...sullen roar; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen...

...the spirit and coloring of these lines, to those very similar ones in the Penseroso of Milton : — " Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm ; While glowing embers, through the room,...

...associate it with Milton's lines: Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth. The tall ironweed grows profusely on the roadsides. From a distance, its bloom is the same as the aster,...

..."[fjrom his watch-tow'r in the skies," the Penseroso wishes to take this aerial vantage for himself: "Or let my lamp at midnight hour, / Be seen in some high lonely Tow'r" (85—6). In essence, "II Penseroso" stakes out a tertium quid between two poetic genres...

...Holy Grail - The Shirt of Nessus Epilogue 351 References 352 Selected Bibliography 362 Index 368 ... Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of...

...refers to the title character of John Milton's // Penseroso (1632). This passage refers to lines 85-92: Or let my Lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely T'wer, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of...