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 Mind (23 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 ...
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 ...
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 XII: On Recovering From A Fit Of Sickness, In the Country (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Thy verdant scenes, O Goulder's hill,Once more i seek, a languid guest:With throbbing temples and with burden'd breastOnce more i ...
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 ...
Ode V: Against Suspicion (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Oh fly! 'tis dire Suspicion's mien; And, meditating plagues unseen, The sorceress hither bends:Behold her torch in gall imbrued:Behold - her garment ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ode XVI: To Caleb Hardinge, M.D. (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.With sordid floods the wintry UrnHath stain'd fair Richmond's level green:Her naked hill the Dryads mourn,No longer a poetic scene.No ...
Inscriptions: VIII: Ye Powers Unseen (Mark Akenside Poems)
Ye powers unseen, to whom, the bards of GreeceErected altars; ye who to the mindMore lofty views unfold, and prompt ...
Ode III: To The Cuckow (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.O rustic herald of the spring,At length in yonder woody valeFast by the brook I hear thee sing;And, studious of ...
Ode VIII: If Rightly Tuneful Bards Decide (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.If rightly tuneful bards decide,If it be fix'd in love's decrees,That beauty ought not to be triedBut by its native ...
Ode IX: At Study (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Whither did my fancy stray?By what magic drawn awayHave I left my studious theme?From this philosophic page,From the problems of ...
Ode V: On Love Of Praise (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Of all the springs within the mindWhich prompt her steps in fortune's maze,From none more pleasing aid we findThan from ...
A Song (Mark Akenside Poems)
The Shape alone let others prize,The Features of the Fair;I look for Spirit in her Eyes,And Meaning in her Air.A ...
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 ...