The Academy Series of English Classics

MILTON
MINOR POEMS

[L’Allegro ][Il Penseroso ][Comus]
[Arcades] [On the Nativity ][Lycidas]
[On Shakespeare] [At a Solemn Music ][Sonnets]

WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
SAMUEL THURBER

ALLYN AND BACON
Boston and Chicago

COPYRIGHT, 1901,
BY SAMUEL THURBER.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

CONTENTS.

[Preface] [Outlines of the Life of Milton] TEXT: [On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity] [On Shakespeare] [L’Allegro] [Il Penseroso] [Arcades] [At a Solemn Music] [Comus] [Lycidas] [Sonnets:] [I. To the Nightingale] [II. On his having arrived at the Age of Twenty-three] 68 [VIII. When the Assault was intended to the City] 69 [IX. To a Virtuous Young Lady] 70 [X. To the Lady Margaret Ley] 70 [XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes on his Airs] 71 [XV. On the Lord General Fairfax, at the Siege of Colchester] 72 [XVI. To the Lord General Cromwell, May, 1652] 72 [XVII. To Sir Henry Vane the Younger] 73 [XVIII. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont] 74 [XIX. On his Blindness] 74 [XX. To Mr. Lawrence] 75 [XXI. To Cyriack Skinner] 76 [XXII. To the Same] 76 [XXIII. On his Deceased Wife] 77 [Notes] 79

PREFACE.