| Preface | xi |
| Table of Dates | xxii |
| Further Reading | xxv |
| Poems 1645 | |
| On the Morning of Christ's Nativity | 1 |
| A Paraphrase on Psalm 114 | 9 |
| Psalm 136 | 10 |
| The Passion | 12 |
| On Time | 14 |
| Upon the Circumcision | 15 |
| At a Solemn Music | 16 |
| An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester | 17 |
| Song. On May Morning | 19 |
| On Shakespeare. 1630 | 19 |
| On the University Carrier | 20 |
| Another on the Same | 20 |
| L'Allegro | 21 |
| Il Penseroso | 25 |
| Sonnet I ('O nightingale') | 30 |
| Sonnet II ('Donna leggiadra') | 31 |
| Sonnet III ('Qual in colle aspro') | 31 |
| Canzone | 32 |
| Sonnet IV ('Diodati, e te'l diro') | 33 |
| Sonnet V ('Per certo') | 34 |
| Sonnet VI ('Giovane piano') | 35 |
| Sonnet VII ('How soon hath Time') | 35 |
| Sonnet VIII ('Captain or colonel') | 36 |
| Sonnet IX ('Lady that in the prime') | 36 |
| Sonnet X ('Daughter to that good Earl') | 37 |
| Arcades | 38 |
| Lycidas | 41 |
| A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle ['Comus'] | 46 |
| English Poems Added in 1673 | |
| On the Death of a Fair Infant | 76 |
| At a Vacation Exercise | 79 |
| Sonnet XI ('A book was writ of late') | 82 |
| Sonnet XII On the same ('I did but prompt the age') | 82 |
| Sonnet XIII To Mr H. Lawes, on his Airs | 83 |
| Sonnet XIV ('When Faith and Love') | 83 |
| Sonnet XV On the Late Massacre in Piedmont | 84 |
| Sonnet XVI ('When I consider how my light is spent') | 84 |
| Sonnet XVII ('Lawrence of virtuous father') | 85 |
| Sonnet XVIII ('Cyriack, whose grandsire') | 85 |
| Sonnet XIX ('Methought I saw my late espoused saint') | 86 |
| The Fifth Ode of Horace | 86 |
| On the New Forcers of Conscience | 87 |
| Psalm Paraphrases Added in 1673 | |
| Psalms I-VIII | 88 |
| Psalms LXXX-LXXXVIII | 97 |
| Uncollected English Poems | |
| On the Lord General Fairfax | 113 |
| To the Lord General Cromwell | 113 |
| To Sir Henry Vane the Younger | 114 |
| To Mr Cyriack Skinner upon his Blindness | 114 |
| 'Fix Here' | 115 |
| Translations from the Prose works | |
| 'Ah Constantine, of how much ill' | 116 |
| 'Founded in chaste and humble poverty' | 116 |
| 'Then passed he to a flow'ry mountain green' | 116 |
| 'When I die' | 116 |
| 'Laughing to teach the truth' | 117 |
| 'Jesting decides great things' | 117 |
| ''Tis you that say it, not I' | 117 |
| 'This is true liberty, when freeborn men' | 117 |
| 'Whom do we count a good man' | 117 |
| 'There can be slain' | 118 |
| 'Goddess of shades, and huntress' | 118 |
| 'Brutus far to the west' | 118 |
| 'Low in a mead of kine' | 118 |
| Paradise Lost | |
| Paradise Regained | |
| Samson Agonistes | 463 |
| The Latin and Greek Poems | |
| Elegiarum Liber | |
| Elegia I Ad Carolum Diodatum | 512 |
| Elegia II In Obitum Praeconis Academici Cantabrigiensis | 517 |
| Elegia III In Obitum Praesulis Wintoniensis | 518 |
| Elegia IV Ad Thomam Iunium | 522 |
| Elegia V In adventum veris | 528 |
| Elegia VI Ad Carolum Diodatum, ruri commorantem | 535 |
| Elegia VII Anno aetatis undevigesimo | 540 |
| 'Haec ego mente' | 543 |
| In Proditionem Bombardicam | 546 |
| In eandem | 546 |
| In eandem | 547 |
| In eandem | 548 |
| In Inventorem Bombardae | 548 |
| Ad Leonoram Romae canentem | 548 |
| Ad eandem | 549 |
| Ad eandem | 550 |
| Silvarum Liber | |
| In Obitum Procancellarii Medici | 551 |
| In Quintum Novembris | 553 |
| In Obitum Praesulis Eliensis | 564 |
| Naturam non pati senium | 567 |
| De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit | 571 |
| Ad Patrem | 573 |
| Greek Verses | |
| Psalm CXIV | 579 |
| Philosophus ad Regem | 580 |
| Ad Salsillum | 580 |
| Mansus | 583 |
| Epitaphium Damonis | 588 |
| Greek and Latin Poems Added in 1673 | |
| Apologus de Rustico et Hero | 601 |
| In Effigiei eius Sculptorem | 602 |
| Ad Ioannem Rousium | 602 |
| Latin Poems from the Prose Works | |
| Epigram from Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio | 608 |
| Epigram from Defensio Secunda | 608 |
| Unpublished Latin Poems | |
| Carmina Elegiaca | 610 |
| [Asclepiads] | 611 |
| Notes | 613 |
| Index of Titles | 976 |
| Index of First Lines | 979 |