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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	718
2: An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester	This rich Marble doth enterr		74	687
3: Anno aetatis 17. On the Death of a fair Infant dying of a Cough.	O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted,		77	426
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	482
5: Another on "On the Gunpowder Plot."	Purgatorem animae derisit Jacobus ignem,		12	785
6: Another on "On the Gunpowder Plot."	Quem modo Roma suis devoverat impia diris,		4	617
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	401
8: Arcades.	Look Nymphs, and Shepherds look,		115	410
9: At A Solemn Musick	Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'ns joy,		28	430
10: At A Vacation Exercise In The Colledge, Part Latin, Part English.	Hail native Language, that by sinews weak		105	788
11: Canzone	Ridonsi donne e giovani amorosi		15	434
12: Collection of passages translated in the prose writings.	Ah Constantine, of how much ill was cause		70	638
13: Comus	Before the starry threshold of Jove’s court	1634	1135	555
14: Elegy I To Charles Diodati.¹	At length, my friend, the far-sent letters come,		95	647
15: Elegy II On the Death of the University Beadle at Cambridge.¹	Thee, whose refulgent staff and summons clear,		30	631
16: Elegy III - Anno Aetates 17.¹ - On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester.²	Silent I sat, dejected, and alone,		71	619
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	605
18: Elegy V. - Anno Aetates 20. - On the Approach of Spring.	Time, never wand'ring from his annual round,		140	638
19: Elegy VI. - To Charles Diodati, When He Was Visiting in the Country	With no rich viands overcharg'd, I send		92	619
20: Elegy VI. Anno Aetates undevigesimo.¹	As yet a stranger to the gentle fires		112	587
21: Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester	This rich marble doth inter	1631	74	567
22: How Soon Hath Time	How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,		14	746
23: Il Penseroso	Hence vain deluding joyes,	1645	179	425
24: Light	Hail holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born,		55	718
25: Lycidas	Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more	1638	194	414
26: L’Allegro	Hence, loathed Melancholy,	1645	152	559
27: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint	Methought I saw my late espoused Saint		14	706
28: On His Blindness	When I consider how my light is spent		14	647
29: On His Deceased Wife	Methought I saw my late espoused Saint		14	633
30: On Paradise Lost.	When I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold,		54	661
31: On Shakespeare.	What needs my Shakespear for his honour'd Bones,	1630	16	402
32: On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough	O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted,		77	628
33: On the Death of the Bishop of Ely.¹ - Anno Aetates 17.	My lids with grief were tumid yet,		68	626
34: On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, A Physician.¹	Learn ye nations of the earth		48	552
35: On the Engraver of his Portrait.¹	Survey my Features, you will own it clear		8	627
36: On the Fifth of November. - Anno Aetates 17.	Am pius extrema veniens Jacobus ab arcto		226	938
37: On the Gunpowder Plot.	Cum simul in regem nuper satrapasque Britannos		8	590
38: On the Inventor of Gunpowder.	Praise in old time the sage Prometheus won,		4	571
39: On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the Seige of Colchester.	Fairfax, whose name in armes through Europe rings		14	626
40: On The Morning Of Christs Nativity.	This is the Month, and this the happy morn	1629	213	412
41: On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament.	Because you have thrown of your Prelate Lord,		20	637
42: On the Platonic 'Ideal' as it was Understood by Aristotle.	Ye sister Pow'rs who o'er the sacred groves		45	639
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	632
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	392
45: On Time	Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race,		22	433
46: Paradise Lost - Book I	Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit		798	534
47: Paradise Lost - Book II	High on a Throne of Royal State, which far		1055	459
48: Paradise Lost - Book III	Hail holy light, ofspring of Heav’n first-born,		742	445
49: Paradise Lost - Book IV	O for that warning voice, which he who saw		1015	448
50: Paradise Lost - Book IX	Meanwhile the hainous and despightfull act		1104	433
51: Paradise Lost - Book V	Now Morn her rosie steps in th’ Eastern Clime		904	415
52: Paradise Lost - Book VI	All night the dreadless Angel unpursu’d		912	475
53: Paradise Lost - Book VII	Descend from Heav’n Urania, by that name		1290	448
54: Paradise Lost - Book VIII	No more of talk where God or Angel Guest		1189	409
55: Paradise Lost - Book X	Thus they in lowliest plight repentant stood		1540	475
56: Paradise Regained - The First Book	I who e’re while the happy Garden sung,	1671	502	409
57: Paradise Regained - The Fourth Book	Perplex’d and troubl’d at his bad success	1671	639	413
58: Paradise Regained - The Second Book	Mean while the new-baptiz’d, who yet remain’d	1671	486	423
59: Paradise Regained - The Third Book	So spake the Son of God, and Satan stood	1671	443	411
60: Paradisum Amissam, Lib. II	Quales aerii montis de vertice nubes		8	711
61: Psal. I. Done into Verse	Bless'd is the man who hath not walk'd astray	1653	16	624
62: Psal. II Done into verse	Why do the Gentiles tumult, and the Nations	1653	28	635
63: Psal. III. When he fled from Absalom.	Lord how many are my foes How many those	1653	24	617
