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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MILTON, JOHN (1608-1674) Matches Found: 112 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "A DESCRIPTION; IN IMITATION OF MILTON, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "of man's important business, and his work" Last Line: "uncostive, flowing forth in happiest strains" Subject(s): "lavatories;milton, John (1608-1674);" Toilets "LUCIFER'S DEFEAT: OR, THE MANTLE-CHIMNEY, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "kings, arms, and empire, common themes! The muse" Last Line: "contagious, from pandora's box, accurs'd" Subject(s): "chimney Sweepers & Chimneys;milton, John (1608-1674);patents & Trademarks; A MILTONIC EXERCISE (TERCENTENARY, 1608-1908), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What need of votive verse Last Line: And the 'god-gifted organ-voice' is dumb. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) AFTERTHOUGHT, by MAXIANNE BERGER Poem Source First Line: Epimetheus, as an afterthought, blamed Last Line: Soberly blame his victim for the rape? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights AN EPIGRAM, ADDRESSED TO THE ENGLISHMAN, JOHN MILTON, by JOHN SALSILLI Poem Text First Line: Meles and mincio, both, your urns depress! Last Line: For milton famed shall, single, match the three. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) AN ODE, ADDRESSED TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS ENGLISHMAN, JOHN MILTON, by ANTONIO FRANCINI Poem Text First Line: Exalt me, clio, to the skies Last Line: Not by the faltering tongue, thy worth may best be shown. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) AREOPAGITICA, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: When censors threaten freedom of the press Last Line: Then feed your copy of the first amendment? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights BLIND OLD MILTON, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Place me once more, my daughter, where the sun Last Line: Until the door shall ope and let him in. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Courage; Milton, John (1608-1674); Valor; Bravery CEREALIA: AN IMITATION OF MILTON, SELS., by JOHN PHILIPS Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, John+(1) Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Patriotism COSMOGRAPHY, by ARTHUR HOBART NETHERCOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John milton saw the universe aswing Last Line: Saw god look at him through the window pane. Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Milton, John (1608-1674) CRIPPLED, by MARION PELTON GUILD Poem Text First Line: Beethoven deaf, and milton blind! Last Line: Crippled or no, we dare the race! Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Milton, John (1608-1674); Music & Musicians; Physical Disabilities; Wellesley College; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples CROOKED SIX-PENCE, SELS., by JAMES BRAMSTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the maid, who from green sickness free Last Line: Or crooked six-pence offer'd to divide Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) DESCRIPTIVE: A MILTONICK, SELS., by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Gladsome prime of day, when orient sol Last Line: With trill harmonious and responsive tune Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Morning DOG, SELS., by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His colours strange, what mortal painter's hand Last Line: As tail of memphian crocodile full-grown Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Milton, John (1608-1674) EPIGRAM ... SEEING SOME SHEETS OF MILTON'S PARADISE LOST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did milton's prose, o charles, thy death defend? Last Line: The murd'rous critic has aveng'd thy murder. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) EXTEMPORE TO VOLTAIRE CRITICISING MILTON, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are so witty, profligate and thin Last Line: At once we think you milton, death, and sin. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De FANSCOMB FARM, SELS., by ANNE FINCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The swarthy bowl appears Last Line: Which straw affords to mind, unvex'd with cares Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Milton, John (1608-1674) FASHION, by HORACE TWISS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, loath'd vulgarity Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) GENEVA, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thy virtues o geneva! Yet unsung Last Line: The latter, quick flew up, and kick'd the beam Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) GODDARD AND LYCIDAS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two dirges by two poets have I read Last Line: And gained, by lowlier means, a sweeter end. Subject(s): Goddard, Frederick William (d. 1820); King, Edward (1612-1637); Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) HEIGH-HO THE FOLLY, by THOMAS CARPER Poem Source First Line: Hence, loathed melancholy.' %away to distant venues! Last Line: Eager to bring alive %'the brood of folly' Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) HOBBINOL, OR THE RURAL GAMES, SELS., by WILLIAM SOMERVILE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What old menalcas at his feast reveal'd Last Line: Great sultan of the vale Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William Subject(s): Country Life; Games; Milton, John (1608-1674) HOW COULD YOU KNOW? WHO NEVER ROSE SO HIGH, by BEN RAY REDMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) HUDIBRAS AND MILTON RECONCILED; TO SIR ADOLPHUS OUGHTON, by WILLIAM SOMERVILE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear knight, how great a drudge is he / who would excel in poetry Last Line: Let a great f—t, and went to bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) IN THE SHADOWS: 4, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh many a time with ovid have I borne Last Line: Spirit of god in milton! Was it well? Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets JOHANNES MILTON, SENEX, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I believe in god the father almighty Last Line: Confiding always on his excellent greatness. