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Sun Quotes by John Milton
- Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
- The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
- Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's…
- From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a…
- These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth…
- He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul…
- Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
- O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy…
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