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
among faithful
The seraph Abdiel, faithful found, / Among the faithless, faithful only he.
childhood empire extend famous mind morning shows thy
The childhood shows the man, / As morning shows the day. Be famous then / By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, / So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.
absence confidence wonderful
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor
love nor permit short thou thy
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n
engine ready stands
But that two-handed engine at the door, / Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
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.
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
love obey whom
Be strong, live happy, and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey
running dust race
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
anon bed flames forehead morning ocean tricks
So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, / And yet anon repairs his drooping head, / And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore, / Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.
court mansion starry threshold
Before the starry threshold of Jove's Court / My mansion is.
anybody five talk
Now, anybody can talk about anything they want for five minutes,
bird coming evening fair gems grateful night silent solemn starry sweet
Sweet the coming on / Of grateful evening mild; then silent night / With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, / And these the gems of heaven, her starry train.
above according argue english-poet freely liberty
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.