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Worship JOHN MILTON, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your mind was wrought in cosmic solitude Last Line: Me not with goodness, but with thundering verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) JOHN MILTON STOPS BY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Blake wrote only when the whirl of angels Last Line: Of old memories where most things can be told Subject(s): Books; Milton, John (1608-1674) LAMENT OF A SUBWAYITE, by EUGENE GLADSTONE O'NEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider the many hours spent Last Line: They also pay who only stand and hang.' Subject(s): Lament; Milton, John (1608-1674) LINES ON SEEING A LOCK OF MILTON'S HAIR, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chief of organic numbers Last Line: I thought I had beheld it from the flood. Subject(s): Consolation; Milton, John (1608-1674) LINES PRINTED UNDER THE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF MILTON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three poets, in three distant ages born Last Line: To make a third she join'd the former two. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Nature; Poetry & Poets LONDON, 1802 (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O friend! I know not which way I must look Last Line: And pure religion breathing household laws. Variant Title(s): Written In London, September, 1802;the Times That Are;in London, Setpember 1802;london, 1802 Subject(s): London; Milton, John (1608-1674); Social Protest LONDON, 1802 (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour Last Line: The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Variant Title(s): Ideal;to Milton;london, 1802 Subject(s): Freedom; Milton, John (1608-1674); Liberty LYCIDAS, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: If lycidas could somehow rise again Last Line: Over an ordinary accident Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights MERCURY; ON LOSING MY POCKET MILTON AT LUSS NEAR BEN LOMOND, by ROBERT ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: Luss! Be forever sunk beneath / ben's horrors piled around Last Line: The laurel never sere.' Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MILTON, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stolen and perverted writings of homer & ovid: of plato & cicero Last Line: To go forth to the great harvest & vintage of the nations Subject(s): Bible; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mythology MILTON, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will mortals never know each other's station Last Line: Of iris, colouring dimly lake and fen. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) MILTON, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What splendour of imperial station man Last Line: Rays of his glory on their foreheads bear. Subject(s): England; Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets; English MILTON, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His feet were shod with music and had wings Last Line: Soared in a solitude of glorious light! Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) MILTON, by EUGENE MYERS Poem Source First Line: He left the upland lawns and serene air Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) MILTON, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So fair thy vision that the night Last Line: Had shut thee out from paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Blindness; Milton, John (1608-1674); Visually Handicapped MILTON, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies Last Line: Whisper in odorous heights of even. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): In Quantity;milton, Alcaics Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) MILTON, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lover of beauty, walking on the height Last Line: The loftiest poet of the saxon race! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets MILTON AND PARADISE LOST, by MICHAEL MILBURN Poem Source First Line: He woke early, his mind Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) MILTON AT CRIPPLEGATE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Me milton fain by cripplegate behold Last Line: Quick in quotation on free lips I live. Subject(s): Freedom; Milton, John (1608-1674); Statues; Liberty MILTON BY FIRELIGHT, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold' Subject(s): Environment; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mines & Miners; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation MILTON BY FIRELIGHT, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold' Last Line: On an old trail %all of a summer's day Subject(s): Environment; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mines And Miners; Sierra Nevada Mountains MILTON'S PRAYER [OF PATIENCE, OR, IN BLINDNESS], by ELIZABETH LLOYD HOWELL Poem Text First Line: I am old and blind! Last Line: Lit by no skill of mine. Variant Title(s): Old And Blind Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Religion; Theology MILTON'S SPIRIT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that milton's spirit rose, and took Last Line: Prisons and citadels. Subject(s): Dreams; Milton, John (1608-1674); Nightmares MILTON'S WELL, NEAR THE EY BROOK, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, by W. H. C. PLOWDEN Poem Source First Line: Tis said beside these lovely glades Last Line: But beauteous nature reigns supreme %and paradise is all his theme Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) MILTON'S WOMEN WITH MEMORIES MORE THAN 300 YEARS OLD, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: Milton had 3 wives, 3 daughters, blindness and poetry Last Line: Fumblings? Irrational, yes; but cunning, too %and infinitely vengeful Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights MILTON, JOHN, by LEON HUHNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When shakespeare laid aside his magic pen Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) MILTON; INSCRIPTION ON WINDOW IN ST. MARGARET'S CHURCH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new world honors him whose lofty plea Last Line: Their common freehold while both worlds endure. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) MILTON; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pace the sounding sea-beach and behold Last Line: Floods all the soul with its melodious seas. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) MILTONIC, by MAVIS CLARE BARNETT Poem Text First Line: Poet thou shalt have to drink Last Line: Water in a wooden bowl. