Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poet's Biography First Line: To tinkling brooks, to twilight shades Last Line: "virtue alone is bliss compleat." Subject(s): Nature; Pleasure; Solitude; Virtue; Loneliness | ||||||||
I. TO tinkling Brooks, to twilight Shades, To desert Prospects, rough and rude, With youthful Rapture first I ran, Enamour'd of sweet Solitude. II. On Beauty next I wond'ring gaz'd, Too soon my supple Heart was caught; An Eye, a Breast, a Lip, a Shape, Was all I talk'd of, all I thought. III. Next, by the smiling Muses led, On Pindus laurell'd Top I dream, Talk with old Bards, and listening hear The Warbles of th' inchanting Stream. IV. Then, Harmony and Picture came Twin-nymphs my Sense to entertain, By Turns my Eye, my Ear was caught, With Raphael's Stroke and Handel's Strain. V. At last, such various Pleasures prov'd, All cloying, vain, unmanly found, Sweet for a Time as Morning-Dew, Yet Parents of some painful Wound; VI. Humbly I ask'd great Wisdom's Aid To true Delight to lead my Feet; When thus the Goddess whispering said, "Virtue alone is Bliss compleat." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN ABEYANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV IN A VACANT HOUSE by PHILIP LEVINE SUNDAY ALONE IN A FIFTH FLOOR APARTMENT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS SILENCE LIKE COOL SAND by PAT MORA THE HONEY BEAR by EILEEN MYLES A FAREWELL TO POETRY by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER A FRAGMENT OF A SATIRE by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER |
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