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John Milton Quotes on Nature

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1. “A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.”

John Milton

Cynicism, Youth, Nature, Criticism, Maturity

2. “Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?”

John Milton

Nature, Abundance, Purpose, Curiosity, Divine Providence

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

John Milton

Fear, Nature, Darkness, Journey, Danger

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

John Milton

Darkness, Loneliness, Despair, Nature, Emotional State

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

John Milton

Night, Primordial, Darkness, Nature, Poetic Imagery

6. “To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.”

John Milton

Youth, Joy, Nature, Dance, Innocence

7. “On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.”

John Milton

Fantasy, Nature, Supernatural, Playfulness, Imagery

8. “Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.”

John Milton

Evening, Nature, Silence, Rest, Poetic Imagery

9. “A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.”

John Milton

Imagination, Memory, Fantasy, Nature, Supernatural

10. “Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.”

John Milton

Nature, Cycles, Time, Renewal, Apocalypse

11. “Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.”

John Milton

Morning, Nature, Beauty, Birdsong, Sensory Experience

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

John Milton

Sacrifice, Sea, Mythology, Offering, Nature

13. “O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.”

John Milton

Nature, Landscape, Danger, Journey, Poetic Imagery

14. “Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.”

John Milton

Nature, Beauty, Landscape, Pastoral, Poetry

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

John Milton

Nature, Melancholy, Flowers, Poetry, Imagery

16. “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

17. “Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.”

John Milton

Beauty, Nature, Display, Society, Admiration

18. “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

Mortality, Death, Nature, Rest, Maternal Imagery

19. “The gay motes that people the sunbeams.”

John Milton

Nature, Light, Beauty, Observation, Poetic Imagery

20. “Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.”

John Milton

Solitude, Peace, Retreat, Nature, Self-reflection

21. “Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.”

John Milton

Fantasy, Nature, Imagination, Night, Supernatural

22. “In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.”

John Milton

Nature, Spirituality, Contemplation, Divine Ascent, Creation

23. “Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.”

John Milton

Nature, Responsibility, Duty, Self-improvement, Human Agency

24. “Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.”

John Milton

Poetry, Nature, Creativity, Mortality, Artistic Process

25. “Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.”

John Milton

Nature, Trees, Landscape, Beauty, Poetic Imagery

26. “Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.”

John Milton

Nature, Fall Of Man, Loss, Sorrow, Cosmic Impact

27. “Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.”

John Milton

Beauty, Nature, Sharing, Happiness, Human Connection

28. “Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.”

John Milton

Blindness, Loss, Nature, Seasons, Human Experience

29. “The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.”

John Milton

Stars, Guidance, Nature, Journey, Divine Providence

30. “Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.”

John Milton

Creation, Architecture, Nature, Imagery, Sudden Appearance

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