Paradise Lost

"Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest."

"And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant."

"A heaven on earth."

"Flowers worthy of paradise."

"Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose."

"Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower."

"Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honor clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all."

"For contemplation he and valor formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad."

"Implied Subjection, but required with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best received, Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay."

"Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve."

"So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds."

"As Jupiter On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds That shed May flowers."

"Imparadis'd in one another's arms."

"Live while ye may, Yet happy pair."

"Knowledge forbidd'n? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should thir Lord Envie them that? can it be sin to know, Can it be death? and do they onely stand By Ignorance, is that thir happie state, The proof of thir obedience and thir faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Thir ruine! Hence I will excite thir minds With more desire to know, and to reject Envious commands, invented with designe To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt Equal with Gods; aspiring to be such, They taste and die: what likelier can ensue?"

"Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw."

"The wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw."

"The timely dew of sleep."

"With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons, and their change; all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful ev'ning mild; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train: But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful ev'ning mild, nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet."

"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep."

"In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora."

"Eased the putting off These troublesome disguises which we wear."

"Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring."

"Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve."

"Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touch'd lightly; for no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper."

"Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng."

"Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely. —saw, and pined his loss."

"Came not all hell broke loose?"

"Like Teneriff or Atlas unremoved."

"The starry cope Of heaven."

"Fled Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night."

"Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred."

"Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces."

"My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!"

"Good, the more Communicated, more abundant grows."

"These are thy glorious works, Parent of good."

"Him first, him last, him midst, and without end."

"Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn."

"Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise."

"A wilderness of sweets."

"Another morn Ris'n on mid-noon."

"So saying, with dispatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent."

"Nor jealousy Was understood, the injured lover's hell."

"The bright consummate flower."

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

"What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?"

"Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers."

"All seemed well pleased, all seemed but were not all."

"They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy."

"Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven."