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
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A poet soaring in the high region of his fancies with his garland and singing robes about him.
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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?
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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
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To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.
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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
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Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.
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It was the winter wild, / While the Heaven-born child, / All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
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The seraph Abdiel, faithful found, / Among the faithless, faithful only he.
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And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, / The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, / But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, / Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.
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Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars / White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery.
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Fled / Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.
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Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
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Farewell happy fields / Where joy for ever dwells: Hail horrors, hail!
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Fear and dull disposition, luke warmness and sloth, are not seldom wont to cloak themselves under the affected name of Moderation.