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L’Allegro

May 2 John Milton

3 November 201525 July 2016 Peter Wood All Poems, May, Milton

L’Allegro      John Milton In his pictorial poem “L’ Allegro” or the lively man, he hails the goddess of Mirth and considers her possible parentage, perhaps the offspring of love and wine or, more wisely, of the West Wind and Dawn: But come thou goddess fair and free, In heaven yclept Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing […]

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