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
dost heart prefer pure temples thou upright
Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure
house temples towers
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.
temples christ force
We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.
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.