THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON.

WITH

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY

EZEKIEL SANFORD.

SONNETS.

I. To the Nightingale

271

II. Donna leggiadra, &c.

ib.

III. Qual in colle aspro, &c.

272

CANZONE. Ridonsi, &c.

ib.

IV. Diodati, &c.

273

V. Per certo i bei, &c.

ib.

VI. Giovane piano, &c.

274

VII. On his being arrived to the age of

Page

IX. To a virtuous young Lady

275

X. To the Lady Margaret Ley

276

XI. On the detraction which followed on

my writing certain Treatises 277

XII. On the same

278

XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes on his Airs

ib.

XIV. On the religious memory of Mrs. Ca-

therine Thomson

279

XV. To the Lord General Fairfax

280

XVI. To the Lord General Cromwell

ib.

XVII. To Sir Henry Vane the younger 281

XVII. On the Massacre in Piedmont

282

XIX. On his Blindness

ib.

XX. To Mr. Lawrence

283

XXI. To Cyriac Skinner

284

XXII. To the same

ib.

XXIII. On his deceased Wife

285

ODES.

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

The Passion

Upon the Circumcision

On the Death of a fair Infant

On Time

At a solemn Music

On the Death of the Marchioness of Win-

chester

On May Morning

286

294

296

297

300

301

302

305

MISCELLANIES.

At a Vacation Exercise in the College

Epitaph on Shakspeare

On Hobson, the University Carrier

Page

On the same

311

On the New Forcers of Conscience under the

Long Parliament

312

TRANSLATIONS.

Horace to Pyrrha

314

Fragments

ib. &c.

Psalms

317, &c.

Paraphrase of Psalm cxiv.

343

Paraphrase of Psalm cxxxvi.