John Milton Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

  John Milton

  Mother, Art, Eye

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 240 (1671)

• This is the month, and this the happy morn,
  wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King,
  of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born,
  our great redemption from above did bring.

  John Milton

  Christmas, Mother, Kings

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' (1645) st. 1

• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

  John Milton

  Mother, Lap, May

  1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.

• So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

  John Milton

  Mother, Snakes, Roots

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.507, Pearson Education

• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

  John Milton

  Mother, Age, Lap

  1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.

• 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

  Death, Mother, Sleep

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 10”

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