..." Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death...pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child- bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full...

...heaven held no reward for blind Milton. The dream visitation of his veiled wife in Sonnet XXIII appears "such, as yet once more I trust to have / Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint" — and in the universe designed for Paradise Lost, full hearing, full smell, full touch, full taste....

...Milton Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from 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...

...espoused saint"-that second marriage," at least, was made in heaven — has theologically justified hope: "And such as yet once more I trust to have / Full sight of her in heaven without restraint" (Son. XIX. 7-8). Yet once more, Milton in Elegia VII "makes evident," as B. Rajan has phrased it, "the...

...Wife : Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Chaucer, Legende of Good Women, 208 etseq. ; Court of Love (?), 100 et seq. Poems. Robert Browning's...

...Son to her glad Husband gai-e, R£scuafrom death by force though pale and joint. Mine as whom washt from Spot of childbed taint, Purification in the old Law did save, Ana such, as yet once more I trusl to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vetted...

...wife': Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. JR Lowell has chosen the 'Shepherd of King Admetus' for the subject of a short poem. He makes that...

...Wife Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from 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...

...grave : Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, 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...

...darkness. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from 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...