(9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674 / London, England)

poet John Milton
#53 on top 500 poets

Poems of John Milton

1. An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare 1/3/2003
2. An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester 1/13/2003
3. Another On The Same 1/13/2003
4. Arcades 1/13/2003
5. At a Solemn Music 1/3/2003
6. At A Vacation Exercise In The Colledge, Part Latin, Part English. The Latin Speeches Ended, The English Thus Began 1/13/2003
7. At A Vatican Exercise (excerpt) 1/1/2004
8. Comus (excerpts) 1/1/2004
9. Cyriack, Whose Grandsire 5/28/2012
10. From 'Arcades' 1/4/2003
11. From 'Samson Agonistes' i 1/4/2003
12. How Soon Hath Time 1/3/2003
13. Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity 1/4/2003
14. Il Penseroso 12/31/2002
15. L'Allegro 12/31/2002
16. Light 1/4/2003
17. Lycidas 12/31/2002
18. Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint 1/3/2003
19. On His Blindness 1/3/2003
20. On His Deceased Wife 1/4/2003

To My Lord Fairfax

Fairfax, whose Name in Arms through Europe rings,
And fills all Mouths with Envy or with Praise,
And all her Jealous Monarchs with Amaze.
And Rumours loud which daunt remotest Kings,
Thy firm unshaken Valour ever brings
Victory home, while new Rebellions raise
Their Hydra-heads, and the false North displays
Her broken League to Imp her Serpent Wings:
O yet! a Nobler task awaits thy Hand,

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