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 trammel'd Muse;

Soft Italy's fair critics round Me prefs,

And my mistaking paffion thus accuse.

Why, to our tongue's difgrace, does thy dumb love
Strive, in rough found, foft 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 haft a tongue, may feel thy praise;
But we must understand ere we comply!

Do thou, my foul's foft hope, these triflers awe!
Tell them, 'tis nothing, how, or what, I write ;
Since love from filent looks can language draw,
And fcorns the lame impertinence of wit.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

THE THIRD VOLUM E.

AMSON Agonistes

SAM

Poems on feveral Occafions

On the death of a fair Infant dying of a cough

At a Vacation Exercife in the College

On the Morning of Chrift's Nativity

The Paffion

On Time

Upon the Circumcifion

At a Solemn Mufic

An Epitaph on the Marchionefs of Winchester

Song. On May Morning

On Shakespear

On the University Carrier

Another on the fame

L'Allegro

Il Penferofo

Arcades

A Mask

Lycidas

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

On the new forcers of conscience under the Long Par-

liament

Sonnets

To the Nightingale

On his being arrived to the age of 23

When the affault was intended to the city

To a virtuous young Lady

To the Lady Margaret Ley

On the detraction which followed upon my writing

Elegia Tertia. In obitum Præfulis Wintonienfis

Elegia Quarta. Ad Thomam Junium

235

231

242

Elegia Quinta. In adventum veris

Elegia Sexta. Ad Carolum Deodatum, ruri commo

Pfalmus CXIV. Græcè

Philofophus ad regem quendam, &c.

In effigiei ejus fculptorem

Ad Salfillum Poetam Romanum ægrotantem
Manfus

274

275

Epitaphium

Epitaphium Damonis

284

Ad Joannem Roufium Oxonienfis Academiæ Bibliothecarium

Ad Chriftinam, Suecorum reginam

Tranflation from Toland's life of Milton

A Fragment

295

299

ibid.

300

THE END OF MILTON'S POEMS.

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