For Other Things Mild Heav'n A Time Ordains, And Disapproves That Care, Though Wise In Show, That With Superfluous Burden Loads The Day, And When God Sends A Cheerful Hour, Refrains.

In mirth that after no repenting draws.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Sonnet xxi, To Cyriac Skinne...
Of which all Europe rings from side to side.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Sonnet xxii, To Cyriac Skinne...
Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope
but still bear up and steer Right onward....
Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Sonnet to the Nightingale...
Even in the moment of our earliest kiss, When sighed the straitened bud into the flower, Sat the dry seed of most unwelcome thi
And that I knew, though not the day and hour. Too season-wise am I, being country-bred, To tilt at autumn or defy the fro...
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What thou bid'st Unargued I obey; so God ordains: God is thy law
hou mine: to know no more Is Woman's happiest knowledge, and her Praise. -- Milto...
When the scourge Inexorable and the torturing hour Call us to penance.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 90...
With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons, and their change,--all please alike.
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest bird...