Produced by Donal O'Danachair THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON By John Milton Transcriber's Notes: This e-text contains all of Milton's poems in English and Italian. Poems in Latin have been omitted. The original spelling, capitalisation and punctuation have been retained as far as possible. Characters not in the ANSI standard set have been replaced by their nearest equivalent. The AE & OE digraphs have been transcribed as two letters. Accented letters in the Italian poems have been replaced by the unaccented letter. No italics have been retained. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the poem to which they refer; in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained they have been moved to the end of the book. Contents: PREFACE by the Rev. H. C. Beeching, M. A. THE STATIONER TO THE READER. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. THE PASSION. ON TIME. UPON THE CIRCUMCISION. AT A SOLEMN MUSICK. AN EPITAPH ON THE MARCHIONESS OF WINCHESTER. SONG ON MAY MORNING. ON SHAKESPEAR. 1630. ANOTHER ON THE SAME. L'ALLEGRO. IL PENSEROSO. SONNETS. ARCADES. LYCIDAS. A MASK PRESENTED At LUDLOW-Castle, 1634. &c. POEMS ADDED IN THE 1673 EDITION. ANNO AETATIS 17. ON THE DEATH OF A FAIR INFANT DYING OF A COUGH. 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 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 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. APRIL, 1648. J. M. NINE OF THE PSALMS DONE INTO METRE, PSAL. LXXX. PSAL. LXXXI. PSAL. LXXXII. PSAL. LXXXIV. PSAL LXXXV. PSAL. LXXXVI. PSAL. LXXXVII PSAL. LXXXVIII COLLECTION OF PASSAGES TRANSLATED IN THE PROSE WRITINGS. [From Of Reformation in England, 1641.] [From Reason of Church Government, 1641.] [From Apology for Smectymnuus, 1642.] [From Areopagitica, 1644.] [From Tetrachordon, 1645.] [From The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, 1649.] [From History of Britain, 1670.] PARADISE LOST. ON Paradise Lost. THE VERSE. 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 REGAIN'D. The First Book. The Second Book. The Third Book. The Fourth Book. SAMSON AGONISTES Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call'd Tragedy. The Argument. APPENDIX. ON TIME PREFACE by the Rev. H. C. Beeching, M. A.