O MIGHTY-MOUTH'D inventor of harmonies, O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages; Whose Titan angels, Gabriel, Abdiel, Starr'd from Jehovah's gorgeous armories, Tower, as the deep-domed empyrean Rings to the roar of an angel onset! Me rather all that bowery loneliness, The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring, And bloom profuse and cedar arches Charm, as a wanderer out in ocean, Where some refulgent sunset of India Streams o'er a rich ambrosial ocean isle, And crimson-hued the stately palm-woods Whisper in odorous heights of even. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CEREMONIAL ODE; INTENDED FOR A UNIVERSITY by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE A TURKISH LEGEND by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH BLACK ROSES by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. LIE-AWAKE SONGS: 1 by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR OLD PINCHER, SELECTION by ELIZA COOK |