John Milton Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674
Birthday: December 9
Death: November 8
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
source: 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598
topic: Life, Queens, Twilight, Firmament, Sapphires, Paradise Lost Book 9, Clouded, Nightingales, Amorous
