See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing. — John Milton Copy Share Image
And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained? — 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
Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto’s cheek, And made… — John Milton Copy Share Image
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten… — John Milton Copy Share Image
He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay. — 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
Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not: Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-imbroider'd vale Where… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;… — 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
“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
Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which… — 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
“Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith; Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come called charity, the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd /Labor, as to debar when we need /Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,/ food… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“How can I live without thee, how forego Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Not so on Man; him through their malice fall'n, Father of Mercy and Grace, thou didst not doom So strictly, but much… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“So spake the Seraph Abdiel faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only hee; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His Loyaltie… — 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
“How can I live without thee, how forego Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Yet that which is above all this, the favour and the love of Heaven, we have great argument to think in a… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Comus. The Star that bids the Shepherd fold, Now the top of Heav'n doth hold, And the gilded Car of Day, [… — 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
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