PagineMilton wrote Paradise Lost, an epic of the fall of Adam and Eve, after he had gone completely blind, dictating it to helpers. His sonnet on his blindness ends with one of the best-known lines in English: “They also serve who only stand and wait.”
Public-domain poems, free to read and print.
Free in the library:
Yes. John Milton’s poems are in the public domain, and you can read 2 of them here or as a flip book. Full books are also free in the library.
Paradise Lost (1667), Paradise Regained (1671), Lycidas (1638).