John Milton

"Avenge O lord thy slaughter'd Saints, whose bones     Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold,     Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of ol"

"Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'ns joy,     Sphear-born harmonious Sisters, Voice, and Vers,     Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power em"

"To God our strength sing loud, and clear,     Sing loud to God our King,     To Jacobs God, that all may hear     Loud acclamations ring."

"Thee, whose refulgent staff and summons clear,     Minerva's flock longtime was wont t'obey,     Although thyself an herald, famous here,     T"

"I     This is the Month, and this the happy morn     Wherin the Son of Heav'ns eternal King,     Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born,"

"Methought I saw my late espoused Saint     Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave,     Whom Joves great Son to her glad Husband gave,     R"

"Fairfax, whose name in armes through Europe rings     Filling each mouth with envy, or with praise,     And all her jealous monarchs with amaze,"

"Angelus unicuique suus (sic credite gentes)     Obtigit aethereis ales ab ordinibus.     Quid mirum? Leonora tibi si gloria major,     Nam tua"

"Lady! that in the prime of earliest youth     Wisely hast shunned the broad way and the green,     And with those few art eminently seen,     T"

"Hence, my epistle skim the Deep fly o'er     Yon smooth expanse to the Teutonic shore!     Haste lest a friend should grieve for thy delay"

"Ridonsi donne e giovani amorosi     M' occostandosi attorno, e perche scrivi,     Perche tu scrivi in lingua ignota e strana     Verseggiando d"

"Thy gracious ear, O Lord, encline,     O hear me I thee pray,     For I am poor, and almost pine     With need, and sad decay.     Preserve my"

"Hail native Language, that by sinews weak     Didst move my first endeavouring tongue to speak,     And madst imperfect words with childish tri"

"I     O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted,     Soft silken Primrose fading timelesslie,     Summers chief honour if thou hadst outlasted"

"God in the *1great *1assembly stands     Of Kings and lordly States,     Among the gods*2 on both his hands.     He judges and debates.     Ho"

"Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench     Of Brittish Themis, with no mean applause     Pronounc't and in his volumes taught our Lawes,"

"Learn ye nations of the earth     The condition of your birth,     Now be taught your feeble state,     Know, that all must yield to Fate!"

"Daughter to that good Earl, one President     Of Englands Council and her Treasury,     Who lived in both unstained with gold or fee,     And"

"Thou Shepherd that dost Israel keep     Give ear in time of need,     Who leadest like a flock of sheep     Thy loved Josephs seed,     That s"

"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,"

"Lord how many are my foes     How many those     That in arms against me rise     Many are they     That of my life distrustfully thus say,"

"Know this, O King! that if thou shalt destroy     Me, no man's enemy and who have liv'd     Obedient to the Laws, thou may'st with ease     Str"

"Captain, or colonel, or knight in arms,     Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize,     If deed of honour did thee ever please,"

"Silent I sat, dejected, and alone,     Making in thought the public woes my own,     When, first, arose the image in my breast     Of England's"

"An Ode on a Lost Volume of my Poems Which He Desired Me to Replace that He Might Add Them to My Other Works Deposited in the Library.     Stroph"

"Now the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger,     Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her     The Flowry May, who from her green lap thr"

"Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race,     Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,     Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace;     A"

"Lady that in the prime of earliest youth,     Wisely hath shun'd the broad way and the green,     And with those few art eminently seen,     Th"

"1Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa, is an Italian Nobleman of the highest estimation among his countrymen, for Genius, Literature,and mili"

"Hence, loathed Melancholy,     Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born     In Stygian cave forlorn     Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and s"

"Oh that Pieria's spring1 would thro' my breast     Pour its inspiring influence, and rush     No rill, but rather an o'erflowing flood!"

"Vane, young in yeares, but in sage counsell old,     Then whome a better Senatour nere held     The helme of Rome, when gownes not armes repelld"

"Answer me when I call     God of my righteousness;     In straights and in distress     Thou didst me disinthrall     And set at large; now sp"

"This rich marble doth inter     The honoured wife of Winchester,     A viscounts daughter, an earls heir,     Besides what her virtues fair"

"I who ere while the happy Garden sung,     By one mans disobedience lost, now sing     Recoverd Paradise to all mankind,     By one mans firm"

"Enamour'd, artless, young, on foreign ground,     Uncertain whither from myself to fly,     To thee, dear Lady, with an humble sigh     Let me"

"When I consider how my light is spent     Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,     And that one talent which is death to hide     Lodg"

"O Jehovah our Lord how wondrous great     And glorious is thy name through all the earth?     So as above the Heavens thy praise to set     Out"

"Quis multa gracilis te puer in Rosa Rendred almost word for word without Rhyme according to the Latin Measure, as near as the Language permit."

"They mock my toil the nymphs and am'rous swains     And whence this fond attempt to write, they cry,     Love-songs in language that thou little"

"O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray     Warbl'st at eeve, when all the Woods are still,     Thou with fresh hope the Lovers heart dost fill,"

"Here lieth one who did most truly prove,     That he could never die while he could move,     So hung his destiny never to rot     While he mig"

"Jehovah to my words give ear     My meditation waigh     The voyce of my complaining hear     My King and God for unto thee I pray.     Jehova"

"Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms,     Whose chance on these defenceless dores may sease,     If ever deed of honour did thee please,     G"

"Hail holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born,     Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam     May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light,     A"

"The Argument.     Thyrsis and Damon, shepherds and neighbours, had always pursued the same studies, and had, from their earliest days, been un"

"Ah, how the Human Mind wearies herself     With her own wand'rings, and, involved in gloom     Impenetrable, speculates amiss!     Measuring, i"

"Mean while the new-baptizd, who yet remaind     At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen     Him whom they heard so late expresly calld"

"Per certo i bei vostr'occhi Donna mia     Esser non puo che non fian lo mio sole     Si mi percuoton forte, come ci suole     Per l'arene di Li"

"Hence, my epistle skim the Deep fly o'er Yon smooth expanse to the Teutonic shore! Haste lest a friend should grieve for thy delay And the Gods grant"

"Methought I saw my late espoused Saint     Brought to me like Alcestus from the grave,     Who Jove's great Son to her glad Husband gave,     R"

"When Israel by Jehovah call'd     From Egypt's hostile plain,     Pour'd forth in numbers as the Sand     And sought the adjacent main:     Th"

"When Faith and Love, which parted from thee never,     Had ripened thy just soul to dwell with God,     Meekly thou didst resign this earthly lo"

"I. SONG.     Look Nymphs, and Shepherds look,     What sudden blaze of majesty     Is that which we from hence descry     Too divine to be mi"

"To Mr Lawrence          Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son,     Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire,     Where shall we som"

"Now Morn her rosie steps in th Eastern Clime     Advancing, sowd the Earth with Orient Pearle,     When Adam wakt, so customd, for his sleep"

"O for that warning voice, which he who saw     Th Apocalyps, heard cry in Heaven aloud,     Then when the Dragon, put to second rout,     Came"

"Giovane piano, e semplicetto amante     Poi che fuggir me stesso in dubbio sono,     Madonna a voi del mio cuor l'humil dono     Faro divoto; i"

"Lord in thine anger do not reprehend me     Nor in thy hot displeasure me correct;     Pity me Lord for I am much deject     Am very weak and f"

"I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs     By the known rules of antient libertie,     When strait a barbarous noise environs me     Of"