Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | V. Selections from “Paradise Lost” | | Eve to Adam | | John Milton (1608–1674) |
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WITH sorrow and heart’s distress | |
| Wearied, I fell asleep. But now lead on; | |
| In me is no delay; with thee to go, | |
| Is to stay here; without thee here to stay, | |
| Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me | 5 |
| Art all things under heaven, all places thou, | |
| Who for my wilful crime art banished hence. | |
| This further consolation, yet secure, | |
| I carry hence; though all by me is lost, | |
| Such favor I unworthy am vouchsafed, | 10 |
| By me the promised Seed shall all restore. | | | | |
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