John Milton Sleep Quotations

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.

Sleep on, Blest pair; and O yet happiest if ye seek No happier state, and know to know no more

The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

The timely dew of sleep.

Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

What hath night to do with sleep?