John Milton
1608 - 1674
Verses from Milton'sCommonplace Book
1625
Text:John Milton, Complete Poems and Major Proseed. Merritt Y. Hughes, New York: The Odyssey Press 1957
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Carmina Elegiaca
SURGE, age, surge, leves, iam convenit, excute somnos,Lux oritur; tepidi fulcra relinque tori.Iam canit excubitor gallus, praenuntius alesSolis, et invigilans ad sua quemque vocat. | |
5 | Flammiger Eois Titan caput exerit undis,Et spargit nitidum laeta per arva iubar.Daulias argutum modulatur ab ilice carmenEdit et excultos mitis alauda modos.Iam rosa fragrantes spirat siluestris odores; |
10 | Iam redolent violae luxuriatque seges.Ecce novo campos Zephyritis gramine vestitFertilis, et vitreo rore madescit humus.Segnes invenias molli vix talia lecto,Cum premat imbellis lumina fessa sopor. |
15 | Illic languentes abrumpunt somnia somnos,Et turbant animum tristia multa tuum.Illic tabifici generantur semina morbi.Qui pote torpentem posse valere virum?Surge, age, surge, leves, iam convenit, excute somnos, |
20 | Lux oritur; tepidi fulcra relinque tori.
Versus Asclepiadeus:
IGNAVUS satrapam dedecet inclytumSomnus qui populo multifido praeest.Dum Dauni veteris filius armigerStratus purpureo procubuit toro. |
5 | Audax Eurialus, Nisus et impigerInvasere cati nocte sub horridaTorpentes Rutilos castraque Volscia:Hinc caedes oritur clamor et absonus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |