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
call half left
Or call up him that left half told / The story of Cambuscan bold.
daughter god law left reason rest sole
God so commanded, and left that command/ Sole daughter of his voice; the rest we live / Law to ourselves, our reason is our law.
fear no-hope left
Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
fate strict left
He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity;
enduring incapable miserable
It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
deep devour fly hell lower lowest opens seems suffer
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n
angel golden hovering thou welcome
O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, / Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.
country wherever
Our country is wherever we are well off
deadly found restless rush sooner
Restless thoughts, like a deadly swarm of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, but rush upon me thronging.
brought shadow sin
Man's disobedience) brought into this World a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's Harbinger
ear free quite won
Such strains as would have won the ear / Of Pluto, to have quite set free / His half-regained Eurydice.
glory race shall
My race of glory run, and race of shame, / And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
bay harbor port sites
Mats Mats Bay and the Port of Grays Harbor are the two sites we are considering.
arabian bird knows lay nor second self woods
Like that self-begotten bird / In the Arabian woods embost, / That no second knows nor third, / And lay ere while a holocaust.