POEMS upon SEVERAL OCCASIONS,

With a Tractate of EDUCATION.

THE AUTHOR

JOHN MILTÓN.

LONDON:

Printed for J. and R. TONSON and S. DRAPER;
And for T. and T. LONGMAN, S. BIRT, C. HITCH and
L. HAWES, R..WARE, J. HODGES, C. CORBET,
J. BRINDLEY, and J. WARD.

MDCCLIII.

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TABLE

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CONTENTS.

PARADISE
ARADISE REGAIN'd, Book I. Page 1

Book III.

Book IV.

SAMSON AGONISTES.

POEMS upon feveral OCCASIONS.

19

35

31

73

133

On the death of a fair Infant, dying of a cough. 135

At a Vacation Exercife in the College.

138

On the MORNING of CHRIST'S NATIVITY.

On the new forcers of confcience under the Long

PARLAMENT.

221

The Fifth ODE of Horace, Lib. 1. English'd. 222

SONNETS.

To the NIGHTINGALE.

On his being arriv'd to the age of 23.

When the affault was intended to the City.

To a virtuous young Lady.

To the Lady Margaret Ley.

224

ib.

227

228

ib.

229

On the detraction which followed upon my writing

i

certain Treatifes.

On the fame.

To Mr. H. LAWES on his Airs.

ib.

230

ib.

On the religious memory of Mrs. Catharine Thom-

fon.

To the Lord General FAIRFAX,

To the Lord General CROMWELL.

To Sir HENRY VANE the younger.

On the late Maffacre in Piemont,

On his blindness.

To Mr. LAWRENCE.

To CYRIAC SKINNER.

To the fame.

On his deceased WIFE..

PSALMS.

231

ib.

232

ib.

233

ib.

234

ib.

23-5

ib.

236

JOANNIS MILTONI LONDINENSIS POEMATA. 265

ELEGIARUM Liber primus.

-273

Elegia Prima. Ad Carolum Deodatum. ib.

Elegia Secunda. In obitum Præconis Académici

Cantabrigienfis.

275

Elegia Tertia. In obitum Præfulis Wintonienfis.

276