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
freely love serve stand
Freely we serve / Because we freely love, as in our will / To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
absolutely active books bred contain dead intellect life living preserve purest soul whose
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them
absolutely active books bred certain contain dead intellect life living purest soul whose
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
love obey whom
Be strong, live happy, and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey
heaven hell rule serve
Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven
blest pair voice
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'n's joy,/ Sphere-born harmonious sisters, voice and verse.
gaza mill
Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
belated dreams fairy forest midnight moon overhead peasant side whose
Fairy elves, / Whose midnight revels, by a forest side / Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, / Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon / Sits arbitress.
art heavy thou
But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, / Now thou art gone, and never must return!
brought embrace
But O as to embrace me she inclined, / I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
black dreadful fierce shook stood ten terrible
Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.
dancing youth
To many a youth and many a maid, / Dancing in the chequered shade.
obscure palpable uncouth
Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.
flown forth insolence night sons wander wine
When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine