John Milton Moon Quotations

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.

And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fésolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

Fairy elves, / Whose midnight revels, by a forest side / Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, / Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon / Sits arbitress.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would / By her own radiant light, though sun and moon / Were in the flat sea sunk.