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
daughter shapes cups
Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?
sight caves shapes
Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.
necessity
With necessity, / The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
might shape
The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none.
add taking
We are at the max, ... We can't add anything out here without taking away something else.
rule streaming thy
With thy long levelled rule of streaming light.
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.
country wherever
Our country is wherever we are well off
deadly found restless rush sooner
Restless thoughts, like a deadly swarm of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, but rush upon me thronging.
bay harbor port sites
Mats Mats Bay and the Port of Grays Harbor are the two sites we are considering.
arabian bird knows lay nor second self woods
Like that self-begotten bird / In the Arabian woods embost, / That no second knows nor third, / And lay ere while a holocaust.
enduring incapable miserable
It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
create ear might ribs soul took
I was all ear / And took in strains that might create a soul / Under the ribs of Death.
brought shadow sin
Man's disobedience) brought into this World a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's Harbinger