greykit.poetry — John Milton
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1673
[john-milton]
Sonnet XIX: When I consider how my light is spent
Blind before half his days are done, the poet asks whether God exacts day-labour of a man he has left in the dark — and patience answers before the question is finished: they also serve who only stand and waite.
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1673
[john-milton]
Sonnet XV: On the late Massacher in Piemont
Written on the slaughter of the Waldensians in 1655: Avenge O Lord thy slaughter'd Saints — mothers and infants rolled down the rocks, their moans redoubled from the vales to the hills to heaven, their blood sown to grow a hundredfold against the triple tyrant.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book I
Book I of Milton's Paradise Lost — satan and the fallen angels rouse on the burning lake and raise Pandemonium.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book II
Book II of Milton's Paradise Lost — the infernal council debates revenge; Satan alone sets out for the new world.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book III
Book III of Milton's Paradise Lost — god foresees the Fall, the Son offers himself, and Satan wings toward Eden.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book IV
Book IV of Milton's Paradise Lost — satan enters Paradise and first beholds Adam and Eve in their innocence.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book IX
Book IX of Milton's Paradise Lost — the temptation and the Fall — Eve, and then Adam, eat the forbidden fruit.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book V
Book V of Milton's Paradise Lost — raphael, sent to warn Adam, begins the tale of the angels' revolt.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book VI
Book VI of Milton's Paradise Lost — the three-day war in Heaven and the Son's victory over the rebel host.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book VII
Book VII of Milton's Paradise Lost — raphael recounts the six days' Creation of the world.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book VIII
Book VIII of Milton's Paradise Lost — adam relates his own creation and discourse with God; Raphael departs.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book X
Book X of Milton's Paradise Lost — judgment is passed; Sin and Death bridge Chaos; discord enters the world.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book XI
Book XI of Milton's Paradise Lost — michael foretells to Adam the future woes that follow from sin.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book XII
Book XII of Milton's Paradise Lost — michael's prophecy of redemption through Christ; the expulsion from Paradise.
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1638
[john-milton]
Lycidas
A pastoral elegy for a college contemporary drowned in the Irish Sea, which breaks off mid-lament to arraign the corrupt clergy of the age — the two-handed engine at the door — before rising into consolation and turning away to fresh woods and pastures new.