John Milton's Poetry, by written

• Samson Agonistes

  The Scene before the Prison in Gaza.
  Samson:  A little onward lend thy guiding hand

  1912 lines
• Sonnet II.

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

  13 lines
• Sonnet III.

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

  31 lines
• Sonnet IV.

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

  13 lines
• Sonnet V.

  Per certo i bei vostr'occhi Donna mia
  Esser non puo che non fian lo mio sole

  13 lines
• Sonnet VI.

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

  13 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 IX. To A Virtuous Young Lady

  Lady that in the prime of earliest youth,
  Wisely hath shun'd the broad way and the green,

  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
• Psalm CXIV. (114) : A Paraphrase

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

  17 lines
• 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
• 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
• On Time

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

  21 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• At A Solemn Musick

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

  25 lines
• The Passion

  Ere-while of Musick, and Ethereal mirth,
  Wherwith the stage of Ayr and Earth did ring,

  72 lines
• Upon The Circumcision

  Ye flaming Powers, and winged Warriours bright,
  That erst with Musick, and triumphant song

  27 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 Shakespear

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

  15 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• 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
• Song. On May Morning

  Now the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger,
  Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her

  9 lines
• Sonnet VII: On His Being Arriv'd To The Age Of 23

  How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
  Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

  14 lines, 5 comments
• 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
• A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634. (Comus)

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

  1114 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
• Sonnet I : To The Nightingale

  O Nightingale, that on yon blooming spray 
  Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, 

  13 lines

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