Urth Net
Island Poetry
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And missing thee, I walk unseen
Milton, Il Penseroso, which begins
Hence vain deluding joyes,
The brood of folly without father bred,
How little you bested,
Or fill the fixed mind with all your toyes;
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The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns
Enoch Arden? "a passage much quoted already and which will
be no doubt often quoted, the description of Enoch's
tropical island." -- Gerard Manley Hopkins writing to
A. W. M. Baillie.
I'm no scholar; I just plugged 'em into AltaVista and HotBot.
No luck digging up the haiku. (www.altavista.digital.com;
www.hotbot.com)
Milton poem:
http://www.lexmark.com/data/poem/milton02.html
Hopkins' letter mentioning Arden:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/Hopkins.html