Paradise Regained

Paradise Regained is a poem, published in 1671, by the 17th century English poet John Milton.

Book I

• His coming, is sent Harbinger, who all
  Invites, and in the Consecrated stream
  Pretends to wash off sin
  • Lines 71-73

• Envy they say excites me, thus to gain
  Companions of my misery and wo.
  • Lines 397-398

• That fellowship in pain divides not smart,
  Nor lightens aught each mans peculiar load.
  • Lines 401-402

• Most men admire
  Virtue who follow not her lore.
  • Lines 482-483

Book II

• And the great Thisbite who on fiery wheels
  Rode up to Heaven, yet once again to come.
  • Lines 16-17

• My heart hath been a store-house long of things
  And sayings laid up, portending strange events.
  • Lines 103-104

• Skilled to retire, and in retiring draw
  Hearts after them tangled in amorous nets.
  • Lines 161-162

• Beauty stands
  In the admiration only of weak minds
  Led captive.
  • Lines 220-221

• Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
  • Line 228.

• For therein stands the office of a King,
  His Honour, Vertue, Merit and chief Praise,
  That for the Publick all this weight he bears.
  Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
  Passions, Desires, and Fears, is more a King;
  • Lines 463-467

Book III

• For what is glory but the blaze of fame,
  • Line 47

• Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.
  • Line 56.

• They err who count it glorious to subdue
  By Conquest far and wide, to over-run
  Large Countries, and in field great Battels win,
  • Lines 71-73

• Elephants endors'd with towers.
  • Line 329.

Book IV

• Syene, and where the shadow both way falls,
  Meroe, Nilotic isle.
  • Lines 70-71.

• Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd.
  • Line 76.

• The first of all Commandments, Thou shalt worship
  The Lord thy God, and only him shalt serve;
  • Lines 176-177.

• The childhood shows the man,
  As morning shows the day.
  • Lines 220-21. Compare: "The child is father of the man", William Wordsworth, My Heart Leaps up.

• Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
  And eloquence.
  • Lines 240-41.

• The olive grove of Academe,
  Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird
  Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
  • Lines 244-46.

• Thence to the famous orators repair,
  Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence
  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,
  Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece,
  To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
  • Line 267-71.

• Socrates...
  Whom well inspired the oracle pronounced
  Wisest of men.
  • Lines 274-276.

• The first and wisest of them all professed
  To know this only, that he nothing knew.
  • Lines 293-294.

• Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
  • Line 327.

• As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore.
  Or if I would delight my private hours
  With music or with poem, where so soon
  As in our native language can I find
  That solace?
  • Lines 330-35.

• Till morning fair
  Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice gray.
  • Lines 426-27.