Apr 1, 2005

National Poetry Month

In honor of the month, I shall bring you a poem a day. What are your favorites?

Methought I Saw

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 child-bed taint
    Purification in the old Law did save,
    And such as yet once more I trust to have
     Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint,
Came vested all in white, pure as her mind;
    Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight
    Love, sweetness, goodness,in her person shined
So clear as in no face with more delight.
    But Oh! as to embrace me she inclined,
    I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.

John Milton

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