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
book heaven thee
Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.
art hate wind
I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.
couple hate law
Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.
hair locks purpose
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.
glory fame
For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
future men together
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
grief rivers joy
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
pain evil perfect
Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
judging infinite pardon
But infinite in pardon is my Judge.
fall tears faults
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?
men evil mind
Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.
equality splendor assuming
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?
death life-death dies
Where all life dies death lives.
death ready
Death ready stands to interpose his dart.