Poems by Mark Akenside
The Nightingale
... Through yon wild thicket next the plain, ...
A British PHILIPPIC
... Occasion'd by the Insults of the Spaniards, and the present Preparations for War, 1738 ...
Ode XV: To The Evening-Star
... XII. Oh think, o'er all this mortal stage, ...
Ode VII: On The Use Of Poetry
... VII. Yet then shall Shakespeare's powerful art ...
Ode X: To Thomas Edwards, Esquire: On The Late Edition Of Mr. Pope's Work
... II. In bowers where laurel weds with palm, ...
Hymn To The Naiads
... tion which temperance only can receive: in opposition to the enthusiasm of the more licentious poets ...
The Poet
... he is lost To all advice, and starves for starving's sake ...
Love: An Elegy
... With prayers, with bribes, with lies, her pity crave, ...
Ambition And Content: A Fable
... Hor. While yet the world was young, and men were few, ...
The Pleasures of Imagination: Book The Third
... then at last Sit down dismay'd, and leave the entangled scene ...
Ode VII: To The Right Reverend Benjamin Lord Bishop Of Winchester
... Which Thou hast kept intire from force and factious guile ...
Inscriptions: I: For A Grotto
... Here lurks: and if thy breast of blameless thoughts ...
Ode V: On Love Of Praise
... Nor priest, nor bard, nor sage hath taught ...
The Pleasures of Imagination: Book The Second
... till at last They reach'd a grassy plain, which from the skirts ...
The Pleasures of Imagination: Book The Fourth
... like a waste Of sands and flowery lawns and tangling woods, ...