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

poet John Milton
#63 on top 500 poets

Poems of John Milton

21. On Shakespear 1/3/2003
22. On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough 1/13/2003
23. On The Lord Gen. Fairfax At The Seige Of Colchester 1/13/2003
24. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity 1/3/2003
25. On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament 1/3/2003
26. On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, Deceased Dec. 16, 1646 1/3/2003
27. On the Same 1/3/2003
28. On the University Carrier 1/3/2003
29. On The University Carrier Who Sickn'd In The Time Of His Vacancy, Being Forbid To Go To London, By Reason Of The Plague 1/13/2003
30. On Time 1/3/2003
31. Paradise Lost: Book 01 1/13/2003
32. Paradise Lost: Book 02 1/13/2003
33. Paradise Lost: Book 03 1/13/2003
34. Paradise Lost: Book 04 1/13/2003
35. Paradise Lost: Book 05 1/13/2003
36. Paradise Lost: Book 06 1/13/2003
37. Paradise Lost: Book 07 1/13/2003
38. Paradise Lost: Book 08 1/13/2003
39. Paradise Lost: Book 09 1/13/2003
40. Paradise Lost: Book 10 1/13/2003

To the Lady Margaret Ley

Daughter to that good Earl, one President
Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both unstained with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content,
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chæronea, fatal to liberty,
Killed with report that old man eloquent,
Though later born than to have known the days

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