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
appear reason tongue worse
His tongue dropt manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason
adding fuel gone knows thy words
He's gone and who knows how he may report/ Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
home house private
He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.
build himself knew lofty
He knew / Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
bring haste jest smiles thee youthful
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles
calm event experience great hath passion peace true
He with new acquist / Of true experience from this great event / With peace and consolation hath dismissed, / And calm of mind, all passion spent.
common hail human law mysterious paradise sole source true
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source / Of human offspring, sole propriety / In Paradise of all things common else.
hail human mysterious offspring source true
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring
might shape
The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none.
add taking
We are at the max, ... We can't add anything out here without taking away something else.
rule streaming thy
With thy long levelled rule of streaming light.
necessity
With necessity, / The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
deep devour fly hell lower lowest opens seems suffer
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n
dost heart prefer pure temples thou upright
Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure