Crossword-Solution: DETAINS 7 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Where art thou _Adam_, wont with joy to meet My coming seen far off? I miss thee here, Not pleas’d, thus entertaind with solitude, Where obvious dutie erewhile appear’d unsaught: Or come I less conspicuous, or what change Absents thee, or what chance detains? Come forth.

Him, richest of the rich, an endless task Before the earliest birds or servants stir Calls and detains him daylong prisoner? He whose innumerable dollars hewed This cleft in the boar and devil-haunted wood, And bade therein, from sun to seas and skies, His many-windowed, painted palace rise Red-roofed, blue-walled, a rainbow on the hill, A wonder in the forest glade: he still, Unthinkable Aladdin, dawn and dark, Scribbles and scribbles, like a German clerk.

CXXVII With many armed men that baron fares, And to the city-gate descending, here Collects his troop, and for the attempt prepares, Waiting the coming of the cavalier; And him surprises so at unawares, He, softly, 'twixt two bridges, takes the peer; And him detains, with mockery and scorn, In a dark chamber, till returning morn.

Other summits blush under the morning kiss of the sun, and turn pale the next moment; but it detains the first sunlight and holds it round its head for an hour at least, till it pleases to change from rosy red to deep blue; and the sunset, as if spell-bound, lingers latest on its crest.

Evans detains me each morning by saying, "Here's lots of horses for you to try," and after trying five or six a day, I do not find one to my liking.