamour'd of an ****." At the play's conclusion,
Titania and Oberon...
-
Olivia to the fate of Actaeon. "O, when mine eyes did see
Olivia first,
Methought she
purged the air of pestilence, That
instant was I
turned into a hart...
- be
unheard by them"
Miscellaneous Sonnets 1807
Methought I saw the
footsteps of a
throne 1806 "
Methought I saw the
footsteps of a throne" Miscellaneous...
