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.
chronicle fighting fights-and-fighting wars
To chronicle the wars of kites and crows, fighting in the air.
flown forth insolence night sons wander wine
When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine
faith angel wings
O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.