Paradise Lost : Book XII. (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon,Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel pausedBetwixt the world destroyed ...
John Milton Poems (172 Poems)
Paradise Lost : Book VIII. (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's earSo charming left his voice, that he a whileThought him still speaking, still stood ...
Paradise Lost : Book VII. (John Milton Poems)
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that nameIf rightly thou art called, whose voice divineFollowing, above the Olympian hill I soar,Above ...
Paradise Regain’d : Book I. (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sungBy one man's disobedience lost, now singRecovered Paradise to all mankind,By one man's firm ...
Paradise Regain’d : Book II. (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remainedAt Jordan with the Baptist, and had seenHim whom they heard so late expressly calledJesus ...
Paradise Regain’d : Book III. (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stoodA while as mute, confounded what to say,What to reply, confuted and ...
On The Morning Of Christ’s Nativity. Compos’d 1629 (John Milton Poems)
I.This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded maid and Virgin Mother ...
Hymn On The Morning Of Christ’s Nativity (John Milton Poems)
It was the Winter wilde,While the Heav'n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies;Nature in aw to himHad doff't her ...
Il Penseroso (John Milton Poems)
Hence, vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!How little you bestedOr fill the fixed mind with all your ...
Arcades (John Milton Poems)
Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, ...
On The Death Of A Fair Infant, Dying Of A Cough (John Milton Poems)
I.O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted,Soft silken Primrose fading timeless lie,Summers chief honour if thou hadst outlastedBleak winters ...
Psalm LXXX. (80) (John Milton Poems)
Thou Shepherd that dost Israel keepGive ear in time of need,Who leadest like a flock of sheepThy loved Josephs seed,That ...
Psalm LXXXVIII. (88) (John Milton Poems)
Lord God that dost me save and keep,All day to thee I cry;And all night long, before thee weepBefore thee ...
Psalm LXXXIII. (83) (John Milton Poems)
Be not thou silent now at lengthO God hold not thy peace,Sit not thou still O God of strengthWe cry ...
An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester (John Milton Poems)
This rich Marble doth enterrThe honour'd Wife of Winchester,A Vicounts daughter, an Earls heir,Besides what her vertues fairAdded to her ...
Psalm CXXXVI. (136) (John Milton Poems)
Let us with a gladsome mind Praise the Lord for he is kind; For his mercies aye endure, Ever faithful, ever sure. Let us ...
Psalm LXXXVI. (86) (John Milton Poems)
Thy gracious ear, O Lord, encline,O hear me I thee pray,For I am poor, and almost pineWith need, and sad ...
Psalm LXXXV. (85) (John Milton Poems)
Thy Land to favour graciouslyThou hast not Lord been slack,Thou hast from hard CaptivityReturned Jacob back.Th' iniquity thou didst forgiveThat ...
Psalm LXXXI. (81) (John Milton Poems)
To God our strength sing loud, and clear,Sing loud to God our King,To Jacobs God, that all may hearLoud acclamations ...
Psalm VII. (John Milton Poems)
Upon The Words Of Chush The Benjamite Against Him.Lord my God to thee I flieSave me and secure me underThy ...
Comus (excerpts) (John Milton Poems)
SONG1-Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen-Within thy airy shell-By slow Meander's margent green,-And in the violet-imbroider'd vale-Where the love-lorn ...
From ‘Samson Agonistes’ i (John Milton Poems)
OH how comely it is and how revivingTo the Spirits of just men long opprest!When God into the hands of ...
At A Vatican Exercise (excerpt) (John Milton Poems)
The Latin speeches ended, the English thus beganHail native language, that by sinews weakDidst move my first endeavouring tongue to ...
Psalm LXXXIV. (84) (John Milton Poems)
How lovely are thy dwellings fair!O Lord of Hoasts, how dearThe pleasant Tabernacles are!Where thou do'st dwell so near.My Soul ...
Psalm LXXXII. (82) (John Milton Poems)
God in the *great *assembly stands *Bagnadath-elOf Kings and lordly States,Among the gods* on both his hands. *Bekerev.He judges and debates.How long ...
Psalm IV. (John Milton Poems)
Answer me when I callGod of my righteousness;In straights and in distressThou didst me disinthrallAnd set at large; now spare,Now ...
Psalm V. (John Milton Poems)
Jehovah to my words give earMy meditation waighThe voyce of my complaining hearMy King and God for unto thee I ...
Another On The Same (Being The University Carrier) (John Milton Poems)
Here lieth one who did most truly prove,That he could never die while he could move,So hung his destiny never ...
Another On The Same (John Milton Poems)
Here lieth one who did most truly prove,That he could never die while he could move,So hung his destiny never ...
Psalm II. (John Milton Poems)
Why do the Gentiles tumult, and the NationsMuse a vain thing, the Kings of th'earth upstandWith power, and Princes in ...