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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) Song on May Morning - The Poetical Works of John Milton
Song on May Morning - 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
SONG
On May morning.- Now the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger,
- Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her
- The Flowry May, who from her green lap throws
- The yellow Cowslip, and the pale Primrose.
- Hail bounteous May that dost inspire
- Mirth and youth, and warm desire,
- Woods and Groves, are of thy dressing,
- Hill and Dale, doth boast thy blessing.
- Thus we salute thee with our early Song,
- And welcom thee, and wish thee long.10
On Shakespear. 1630.- What my Shakespear for his honour’d Bones,
- The labour of an age in piled Stones,
- Or that his hallow’d reliques should be hid
- Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?
- Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame,
- What need’st thou such witnes of thy name?
- Thou in our wonder and astonishment
- Hast built thy self a Monument.
- For whilst to th’shame of slow-endeavouring art,
- Thy easie numbers flow, and that each 10
- Hath from the leaves of thy unvalu’d Book,
- Those Delphick lines with deep impression took,
- Then thou our fancy of self bereaving,
- Dost make us Marble with too much conceaving;
- And so Sepulcher’d in such pomp dost lie,
- That Kings for such a Tomb would wish to die.
On Shakespear. Reprinted 1632 in the second folio Shakespeare: Title] An epitaph on the admirable dramaticke poet W. Shakespeare
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,
- And here alas, hath laid him in the dirt,
- Or els the ways being foul, twenty to one,
- He’s here stuck in a slough, and overthrown.
- ’Twas such a shifter, that if truth were known,
- Death was half glad when he had got him down;
- For he had any time this ten yeers full,
- Dodg’d with him, betwixt Cambridge and the Bull.
- And surely, Death could never have prevail’d,
- Had not his weekly cours of carriage fail’d;10
- But lately finding him so long at home,
- And thinking now his journeys end was come,
- And that he had tane up his latest Inne,
- In the kind office of a Chamberlin
- Shew’d him his room where he must lodge that night,
- Pull’d off his Boots, and took away the light:
- If any ask for him, it shall be sed,
- Hobson has supt, and’s newly gon to bed.
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