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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MILTON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poet's Biography
First Line: As well house up the homeless bedouin stars
Last Line: Thou nomad of god's universal night!
Subject(s): God; Love; Night; Tears; Bedtime
First Line: As well house up the homeless bedouin stars
Last Line: Thou nomad of god's universal night!
Subject(s): God; Love; Night; Tears; Bedtime
As well house up the homeless Bedouin stars
And tent them permanent on the night's great desert,
As thy steep thoughts to circumscribe and fix
With human tears or home or human love; --
Thou nomad of God's universal night!
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