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
air whirlwind
Ride the air In whirlwind.
change dim disastrous eclipse fear half twilight
In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds / On half the nations, and with fear of change / Perplexes monarchs.
best gentle modest reluctant required sway sweet
Implied / Subjection, but required with gentle sway / And by her yielded, by him best received; / Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, / And sweet reluctant amorous delay.
solitude sometimes
Solitude is sometimes best society.
car
Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
car
Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
ifs
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
garden leisure add
And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.