Milton's Poems 1865 Paradise Lost Author:John Milton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Original Publisher: Ticknor and Fields Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you ... more »can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to ? Who aspires must down as low As high he soared, obnoxious first or last no To basest things. Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. -- Let it; I reck not, so it light well aimed, Since higher I fall short, on him who next Provokes my envy, this new favourite Of Heaven, this man of clay, son of despite, Whom, us the more to spite, his Maker raised From dust. Spite then with spite is best repaid." So saying, through each thicket, dank or dry, Like a black mist low-creeping, he held on iao His midnight search, where soonest he might find The serpent. Him fast sleeping soon he found, In labyrinth of many a round self-rolled, His head the midst, well stored with subtle wiles; Not yet in horrid shade or dismal den, Nor nocent yet; but on the grassy herb, Fearless unfeared, he slept. In at his mouth The Devil entered, and his brutal sense, In heart or head, possessing soon inspired With act intelligential; but his sleep 190 Disturbed not, waiting close the approach of morn. Now, when as sacred light began to dawn, In Eden, on the humid flowers, that breathed Their morning incense, when all things that breathe, From the Earth's great altar, send up silent praise To the Creator, and his nostrils fill With grateful smell, forth came the human pair, And joined their vocal worship to the quire Of creatures wanting voice; that done, partake The season, prime for sweetest sents and airs. 200 Then commune, how that day they best may ply Their growing work; for ...« less