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“The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.”

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This book is a compilation of various poems, showcasing a range of themes and styles, reflecting the author's poetic prowess and imaginative expression. more

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John Milton

John Milton, born on December 9, 1608, in London, and died on November 8, 1674, was a renowned English poet and scholar. He is best known for his epic poem 'Paradise Lost,' which has had a profound impact on world literature. more

“Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.”

Wells Lying Dies White Tears Flower Rose Cups Pale Shed Toes Violet Jet Crow Glowing Forsaken Pensive Musk Embroidery Pansies

Author:John Milton

“This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.”

Thee Thyself Servitude Unwise

Author:John Milton

“And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.”

“Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.”

Sound Lows Wide Rising Shore Sullen Curfew

Author:John Milton

“Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.”

Knows Know How Mouths Blind Sheep Hook Scarce

Author:John Milton

“What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.”

Lying Waste Honour Compliment Wasting Time Hollow Tedious

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

“On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.”

Sound Doors Harsh Thunder Hinges Recoil Paradise Lost Book 2 Grate Impetuous

Author:John Milton

“For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.”

Littles Ease Frail

Author:John Milton

“O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.”

Flower Fading

Author:John Milton

“The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.”