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
art heavy thou
But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, / Now thou art gone, and never must return!
calm event experience great hath passion peace true
He with new acquist / Of true experience from this great event / With peace and consolation hath dismissed, / And calm of mind, all passion spent.
nature point relying risks taking
As an engineer, I feel it's at a point we should be concerned, ... We're taking risks already. I don't like relying on nature not to do something.
beginning heroic pleased since song subject
Since first this subject for heroic song / Pleased me long choosing, and beginning late.
slow
By slow Meander's margent green, / And in the violet-embroidered vale.
grace great
All is, if I have grace to use it so, / As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
beauty high
Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown/ In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities.
beauty
Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, but must be current.
dangers days evil mortal mute safe sing though unchanged
More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged / To hoarse or mute though fall'n on evil days, / On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues; / In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, / And solitude.
coming far onward
He onward came, far off his coming shone.
night
All but the wakeful nightingale; / She all night long her amorous descant sung.
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.
golden leaders-and-leadership
A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
enduring incapable miserable
It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.