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
running time age
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
dark
What is dark within me, illumine.
men goes-on world
So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.
happiness paradise thee
Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
wise dream thinking
Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.
strong love-is firsts
Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!
art bliss enormous
Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
truth fighting servant-of-god
Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
poetry age ornaments
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing
men darkness clay
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?
time night fire
Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
time years wings
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
life arms
Imparadis'd in one another's arms.
life fall
Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.