Mark Akenside poet from United Kingdom was born on November 9, 1721, had 48 years and died on June 23, 1770. Poems were written mainly in English language. Dominant movement is didactical.
Top ten poems 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 ...
