And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained? — John Milton Copy Share Image
“How can I live without thee, how forgoe Thy sweet Converse and Love so dearly joyn'd, To live again in these wilde… — John Milton Copy Share Image
License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate, Giving to death, and dying to redeem, So dearly to redeem what hellish hate So… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Whose but his own? ingrate, he had of mee All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love. — John Milton Copy Share Image
These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“ Bear with me then, if lawful what I ask; Love not the heav'nly Spirits, and how thir Love Express they, by looks… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Henceforth an individual solace dear; Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half: with that thy gentle… — John Milton Copy Share Image
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd. — John Milton Copy Share Image
See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing. — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve… — John Milton Copy Share Image
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. — John Milton Copy Share Image
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. — John Milton Copy Share Image
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they… — John Milton Copy Share Image
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs… — John Milton Copy Share Image
And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained? — John Milton Copy Share Image
