John Milton Quotes on Darkness

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1. “The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.”

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Fear, Nature, Darkness, Journey, Danger

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

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Darkness, Loneliness, Despair, Nature, Emotional State

3. “Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.”

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Night, Primordial, Darkness, Nature, Poetic Imagery

4. “How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!”

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Night, Silence, Beauty, Darkness, Poetic Imagery

5. “Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.”

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Light, Darkness, Ambiance, Perception, Poetic Imagery

6. “In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.”

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Change, Fear, Power, Darkness, Political Upheaval

7. “Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.”

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Darkness, Foreboding, Cosmic Event, Ominous Imagery, Nature

8. “Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.”

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Innocence, Experience, Darkness, Human Nature, Irreversibility

9. “Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.”

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Hell, Darkness, Paradox, Spiritual State, Imagery

10. “O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!”

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Darkness, Despair, Blindness, Hopelessness, Personal Lament

11. “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 and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.”

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Inner Light, Conscience, Darkness, Self-imprisonment, Moral State

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