8 John Milton Quotes on Death

John Milton quotes on death

5. What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?

6. And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

38. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave.

45. O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

102. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

104. Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

105. Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

113. For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed; And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of him that walked the waves.