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Paradise Lost (1667)
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Nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven.
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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
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May hope, when everlasting Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaosjudge the strife.
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Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.
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Awake, the morning shines, and the fresh field Call us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended Plants, how blows the Citron Grove, What drops the Myrrhe, & what the balmie Reed, How Nature paints her colours, how the Bee Sits on the Bloom, extracting liquid sweet.
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To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.
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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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Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.
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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
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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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Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
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He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend
Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield
Ethereal temper, massy, large and round,
Behind him cast; the broad circumference
Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb
Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views
At evening from the top of Fésolè,
Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,
Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.
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Where eldest Night And chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars.
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Into the blissful field, through Groves of Myrrhe, And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and Blame; A Wilderness of Sweets...
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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.
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And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
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O execrable son! so to aspire
Above his brethren, to himself assuming
Authority usurped, from God not given.
He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
Dominion absolute; that right we hold
By his donation; but man over men
He made not lord; such title to himself
Reserving, human left from human free.
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Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
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At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.
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So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.
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For the air of youth,
Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
A melancholy damp of cold and dry
To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume
The balm of life.
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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 Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.
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She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.
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Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
John Milton
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Born:
December 9, 1608
Died:
November 8, 1674
(aged 65)
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