greykit.poetry — #1670s

• 1673 [john-milton] Sonnet XIX: When I consider how my light is spent
  Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions

  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.

  #sonnet#blindness#religion#1670s
• 1673 [john-milton] Sonnet XV: On the late Massacher in Piemont
  Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions

  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.

  #sonnet#massacre#protest#1670s