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Born in May 1, 1672 / Died in June 17, 1719 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Joseph Addison

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A Letter From Italy

...   And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile ...

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A Poem To His Magesty, Presented To The Lord Keeper. To The Right Hon. Sir John Somers, Lord Keeper

...     On you, my Lord, with anxious fear I wait, ...

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An Account Of The Greatest English Poets

... Tho' Gods and Heroes fought, Promiscuous in they're streams ...

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"The Spacious Firmament"

... Whilst all the Stars that round her burn, ...

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How Are Thy Servants Blest, O Lord!

... And death, when death shall be our lot, ...

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The Campaign, A Poem, To His Grace The Duke Of Marlborough

...  The royal youth by Marlborough's presence charm'd, &emsp ...

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On The Lady Manchester

... While haughty Gallia's dames, that pread ...

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When all Thy Mercies, O My God

... Through hidden dangers, toils, and deaths, ...

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Prologue To Steele's Tender Husband

... Rescue, like courteous knights, the nymph from danger, ...

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Immortality

... And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains shine ...

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Hope

... So the pure limped stream, when foul with stains ...

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Hymn

...   What though nor real voice nor sound &emsp ...

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To Mr. Dryden

... Grief chill'd his breast,and check'd his rising thought: ...

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When Rising from The Bed of Death

... When Thou, O Lord, shalt stand disclosed ...

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A Song For St. Cecilia's Day, At Oxford

... To music and Cecilia Let no rough winds approach, nor dare ...