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What hath night to do with sleep?

What hath night to do with sleep?

John Milton
Sleep, Night, Insomnia
'Comus' (1637) l. 122

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

John Milton
Sleep, Silence, Midnight
John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.157

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

John Milton
Strong, Sleep, Eye
'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 34

A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

John Milton
Death, Sleep, Immortal Life
John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.446

His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

John Milton
Sleep, Light, Digestion
John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.118

The timely dew of sleep.

John Milton
Sleep, Dew, Timely
John Milton (1732). “Milton's Paradise Lost”

Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

John Milton
Sleep, Silence, Pace
John Milton, John Richardson Major (1853). “Milton's Paradise Lost, with notes, critical and explanatory, original and selected, by J. R. Major”, p.373

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

John Milton
Wisdom, Sleep, Thinking
John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.261

Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

John Milton
Sleep, Eye, Water
'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 141

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.

John Milton
Sleep, Light, Earth
John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.118

The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

John Milton
Fall, Sleep, Dew
John Milton (1824). “The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton”, p.263

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

John Milton
Death, Mother, Sleep
John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 10”

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