For contemplation he and valour formed,
For softness she and sweet attractive grace;
He for God only, she for God in him.
His fair large front and eye sublime declared
Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad.

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 297.

Implied

Subjection, but required with gentle sway,
And by her yielded, by him best received,
Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.
Adam the goodliest man of men since born
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.

And with necessity,

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The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Line 393.

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad;
Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,
They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;
She all night long her amorous descant sung;
Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led
The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,
Rising in clouded majesty, at length
Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

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The timely dew of sleep. Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 614.

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 birds; pleasant the sun,
When first on this delightful land he spreads
His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,
Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth
After soft showers; and sweet the coming on
Of grateful evening mild; then silent night.
With this her solemn bird and this fair moon,
And these the gems of heaven, her starry train:
But neither breath of morn when she ascends
With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun
On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower,
Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers,
Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night
With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon,
Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

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Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring.

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Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

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1 When unadorned, adorned the most.

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Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear
Touched lightly; for no falsehood can endure
Fouch of celestial temper.

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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,

The lowest of your throng.

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Abashed the devil stood,

And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Virtue in her shape how lovely.

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Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.

Now morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime
Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl,
When Adam waked, so customed, for his sleep
Was aery-light, from pure digestion bred.

Hung over her enamoured, and beheld
Beauty which, whether waking or asleep,
Shot forth peculiar graces.

My latest found,

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Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight. Line 18.

Good, the more

Communicated, more abundant grows.

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These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night,

If better thou belong not to the dawn.

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A wilderness of sweets.

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Another morn

Risen on mid-noon.

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So saying, with despatchful looks in haste
She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.

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Nor jealousy

Was understood, the injured lover's hell.

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The bright consummate flower.

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Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet

Quaff immortality and joy.

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Satan; so call him now, his former name

Or stars of morning, dewdrops, which the sun

Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found
Among the faithless, faithful only he.

Morn,

Waked by the circling hours, with rosy hand
Unbarred the gates of light.

Servant of God, well done.

Arms on armour clashing brayed

Horrible discord, and the madding wheels

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Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise
Of conflict.

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Vital in every part

Cannot but by annihilating die.

Paradise Lost. Book vi. Line 345.

Far off his coming shone.
More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged
To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days,
On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues.

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Still govern thou my song,

Urania, and fit audience find, though few.

Heaven opened wide

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Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound!
On golden hinges moving.

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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,

And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear
Seen in the galaxy, that milky way

Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest
Powdered with stars.

The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear
So charming left his voice, that he awhile

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Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear.

There swift return

Diurnal, merely to officiate light

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Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

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