Hymn To The Naiads (Mark Akenside Poems)
ARGUMENT. The Nymphs, who preside over springs and rivulets, are addressed at day-break, in honor of their several functions, and ...
Mark Akenside Poems on Art (12 Poems)
Ode XVIII: To The Right Honourable Francis Earl Of Huntington (Mark Akenside Poems)
I. 1.The wise and great of every clime,Through all the spacious walks of Time,Where'er the Muse her power display'd,With joy ...
Ode IX: To Curio (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Thrice hath the spring beheld thy faded fame Since I exulting grasp'd the tuneful shell: Eager through endless years to sound thy ...
Ode IV: To The Honourable Charles Townshend In The Country (Mark Akenside Poems)
I. 1.How oft shall i surveyThis humble roof, the lawn, the greenwood shade,The vale with sheaves o'erspread,The glassy brook, the ...
Ambition And Content: A Fable (Mark Akenside Poems)
"Optat quietem." -Hor.While yet the world was young, and men were few,Nor lurking fraud, nor tyrant rapine knew,In virtue rude, ...
Ode I: The Remonstrance (Mark Akenside Poems)
If, yet regardful of your native land,Old Shakespeare's tongue you deign to understand,Lo, from the blissful bowers where heaven rewardsInstructive ...
Ode XII: To Sir Francis Henry Drake, Baronet (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Behold; the Balance in the skySwift on the wintry scale inclines:To earthy caves the Dryads fly,And the bare pastures Pan ...
Ode XI: On Love, To A Friend (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.No, foolish youth-To virtuous fameIf now thy early hopes be vow'd,If true ambition's nobler flameCommand thy footsteps from the croud,Lean ...
Friendship and Love (Mark Akenside Poems)
A DIALOGUE: Addressed to a young Lady.Friendship:In vain thy lawless Fires contend with mine,Tho' Crouds unnumber'd fall before thy Shrine;Let ...
Ode XV: On Domestic Manners (Unfinished) (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Meek honor, female shame, O! whither, sweetest offspring of the sky, From Albion dost thou fly;Of Albion's daughters once the favorite fame? O ...
Inscriptions: III: Whoe’er Thou Art Whose Pat In Summer Lies (Mark Akenside Poems)
Whoe'er thou art whose path in summer liesThrough yonder village, turn thee where the groveOf branching oaks a rural palace ...
Female Beauty (Mark Akenside Poems)
Felices ter et ampliusQuos irrupta tenet Copula, nec malisDivulsus querimoniis,Suprema citius solvet amor die.What's Female Beauty, but an Art divine,Through ...