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
heaven towers architecture
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
gay people sunbeams
The gay motes that people the sunbeams.
experience prophetic strain
Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
evil
Evil, be thou my good.
song thee wells
The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.
bears moderation states
Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.
melancholy frenzy
Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.
light sacred influence
The sacred influence of light appears.
kings fighting men
When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.
sin immortality
Death from sin no power can separate.
art husband thinking
With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.
husband thee submit
And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.
husband wife danger
The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.
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God is thy law, thou mine.