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Quotation from The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes by John Milton
“To deaths benumming Opium as my only cure”
The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes, Samson Agonistes, l. 630 (Project Gutenberg #1745 (Beeching, Poetical Works))
Samson describes sleeplessness and longs for death as the only opiate for griefs that rankle like gangrene.
Citation: "To deaths benumming Opium as my only cure" — John Milton, The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes, Samson Agonistes, l. 630 (Project Gutenberg #1745 (Beeching, Poetical Works)). (id milton-shorter-poems-and-samson-agonistes-q13)
