John Milton: The Complete Poems Book

Preface
Table of Dates
Further Reading

Poems 1645

--On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
--A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
--Psalm 136
--The Passion
--On Time
--Upon the Circumcision
--At a Solemn Music
--An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
--Song. On May Morning
--On Shakespeare. 1630
--On the University Carrier
--Another on the Same
--L'Allegro
--Il Penseroso
--Sonnet I ('O nightingale')
--Sonnet II ('Donna leggiadra')
--Sonnet III ('Qual in colle aspro')
--Canzone
--Sonnet IV ('Diodati, e te'l dirò')
--Sonnet V ('Per certo')
--Sonnet VI ('Giovane piano')
--Sonnet VII ('How soon hath Time')
--Sonnet VIII ('Captain or colonel')
--Sonnet IX ('Lady that in the prime')
--Sonnet X ('Daughter to that good Earl')
--Arcades
--Lycidas
--A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle ['Comus']

English Poems Added in 1673

--On the Death of a Fair Infant
--At a Vacation Exercise
--Sonnet XI ('A book was writ of late')
--Sonnet XII On the same ('I did but prompt the age')
--Sonnet XIII To Mr H. Lawes, on his Airs
--Sonnet XIV ('When Faith and Love')
--Sonnet XV On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
--Sonnet XVI ('When I consider how my light is spent')
--Sonnet XVII ('Lawrence of virtuous father')
--Sonnet XVIII ('Cyriack, whose grandsire')
--Sonnet XIX ('Methought I saw my late espouséd saint')
--The Fifth Ode of Horace
--On the New Forcers of Conscience

Psalm Paraphrases Added in 1673

--Psalms I-VIII
--Psalms LXXX-LXXXVIII

Uncollected English Poems

--On the Lord General Fairfax
--To the Lord General Cromwell
--To Sir Henry Vane the Younger
--To Mr Cyriack Skinner upon his Blindness
--'Fix Here'

Translations From the Prose Works

--'Ah Constantine, of how much ill'
--'Founded in chaste and humble poverty'
--'Then passed he to a flow'ry mountain green'
--'When I die'
--'Laughing to teach the truth'
--'Jesting decides great things'
--''Tis you that say it, not I'
--'This is true liberty, when freeborn men'
--'Whom do we count a good man'
--'There can be slain'
--'Goddess of shades, and huntress'
--'Brutus far to the west'
--'Low in a mead of kine'

--Paradise Lost

--Paradise Regained

--Samson Agonistes

The Latin and Greek Poems

Elegiarum Liber
--Elegia I Ad Carolum Diodatum
--Elegia II In Obitum Praeconis Academici Cantabrigiensis
--Elegia III In Obitum Praesulis Wintoniensis
--Elegia IV Ad Thomam Iunium
--Elegia V In adventum veris
--Elegia VI Ad Carolum Diodatum, ruri commorantem
--Elegia VII Anno aetatis undevigesimo
--'Haec ego mente'
--In Proditionem Bombardicam
--In eandem
--In eandem
--In eandem
--In Inventorem Bombardae
--Ad Leonoram Romae canentem
--Ad eandem
--Ad eandem

Silvarum Liber
--In Obitum Procancellarii Medici
--In Quintum Novembris
--In Obitum Praesulis Eliensis
--Naturam non pati senium
--De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit
--Ad Patrem

Greek Verses:
--Psalm CXIV
--Philosophus ad Regem

--Ad Salsillum
--Mansus
--Epitaphium Damonis

Greek and Latin Poems Added in 1673

--Apologus de Rustico et Hero
--In Effigiei eius Sculptorem
--Ad Ioannem Rousium

Latin Poems from the Prose Works

--Epigram from Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio
--Epigram from Defensio Secunda

Unpublished Latin Poems

--Carmina Elegiaca
--[Asclepiads]

Notes
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines