John Milton Quotes
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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
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The never-ending flight Of future days.
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Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms,Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize,If ever deed of honour did thee please,Guard them, and him within protect from harms.
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From haunted spring and daleEdged with poplar paleThe parting genius is with sighing sent.
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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
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Forget thyself to marble.
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Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.
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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
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A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.
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What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.
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Such as may make thee search the coffers round.
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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
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You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.
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It was that fatal and perfidious bark,Built in th' eclipse, and rigged with curses dark,That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.
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Hence, loathèd Melancholy,Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born,In Stygian cave forlorn,'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.
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Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
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The brazen throat of war.
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Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.
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Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.
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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
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But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.