...Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bell-man's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes; or unsphere The spirit of Plato,...

...Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsie charm, To bless the dores from nightly harm. Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely towre, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphear The spirit of Plato...

...Examinations are here subjoined, along with the Answers to some of the Questions. LITERATURE. Poetry. " 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 Plato,...

...Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm his declining age Vanessa's earliest thoughts engage ; And, tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato,...

...and Prose of William Blake, p. 685, give these lines of the poem as the subject of the illustration: Where I may oft outwatch the Bear With thrice great Hermes or unsphear The Spirit of Plato to unfold What Worlds or what vast regions hold The Immortal Mind that...

...in the tail of the Little Bear is the Polestar, or Cynosure (dog's tail). Illustrative. Milton's " Let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outmatch the Bear " ( II Penseroso) ; and his " Where perhaps some beauty lies...

...anticipates poems 109-110.) Faint consolation for a mood as gloomy as that in Milton's "II Penseroso": Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely Tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear . . . Du Fu's poem is distinguished by a consummate mingling...

...Little Bear move round and round in heaven, but never sink, as the other stars do, beneath the ocean. Let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear . . . And Prometheus, in JR Lowell's poem, says: One after...

...vivacious and gregarious, the other thoughtful and generally solitary. Of Penseroso, Milton wrote '. . . Or let my lamp at midnight hour/ Be seen in some high lonely tower/ Where I may oft outwatch the Bear'. If we think of the lamp as turned on to adjust the telescope...

...down as someone special - as a thinker, II Penseroso - and he wanted his readers to pay attention: Let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower. Being seen to work at night was a source of pride and seemed to matter almost as much as the...