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 sleep lap
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
ayurveda quality hue
In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
sweet retirement return
A short retirement urges a sweet return.
crazy ambition heaven
Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
angel sight host
Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.
peace writing learning
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
mind spurs noble
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
brother nymphs steel
It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.
good-luck heart son
Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
summer sweet flower
Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.
flower paradise-on-earth rose
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
arguing fame know-me
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
life nature strong
By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
love strange offence
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.