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
bloody infant mother
The bloody Piedmontese that rolled / Mother with infant down the rocks.
audience fit govern thou though
Still govern thou my song, / Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
against apology best deeds dishonest false honest silence words
The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words
bark built curses fatal rigged
It was that fatal and perfidious bark / Built in th' eclipse, and rigged with curses dark.
bird coming evening fair gems grateful night silent solemn starry sweet
Sweet the coming on / Of grateful evening mild; then silent night / With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, / And these the gems of heaven, her starry train.
might shape
The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none.
consider dark days death half light spent talent
When I consider how my light is spent / Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, / And that one talent which is death to hide, / Lodged with me useless.
necessity
With necessity, / The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
rule streaming thy
With thy long levelled rule of streaming light.
add taking
We are at the max, ... We can't add anything out here without taking away something else.
argument assert eternal god great height justify low men raise ways
What in me is dark, Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men
cloud forth lining silver turn
Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud / Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
bottomless chains dwell
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell / In adamantine chains and penal fire.
dost heart prefer pure temples thou upright
Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure