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
mother age ease
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.
may riches soil
Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
dark water rising
The rising world of waters dark and deep.
years wings age
Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.
dragons order fowl
And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.
men hands liberty
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.
light envy shining
When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.
art soul lust
But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
sweet selfish wind
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.
sweet morning bird
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
dark night light
Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
sky lists planets
The planets in their station list'ning stood.
law sin weak
Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.
law reason force
Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.