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
night eldest
Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.
nature hands sea
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?
music ears tone
And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.
music wind breathe
As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.
art taken dust
In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.
lying endure temper
For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.
night men day-and-night
God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
happiness feels knows
And feel that I am happier than I know.
greatness comfort doe
He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.
fate greatness hands
By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.
wise heart perfect
My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
god eye heart
What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!
god men unseen
God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.
children men
Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.