One heart, one soul in both;
whereof good proof
This day affords, declaring
thee resolved,
Rather than death, or aught
than death more dread,
Shall separate us, linked in
love so dear,
To undergo with me one guilt,
one crime,
IX, 967-971
Believest so main to our
success, I bring.
Which of us who beholds the
bright surface
Of this ethereous mould
whereon we stand,
This continent of spacious
Heaven, adorned
With plant, fruit, flower
ambrosial, gems, and gold;
VI, 471-475
I could endure, without him
live no life.
So saying, from the tree her
step she turned;
But first low reverence done,
as to the Power
That dwelt within, whose
presence had infused
Into the plant sciential sap,
derived
IX, 833-837
Though last created, that for
him I spare
Thee from my bosom and right
hand, to save,
By losing thee a while, the
whole race lost.
Thou, therefore, whom thou
only canst redeem,
Their nature also to thy
nature join;
III, 279-283
Ye Angels armed; this day from
battle rest:
Faithful hath been your
warfare, and of God
Accepted, fearless in his
righteous cause;
And as ye have received, so
have ye done,
Invincibly: But of this cursed
crew
The punishment to other hand
belongs;
VI, 802-807
The Assessour of his throne,
he thus began.
Effulgence of my glory, Son
beloved,
Son, in whose face invisible
is beheld
Visibly, what by Deity I am;
And in whose hand what by
decree I do,
Second Omnipotence! two days
are past,
VI, 679-684
Could not but taste. Forthwith
up to the clouds
With him I flew, and
underneath beheld
The earth outstretched
immense, a prospect wide
And various: Wondering at my
flight and change
To this high exaltation;
suddenly
V, 86-90
Views all things at one view?
He from Heaven's height
All these our motions vain
sees and derides,
Not more almighty to resist
our might
Than wise to frustrate all our
plots and wiles.
Shall we, then, live thus
vile--the race of Heaven
II, 190-194
To life prolonged and promised
race, I now
Gladly behold though but his
utmost skirts
Of glory; and far off his
steps adore.
To whom thus Michael with
regard benign.
Adam, thou knowest Heaven his,
and all the Earth;
XI, 331-335
From the right hand of Glory
where he sat;
And the third sacred morn
began to shine,
Dawning through Heaven. Forth
rushed with whirlwind sound
The chariot of Paternal Deity,
Flashing thick flames, wheel
within wheel undrawn,
VI, 747-751
His flight precipitant, and
winds with ease
Through the pure marble air
his oblique way
Amongst innumerable stars,
that shone
Stars distant, but nigh hand
seemed other worlds;
Or other worlds they seemed,
or happy isles,
III, 564-568
In outward also her resembling
less
His image who made both, and
less expressing
The character of that dominion
given
O'er other creatures: Yet when
I approach
Her loveliness, so absolute
she seems
And in herself complete, so
well to know
VIII, 543-548
Tears, such as Angels weep,
burst forth: at last
Words interwove with sighs
found out their way:--
"O myriads of immortal
Spirits! O Powers
Matchless, but with th'
Almighty!--and that strife
Was not inglorious, though th'
event was dire,
I, 620-624
Before his eyes appeared, sad,
noisome, dark;
A lazar-house it seemed;
wherein were laid
Numbers of all diseased; all
maladies
Of ghastly spasm, or racking
torture, qualms
Of heart-sick agony, all
feverous kinds,
XI, 478-482
To serve him; thy reward was
of his grace;
Thy punishment then, justly is
at his will.
Be it so, for I submit; his
doom is fair,
That dust I am, and shall to
dust return.
O welcome hour whenever! Why
delays
His hand to execute what his
decree
X, 767-772
The overthrown he raised, and
as a herd
Of goats or timorous flock
together thronged
Drove them before him
thunder-struck, pursued
With terrours, and with
furies, to the bounds
And crystal wall of Heaven;
which, opening wide,
VI, 856-860
Found worthy not of liberty
alone,
Too mean pretence! but what we
more affect,
Honour, dominion, glory, and
renown;
Who have sustained one day in
doubtful fight,
(And if one day, why not
eternal days?)
What Heaven's Lord had
powerfullest to send
VI, 420-425
To whom thus Zephon, answering
scorn with scorn.
Think not, revolted Spirit,
thy shape the same,
Or undiminished brightness to
be known,
As when thou stoodest in
Heaven upright and pure;
That glory then, when thou no
more wast good,
IV, 834-838
Transgressed, inevitably thou
shalt die,
From that day mortal; and this
happy state
Shalt lose, expelled from
hence into a world
Of woe and sorrow." Sternly he
pronounced
The rigid interdiction, which
resounds
VIII, 330-334
Or touch with lightest moment
of impulse
His free will, to her own
inclining left
In even scale. But fallen he
is; and now
What rests, but that the
mortal sentence pass
On his transgression,--death
denounced that day?
X, 45-49
And fluttered into rags; then
reliques, beads,
Indulgences, dispenses,
pardons, bulls,
The sport of winds: All these,
upwhirled aloft,
Fly o'er the backside of the
world far off
Into a Limbo large and broad,
since called
III, 492-496
One step, no more than from
himself, can fly
By change of place: Now
conscience wakes despair,
That slumbered; wakes the
bitter memory
Of what he was, what is, and
what must be
Worse; of worse deeds worse
sufferings must ensue.
IV, 22-26
As mocked they storm: great
laughter was in Heaven,
And looking down, to see the
hubbub strange,
And hear the din: Thus was the
building left
Ridiculous, and the work
Confusion named.
Whereto thus Adam, fatherly
displeased.
XII, 59-63
Smeared round with pitch; and
in the side a door
Contrived; and of provisions
laid in large,
For man and beast: when lo, a
wonder strange!
Of every beast, and bird, and
insect small,
Came sevens, and pairs; and
entered in as taught
XI, 731-735
By model, or by shading
pencil, drawn.
These stairs were such as
whereon Jacob saw
Angels ascending and
descending, bands
Of guardians bright, when he
from Esau fled
To Padan-Aram, in the field of
Luz
Dreaming by night under the
open sky
III, 510-515
(If ancient and prophetic fame
in Heaven
Err not)--another World, the
happy seat
Of some new race, called Man,
about this time
To be created like to us,
though less
In power and excellence, but
favoured more
Of him who rules above; so was
his will
II, 346-351
Of wicked sons destroyed, than
I rejoice
For one man found so perfect,
and so just,
That God vouchsafes to raise
another world
From him, and all his anger to
forget.
But say, what mean those
coloured streaks in Heaven
XI, 875-879
O'er bog or steep, through
strait, rough, dense, or rare,
With head, hands, wings, or
feet, pursues his way,
And swims, or sinks, or wades,
or creeps, or flies.
At length a universal hubbub
wild
Of stunning sounds, and voices
all confused,
II, 948-952
Heap'd on him there, nor yet
the main abyss
Wide interrupt, can hold; so
bent he seems
On desperate revenge, that
shall redound
Upon his own rebellious head.
And now,
Through all restraint broke
loose, he wings his way
III, 84-88
With all perfections, so
inflame my sense
With ardour to enjoy thee,
fairer now
Than ever; bounty of this
virtuous tree!
So said he, and forbore not
glance or toy
Of amorous intent; well
understood
Of Eve, whose eye darted
contagious fire.
IX, 1031-1036