John Milton
John Milton
John Miltonwas an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 December 1608
home house private
He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.
build himself knew lofty
He knew / Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
bring haste jest smiles thee youthful
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles
common hail human law mysterious paradise sole source true
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source / Of human offspring, sole propriety / In Paradise of all things common else.
hail human mysterious offspring source true
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring
father folly vain
Hence, vain deluding joys, / The brood of Folly without father bred.
call half left
Or call up him that left half told / The story of Cambuscan bold.
ear free quite won
Such strains as would have won the ear / Of Pluto, to have quite set free / His half-regained Eurydice.
close ear squat
Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.
glory race shall
My race of glory run, and race of shame, / And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
bay harbor port sites
Mats Mats Bay and the Port of Grays Harbor are the two sites we are considering.
beauty
Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, but must be current.
beauty high
Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown/ In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities.
appeared excess form glory less lost nor original
His form had yet not lost / All her original brightness, nor appeared / Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess / Of glory obscured.