Quote #65
Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides. Come, and trip it, as you go. On the light fantastic toe.
More from John Milton
- Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles.
- The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
- Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights …
- Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free.
- Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim.
- While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn door, Stoutly struts his dames before, Oft…
- From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.
- And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.