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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) Psalm 136. - The Poetical Works of John Milton
Psalm 136. - John Milton, The Poetical Works of John Milton [1900]Edition used:The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited after the Original Texts by the Rev. H.C. Beeching M.A. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900).
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- Preface.
- Miscellaneous Poems.
- On the Morning of Christs Nativity.
- The Hymn.
- A Paraphrase On Psalm 114.
- Psalm 136.
- The Passion.
- On Time.
- Upon the Circumcision.
- At a Solemn Musick.
- An Epitaph On the Marchioness of Winchester.
- Song On May Morning
- Another On the Same.
- L’allegro.
- Il Penseroso.
- Sonnets.
- Arcades.
- Lycidas.
- A Maske Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634: On Michaelmasse Night, Before the Right Honorable, Iohn Earle of Bridgewater, Vicount Brackly, Lord Præsident of Wales, and One of His Maiesties Most Honorable Privie Counsell.
- Poems Added In the 1673 Edition.
- Anno Aetatis 17. On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough.
- Anno Aetatis 19. At a Vacation Exercise In the Colledge, Part Latin, Part English. the Latin Speeches Ended, the English Thus Began.
- The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I.
- Sonnets.
- On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament.
- On the Lord Gen. Fairfax At the Seige of Colchester.
- To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652.
- To S R Henry Vane the Younger.
- To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness.
- Psal. I. Done Into Verse, 1653.
- April, 1648. J. M. Nine of the Psalms Done Into Metre, Wherein All But What Is In a Different Character, Are the Very Words of the Text, Translated From the Original.
- Passages From Prose Writings.
- A Collection of Passages Translated In the Prose Writings.
- Joanni Miltoni
- Elegiarum Liber Primus.
- Sylvarum Liber.
- Paradise Lost.
- Book I.
- Book II.
- Book III.
- Book IV.
- Book V.
- Book VI.
- Book VII.
- Book VIII.
- Book IX.
- Book X.
- Book XI.
- Book XII.
- Paradise Regaind. a Poem.
- The First Book.
- The Second Book.
- The Third Book.
- The Fourth Book.
- Samson Agonistes, a Dramatic Poem.
- Appendix.
- ( a ): Specimen of Milton’s Spelling, From the Cambridge Autograph Manuscript.
- ( B ): Note of a Few Readings In the Same Manuscript.
- ( C ) Erratum
Psalm 136.
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- Let us with a gladsom mind
- Praise the Lord, for he is kind,
- For his mercies ay endure,
- Ever faithfull, ever sure.
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- Let us blaze his Name abroad,
- For of gods he is the God;
- For, &c.
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- O let us his praises tell,
- doth the wrathfull tyrants quell.10
- For, &c.
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- with his miracles doth make
- Amazed Heav’n and Earth to shake.
- For, &c.
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- by his wisdom did create
- The painted Heav’ns so full of state.
- For, &c.20
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- did the solid Earth ordain
- To rise above the watry plain.
- For, &c.
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- by his all-commanding might,
- Did fill the new-made world with light.
- For, &c.
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- And caus’d the Golden-tressed Sun,
- All the day long his cours to run.30
- For, &c.
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- The horned Moon to shine by night,
- Amongst her spangled sisters bright.
- For, &c.
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- He with his thunder-clasping hand,
- Smote the first-born of Egypt Land.
- For, &c.40
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- And in despight of Pharao fell,
- He brought from thence his Israel.
- For, &c.
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- The ruddy waves he cleft in twain,
- Of the Erythræan main.
- For, &c.
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- The floods stood still like Walls of Glass,
- While the Hebrew Bands did pass.50
- For, &c.
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- But full soon they did devour
- The Tawny King with all his power.
- For, &c.
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- His chosen people he did bless
- In the wastfull Wildernes.
- For, &c.60
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- In bloody battail he brought down
- Kings of prowess and renown.
- For, &c.
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- He foild bold Seon and his host,
- That rul’d the Amorrean coast.
- For, &c.
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- And large-lim’d Og he did subdue,
- With all his over hardy crew.70
- For, &c.
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- And to his Servant Israel,
- He gave their Land therin to dwell.
- For, &c.
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- He hath with a piteous eye
- Beheld us in our misery.
- For, &c.80
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- And freed us from the slavery
- Of the invading enimy.
- For, &c.
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- All living creatures he doth feed,
- And with full hand supplies their need.
- For, &c.
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- Let us therfore warble forth
- His mighty Majesty and worth.90
- For, &c.
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- That his mansion hath on high
- Above the reach of mortall ey.
- For his mercies ay endure,
- Ever faithfull, ever sure.
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