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
cloud forth lining silver turn
Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud / Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
bottomless chains dwell
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell / In adamantine chains and penal fire.
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.
rule streaming thy
With thy long levelled rule of streaming light.
truth
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
english-poet heal otherwise
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
argument assert eternal god great height justify low men raise ways
What in me is dark, Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men
flown forth insolence night sons wander wine
When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine