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The poems (1969)

Collins, William (1721-1759)

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1 Sonnet
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2 Persian Eclogues
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ECLOGUE THE FIRST
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ECLOGUE THE SECOND
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ECLOGUE THE THIRD
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ECLOGUE THE FOURTH
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3 An Epistle:
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4 A Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline
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5 Song.
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6 Written on a Paper which Contained a Piece of Bride Cake given to the Author by a Lady
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Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects
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7 Ode to Pity
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8 Ode to Fear
  
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EPODE
  
ANTISTROPHE
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9 Ode to Simplicity
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10 Ode on the Poetical Character
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11 Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746
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12 Ode to Mercy
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13 Ode to Liberty
  
STROPHE
  
EPODE 2
  
ANTISTROPHE
  
SECOND EPODE
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14 Ode, to a Lady on the Death of Colonel Ross in the Action of Fontenoy
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15 Ode to Evening
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16 Ode to Peace
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17 The Manners.
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18 The Passions.
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19 Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr Thomson
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20 An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, Considered as the Subject of Poetry
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DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS
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21 [Lines on Restoration Drama]
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22 [Lines of Composite Authorship]
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23 [Lines Addressed to James Harris]
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24 [Lines Addressed to Jacob Tonson]
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25 [Lines Addressed to a Fastidious Critic]
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26 [Lines Addressed to a Friend about to Visit Italy]
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27 [Stanzas on a Female Painter]
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28 ‘Ye genii who, in secret state’
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29 To Simplicity
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30 ‘No longer ask me, gentle friends’
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31 [Lines on the Music of the Grecian Theatre]
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LOST AND DOUBTFUL POEMS
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36 On the Use and Abuse of Poetry
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37 The Bell of Arragon
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38 On a Quack Doctor

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Thou, to whom the world unknown
With all its shadowy shapes is shown;
Who see'st appalled the unreal scene,
While Fancy lifts the veil between:
Ah Fear! Ah frantic Fear!
I see, I see thee near.
I know thy hurried step, thy haggard eye!
Like thee I start, like thee disordered fly.
For lo, what monsters in thy train appear!
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Danger, whose limbs of giant mould
What mortal eye can fixed behold?
Who stalks his round, an hideous form,
Howling amidst the midnight storm,
Or throws him on the ridgy steep
Of some loose hanging rock to sleep;
And with him thousand phantoms joined,
Who prompt to deeds accursed the mind;
And those, the fiends who, near allied,
O'er nature's wounds and wrecks preside;
Whilst Vengeance in the lurid air
Lifts her red arm, exposed and bare,
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On whom that ravening brood of fate,
Who lap the blood of sorrow, wait;
Who, Fear, this ghastly train can see,
And look not madly wild like thee?
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