John Milton's Poetry, by popularity

• Sonnet XXI. To Cyriac Skinner

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

  14 lines
• 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
• Paradise Regain'd : Book IV.

  Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
  The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,

  640 lines
• Psalm CXIV. (114) : A Paraphrase

  When the blest seed of Terah's faithful Son,
  After long toil their liberty had won,

  17 lines
• Sonnet XX: To Mr. Lawrence

  Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son,
  Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire,

  14 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
• Let us with a Gladsome Mind

  Let us with a gladsome mind
  Praise the Lord, for He is king,

  13 lines
• Psalm CXXXVI. (136)

  Let us with a gladsome mind 
  Praise the Lord for he is kind; 

  95 lines
• Sonnet XXIII. On His Deceased Wife

  Methought I saw my late espoused Saint
  Brought to me like Alcestus from the grave,

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Psalm LXXXV. (85)

  Thy Land to favour graciously
  Thou hast not Lord been slack,

  55 lines
• Psalm LXXXI. (81)

  To God our strength sing loud, and clear,
  Sing loud to God our King,

  67 lines
• Psalm LXXXVI. (86)

  Thy gracious ear, O Lord, encline,
  O hear me I thee pray,

  63 lines
• Psalm LXXXVIII. (88)

  Lord God that dost me save and keep,
  All day to thee I cry;

  71 lines
• Sonnet XII. On The Same. (Being On The Detraction)

  I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
  By the known rules of antient libertie,

  13 lines
• Sonnet XVII. To Sir Henry Vane The Younger

  Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old, 
    Than whom a better senator ne'er held 

  14 lines
• Psalm IV.

  Answer me when I call
  God of my righteousness;

  47 lines
• Psalm VII.

  Upon The Words Of Chush The Benjamite Against Him.
  

  76 lines
• Psalm LXXXIII. (83)

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

  67 lines
• Psalm LXXXIV. (84)

  How lovely are thy dwellings fair!
  O Lord of Hoasts, how dear

  47 lines
• Psalm VI.

  Lord in thine anger do not reprehend me
  Nor in thy hot displeasure me correct;

  23 lines
• Sonnet III.

  Qual in colle aspro, al imbrunir di sera
  L'avezza giovinetta pastorella

  31 lines
• Sonnet XIV. On The Religious Memory Of Mrs. Catharine Thomson, My Christian Friend, Deceas'd 16 Decem. 1646

  When Faith and Love which parted from thee never,
  Had ripen'd thy just soul to dwell with God,

  14 lines
• The Fifth Ode Of Horace. Lib. I

  Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa, rendred almost word for word without rime, according to the Latin measure, as near as the language

  17 lines
• Sonnet IV.

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

  13 lines
• Sonnet VI.

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

  13 lines
• Sonnet X. To The Lady Margaret Ley

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

  14 lines
• Psalm I.

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

  15 lines
• Psalm II.

  Why do the Gentiles tumult, and the Nations
  Muse a vain thing, the Kings of th'earth upstand

  27 lines
• Psalm LXXXII. (82)

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

  27 lines
• Psalm V.

  Jehovah to my words give ear
  My meditation waigh

  38 lines

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