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
dark deserts hid night silent sun
The sun to me is dark / And silent as the moon, / When she deserts the night / Hid in her vacant, interlunar cave.
flown forth insolence night sons wander wine
When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine
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.
night
All but the wakeful nightingale; / She all night long her amorous descant sung.
dark night waste
A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.
god night men
And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, The less by night...
sleep night insomnia
What hath night to do with sleep?
night rose darkness
Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.
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.
time night fire
Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
pain night intellectual
And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion?
dark night venture
I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend...
war night men
O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.
wine son night
And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.