John Milton Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

  John Milton

  Morning, Stars, Flower

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.164

• Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

  John Milton

  Truth, Science, Water

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.183

• The rising world of waters dark and deep.

  John Milton

  Dark, Water, Rising

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.70

• The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

  John Milton

  Wind, Water, Wonder

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.665

• Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Eye, Water

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 141

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