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Born in December 25, 1720 / Died in 1759 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by William Taylor Collins

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Ode: How Sleep the Brave

... To bless the turf that wraps their clay ...

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The Passions. An Ode to Music

...  While each strain'd ball of sight seem'd bursting from his head ...

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Dear Reader

... and with Yeats you lean against a broken pear tree, ...

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Ode to Evening

...   Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, rose-lipp'd Health, ...

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from "A Sigh For Old Times"

... The "Curly Hill" our playground was -our camp the "Cottage Lea ...

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An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, Considered as the Subject of Poetry

... Drown'd by the kaelpie's wrath, nor e'er shall aid thee more!' ...

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How Sleep The Brave

... To bless the turf that wraps their clay ...

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Eclogue the Second: HASSAN; or, the Camel-driver.

... Thrice sighted, thrice struck his breast, and thus began: ...

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Eclogue the Third Abra

...    And oft as spring renewed the plains with flowers, ...

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Ode to Simplicity

...  Thy babe, or Pleasure's, nurs'd the pow'rs of song! ...

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Ode To Liberty

... For thou hast made her vales thy lov'd, thy last abode! ...

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Eclogue the First Selim

... With wealth in courts, nor all that haunt the plains: ...

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A Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline Sung by Guiderus and Ar

...  Soft maids and village hinds shall bring ...

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The Only Day In Existence

... But the morning light is only the first line ...

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In The Downhill Of Life

... On the brink of the grave I’ll not seek to keep hov’ring, ...