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John Milton

December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674

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	Poem Title	First Lines	Period	# Lines	# Reads
1:	An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare	What needs my Shakespeare for his honored bones		16	1020
2:	An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester	This rich Marble doth enterr		74	952
3:	Anno aetatis 17. On the Death of a fair Infant dying of a Cough.	O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted,		77	661
4:	Anno Aetatis 19. 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		103	726
5:	Another on "On the Gunpowder Plot."	Purgatorem animae derisit Jacobus ignem,		12	1718
6:	Another on "On the Gunpowder Plot."	Quem modo Roma suis devoverat impia diris,		4	919
7:	Another on "On The University Carrier who sickn'd in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the plague."	Here lieth one who did most truly prove,		34	615
8:	Arcades.	Look Nymphs, and Shepherds look,		115	677
9:	At A Solemn Musick	Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'ns joy,		28	725
10:	At A Vacation Exercise In The Colledge, Part Latin, Part English.	Hail native Language, that by sinews weak		105	1061
11:	Canzone	Ridonsi donne e giovani amorosi		15	738
12:	Collection of passages translated in the prose writings.	Ah Constantine, of how much ill was cause		70	876
13:	Comus	Before the starry threshold of Jove’s court	1634	1135	813
14:	Elegy I To Charles Diodati.¹	At length, my friend, the far-sent letters come,		95	891
15:	Elegy II On the Death of the University Beadle at Cambridge.¹	Thee, whose refulgent staff and summons clear,		30	929
16:	Elegy III - Anno Aetates 17.¹ - On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester.²	Silent I sat, dejected, and alone,		71	859
17:	Elegy IV. - Anno Aetates 18. - To My Tutor, Thomas Young,¹ Chaplain of the English Merchants Resident at Hamburg.	Hence, my epistle skim the Deep fly o'er		122	850
18:	Elegy V. - Anno Aetates 20. - On the Approach of Spring.	Time, never wand'ring from his annual round,		140	877
19:	Elegy VI. - To Charles Diodati, When He Was Visiting in the Country	With no rich viands overcharg'd, I send		92	830
20:	Elegy VI. Anno Aetates undevigesimo.¹	As yet a stranger to the gentle fires		112	801
21:	Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester	This rich marble doth inter	1631	74	778
22:	How Soon Hath Time	How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,		14	1016
23:	Il Penseroso	Hence vain deluding joyes,	1645	179	669
24:	Light	Hail holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born,		55	998
25:	Lycidas	Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more	1638	194	787
26:	L’Allegro	Hence, loathed Melancholy,	1645	152	796
27:	Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint	Methought I saw my late espoused Saint		14	941
28:	On His Blindness	When I consider how my light is spent		14	880
29:	On His Deceased Wife	Methought I saw my late espoused Saint		14	819
30:	On Paradise Lost.	When I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold,		54	913
31:	On Shakespeare.	What needs my Shakespear for his honour'd Bones,	1630	16	668
32:	On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough	O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted,		77	832
33:	On the Death of the Bishop of Ely.¹ - Anno Aetates 17.	My lids with grief were tumid yet,		68	862
34:	On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, A Physician.¹	Learn ye nations of the earth		48	794
35:	On the Engraver of his Portrait.¹	Survey my Features, you will own it clear		8	869
36:	On the Fifth of November. - Anno Aetates 17.	Am pius extrema veniens Jacobus ab arcto		226	1767
37:	On the Gunpowder Plot.	Cum simul in regem nuper satrapasque Britannos		8	920
38:	On the Inventor of Gunpowder.	Praise in old time the sage Prometheus won,		4	842
39:	On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the Seige of Colchester.	Fairfax, whose name in armes through Europe rings		14	863
40:	On The Morning Of Christs Nativity.	This is the Month, and this the happy morn	1629	213	676
41:	On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament.	Because you have thrown of your Prelate Lord,		20	866
42:	On the Platonic 'Ideal' as it was Understood by Aristotle.	Ye sister Pow'rs who o'er the sacred groves		45	951
43:	On The Religious Memory Of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, My Christian Friend, Deceased Dec. 16, 1646	When Faith and Love, which parted from thee never,		14	873
44:	On The University Carrier who sickn'd in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the plague.	Here lies old Hobson, Death hath broke his girt,		18	603
45:	On Time	Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race,		22	741
46:	Paradise Lost - Book I	Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit		798	774
47:	Paradise Lost - Book II	High on a Throne of Royal State, which far		1055	723
48:	Paradise Lost - Book III	Hail holy light, ofspring of Heav’n first-born,		742	679
49:	Paradise Lost - Book IV	O for that warning voice, which he who saw		1015	669
50:	Paradise Lost - Book IX	Meanwhile the hainous and despightfull act		1104	689
51:	Paradise Lost - Book V	Now Morn her rosie steps in th’ Eastern Clime		904	663
52:	Paradise Lost - Book VI	All night the dreadless Angel unpursu’d		912	702
53:	Paradise Lost - Book VII	Descend from Heav’n Urania, by that name		1290	663
54:	Paradise Lost - Book VIII	No more of talk where God or Angel Guest		1189	690
55:	Paradise Lost - Book X	Thus they in lowliest plight repentant stood		1540	675
56:	Paradise Regained - The First Book	I who e’re while the happy Garden sung,	1671	502	605
57:	Paradise Regained - The Fourth Book	Perplex’d and troubl’d at his bad success	1671	639	681
58:	Paradise Regained - The Second Book	Mean while the new-baptiz’d, who yet remain’d	1671	486	644
59:	Paradise Regained - The Third Book	So spake the Son of God, and Satan stood	1671	443	641
60:	Paradisum Amissam, Lib. II	Quales aerii montis de vertice nubes		8	1322
61:	Psal. I. Done into Verse	Bless'd is the man who hath not walk'd astray	1653	16	867
62:	Psal. II Done into verse	Why do the Gentiles tumult, and the Nations	1653	28	908
63:	Psal. III. When he fled from Absalom.	Lord how many are my foes How many those	1653	24	918
64:	Psal. IV.	Answer me when I call God of my righteousness		42	858
65:	Psal. LXXX.	Thou Shepherd that dost Israel keep		80	872
66:	Psal. LXXXI.	To God our strength sing loud, and clear,		68	903
67:	Psal. LXXXII.	God in the great assembly stands		28	827
68:	Psal. LXXXIII.	Be not thou silent now at length		68	893
69:	Psal. LXXXIV.	How lovely are thy dwellings fair!		48	861
70:	Psal. LXXXV.	Thy Land to favour graciously		56	828
71:	Psal. LXXXVI.	Thy gracious ear, O Lord, encline,		64	874
72:	Psal. LXXXVII	Among the holy Mountains high			827
73:	Psal. LXXXVIII	Lord God that dost me save and keep,		72	837
74:	Psal. V.	Jehovah to my words give ear		39	914
75:	Psal. VI	Lord in thine anger do not reprehend me		24	859
76:	Psal. VII. Upon the words of Chush the Benjamite against him.	Lord my God to thee I flie		64	822
77:	Psal. VIII.	O Jehovah our Lord how wondrous great	1653	24	839
78:	Psalm CXIV	When Israel by Jehovah call'd		34	843
79:	Psalm CXIV	When the blest seed of Terah's faithful Son,		18	848
80:	Samson Agonistes	A little onward lend thy guiding hand		1932	879
81:	Song On May Morning.	Now the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger,		10	653
82:	Sonnet to the Nightingale	O nightingale that on yon blooming spray		14	878
83:	Sonnet XX: Lawrence, of virtuous father	Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son,		14	841
84:	Sonnet XXII: To Cyriack Skinner	Cyriack, this three years' day these eyes, though clear		14	888
85:	Sonnets. I.	O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray		14	623
86:	Sonnets. II.	Donna leggiadra il cui bel nome honora		14	622
87:	Sonnets. III.	Qual in colle aspro, al imbrunir di sera		14	657
88:	Sonnets. IV.	Diodati, e te'l diro con maraviglia,		14	681
89:	Sonnets. IX	Lady that in the prime of earliest youth,		14	671
90:	Sonnets. V	Per certo i bei vostr'occhi Donna mia		14	641
91:	Sonnets. VI	Giovane piano, e semplicetto amante		14	658
92:	Sonnets. VII	How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth,		14	681
