Descend from Heaven, Urania, by t… If rightly thou art called, whose… Following, above the Olympian hil… Above the flight of Pegasean wing… The meaning, not the name, I call…

OH how comely it is and how reviv… To the Spirits of just men long o… When God into the hands of thir d… Puts invincible might To quell the mighty of the Earth,…

Aug. 12. 1653. Jehovah to my words give ear My meditation waigh The voyce of my complaining hear My King and God for unto thee I…

A Book was writ of late call’d Te… And wov’n close, both matter, form… The Subject new: it walk’d the To… Numbring good intellects; now seld… Cries the stall-reader, bless us!…

O, for that warning voice, which h… The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heav… Then when the Dragon, put to seco… Came furious down to be revenged o… Woe to the inhabitants on earth! t…

This is the month, and this the ha… Wherein the Son of Heaven’s etern… Of wedded maid and virgin mother b… Our great redemption from above di… For so the holy sages once did sin…

Thy gracious ear, O Lord, encline… O hear me I thee pray, For I am poor, and almost pine With need, and sad decay. Preserve my soul, for *I have tro…

Diodati, e te’l diro con maravigli… Quel ritroso io ch’amor spreggiar… E de suoi lacci spesso mi ridea Gia caddi, ov’huom dabben talhor s… Ne treccie d’oro, ne guancia vermi…

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter’d s… Lie scatter’d on the Alpine mount… Ev’n them who kept thy truth so pu… When all our fathers worshipp’d st… Forget not: in thy book record the…

It was the winter wild, While the heaven-born Child All meanly wrapt in the rude mange… Nature in awe to Him Had doffed her gaudy trim,

Be not thou silent now at length O God hold not thy peace, Sit not thou still O God of stren… We cry and do not cease. For lo thy furious foes now *swell

Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of… Sphear—born harmonious Sisters, V… Wed your divine sounds, and mixt p… Dead things with inbreath’d sense… And to our high—rais’d phantasie p…

Meanwhile the new-baptized, who ye… At Jordan with the Baptist, and h… Him whom they heard so late expres… Jesus Messiah, Son of God, decla… And on that high authority had bel…

ALL night the dreadless Angel un… Through Heav'ns wide Champain hel… Wak't by the circling Hours, with… Unbarr'd the gates of Light. Th… Within the Mount of God, fast by…

Hence loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus, and blackest Midnigh… In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks… Find out some uncouth cell,