The Poetical Works of John Milton

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THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON

Edited with Critical Notes

by

WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT, M.A.

HON. LL.D., D.C.L., LITT.D.
VICE-MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

CAMBRIDGE:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

COLLEGE

HARVARD

MAR 2 1926

LIBRARY

Substitucted for a copy lost (Mary (esgood finas

Cambridge:

PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A PARAPHRASE ON PSALM CXIV.

PSALM CXXXVI

ON THE DEATH OF A FAIR INFant dying of a Cough

AT A VACATION EXERCISE IN THE COLLEGE

ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY

UPON THE CIRCUMCISION

ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER

ANOTHER ON THE SAME

AN EPITAPH ON THE MARCHIONESS OF WINCHESTER

CONTENTS.

On his being arrived to the age of 23

When the Assault was intended to the City

To a virtuous young Lady

To the Lady Margaret Ley

On the Detraction which followed upon my writing

certain Treatises

XII. On the Same

XIII. To Mr H. Lawes on his Airs

XIV.

On the religious memory of Mrs Catherine Thomson,

my Christian Friend

On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long

Parliament

TRANSLATIONS

XX. To Mr Lawrence

XXI. To Cyriack Skinner

XXII. To the Same

XXIII. On his deceased Wife

·

XV. To the Lord General Fairfax, at the siege of Colchester

XVI. To the Lord General Cromwell

XVII. To Sir Henry Vane the younger

XVIII. On the late Massacre in Piemont

XIX. On his Blindness

Scraps from the Prose Writings

The fifth Ode of Horace, Lib. I

.

NINE OF THE PSALMS DONE INTO METRE

Books

The Poetical Works of John Milton, Band 1