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
air voice singing
How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?
slave mills gaza
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
peers satan pandemonium
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.
dark night waste
A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.
evil ignorant vision
O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.
spring twilight grateful
From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.
pet pulse would-be
If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.
children mean law
Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.
loss lovely devil
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss
love two eden
These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
bible jesus father
The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, articulate but unseen, is the same Saviour who, on the open heights of the Gospel, and in the abundant daylight of this New Testament, speaks to us. Still all along it is the same Jesus, and that Bible is from beginning to end all of it, the word of Christ.
solitude companionship sometimes
Solitude sometimes is best society.
moon sea light
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
fall lucifer arise
Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.