John Milton Quotes on Melancholy

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1. “With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.”

2. “Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.”

3. “In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.”

4. “Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!”

5. “From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.”

6. “Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.”

7. “The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.”

8. “Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.”

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