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
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.
angel light thrones
Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
moon sea light
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
light essence heaven
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
light darkness horror
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.
light long way
Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
light umpires safe
And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.
light envy shining
When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.
dark night light
Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
sleep light digestion
His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.
light waiting darkness
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting--since our present lot appears For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to ourselves more woe.
dance light goes-on
Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
order voice light
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
flames light darkness
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.