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
farewell fields hail happy joy
Farewell happy fields / Where joy for ever dwells: Hail horrors, hail!
joy paradise woe
O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!
thinking joy delight
Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.
hope joy paradise-lost-book-9
Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.
happiness farewell joy
Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.
sweet joy drink
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.
ambition joy
Such joy ambition finds.
love golden-days joy
See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.
grief rivers joy
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
garden two joy
Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.
fall ambition joy
With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.
obscure palpable uncouth
Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.
rude winter
It was the winter wild, / While the Heaven-born child, / All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
among faithful
The seraph Abdiel, faithful found, / Among the faithless, faithful only he.