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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) At a Solemn Musick. - The Poetical Works of John Milton
At a Solemn Musick. - 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
At a Solemn Musick.
- Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav’ns joy,
- Sphear-born harmonious Sisters, Voice, and Vers,
- Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employ
- Dead things with inbreath’d sense able to pierce,
- And to our high-rais’d phantasie present,
- That undisturbed Song of pure
- Ay sung before the saphire-colour’d throne
- To him that sits theron
- With Saintly shout, and solemn Jubily,
- Where the bright Seraphim in burning row10
- Their loud up-lifted Angel trumpets blow,
- And the Cherubick host in thousand quires
- Touch their immortal Harps of golden wires,
- With those just Spirits that wear victorious Palms,
- Hymns devout and holy Psalms
- Singing everlastingly;
- That we on Earth with undiscording voice
- May rightly answer that melodious noise;
- As once we did, till disproportion’d sin
- Jarr’d against natures chime, and with harsh din20
- Broke the fair musick that all creatures made
- To their great Lord, whose love their motion sway’d
- In perfect Diapason, whilst they stood
- In first obedience, and their state of good.
- O may we soon again renew that Song
- And keep in tune with Heav’n, till God ere long
- To his celestial consort us unite,
- To live with him, and sing in endles morn of light.
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