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Water MISCELLANEOUS POEMS: INTRODUCTION, by ALFRED ISLAY WALDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My book is largely growing Last Line: I am sure can never fail. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) ODE TO APOLLO, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In thy western halls of gold Last Line: From thee, great god of bards, receive their heavenly birth. Subject(s): Dramatists; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Iliad; Odyssey; Dramatists ON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Katherine woodcock died; so did her son Last Line: Milton never saw either. He lived on Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mothers And Sons ON MILTON'S COTTAGE, AT CHALFONT, ST. GILES, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this roof, for no so use designed Last Line: His martyred brethren and his country's shame. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Plague ON MILTON'S PARADISE LOST, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I beheld the poet blind yet bold Last Line: In number, weight, and measure, needs not rhime. Variant Title(s): On Paradise Lost Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) ON NOT BEING MILTON, by TONY HARRISON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read and committed to the flames, I call Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Negritude (literary Movement) ON NOT BEING MILTON, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read and committed to the flames, I call Last Line: Sir, I ham a very bad hand at righting Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Negritude (literary Movement) ON PARADISE LOST, BY JOHN MILTON, THE GREATEST POET, by SAMUEL BARROW Poem Source First Line: You who read paradise lost, the sublime poem of the great milton Last Line: Who reads this poem will think maeonides sang of frogs, virgil of gnats Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) ON THE COMING OF SPRING, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: During the season when the optic nerve Last Line: The non-existence of unwilling women Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights ON THE LATE MASS OF CURS IN PIEDMONT (AFTER MILTON), by DAVID SHEVIN Poem Source First Line: Avenge, o lord, thy slaughtered saint bernards Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) ON THE SPECTATOR'S CRITIQUE OF MILTON, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Look here, ye pedants, who deserve that name Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Milton, John (1608-1674); Pedants; Spectator (periodical) OUR HELLS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Milton unlocked hell for us Subject(s): Hell; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Milton, John (1608-1674) PARADISE LOST, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Not only do you blame the fall of man Last Line: Your memory by blabbering to aubrey Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights PARADISE LOST, BOOK 5. AN EPITOME, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Higgledy-piggledy / archangel raphael Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) PARADISE LOST, BOOK 5. AN EPITOME, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %archangel raphael Last Line: Given to lewdness and %rodomontade Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) PARADISE LOST: BOOK 4, LINES 639-654, by LESLIE JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: It's all the same to me what time it is Last Line: When you are not around, just leaves me flat. Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Milton, John (1608-1674); Separation; Isolation; Paradise PERINDE AC CADAVER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a vision liberty stood Last Line: "ashes, and iron, and gold." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); England; Freedom; Milton, John (1608-1674); English; Liberty POEM ON THE MEMORABLE FALL OF CHLOE'S P--S POT, SELS., by JOHN PHILIPS Poem Source First Line: Of wasteful havock, and destructive fate Last Line: And veil'd by modest maids in gentler terms Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, John+(1) Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) RANDOM OBSERVATIONS: REMINISCENT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider how my life is spent, Last Line: I hardly ever repent Variant Title(s): Reminiscent Reflectio Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) RETROGRESSION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our daughters flower in vernal grace Last Line: Trailing the folds of gorgeous woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700); Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Milton, John (1608-1674) SAMSON AGONISTES, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: What better option does delilah have Last Line: Of intertribal, unprotected sex? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tongue of england, that which myriads Last Line: Glory! Be glory! Not to me, to god. Subject(s): Dramatists; Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists SMECTYMNUUS, OR THE CLUB-DIVERS, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smectymnuus! The goblin makes me start! Last Line: And stretch her patent to your leather ears! Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Religion; Theology SNOWFLAKE WHICH IS NOW AND HENCE FOREVER, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will it last? He says Last Line: They also live %who swerve and vanish in the river Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell Last Line: But death intenser--death is life's high meed. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I have fears that I may cease to be Last Line: Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To one who has been long in city pent Last Line: That falls through the clear ether silently. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many bards gild the lapses of time Last Line: Make pleasing music, and not wild uproar. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! Last Line: He'll let me sleep, seeing I fast and pray. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell Last Line: But death intenser--death is life's high meed. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I have fears that I may cease to be Last Line: Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) SONNET: 19. ON HIS BLINDNESS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider how my light is spent Last Line: "they also serve who only stand and wait." Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 16;sonnet On His Blindness;sonnet: 17 Subject(s): Bible; Blindness; Milton, John (1608-1674); Religion; Time; Visually Handicapped; Theology SONNET: 21. MILTON, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Milton, our noblest poet, in the grace Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) SONNET: 22. MILTON IN AGE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And art thou he, now 'fall'n on evil days' Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) STANZAS ON INDECENT LIBERTIES TAKEN WITH REMAINS OF MILTON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me too, perchance, in future days Last Line: As much affronts thee dead. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) TECHNICAL NOTES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Catullus is my master and I mix Last Line: Is finally just %a natural thing Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry And Poets THE PLOUGHMAN, IN IMITATION OF MILTON, by SAMUEL JONES Poem Text First Line: Happy's the man whose pleasant labours with the lark Last Line: Lies sheltered only in her shift below him. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Plowing & Plowmen THE POET'S TERROR AT THE BALIFFS OF EXETER, FR. FREEDOM: A POEM, by ANDREW BRICE Poem Text First Line: While perils imminent by slender thread Last Line: Exhaust, and tide of every art'ry frore. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Milton, John (1608-1674); Recessions THE POETRY OF MILTON, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to some deep-chested organ whose grand inspiration Last Line: The mystical harmonies chiming for ever throughout the bright spheres. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets THE PORTRAIT OF MILTON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three poets, in three distant ages born Last Line: To make a third, she joined the former two. Variant Title(s): Epigram On Milton;lines Written [printed] Under The Portrait;on Milton;under Milton's Picture;under The Portrait Of John Milton;lines Printed Under The Engraved Portrait Of Milton;lines On Milton Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) THE PROGRESS OF POESY; A PINDARIC ODE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, aeolian lyre, awake Last Line: Beneath the good how far--but far above the great. Subject(s): Dramatists; Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE SNOWFLAKE WHICH IS NOW AND HENCE FOREVER, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will it last? He says Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) THE SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scorn not the sonnet; critic, you have frowned Last Line: Soul-animating strains, -- alas! Too few. Variant Title(s): "scorn Not The Sonnet; Critic, You Have Frowned""; Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SPLENDID SHILLING; AN IMITATION OF MILTON, by JOHN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Happy the man, who void of cares and strife Last Line: The ship sinks foundering in the vast abyss. Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, John+(1) Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) TO JOHN MILTON, by ? SELVAGGI Poem Text First Line: Greece, sound thy homer's, rome, thy virgil's name Last Line: But england's milton equals both in fame. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) TO MILTON, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Milton! I think thy spirit hath passed away Last Line: When cromwell spake the word democracy! Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) TO MILTON -- BLIND, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who said suddenly, let there be light! Last Line: That brings this world out of the woe to bliss. Subject(s): Blindness; Milton, John (1608-1674); Visually Handicapped TO MILTON, ON HIS LYCIDAS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor didst thou die, who hadst in lovelier years Last Line: Given -- unto death -- these richest of all tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) TO MR. JOHN MILTON, GENTLEMAN OF ENGLAND: ODE, by ANTONIO FRANCINI Poem Source First Line: Lift me to heaven, clio, so that I can make a crown Last Line: Listen to my heart which, inspired, sings your praise Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) TO THE COUNTESS OF DORSET, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See here how bright the first-born virgin shone Last Line: There's no way to be safe, but not to see. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE ENGLISHMAN, JOHN MILTON, by JOHN BAPTIST MANSO Poem Text First Line: What features, form, mien, manners, with a mind Last Line: Thou wouldest no angle but an angel be. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) TO THE GHOST OF JOHN MILTON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should pamphleteer twenty years against royalists Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) TO THE GHOST OF JOHN MILTON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should pamphleteer twenty years against royalists Last Line: And god himself and the rebels god threw into hell Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) TO THE LADY DURSLEY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here reading how fond adam was betrayed Last Line: Nor had frail adam fallen, nor milton wrote. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Heaven; Milton, John (1608-1674); Paradise TO THE MUSE OF MILTON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from this visible diurnal sphere Last Line: The last, ere sin the elysian charm undid. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) WINE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of happiness terrestrial, and the source Last Line: Unerring steer'd, of cares and coin bereft. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Milton, John (1608-1674); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse WRITTEN AT LUDLOW CASTLE (IN THE HALL WHERE COMUS WAS FIRST PERFORMED), by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where wall and sill and broken window-frame Last Line: And they are more than ghosts who lived and sang. Subject(s): Ludlow Castle, England; Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets |
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