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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Paradise Lost
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Title: Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton
Release date: October 1, 1991 [eBook #20]
Most recently updated: October 14, 2025
Language: English
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POEM
Written in
TEN BOOKS
by John Milton
Contents
BOOK I
BOOK II
BOOK III
BOOK IV
BOOK V
BOOK VI
BOOK VII
BOOK VIII
BOOK IX
BOOK X
BOOK I.
Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of _Eden_, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top
Of _Oreb_, or of _Sinai_, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth
Rose out of _Chaos_: Or if _Sion_ Hill
Delight thee more, and _Siloa's_ Brook that flow'd
Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence
Invoke thy ai…