The Pleasures of Imagination: (Mark Akenside Poems)
What wonder therefore, since the indearing tiesOf passion link the universal kindOf man so close, what wonder if to searchThis ...
Mark Akenside Poems on Man (19 Poems)
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 ...
A British PHILIPPIC (Mark Akenside Poems)
Occasion'd by the Insults of the Spaniards, and the present Preparations for War, 1738.Whence this unwonted Transport in my Breast?Why ...
Ode XI: To The Country Gentlemen Of England (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Whither is Europe's ancient spirit fled?Where are those valiant tenants of her shore,Who from the warrior bow the strong dart ...
The Poet (Mark Akenside Poems)
-A RhapsodyOf all the various lots around the ball,Which fate to man distributes, absolute;Avert, ye gods! that of the Muse's ...
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 ...
Love: An Elegy (Mark Akenside Poems)
Too much my heart of Beauty's power hath known,Too long to Love hath reason left her throne;Too long my genius ...
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 XIII: On Lyric Poetry (Mark Akenside Poems)
I. 1.Once more I join the Thespian choir,And taste the inspiring fount again:O parent of the Grecian lyre,Admit me to ...
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 VII: To The Right Reverend Benjamin Lord Bishop Of Winchester (Mark Akenside Poems)
I. 1.For toils which patriots have endur'd,For treason quell'd and laws secur'd,In every nation Time displaysThe palm of honourable praise.Envy ...
Ode VIII: On Leaving Holland (Mark Akenside Poems)
I 1.Farewell to Leyden's lonely bound,The Belgian Muse's sober seat;Where dealing frugal gifts aroundTo all the favorites at her feet,She ...
Ode XV: To The Evening-Star (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.To-night retir'd the queen of heavenWith young Endymion stays:And now to Hesper is it givenAwhile to rule the vacant sky,Till ...
The Nightingale (Mark Akenside Poems)
To-night retired, the queen of heaven With young Endymion stays;And now to Hesper it is givenAwhile to rule the vacant sky,Till ...
Nightingale, The (Mark Akenside Poems)
To-night retired, the queen of heavenWith young Endymion stays;And now to Hesper it is givenAwhile to rule the vacant sky,Till ...
Ode XIII: To The Author Of Memoirs Of The House of Brandenburgh (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.The men renown'd as chiefs of human race,And born to lead in counsels or in arms,Have seldom turn'd their feet ...
Inscriptions: VII: The Wood Nymph (Mark Akenside Poems)
Approach in silence. 'tis no vulgar taleWhich I, the Dryad of this hoary oak,Pronounce to mortal ears. The second ageNow ...
Inscriptions: IX: Me Tho’ In Life’s Sequester’d Vale (Mark Akenside Poems)
Me tho' in life's sequester'd valeThe Almighty sire ordain'd to dwell,Remote from glory's toilsome ways,And the great scenes of public ...
Inscriptions (Mark Akenside Poems)
Me tho' in life's sequester'd valeThe Almighty sire ordain'd to dwell,Remote from glory's toilsome ways,And the great scenes of public ...