John Milton Quotes
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Such strains as would have won the earOf Pluto, to have quite set freeHis half-regained Eurydice.These delights, if thou canst give,Mirth, with thee, I mean to live.
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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
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Ladies, whose bright eyesRain influence, and judge the prize.
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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy sprayWarbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
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Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
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Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides,Where thou perhaps under the whelming tideVisit'st the bottom of the monstrous world.
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Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.
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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
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I walk unseenOn the dry smooth-shaven green,To behold the wandering moon,Riding near her highest noon,Like one that had been led astrayThrough the heav'n's wide pathless way,And oft, as if her head she bowed,Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
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Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
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The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
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Have hungMy dank and dropping weedsTo the stern god of sea.
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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.
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The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
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He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
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From haunted spring and daleEdged with poplar paleThe parting genius is with sighing sent.
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Evil, be thou my good.
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Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
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Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme...