...METHOUGHT I SAW MY LATE ESPOUSED SAINT Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Aleestis from the grave. Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom washt from spot of child-bed taint....

...wife, brought to him, as Hercules brought Alcestis in the tragedy of Euripides, back from the grave : Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint . . . His late wife is now a 'saint' because she is a soul in heaven; the deceased Marchioness of Winchester...

...forward to embrace him, he awakens but— as a totally blind dreamer inevitably must— to darkness. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom washed from spot of childbed taint, Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as yet once more...

...der zunächst impliziten, im letzten Vers dann ausdrücklich gemachten Blindheitsthematik gestellt. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom washed from spot of childbed taint, Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as yet once more...

...rest: They also serve who only stand and wait. 7679 Sonnet 19 'Methought I saw my late espoused saint' 816 Le Petit Prince It is only with the 7680 Sonnet 19 'Methought I saw my late espoused saint' But oh as to embrace me she inclined 1 waked,...

...now turn. Deservedly one of the most celebrated of Milton's short poems is Sonnet XXIH, on his dead wife: Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought...death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom washed from spot of childbed taint, Purification in the Old Law did save, And such, as yet once more...

...of his second wife, Katherine Woodcock: 32. CP, 35. 33./A&/..30. 34. Victoria Forde, op.cit., 159. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...Rescued from death by force though pale and faint. 3i Bunting's equivalent for this, or rather the equivalent he puts into the mouth of modern man, is...

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...death of Katherine Woodcock, his second wife, whose newly born daughter also died soon after, in 1657. Methought I saw my late espoused Saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Joves great Son to her glad Husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force though pale and faint. Mine as...