PL quotations IX

muse =

celestial patroness

fairest...

unsupported flower

queen of this...

universe

let us divide...

our labours

safest and seamliest...

by her husband stays

let us not then suspect our happy state/...

left so imperfect by our maker wise

O much deceived, much failing...

hapless Eve

but all pleasure to destroy/...

save what is in destroying, other joy

so much hath hell debased ...

and pain/ enfeebled me

with burnished neck of verdant, ...

erect/ amidst his circling spires

goddes amongst...

gods

led Eve our credulous mother, to the tree/...

of prohibition root of all our woe

goddess humane, reach them,...

and freely taste

bu his forbidding...

commends thee more

For us alone/...

was death invented?

Earth felt...

the wound

I grow mature/in knowledge...

as the gods who all things know

our great forbidder...

safe with all his spies

but keep the odds of knowledge...

in my power/without copartner

Adam shall share with me..

in bliss or woe

I then too late renounce/...

deity for thee, when fate will not permit

the garland wreathed for Eve/...

down dropped, and all the faded roses shed:

defeaced, deflowered...

and now to death devote?

flesh of flesh/bone of my bone thou art and from thy state/

mine shall never be parted, bliss or woe

fondly overcome...

with female charm

sky loured and muttering thunder...

some sad drops wept at completing of the mortal sin

flowers were the couch/...

pansies and violets and asphodel/ and hycainth

meanings of pansies violets asphodel hyacinth

pious humility

modesty

death

death and rebirth

innumberable boughs.../

hide me