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DARADISE REGAIN'D, BOOK I.
I BOOK II.
BOOK III.
BOOK IV. .
SAMSON AGONISTES.
POEMS on several OCCASIONS.

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On the death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough. ibid.
At a Vacation Exercise in the College.
On the MORNING of CHRIST'S NATIVITY.
The PASSION.
On TIME.
Upon the CIRCUMCISION.

186 At a SOLEMN MUSIC.

187 An EPITAPHon the MARCHIONESS of WINCHESTER. 188 Song. On MAY MORNING.

191 On SHAKESPEAR.

192 On the University Carrier.

ibid. Another on the same.

193 L'ALLEGRO.

195 IL PENSEROSO.

200 ARCADES.

207 A MASK. LYCIDAS.

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To the Lord General CROMWELL.
To Sir HENRY VANE the younger.
On the late Maflacre in Piemont.

ibid.

On his blindness.

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To Mr. LAWRENCE.

To CYRIAC SKINNER.

ibid.

To the same.

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On his deceased WIFE.

ibid.

PSALMS.

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From Milton's Manuscript.

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JOANNIS MILTONI LONDINENSIS POEMATA.'

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ELEGIARUM Liber primus.

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Elegia Prima. Ad Carolum Deodatum.

Elegia Secunda. In obitum Paræconis Academici Cantabri-

giensis.
Elegia Tertia. In obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis.

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Elegia Quarta. Ad Thomam Junium.

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Elegia Quinta. In adventum veris.

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Elegia Sexta. Ad Carolum Deodatum, ruri commorantem. 340

Elegia Septima.

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In proditionem bombardicam.

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In eandem.

ibid.

In eandem.

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In eandem.

ibid.

In Inventorem Bombardæ.

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Ad Leonoram Romæ canentem.

ibid.

Ad eandem.

ibid.

Ad eandem.

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Apologus de Rustico et Hero.

ibid.

SYLVARUM LIBER. In obitum Procancellarii Medici.

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In quintum Novembris.

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In obitum Præsulis Eliensis.

Naturam non pati senium.

De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit.

Ad Patrem.

Ad Salfillum poetam Romanum ægrotantem.

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Manfus.

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Epitaphium Damonis.

Ad Joannem Roufium Oxoniensis Academiæ Bibliothecarium 356

Ad Christinam, Suecorum reginain.

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Who ere while the happy garden sung,

By one man's disobedience lost, now sing
Recover'd Paradise to all mankind,
By one man's firm obedience fully try'd
Through all temptation, and the tempter foil'd
In all his wiles, defeated and repuls'd,
And Eden rais'd in the waste wilderness.

Thou Spi'rit who ledst this glorious eremite
Into the desert, his victorious field,
Against the spiritual foe, and brought'sthimthenceio
By proof th' undoubted Son of God, inspire,
As thou art wont, my prompted song else mute,
And bearthrough highthor depth of nature's bounds
With prosp'rous wing full summ’d, to tell of deeds
Above heroic, though in secret done,

15 And unrecorded left through many an age, Worthy t' have not remain'd so long unsung. Now had the great Proclamer, with a voice

More

More awful than the sound of trumpet, cry'd
Repentance, and Heav'n's kingdom nigh at hand 20
To all baptiz’d: to his great baptism flock'd
With awe the regions round, and with them came
From Nazareth the son of Joseph deemd .
To the flood Jordan, came as then obscure,
Unmark’d, unknown; but him the Baptist soon 25
Descry'd, divinely warn’d, and witness bore
As to his worthier, and would have resign'd
To him his heav'nly office, nor was long
His witness unconfirm’d: on him baptiz'd
Heav'n open'd, and in likeness of a dove 30
The Spi'rit descended, while the Father's voice
From Heav'n pronounc'd him his beloved Son..
That heard the Adversary, who roving fill
About the world, at that assembly fam’d
Would not be last, and with the voice divine 35
Nigh thunder-struck, th' exalted man, to whom
Such high attest was giv'n, a while survey'd
With wonder, then with envy fraught and rage
Flies to his place, nor rests, but in mid air
To council summons all his mighty peers, 40
Within thick clouds and dark ten-fold involv’d,
A gloomy consistory; and them amidst
With looks aghast and fad he thus bespake.

O ancient Pow’rs of air and this wide world, For much more willingly I mention air, 45 This our old conquest, than remember Hell,

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Our hated habitation; well ye know How many ages, as the years of men, This universe we have possess’d, and ruld In manner at our will th' affairs of earth, Since Adam and his facil confort Eve Lost Paradise deceiv'd by me, though since With dread attending when that fatal wound Shall be inflicted by the seed of Eve Upon my head: long the decrees of Heav'n 55 Delay, for longest time to him is short; And now too soon for us the circling hours This dreaded time have compass’d, wherein we Must bide the stroke of that long threaten'd wound, At least if so we can, and by the head 60 Broken be not intended all our power To be infring’d, our freedom and our being, In this fair empire won of earth and air; For this ill news I bring, the woman's feed Destin’d to this, is late of woman born : - 65 His birth to our just fear gave no small cause, But his growth now to youth's full flow'r, displaying All virtue, grace, and wisdom to achieve Things highest, greatest, multiplies my fear. Before him a great prophet, to proclame 70 His coming, is sent harbinger, who all Invites, and in the consecrated stream Pretends to wash off sin, and fit them so Purified to receive him pure, or rather

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