John Milton Quotes about Loss

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Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse

John Milton

Loss, Men, Eden

Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 1 (1667)

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

John Milton

Loss, Lovely, Devil

John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.32

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.

John Milton

Fear, Loss, Way

John Milton (1871). “The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti”, p.174

Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

John Milton

Art, Loss, Ribs

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 914

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

John Milton

Grief, Loss, Dark

John Milton (1853). “The poetical works of John Milton, with life. Complete ed”, p.359