Poems by Mark Akenside
Friendship and Love
... Friendship: In vain thy lawless Fires contend with mine, ...
Ode XVIII: To The Right Honourable Francis Earl Of Huntington
... to assert From all that scorned vice or slavish fear hath sung ...
Hymn to Science
... tu inventrix Legum, tu magistra Morum et Disciplinæ fuisti: Ad te confugimus, a te Opem petimus ...
Ode VIII: If Rightly Tuneful Bards Decide
... V. This sure is beauty's happiest part: ...
Ode IV: To The Honourable Charles Townshend In The Country
... Of each auspicious palm with which thy youth was crown'd ...
Ode V: Against Suspicion
... Which first beheld your faithful breast ...
Inscriptions: IV: O Youths And Virgins
... ye who wait In courts, or fill the golden seat of kings: ...
Female Beauty
... Through which the Mind's all gentle Graces shine ...
Ode VI: Hymn To Cheerfulness
... By thee with flowers their board is crown'd, ...
Ode III: To A Friend, Unsuccessful In Love
... VII. Cease then to gaze with looks of love: ...
Ode II: On The Winter-Solstice
... The auspicious morn, which gives thee birth, ...
The Pleasures of Imagination: Book The First
... while i join Thy name, thrice honour'd! with the immortal praise ...
Ode IV: Affected Indifference. To The Same
... And confidence, and friendship, is no more ...
To Cordelia
... JULY, 1740. From pompous life's dull masquerade, ...
Ode XI: To The Country Gentlemen Of England
... To prize their country's peace and heaven's due rites fulfill ...
