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
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
daughter god law left reason rest sole
God so commanded, and left that command/ Sole daughter of his voice; the rest we live / Law to ourselves, our reason is our law.
dire entrance high immortal leads rocks verse whose
Storied of old in high immortal verse / Of dire chimeras and enchanted isles, / And rifted rocks whose entrance leads to Hell.
adding fuel gone knows thy words
He's gone and who knows how he may report/ Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
anarchy laws limited power protected sure
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them
attic bird notes retirement summer
The olive-grove of Academe, / Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird / Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
haughty nation proud
An old, and haughty nation proud in arms.
common hail human law mysterious paradise sole source true
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source / Of human offspring, sole propriety / In Paradise of all things common else.
chains hidden melting soul tie voice
The melting voice through mazes running;/ Untwisting all the chains that tie / The hidden soul of harmony.
diminished hide sight stars whose
At whose sight all the stars / Hide their diminished heads.
rude winter
It was the winter wild, / While the Heaven-born child, / All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
bright eyes judge rain store whose
Store of ladies, whose bright eyes / Rain influence, and judge the prize.
spray woods
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray / Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still.
shades
Fled / Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.