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Born in November 9, 1721 / Died in June 23, 1770 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Mark Akenside

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Ode XIV: To The Honourable Charles Townshend: From The Country

... VI. Such rites, which they with spring renew, ...

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Ode VIII: On Leaving Holland

... III. 3. Hence the whole land the patriot's ardour shares: ...

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Inscriptions: III: Whoe'er Thou Art Whose Pat In Summer Lies

... Humbly walk, O stranger, o'er the consecrated ground ...

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The Virtuoso: In Imitation of Spenser's Style And Stanza

... The wight whose brain this phantom's power doth fill, ...

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Ode XVII: On A Sermon Against Glory

... And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre ...

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Ode IX: At Study

... V. Though the day have smoothly gone, ...

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Ode XIII: To The Author Of Memoirs Of The House of Brandenburgh

... To push this earth adrift and leave it loose from heaven ...

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Ode I: The Preface

... VIII. From all which nature fairest knows, ...

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Ode XV: On Domestic Manners (Unfinished)

... Through noise and spleen and all the gamester's art, ...

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Ode IX: To Curio

...   Then baffled their rude strength, and broke them to the chain ...

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Inscriptions: II: For A Statue Of Chaucer At Woodstock

... yet in vain Dost thou applaud them, if thy breast be cold ...

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Inscriptions: V.

... LIBE- RATOR, CVM INEVNTE ÆTATE PA- ...

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Inscriptions: VIII: Ye Powers Unseen

... if erewhile Not quite unpleasing have my votive rites ...

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Amoret

...   This, sure, is Beauty's happiest part ...

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Inscriptions: IX: Me Tho' In Life's Sequester'd Vale

... His Reason, Fancy, and his Heart unite ...