“Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.”
Source: Milton's Comus
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“A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: Complete Shorter Poems
Source: Paradis perdu: de Milton
“Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.”
Source: The poetical works of John Milton: from the text of Doctor Newton with the life of the author
“A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.”
Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...
“God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.”
Source: Paradise lost, a poem in twelve books: in two volumes
“But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.”
Source: Milton's Poetical Works: Together with the Life of the Author
“Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.”
Source: The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter
Source: Milton's Paradise Lost
Source: Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)
Source: Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index
Source: 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
Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan
Source: Milton's Paradise lost and Paradise regained, with notes by J. Edmondston
Source: The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction
“But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.”
Source: The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton
Source: The poems of John Milton
“By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.”
Source: Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books
“Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?”