64: Psal. IV.	Answer me when I call God of my righteousness		42	626
65: Psal. LXXX.	Thou Shepherd that dost Israel keep		80	618
66: Psal. LXXXI.	To God our strength sing loud, and clear,		68	639
67: Psal. LXXXII.	God in the great assembly stands		28	616
68: Psal. LXXXIII.	Be not thou silent now at length		68	645
69: Psal. LXXXIV.	How lovely are thy dwellings fair!		48	618
70: Psal. LXXXV.	Thy Land to favour graciously		56	615
71: Psal. LXXXVI.	Thy gracious ear, O Lord, encline,		64	612
72: Psal. LXXXVII	Among the holy Mountains high			604
73: Psal. LXXXVIII	Lord God that dost me save and keep,		72	605
74: Psal. V.	Jehovah to my words give ear		39	625
75: Psal. VI	Lord in thine anger do not reprehend me		24	617
76: Psal. VII. Upon the words of Chush the Benjamite against him.	Lord my God to thee I flie		64	602
77: Psal. VIII.	O Jehovah our Lord how wondrous great	1653	24	607
78: Psalm CXIV	When Israel by Jehovah call'd		34	599
79: Psalm CXIV	When the blest seed of Terah's faithful Son,		18	632
80: Samson Agonistes	A little onward lend thy guiding hand		1932	640
81: Song On May Morning.	Now the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger,		10	409
82: Sonnet to the Nightingale	O nightingale that on yon blooming spray		14	647
83: Sonnet XX: Lawrence, of virtuous father	Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son,		14	619
84: Sonnet XXII: To Cyriack Skinner	Cyriack, this three years' day these eyes, though clear		14	609
85: Sonnets. I.	O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray		14	404
86: Sonnets. II.	Donna leggiadra il cui bel nome honora		14	400
87: Sonnets. III.	Qual in colle aspro, al imbrunir di sera		14	413
88: Sonnets. IV.	Diodati, e te'l diro con maraviglia,		14	394
89: Sonnets. IX	Lady that in the prime of earliest youth,		14	401
90: Sonnets. V	Per certo i bei vostr'occhi Donna mia		14	421
91: Sonnets. VI	Giovane piano, e semplicetto amante		14	418
92: Sonnets. VII	How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth,		14	434
93: Sonnets. VIII	Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms,		14	395
94: Sonnets. X	Daughter to that good Earl, once President		14	396
95: Sonnets. XI	A Book was writ of late call'd Tetrachordon;		14	644
96: Sonnets. XII	I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs		14	647
97: Sonnets. XIII - To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires	Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song		14	634
98: Sonnets. XIV	When Faith and Love which parted from thee never,		14	624
99: Sonnets. XIX	Methought I saw my late espoused Saint		14	642
100: Sonnets. XV - On the late Massacher In Piemont.	Avenge O lord thy slaughter'd Saints, whose bones		14	633
101: Sonnets. XVI	When I consider how my light is spent,		14	616
102: Sonnets. XVII	Lawrence of vertuous Father vertuous Son,		14	614
103: Sonnets. XVIII	Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench		14	632
104: That Nature is Not Subject to Decay.	Ah, how the Human Mind wearies herself		83	635
105: The Death of Damon.	Ye Nymphs of Himera (for ye have shed		305	654
106: The Fable of the Peasant and his Landlord.	A Peasant to his lord yearly court,		12	576
107: The Fifth Ode Of Horace. Lib. I.	What slender Youth bedew'd with liquid odours		14	419
108: The Hymn	It was the winter wild, While the heaven-born Child		216	617
109: The Passion.	Ere-while of Musick, and Ethereal mirth,		56	409
110: The Philosopher and the King.	Know this, O King! that if thou shalt destroy		6	687
111: To a Virtuous Young Lady	Lady! that in the prime of earliest youth		14	660
112: To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa.	These verses also to thy praise the Nine		114	677
113: To Giovanni Salzilli, a Roman Poet, in his Illness. Scazons.	My halting Muse, that dragg'st by choice along		40	692
114: To Leonora (2)	Another Leonora once inspir'd Tasso, with fatal love to frenzy fir'd,			571
115: To Leonora (3)	Naples, too credulous, ah! boast no more		8	572
116: To Leonora,¹ Singing in Rome.	Angelus unicuique suus (sic credite gentes)		10	604
117: To Mr. Cyriack Skinner upon his Blindness.	Cyriack, this three years day these eys, though clear		14	683
118: To Mr. H. Lawes on His Airs	Harry, whose tuneful and well-measured song		14	603
119: To Mr. John Rouse, Librarian of the University of Oxford,	My two-fold Book! single in show		92	766
120: To My Father.	Oh that Pieria's spring¹ would thro' my breast		148	685
121: To Sir Henry Vane the Younger.	Vane, young in yeares, but in sage counsell old,		14	674
122: To the Lady Margaret Ley	Daughter to that good Earl, one President		14	629
123: To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652.	Cromwell, our cheif of men, who through a cloud		14	633
124: Translations of the Italian Poems I	Fair Lady, whose harmonious name the Rheno		14	598
125: Translations of the Italian Poems II	As on a hill-top rude, when closing day		14	649
126: Translations of the Italian Poems III Canzone.	They mock my toil the nymphs and am'rous swains		15	663
127: Translations of the Italian Poems IV To Charles Diodati.	Charles and I say it wond'ring thou must know		14	603
128: Translations of the Italian Poems V.	Lady! It cannot be, but that thine eyes		14	608
129: Translations of the Italian Poems VI.	Enamour'd, artless, young, on foreign ground,		14	596
130: Upon The Circumcision	Ye flaming Powers, and winged Warriours bright,		28	337
131: When the Assault Was Intended to the City	Captain, or colonel, or knight in arms,		14	579

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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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