John Milton Quotes on Mythology

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1. “Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.”

John Milton

Sacrifice, Sea, Mythology, Offering, Nature

2. “Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?”

John Milton

Mythology, Temptation, Transformation, Magic, Human Nature

3. “Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.”

John Milton

Nature, Mythology, Poetry, Sound, Beauty

4. “Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.”

John Milton

Mythology, Memory, Oblivion, Joy, Grief

5. “Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.”

John Milton

Wine, Intoxication, Mythology, Pleasure, Excess

6. “The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.”

John Milton

Nature, Birds, Mythology, Power, Imagery

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