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
mood perfect soft
In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood / Of flutes and soft recorders.
court mansion starry threshold
Before the starry threshold of Jove's Court / My mansion is.
Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
bee doth eye flowery hide work
Hide me from day's garish eye / While the bee with honied thigh / That at her flowery work doth sing.
childhood morning shows youth
Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
slow
By slow Meander's margent green, / And in the violet-embroidered vale.
change dim disastrous eclipse fear half twilight
In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds / On half the nations, and with fear of change / Perplexes monarchs.
against argue bear hand heart nor onward steer
I argue not against heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot of heart or hope, but still bear up, and steer right onward
coming far onward
He onward came, far off his coming shone.
dignity gesture grace love
Grace was in all her steps, Heav'n in her Eye, In every gesture dignity and love
absence confidence wonderful
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor
feed move voluntary
Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move / Harmonious numbers.
bloody infant mother
The bloody Piedmontese that rolled / Mother with infant down the rocks.
audience fit govern thou though
Still govern thou my song, / Urania, and fit audience find, though few.