{"id":29,"date":"2013-05-25T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/2013\/05\/25\/sonnet-to-milton\/"},"modified":"2013-05-25T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T15:31:00","slug":"sonnet-to-milton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/2013\/05\/25\/sonnet-to-milton\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet to Milton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Sonnet to Milton<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RxYf6v-0H-0\/UaDnHHES17I\/AAAAAAAAB08\/-dNcLIh0x_Y\/s1600\/john-milton.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RxYf6v-0H-0\/UaDnHHES17I\/AAAAAAAAB08\/-dNcLIh0x_Y\/s1600\/john-milton.jpg\" height=\"208\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAll-hallow\u2019d Milton! Though thine earthly eyes<br \/>\nWere dark as in the unillumined night,<br \/>\nYet thy rapt fancy soar\u2019d beyond the skies,<br \/>\nUndazzled, e\u2019er by Heaven\u2019s all-radiant light:<br \/>\nNo earthly objects could impede the flight; 5<br \/>\nFor unto thee was given visions fair<br \/>\nOf man, fresh from his Maker, ere the blight<br \/>\nOf sin had fallen on the happy pair<br \/>\nWho dwelt in Eden, God\u2019s especial care.<br \/>\nThou lived in troubled times, immortal bard!\u2014 10<br \/>\nIn times when there was need of such as thee\u2014<br \/>\nAnd we rejoice to know thou labour\u2019d hard<br \/>\nFor thine own \u201cmountain nymph, sweet Liberty,\u201d<br \/>\nAnd now hast gain\u2019d of Fame \u201cexceeding great reward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<b>Peter Proletarius<\/b>\u2019 aka <b>George Markham Tweddell<\/b><br \/>\n[Tweddell\u2019s Yorkshire Miscellany, p. 334, July 1846]<\/p>\n<p>Bio<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/bio\/john-milton\"><b>http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/bio\/john-milton<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonnet to Milton All-hallow\u2019d Milton! Though thine earthly eyes Were dark as in the unillumined night, Yet thy rapt fancy soar\u2019d beyond the skies, Undazzled, e\u2019er by Heaven\u2019s all-radiant light: No earthly objects could impede the flight; 5 For unto thee was given visions fair Of man, fresh from his Maker, ere the blight Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}