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“For now were all transformed
Alike, to serpents all as accessories
To his bold riot: dreadful was the din
Of hissing through the hall” X, 519-22

“in Paradise the hellish pair
Too soon arrived, Sin there in power before,
Once actual, now in body, and to dwell
Habitual habitant; behind her Death” 585-8

“To bring in change
of seasons to each clime; else had the spring
Perpetual smiled on earth” 677-9

“Methinks I feel new strength within me rise,
Wings growing, and dominion given me large
Beyond this deep” X, 243-5

“But when he saw descend
The Son of God to judge them terrified
He fled…” 337-9

“Thence gathered his own doom, which understood,
Not instant, but of future time.” 343-4

“And made one realm
Hell and this world” 391-2

“Their mighty chief returned: loud was the acclaim” 455

“But thou know’st,
Whoever judged, the worst on me must light,
When time shall be, for so I undertook
Before thee” X, 72-5

“To judgment he proceeded on the accused
Serpent though brute…put
Enmity, and between thine and her seed” 164-80

“For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.
So judged he man, both judge and saviour sent” 208-9

“And me with thee hath ruined, for with thee
Certain my resolution is to die” IX, 906-7

“He scrupled not to eat
Against his better knowledge, not deceived,
But fondly overcome with female charm.” 997-9

“Innocence, that as a veil
Had shadowed them from knowing ill, was gone” 1054-5

“Their inward state of mind…now tossed and turbulent” 1125-6

“Thus they in mutual accusation spent” 1187

“…and into fraud
Led Eve our credulous mother” IX, 643-4

“As when of old some orator renowned
In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence
Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed” 670-3

“…whatever thing death be…” 695

“Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate” 780-1

“While horror chill
Ran through his veins” 890-1

“But the hot hell that always in him burns,
Though in mid-heaven, soon ended his delight” IX, 466-7

“…to her ruin now I tend.
So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed
In serpent” 493-5

“Language of man pronounced
By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed?” 553-4

“So talked the spirited sly snake; and Eve
Yet more amazed unwary thus replied.” 613-4

“To short absence I could yield.
For solitude sometimes is best society” IX, 248-9

“Secure from outward force; within himself
The danger lies, yet lies within his power:
Against his will he can receive no harm.
But God left free the will” 348-51

“O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve,
Of thy presumed return! Event perverse!” 404-5

“But I in none of these
Find place or refuge; and the more I see
Pleasures about me, so much more I feel
Torment within me” IX, 118-21

“For only in destroying I find ease
To my relentless thoughts” 129-30

“Man he made, and for him built
Magnificent this world, and earth his seat” 152-3

“Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils,
Let it; I reck not” 171-2

“And in herself complete, so well to know
Her own, that what she wills to do or say,
Seems wisest…best;
Authority and reason on her wait,
As one intended first, not after made” VIII, 548-55

“Love refines
The thoughts, and heart enlarges” 589-90

“Express they, by looks only, or do they mix
Irradiance, virtual or immediate touch?” 616-7

“To stand or fall
Free in thine own arbitrament it lies” 640-1

“Mastering their senses,
equanimity toward everything
They reach me, rejoicing” XII, 4

“Rejecting fruit of action
Is better still - brings peace.” 12

“Undivided, it seems divided
Among creatures” XIII, 115

“All actions are performed
By nature alone and the self
Is not an actor” 29

“Cut down this tree
That has such deep roots
With the sharp ax
Of detachment” XV, 3

“Freed of dualities” 5

“to tell how human life began
Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?” VIII, 250-1

“But who I was, or where, or from what cause,
Knew not” 270-1

“In solitude
What happiness, who can enjoy alone,
Or all enjoying, what contentment find?” 364-6

“And find thee knowing…of thyself,
Expressing well the spirit within thee free” 438-40

“Be assured,
Thy likeness, thy fit help, thy other self” 449-50