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
bears moderation states
Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.
melancholy frenzy
Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.
light sacred influence
The sacred influence of light appears.
kings fighting men
When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.
sin immortality
Death from sin no power can separate.
art husband thinking
With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.
husband thee submit
And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.
husband wife danger
The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.
law paradise-lost-book-9 paradise-lost-book-2
God is thy law, thou mine.
book heaven thee
Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.
art hate wind
I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.
couple hate law
Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.
hair locks purpose
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.
glory fame
For what is glory but the blaze of fame?