Sublime

‘Rob, I am afraid you will suppose by my wandering writings that a midsummer moon hath taken large possession of my brains this month,’ she wrote.

The poem records a real or imagined dream of the glorified Katherine in heaven and Milton’s longing to be reunited with her.

Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy

SONNET 9 Lady That in the Prime of Earliest Youth