Which of these four excerpts from john milton's poetry is in blank verse? a) instructions: select the correct text in the passage. which of these four excerpts from john milton's poetry is in blank verse? restore us, and regain the blissful seat, sing heav'nly muse, that on the secret top of oreb, or of sinai, didst inspire that shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, in the beginning how the heav'ns and earth (from paradise lost) . . b) in heav'n yclept euphrosyne, and by men, heart-easing mirth, whom lovely venus at a birth with two sister graces more to ivy-crowned bacchus bore (from "l'allegro") . . c) dissolve me into extasies, and bring all heav'n before mine eyes. and may at last my weary age find out the peaceful hermitage, the hairy gown and mossy cell, (from "il penseroso") . . d) where i may sit and rightly spell of every star that heav'n doth shew, and every herb that sips the dew; till old experience do attain to somthing like prophetic strain. (from "il penseroso")