93:	Sonnets. VIII	Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms,		14	611
94:	Sonnets. X	Daughter to that good Earl, once President		14	707
95:	Sonnets. XI	A Book was writ of late call'd Tetrachordon;		14	903
96:	Sonnets. XII	I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs		14	893
97:	Sonnets. XIII - To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires	Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song		14	892
98:	Sonnets. XIV	When Faith and Love which parted from thee never,		14	862
99:	Sonnets. XIX	Methought I saw my late espoused Saint		14	909
100:	Sonnets. XV - On the late Massacher In Piemont.	Avenge O lord thy slaughter'd Saints, whose bones		14	893
101:	Sonnets. XVI	When I consider how my light is spent,		14	881
102:	Sonnets. XVII	Lawrence of vertuous Father vertuous Son,		14	840
103:	Sonnets. XVIII	Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench		14	869
104:	That Nature is Not Subject to Decay.	Ah, how the Human Mind wearies herself		83	911
105:	The Death of Damon.	Ye Nymphs of Himera (for ye have shed		305	886
106:	The Fable of the Peasant and his Landlord.	A Peasant to his lord yearly court,		12	797
107:	The Fifth Ode Of Horace. Lib. I.	What slender Youth bedew'd with liquid odours		14	653
108:	The Hymn	It was the winter wild, While the heaven-born Child		216	876
109:	The Passion.	Ere-while of Musick, and Ethereal mirth,		56	635
110:	The Philosopher and the King.	Know this, O King! that if thou shalt destroy		6	953
111:	To a Virtuous Young Lady	Lady! that in the prime of earliest youth		14	919
112:	To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa.	These verses also to thy praise the Nine		114	919
113:	To Giovanni Salzilli, a Roman Poet, in his Illness. Scazons.	My halting Muse, that dragg'st by choice along		40	937
114:	To Leonora (2)	Another Leonora once inspir'd Tasso, with fatal love to frenzy fir'd,			836
115:	To Leonora (3)	Naples, too credulous, ah! boast no more		8	816
116:	To Leonora,¹ Singing in Rome.	Angelus unicuique suus (sic credite gentes)		10	1507
117:	To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon his Blindness.	Cyriack, this three years day these eys, though clear		14	904
118:	To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs	Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song		14	848
119:	To Mr. John Rouse, Librarian of the University of Oxford,	My two-fold Book! single in show		92	989
120:	To My Father.	Oh that Pieria's spring¹ would thro' my breast		148	887
121:	To Sir Henry Vane the Younger.	Vane, young in yeares, but in sage counsell old,		14	871
122:	To the Lady Margaret Ley	Daughter to that good Earl, one President		14	868
123:	To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652.	Cromwell, our cheif of men, who through a cloud		14	887
124:	Translations of the Italian Poems I	Fair Lady, whose harmonious name the Rheno		14	833
125:	Translations of the Italian Poems II	As on a hill-top rude, when closing day		14	872
126:	Translations of the Italian Poems III Canzone.	They mock my toil the nymphs and am'rous swains		15	879
127:	Translations of the Italian Poems IV To Charles Diodati.	Charles and I say it wond'ring thou must know		14	819
128:	Translations of the Italian Poems V.	Lady! It cannot be, but that thine eyes		14	813
129:	Translations of the Italian Poems VI.	Enamour'd, artless, young, on foreign ground,		14	825
130:	Upon The Circumcision	Ye flaming Powers, and winged Warriours bright,		28	596
131:	When the Assault Was Intended to the City	Captain, or colonel, or knight in arms,		14	832

About:
John Milton was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. Most famed for his epic poem Paradise Lost, Milton is celebrated as well for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica. Long considered the supreme English poet, Milton experienced a dip in popularity after attacks by T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis in the mid 20th century; but with multiple societies and scholarly journals devoted to his study, Milton’s reputation remains as strong as ever in the 21st century.

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