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The Poetical Works of John Milton

A modern edition of the major poems of Milton. It contains the shorter poems, Paradise Lost and Regained, and Samson Agonistes.

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.
CONTENTS.
POEMS OF Mr. John Milton, BOTH ENGLISH and LATIN, Compos’d at several times.
THE STATIONER
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
Another on the same.
L’Allegro.
Il Penseroso.
SONNETS.
Arcades.
JUST A EDOVARDO KING naufrago, ab Amicis mœrentibus, amoris μνείας χάϐιν.
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.
1To the Right Honourable, John Lord Vicount Bracly, Son and Heir apparent to the Earl of Bridgewater, c.
1The Copy of a Letter writt’n by Sir Henry Wootton, to the Author, upon the following Poem.
The Persons.
A MASK Presented At LUDLOW-Castle, 1634. c.
The first Scene discovers a wilde Wood.
SONG.
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.
XII.: On the same.
To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires.
On the late Massacher in Piemont.
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 Sr Henry Vane the younger.
To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon his Blindness.
PSAL. I. Done into Verse, 1653.
PSAL. II. Done Aug. 8. 1653. Terzetti.
PSAL. III. Aug. 9. 1653. When he fled from Absalom.
PSAL. IV. Aug. 10. 1653.
PSAL. V. Aug. 12. 1653.
PSAL. VI. Aug. 13. 1653.
PSAL. VII. Aug. 14. 1653. Upon the words of Chush the Benjamite against him.
PSAL. VIII. Aug. 14. 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.
PSAL. LXXX.
PSAL. LXXXI.
PSAL. LXXXII.
PSAL. LXXXIII.
PSAL. LXXXIV.
PSAL. LXXXV.
PSAL. LXXXVI.
PSAL. LXXXVII.
PSAL. LXXXVIII.
Passages from Prose Writings.
A COLLECTION OF PASSAGES TRANSLATED IN THE PROSE WRITINGS.
Joannis Miltoni LONDINENSIS POEMATA. Quorum pleraque intra Annum ætatis Vigesimum Conscripsit.
Joannes Baptista Mansus, Marchio Villensis Neapolitanus ad Joannem Miltonium Anglum.
Ad Joannem Miltonem Anglum triplici poeseos laureâ coronandum Græcâ nimirum, Latinâ, atque Hetruscâ, Epigramma Joannis Salsilli Romani.
Ad Joannem Miltonum.
Al Signor Gio. Miltoni Nobile Inglese.
JOANNI MILTONI
LONDINIENSI.
ELEGIARUM Liber Primus.
Elegia prima ad Carolum Diodatum.
Elegia secunda, Anno ætatis 17. In obitum Præconis Academici Cantabrigiensis.
Elegia tertia, Anno ætatis 17. In obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis.
Elegia quarta. Anno ætatis 18. Ad Thomam Junium præceptorem suum apud mercatores Anglicos Hamburgæ agentes Pastoris munere fungentem.
Elegia quinta, Anno ætatis 20. In adventum veris.
Elegia sexta. Ad Carolum Diodatum ruri commorantem.
Elegia septima, Anno ætatis undevigesimo.
In Proditionem Bombardicam.
In eandem.
In eandem.
In eandem.
In inventorem Bombardæ.
Ad Leonoram Romæ canentem.
Ad eandem.
Ad eandem.
Apologus de Rustico Hero.
In Salmasii Hundredam.
In Salmasium.
SYLVARUM LIBER.
Anno ætatis 16. In obitum Procancellarii medici.
In quintum Novembris, Anno ætatis 17.
Anno ætatis 17. In obitum Præsulis Eliensis.
Naturam non pati senium.
De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit.
Ad Patrem.
Psalm 114.
Philosophus ad regem quendam qui eum ignotum insontem inter reos forte captum inscius damnaverat τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ πορευόμενος, hæc subito misit.
In Effigiei ejus Sculptorem.
Ad Salsillum poetam Romanum ægrotantem. SCAZONTES.
Miscellaneous Poems.
Mansus.
Epitaphium Damonis.
EPITAPHIUM DAMONIS. Argumentum.
Ad Joannem Rousium.
Jan. 23. 1646. Ad Joannem Rousium Oxoniensis Academiæ Bibliothecarium.
PARADISE LOST.
Paradise lost. A POEM Written in TEN BOOKS
Paradise Lost. A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS.
IN Paradisum Amissam Summi Poetæ JOHANNIS MILTONI.
ON Paradise Lost.
The Printer to the Reader.
The Verse.
BOOK I.
THE ARGUMENT.
BOOK II.
THE ARGUMENT.
BOOK III.
THE ARGUMENT.
BOOK IV.
THE ARGUMENT.
BOOK V.
THE ARGUMENT.
BOOK VI.
THE ARGUMENT.
BOOK VII.
THE ARGUMENT.
BOOK VIII.
THE ARGUMENT.
BOOK IX.
THE ARGUMENT.
BOOK X.
THE ARGUMENT.
BOOK XI.
THE ARGUMENT.
BOOK XII.
THE ARGUMENT.
PARADISE REGAIND. A POEM.
The First Book.
The Second Book.
The Third Book.
The Fourth Book.
SAMSON AGONISTES, A DRAMATIC POEM.
Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call’d Tragedy.
The ARGUMENT.
The Persons.
AGONISTES.
APPENDIX.
(a): Specimen of Milton’s spelling, from the Cambridge autograph manuscript.
On Time
(b): Note of a few readings in the same manuscript.
At a Solemn Musick.
Arcades.
Lycidas.
A Mask.
(c)

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