Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note... The Poetical Works of John Milton - Stran 82 avtor: John Milton - 1832 - 148 strani Celotni ogled - O knjigi
...Milton invokes one in his first sonnet, and in the epic sings in his blindness and exile "Nightly," as "the wakeful bird / Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid / Tunes her nocturnal note"(3. 38-40). When Adam leads Eve to their nuptial bower, Adam says, "the amorous bird of night...
Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note... 
