John Milton: Complete Shorter Poems

JOHN MILTON COMPLETE SHORTER POEMS
	Contents
	Note on This Edition
	Acknowledgments
	List of Illustrations
	Chronology
	Textual Introduction
	Introduction to the 1645 Volume: Poems of Mr. John Milton
	ENGLISH AND ITALIAN POEMS
	THE STATIONER TO THE READER.
	On the morning of CHRISTS Nativity. Compos?d 1629.
	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.
	On May morning.
	On Shakespear. 1630.
	On the University Carrier who sickn?d in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague. 1
	Another on the same.
	L?Allegro.
	Il Penseroso.
	SONNETS.
	I.
	II.
	III.
	Canzone.
	IV.
	V.
	VI.
	VII. 1
	VIII. 1
	IX. 1
	X. 1
	Arcades. 1
	Lycidas.
	A M A S K Of the same A U T H O R
	To the Right Honourable, JOHN Lord Vicount BRACLY,
	The Copy of a Letter Writt?n By Sir HENRY WOOTTON, 4 To the Author, upon the following Poem.
	The Persons.
	A MASK PRESENTED At LUDLOW-Castle, 1634? &c. 10
	Introduction to the Poemata, 1645
	THE POEMATA, 1645
	Translator?s Note: The Latin Poems
	Testimonia
	Haec qu? sequuntur de Autho-re testimonia, 1 tametsi ipse
	Joannes Baptista Mansus, 2 Marchio Villensis Neapolitanus ad Joannem Miltonium Anglum.
	Ad Joannem Miltonem Anglum tri-plici poeseos laure? coronandum Gr?c? nimi-rum, Latin?, atque Hetrusc?, Epi-gramma Joannis Salsilli Romani. 5
	Ad Joannem Miltonum.
	Al Signor Gio. Miltoni Nobile Inglese.
	JOANNI MILTONI LONDINIENSI.
	ELEGIARUM LIBER PRIMUS
	Elegia prima ad Carolum Diodatum. 2
	Elegia secunda, Anno ?tatis 17. In obitum Pr?conis Academici Cantabrigiensis. 1
	Elegia tertia, Anno ?tatis 17. In obitum Pr?sulis Wintoniensis. 1
	Elegia quarta. Anno ?tatis 18. Ad Thomam Junium pr?ceptorem
	Elegia quinta, Anno ?tatis 20. In adventum veris. 1
	Elegia sexta. 1 Ad Carolum Diodatum ruri commorantem.
	Elegia septima, Anno ?tatis undevigesimo. 1
	H?c ego mente olim l?v?, studioque supino
	In proditionem Bombardicam. 1
	In eandem.
	In eandem.
	In eandem.
	In inventorem Bombard?.
	Ad Leonoram Rom? cantentem. 1
	Ad eandem.
	Ad eandem.
	SYLVARUM LIBER
	Anno ?tatis 16. In obitum Procancellarii medici. 2
	In quintum Novembris, 1 Anno ?tatis 17.
	Anno ?tatis 17. In obitum Pr?sulis Eliensis. 1
	Naturam non pati senium. 1
	De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit. 1
	Ad Patrem. 1
	Psalm 114. 1
	Ad Salsillum poetam Romanum ?grotantem. 1 SCAZONTES. 2
	Mansus.
	EPITAPHIUM DAMONIS. 1
	Introduction to Poems, &c. UPON Several Occasions, 1673
	ENGLISH POEMS ADDED IN 1673
	On the Death of a fair Infant dying of a Cough. 1
	SONNETS. 1
	XI. 2 (12)
	XII. (11) 1 On the same.
	XIII. (13) 1 To Mr . H. Lawes, 2 on his Aires.
	XIV. (14) 1 [On y e religious memorie of M rs Catharine Thomason my christian freind deceas?d 16 Decem. 1646] 2
	XV. [18] 1 On the late Massacher in Piemont. 2
	XVI. [19] 1
	XVII. [20] 1
	XVIII. [21]
	XIX. (23) 1
	The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I. 1
	AD PYRRHAM. Ode V.
	Anno ?tatis 19. At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge, part Latin, part English. The Latin speeches ended, the English thus began. 1
	On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long PARLIAMENT. 1
	[Psalms] 1
	PSAL. I. Done into Verse, 1653.
	PSAL. II. Done Aug. 8. 1653. Terzetti. 2
	PSAL. 3. Aug. 9. 1653.
	PSAL. IV. Aug. 10. 1653.
	PSAL. V. Aug. 12. 1653.
	PSAL. VI. Aug. 13. 1653.
	PSAL. VII. Aug. 14. 1653.
	PSAL. VIII. Aug. 14. 1653.
	PSAL. LXXX.
	PSAL. LXXXI.
	PSAL. LXXXII.
	PSAL. LXXXIII.
	PSAL. LXXXIV.
	PSAL. LXXXV.
	PSAL. LXXXVI.
	PSAL. LXXXVII.
	PSAL. LXXXVIII.
	LATIN AND GREEK POEMS ADDED IN 1673
	POEM ADDED TO ELEGIARUM LIBER IN 1673
	Apologus de Rustico & Hero. 1
	POEMS ADDED TO SYLVARUM LIBER IN 1673
	In Effigiei Ejus Sculptorem 1
	Ad Joannem Rousium Oxoniensis Acade-mi? Bibliothecarium. 1
	Introduction to the Uncollected Poems
	SONNETS PUBLISHED IN 1694
	[15] To my Lord FAIRFAX
	TO Oliver Cromwell. 1
	[To S r Henry Vane the younger] 2
	To Mr. CYRIAC SKINNER Upon his Blindness. 1
	UNPUBLISHED LATIN POEMS
	Carmina Elegiaca 1
	[Verses in Lesser Asclepiads] 4
	Introduction to Poems Published in 1671
	Introduction to Paradise Regained
	PARADISE REGAINED
	The First BOOK.
	The Second BOOK.
	The Third BOOK.
	The Fourth BOOK.
	Introduction to Samson Agonistes
	SAMSON AGONISTES
	Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call?d Tragedy.
	THE ARGUMENT. 19
	The Persons.
	SAMSON AGONISTES. 23
	APPENDIX
	Bridgewater Maske
	Manuscript of songs by Henry Lawes from A Mask
	Trinity Manuscript
	SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
	TEXTUAL NOTES
	Textual Notes to English and Italian Poems, 1645
	Textual Notes to Poemata, 1645
	Textual Notes to English Poems Added in 1673
	Textual Notes to Sonnets Published in 1694
	Textual Notes to Unpublished Poems
	Textual Notes to Paradise Regained
	Textual Notes to Samson Agonistes