John Milton's Poetry, by first line

• When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

        When I consider how my light is spent
            Ere half my days in this dark world an

  16 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet XI. On The Detraction Which Followed My Writing Certain Treatises

  A Book was writ of late call'd Tetrachordon;
  And wov'n close, both matter, form and stile;

  14 lines
• Paradise Lost : Book VI.

  All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued,
  Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn,

  911 lines
• Psalm LXXXVII. (87)

  Among the holy Mountains high
  Is his foundation fast,

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• Psalm IV.

  Answer me when I call
  God of my righteousness;

  47 lines
• Paradise Lost : Book XII.

  As one who in his journey bates at noon,
  Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused

  651 lines
• Sonnet XVIII: On The Late Massacre In Piemont

  Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones
  Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold,

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• Psalm LXXXIII. (83)

  Be not thou silent now at length
  O God hold not thy peace,

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• On The New Forcers Of Conscience Under The Long Parliament

  Because you have thrown of your Prelate Lord,
  And with stiff vows renounc'd his Liturgy,

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• Psalm I.

  Bless'd is the man who hath not walk'd astray
  In counsel of the wicked, and ith'way

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• At A Solemn Musick

  Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'n's joy,
  Sphere-born harmonious Sisters, Voice and Verse,

  25 lines
• Sonnet VIII. When The Assault Was Intended To The City

  Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms,
  Whose chance on these defenceless dores may sease,

  13 lines
• Sonnet XVI: To The Lord General Cromwell

  Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud
  Not of war only, but detractions rude,

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXII: To The Same. (Cyriac Skinner)

  Cyriac, this three years' day these eyes, though clear
      To outward view of blemish or of spot,

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXI. To Cyriac Skinner

  Cyriac, whose grandsire on the royal bench
  Of British Themis, with no mean applause

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• Sonnet X. To The Lady Margaret Ley

  Daughter to that good Earl, once President
  Of Englands Counsel, and her Treasury,

  14 lines
• Paradise Lost : Book VII.

  Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name
  If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine

  639 lines
• Sonnet IV.

  Diodati, e te'l diro con maraviglia,
  Quel ritroso io ch'amor spreggiar solea

  13 lines
• Sonnet II.

  Donna leggiadra il cui bel nome honora
  L'herbosa val di Rheno, e il nobil varco,

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• Sonnet XV. To The Lord General Fairfax

  Fairfax, whose Name in Arms through Europe rings,
    And fills all Mouths with Envy or with Praise,

  14 lines
• On Time

  Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race,
  Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,

  21 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet VI.

  Giovane piano, e semplicetto amante
  Poi che fuggir me stesso in dubbio sono,

  13 lines
• Psalm LXXXII. (82)

  God in the *great *assembly stands                    *Bagnadath-el
  Of Kings and lo

  27 lines
• At A Vacation Exercise In The Colledge, Part Latin, Part English. The Latin Speeches Ended, The English Thus Began

  Hail native Language, that by sinews weak
  Didst move my first endeavouring tongue to speak,

  109 lines
• Paradise Lost : Book III.

  Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn,
  Or of the Eternal coeternal beam

  741 lines
• Sonnet XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes On His Aires

  Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song
  First taught our English Musick how to span

  14 lines
• L'Allegro

  Hence, loathed Melancholy,
  Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born

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• Il Penseroso

  Hence, vain deluding Joys,
  The brood of Folly without father bred!

  175 lines
• On The University Carrier

  Here lies old Hobson, Death hath broke his girt,
  And here alas, hath laid him in the dirt,

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• Another On The Same (Being The University Carrier)

  Here lieth one who did most truly prove,
  That he could never die while he could move,

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