# Paradise Lost

Author: Milton, John, 1608-1674

Genre: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Paradise+Lost+Milton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 aid to my adventrous Song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th’ _Aonian_ Mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime. And chiefly Tho...

## Chapters

- [BOOK I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/paradise-lost-20/chapters/1/index.md)
- [BOOK II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/paradise-lost-20/chapters/2/index.md)
- [BOOK III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/paradise-lost-20/chapters/3/index.md)
- [BOOK IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/paradise-lost-20/chapters/4/index.md)
- [BOOK V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/paradise-lost-20/chapters/5/index.md)
- [BOOK VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/paradise-lost-20/chapters/6/index.md)
- [BOOK VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/paradise-lost-20/chapters/7/index.md)
- [BOOK VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/paradise-lost-20/chapters/8/index.md)
- [BOOK IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/paradise-lost-20/chapters/9/index.md)
- [BOOK X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/paradise-lost-20/chapters/10/index.md)