Related:

• For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Sonnet xxi, To Cyriac Skinne...
• Of which all Europe rings from side to side.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Sonnet xxii, To Cyriac Skinne...
• Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope
  but still bear up and steer Right onward....
• Far from all resort of mirth Save the cricket on the hearth.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Il Penseroso, Line 81...
• Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Sonnet to the Nightingale...
• Fortune's Guide to Freshman Notetaking: WHEN THE PROFESSOR SAYS
  YOU WRITE: Probably the greatest quality of the poetry John Milton -- born 1608 of John Milton, who was born in 1608, is the combination of beauty and power....
• Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after. -- Lord Byro
• Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line 1003...
• Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
  -- John Keats (1795-1821) -- Addressed to Haydon, Sonnet x...