The Poems Of Mark Akenside

Akenside, Mark (1721-1770)

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THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. A POEM. IN THREE BOOKS.

THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION: A POEM.

ODES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS. IN TWO BOOKS.

ODES, BOOK THE FIRST.

ODES, BOOK THE SECOND.

ODE I. THE REMONSTRANCE OF SHAKESPEARE:

ODE II. TO SLEEP.

ODE III. TO THE CUCKOW.

ODE IV. TO THE HONOURABLE CHARLES TOWNSHEND IN THE COUNTRY.

ODE V. ON LOVE OF PRAISE.

ODE VI. TO WILLIAM HALL, ESQUIRE: WITH THE WORKS OF CHAULIEU.

ODE VII. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND BENJAMIN LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER.

ODE VIII.

ODE IX. AT STUDY.

ODE X. TO THOMAS EDWARDS, ESQUIRE: ON THE LATE EDITION OF MR. POPE'S WORKS.

ODE XI. TO THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND.

ODE XII. ON RECOVERING FROM A FIT OF SICKNESS, IN THE COUNTRY.

ODE XIII. TO THE AUTHOR OF MEMOIRS OF THE HOUSE OF BRANDENBURGH:

ODE XIV. THE COMPLAINT.

ODE XV. ON DOMESTIC MANNERS.

HYMN TO THE NAIADS.

INSCRIPTIONS.

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Thou, who the verdant plain dost traverse here,
While Thames among his willows from thy view
Retires; o stranger, stay thee, and the scene
Around contemplate well. This is the place
Where England's ancient barons, clad in arms
And stern with conquest, from their tyrant king
(Then render'd tame) did challenge and secure
The charter of thy freedom. Pass not on
Till thou hast bless'd their memory, and paid
Those thanks which God appointed the reward
Of public virtue. and if chance thy home
Salute thee with a father's honour'd name,
Go, call thy sons: instruct them what a debt
They owe their ancestors; and make them swear
To pay it, by transmitting down intire
Those sacred rights to which themselves were born.

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