John Milton's Poetry, by title

• A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634. (Comus)

  The first Scene discovers a wild wood.
  The ATTENDANT SPIRIT descends or enters,

  1114 lines
• An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester

  This rich Marble doth enterr
  The honour'd Wife of Winchester,

  73 lines, 1 comment
• 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,

  33 lines, 1 comment
• Arcades

  Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, who appear on the

  121 lines
• At A Solemn Musick

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

  25 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
• Il Penseroso

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

  175 lines
• L'Allegro

  Hence, loathed Melancholy,
  Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born

  151 lines
• Let us with a Gladsome Mind

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

  13 lines
• Lycidas

  In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned  in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637; and

  195 lines
• On Shakespear

  What needs my Shakespear for his honour'd Bones,
  The labour of an age in piled Stones,

  15 lines, 1 comment
• On The Death Of A Fair Infant, Dying Of A Cough

  O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted,
  Soft silken Primrose fading timeless lie,

  97 lines
• On The Morning Of Christ’s Nativity. Compos'd 1629

  This is the month, and this the happy morn, 
  Wherein the Son of Heaven’s eternal King, 

  307 lines
• 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,

  19 lines
• On The University Carrier

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

  17 lines
• On Time

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

  21 lines, 1 comment
• Paradise Lost : Book I.

  Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
  Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste

  797 lines, 4 comments
• Paradise Lost : Book II.

  High on a throne of royal state, which far
  Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind,

  1054 lines
• Paradise Lost : Book III.

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

  741 lines
• Paradise Lost : Book IV.

  O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw
  The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud,

  1014 lines
• Paradise Lost : Book IX.

  No more of talk where God or Angel guest
  With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd,

  1188 lines
• Paradise Lost : Book V.

  Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime
  Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl,

  906 lines
• Paradise Lost : Book VI.

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

  911 lines
• Paradise Lost : Book VII.

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

  639 lines
• Paradise Lost : Book VIII.

  The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear
  So charming left his voice, that he a while

  652 lines
• Paradise Lost : Book X.

  Mean while the heinous and despiteful act
  Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how

  1103 lines
• Paradise Lost : Book XI.

  Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood
  Praying; for from the mercy-seat above

  900 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
• Paradise Regain'd : Book I.

  I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung
  By one man's disobedience lost, now sing

  501 lines
• Paradise Regain'd : Book II.

  Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained
  At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen

  485 lines

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