John Milton
1608-1674 / Male / English
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An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester
This rich Marble doth enterr / The honour’d Wife of Winchester, / A Vicounts daughter, an Earls heir,
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Another On The Same
Here lieth one who did most truly prove, / That he could never die while he could move, / So hung his destiny never to rot
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Arcades
Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of / Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, who / appear on the Scene in pastoral habit, moving toward the seat
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At A Solemn Musick
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav’ns joy, / Sphear-born harmonious Sisters, Voice, and Vers, / Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employ
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At A Vacation Exercise In The Colledge, Part Latin, Part English. The Latin Speeches Ended, The English Thus Began
Hail native Language, that by sinews weak / Didst move my first endeavouring tongue to speak, / And mad’st imperfect words with childish tripps,
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Comus
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before / The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. / The Persons
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Hymn On The Morning Of Christ’s Nativity
It was the Winter wilde, / While the Heav’n-born-childe, / All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies;
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Il Penseroso
Hence vain deluding joyes, / The brood of folly without father bred, / How little you bested,
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L’Allegro
Hence loathèd Melancholy / Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born, / In Stygian Cave forlorn
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Lycidas
In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately / drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637; / and, by occasion, foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy,
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