John Milton Quotes, Sight Quotes, Views Quotes

But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

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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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Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

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With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

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Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

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Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate

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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

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Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

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O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

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Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

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Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.

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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

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The sacred influence of light appears.

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Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.

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Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

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Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

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