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
both creatures earth millions sleep spiritual wake walk
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep
both creatures earth millions sleep spiritual walk
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.
blest happier happiest seek sleep
Sleep on, Blest pair; and O yet happiest if ye seek No happier state, and know to know no more
sleep night insomnia
What hath night to do with sleep?
fall sleep weight
The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.
sleep light digestion
His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.
sleep dew timely
The timely dew of sleep.
sleep light earth
Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.
strong sleep eye
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
sleep silence pace
Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
sleep silence midnight
Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
mother sleep lap
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
wisdom sleep thinking
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
death sleep immortal-life
A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.