John Milton Quotes about Moon

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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

John Milton

Moon, Madness, Melancholy

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 11, l. 485

By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

John Milton

Science, Moon, Night

John Milton, Thomas Newton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.371

And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

John Milton

Stars, Moon, World

John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.154

But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.

John Milton

Running, Moon, Done

1634 Comus, A Mask, l.1011-16.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

John Milton

Moon, Light, Sea

'Comus' (1637) l. 373

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

John Milton

Dark, Moon, Night

'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 86

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 self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun.

John Milton

Sweet, Dark, Moon

'Comus' (1637) l. 373