Ad CHRISTIN AM Suecorum Reginam nomine

Cromwelli *.
B Ellipotens Virgo, feptem Regina Trionum,

Christina, Arctoï lucida stella poli,
Cernis quas

merui dura sub callide rugas;
Utque fënex armis impiger ora teřo;
Invia fatorum dum per vestigiá nitor,

Exequor et populi fortia jussa manu.
Aft tibi submittit frontem reverentior umbra ;

Nec sunt hi vultus Regibus ufque truces.

TRANSLATION, from TOLAND's Life of Milton.

The northern pole supports thy shining throne;
Behold what furrows age and steel can plow,
The helmet's weight oppress’d this wrinkled brow.
Through fate's untrodden påths I move, my hands
Still act my free-born people's bold commands :
Yet this ftern fhade to you submits his frowns,
Nor are these looks always fevere to crowns.

* These verses were sent to Christina Queen of Sweden with Cromwell's picture, and are by some ascribed to Andrew Marvel, as by others to Milton : but I Should rather think they were Milton's, being more within his province as Latin Secretary.

A FRA G.

A FRAGMENT, from the Italian;
Addressed to a young Lady, at Florence, who did not

understand English.
WHEN in your language, I, unskill'd, address

The short-pac'd efforts of a trammelid Muse;
Soft Italy's fair critics round Me press,

And my mistaking passion thus accuse.
Why, to our tongue's disgrace, does thy dumb love

Strive, in rough sound, soft meaning to impart?
He must select his words who speaks to move,

And point his purpose at the hearer's heart,
Then laughing they repeat my languid lays

Nymphs of thy native clime, perhaps—they cry,
For whom thou hast a tongue, may feel thy praise ;

But we must understand ere we comply!
Do thou, my soul's soft hope, these triflers awe!

Tell them, 'tis nothing, how, or what, I write;
Since love from filent looks can language draw,

And scorns the lame impertinence of wit.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

C

THE

THIRD VOLUME.

SAMS

a

AMSON Agonistes

page :
Poems on several Occasions

67
On the death of a fair Infant dying of a cough 71
At a Vacation Exercise in the College

75
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

79
The Passion

8g"
On Time

92
Upon the Circumcifion

93
At a Solemn Music

94
An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester

95
Song. On May Morning

97
On Shakespear

98
On the University Carrier

99
Another on the same

ibid.
L'Allegro

101
Il Penseroso

106
Arcades
A Mark

II2

-

The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. 1. English'd - 166

On the new forcers of conscience under the Long Par-

liament

168

Sonnets

. 169

To the Nightingale

ibid.

On his being arrived to the age of 23

173

When the affault was intended to the city ibid.

To a virtuous young Lady

174

To the Lady Margaret Ley

. ibid.

On the detraction which followed upon my writing

certain Treatises

175

On the fame

- 176

To Mr. H. Lawes on his Airs

ibid.
Ön the religious memory of Mrs. Catharine Thomson

177

To the Lord General Fairfax

178

To the Lord General Cromwell

ibid.

To Sir Henry Vane the younger

179

On the late Massacre in Piemont

180

On his blindness

. ibid.

To Mr. Lawrence

181

To Syriac Skinner

182

To the same

. ibid.

On his deceased Wife

183

Psalms

185

Joannis Miltoni Londinensis Poemata

229

Elegiarum liber primus

231

Elegia Prima. Ad Carolum Deodatum

ibid.

Elegia Sccunda. In obitum Præconis Academici Can-

tabrigiensis

234

3

Elegia

Elêgia Tertia.
In obitum Præfulis Wintoniensis

235

Elegia Quarta. Ad Thomam Junium

231

Elegia Quinta. In adventum veris

242

Elegia Sexta. Ad Carolum Dcodatum, ruri commo-

rantem.

247

Elegia Septima

250

In proditionem bombardicam

254

In eandem

255

In eandem

. ibid.

In eandem

- 256

In inventorem bombarda

- ibid.

Ad Leonoram Romæ canentem

- ibid.

Ad eandem

257

Ad eandem

ibid.

Apologus de Rustico & Hero

258

Sylvarum Liber.
In obitum Procancellarii Medici

259

In quintum Novembris

261

In obitum Præsulis Eliensis

269

Naturam non pati fenium

271

De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit

274

Ad Patrem

275

Pfalmus CXIV. Græcè

279

Philofophus ad regem quendam, &c.

280

In effigiei ejus sculptorem