Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. It is considered by critics to be Milton's "major work", and the work helped to solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time. The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Represented with 50 illustrations by Gustave Doré.
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"Those rigid threats of death; ye shall not die: How should ye? by the fruit? it gives you life To knowledge. By the Threat'ner? look on me, Me who have touched and tasted, yet both live, And life more perfect have attained than Fate;"
"Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love;"
"With solemn touches, troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they Breathing united force with fixèd thought"
"Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a grove Where Venus in her naked glory strove To please the careless and disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis that before her lies."
