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Index
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction to the Revised Edition
Biographical Table
Abbreviations
Contents
1. Poems Written During School, College, and University Years (1624–32)
A Paraphrase on Psalm 114
Psalm 136
Apologus de Rustico et Hero (The Fable of the Peasant and the Overlord)
Carmina Elegiaca (Elegiac Verses)
“Ignavus satrapam dedecet …” (“Slothful sleep …”)
Elegia prima (Elegy 1: To Charles Diodati)
Elegia secunda (Elegy 2: On the death of the Beadle of Cambridge University)
Elegia tertia (Elegy 3: On the death of the Bishop of Winchester)
In obitum Præsulis Eliensis (On the death of the Bishop of Ely)
In obitum Procancellarii medici (On the death of the Vice-Chancellor, a Physician)
In proditionem Bombardicam (On the Gunpowder Plot)
In eandem (On the same: “Thus did you strive …”)
In eandem (On the same: “James derided …”)
In eandem (On the same: “Whom impious Rome …”)
In inventorem Bombardæ (On the inventor of Gunpowder)
In quintum Novembris (On the fifth of November)
Elegia quarta (Elegy 4: To Thomas Young)
On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough
At a Vacation Exercise
Elegia quinta (Elegy 5: On the coming of spring)
On the Morning of Christs Nativity
Elegia sexta (Elegy 6: To Charles Diodati, sojourning in the country)
The Passion
Elegia septima (Elegy 7: “Not yet did I know …”)
(Lines appended to Elegia septima)
Song: On May Morning
Sonnet 1: “O Nightingale, …”
Sonnet 2: “Charming lady, …”
Sonnet 3: “As on a rugged mountain …”
Canzone: “Scoffing, amorous maidens …”
Sonnet 4: “Diodati, and I will say it …”
Sonnet 5: “In truth your fair eyes, …”
Sonnet 6: “Young, gentle, and candid …”
On Shakespear
Naturam non pati senium (Nature does not suffer decay)
De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit (On the Platonic Idea as Aristotle understood it)
On the University Carrier
Another on the same
Hobsons Epitaph
An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
L’Allegro
Il Penseroso
2. Poems Written During Studious Retirement or Associated with the European Trip (1632–40)
Sonnet 7: “How soon hath Time …”
Arcades
A Mask (“Comus”)
Psalm 114
Philosophus ad regem … (A philosopher on his way …)
On Time
Upon the Circumcision
At a solemn Musick
Lycidas
Ad Patrem (To my Father)
Ad Salsillum poetam Romanum ægrotantem (To Salzilli, a Roman poet, being ill)
Mansus (Manso)
Ad Leonoram Romæ canentem (To Leonora singing in Rome)
Ad eandem (To the same: “Another Leonora captured …”)
Ad eandem (To the same: “Why, credulous Naples, …”)
Epitaphium Damonis (Damon’s Epitaph)
3. Poems Written During Public Life and Governmental Service (1641–58)
Sonnet 8: “Captain or Colonel, …”
Sonnet 9: “Ladie, that in the prime …”
Sonnet 10: “Daughter to that good Earle, …”
In Effigiei Ejus Sculptorem (On the Engraver of His Likeness)
Sonnet 11: “I did but prompt the age …”
Sonnet 13: “Harry, whose tunefull …”
Sonnet 14: “When Faith and Love …”
Ad Joannem Roüsium (To John Rouse)
The Fifth Ode of Horace. Book I.
Sonnet 12: “A book was writt of late …”
On the Forcers of Conscience
Psalms 80-88
Sonnet 15: “Fairfax, whose name in armes …”
Verse from Pro Populo Anglicano defensio: “Who released to Salmasius …”
Sonnet 16: “Cromwell, our cheif of men, …”
Sonnet 17: “Vane, young in yeares, …”
Psalms 1–8
Verse from Defensio secunda: “Rejoice, mackerel, …”
Sonnet 18: “Avenge O Lord …”
Sonnet 19: “When I consider …”
Sonnet 20: “Lawrence of vertuous Father …”
Sonnet 21: “Cyriack, whose Grandsire …”
Sonnet 22: “Cyriack, this three years day …”
Sonnet 23: “Mee thought I saw …”
4. The Major Poems
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regain’d
Samson Agonistes
Textual Notes
Bibliography
Index of Titles and First Lines
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