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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: akenside, mark Matches Found: 76 Akenside, Mark Poet's Biography 76 poems available by this author AMBITION AND CONTENT; A FABLE Poem Text First Line: While yet the world was young and men were few Last Line: And all applaud the justice of the god. Subject(s): Ambition; Fables; Allegories AN EPISTLE TO CURIO Poem Text First Line: Thrice has the spring beheld thy faded fame Last Line: And teach her slaves that vice was born to fear. Subject(s): Freedom; Roman Empire; Slavery; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Serfs; Dictators BENEVOLENCE First Line: Thron'd in the sun's descending car DEVELOPMENT OF POETIC AND ARTISTIC CREATIONS First Line: By these mysterious ties, the busy DOUBLE SUN First Line: Thus beauty's palm EARLY INFLUENCES First Line: O ye northumbrian shades, which overlook ENGLAND, UNPREPARED FOR WAR First Line: Thou, heedless albion, what, alas, the while HYMN TO SCIENCE Poem Text First Line: Science! Thou fair effusive ray Last Line: And sit in peace with thee. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors HYMN TO THE NAIADS Poem Text First Line: O'er yonder eastern hill the twilight pale Last Line: And all profaner audience far remove. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical INSCRIPTIONS: 1. FOR A GROTTO Poem Text First Line: To me, whom in their lays the shepherds call Last Line: Wise pallas and the immortal muses own. Subject(s): Caves; Caverns INSCRIPTIONS: 2. FOR A STATUE OF CHAUCER AT WOODSTOCK Poem Text First Line: Such was old chaucer: such the placid Last Line: To tame the rudeness of his native land. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Statues INSCRIPTIONS: 3 Poem Text First Line: Whoe'er thou art whose path in summer lies Last Line: That riches cannot pay for truth or love. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Mourning; Travel; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTIONS: 4 Poem Text First Line: O youths and virgins: o declining eld Last Line: "which his own genius only could acquire." Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Monuments; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Dramatists INSCRIPTIONS: 6. FOR A COLUMN AT RUNNYMEDE Poem Text First Line: Thou, who the verdant plain dost traverse here INSCRIPTIONS: 7. THE WOOD NYMPH Poem Text First Line: Approach in silence; 'tis no vulgar tale INSCRIPTIONS: 8 Poem Text First Line: Ye powers unseen, to whom the bards of greece Last Line: His reason, fancy, and his heart unite. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTIONS: 9 Poem Text First Line: Me though in life's sequester'd vale LOVE: AN ELEGY Poem Text First Line: Too much my heart of beauty's power hath known Last Line: And lose, with pride, the lover in the man. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The; Parting MINGLED PAIN AND PLEASURE ARISING FROM VIRTUOUS EMOTIONS First Line: Behold the ways NATURE First Line: O ye dales ODE: ALLUSION TO HORACE First Line: Amid the garden's fragrance laid ODES: BOOK 1. ODE 1. PREFACE Poem Text First Line: On yonder verdant hillock laid Last Line: To pleasure and to health. Subject(s): Contentment; Landscape ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 10. TO THE MUSE Poem Text First Line: Queen of my songs, harmonious maid Last Line: And bade me swear to follow her alone. ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 11. ON LOVE - TO A FRIEND Poem Text First Line: No, foolish youth -- to virtuous fame Last Line: Where is the firm, the cautious, or the wise? Subject(s): Youth; Friendship ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 12. TO SIR FRANCIS HENRY DRAKE, BARONET Poem Text First Line: Behold; the balance in the sky Last Line: Or I have eyes for her alone. Subject(s): Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596) ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 13. ON LYRIC POETRY Poem Text First Line: Once more I join the thespian choir Last Line: Nor by another's fate submits to be confined. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Poetry & Poets ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 14. TO THE HON. CHARLES TOWNSHEND - FROM THE COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: Say, townshend,what can london boast Last Line: "by friendship was reclaim'd." Subject(s): Friendship ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 15. TO THE EVENING STAR Poem Text First Line: To-night retir'd the queen of heaven Last Line: Till I forget my own. Variant Title(s): To The Evening Star Subject(s): Birds; Evening Star; Nightingales ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 16. TO CALEB HARDINGE, M.D. Poem Text First Line: With sordid floods the wintry urn Last Line: By verulamian laws. Subject(s): Government; Religiion ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 17. ON A SERMON AGAINST GLORY Poem Text First Line: Come then, tell me, sage divine Last Line: And tully's curule chair, and milton's golden lyre. Subject(s): Religion; Theology ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 18. TO THE HON. FRANCIS EARL OF HUNTINGDON Poem Text First Line: The wise and great of every clime Last Line: For lessons to the multitude unborn. ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 2. ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE, 1740 Poem Text First Line: The radiant ruler of the year Last Line: The liquid melody prolong. Subject(s): Winter Solstice ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 3. TO A FRIEND UNSUCCESSFUL IN LOVE Poem Text First Line: Indeed, my phaedria, if to find Last Line: Some happier love, some truer fair. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 4. AFFECTED INDIFFERENCE Poem Text First Line: Yes: you contemn the perjured maid Last Line: You meant the fair apostate to upbraid? Subject(s): Love ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 5. AGAINST SUSPICION Poem Text First Line: O fly! 'tis dire suspicion's mien Last Line: To injure human kind. Subject(s): Love ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 6. HYMN TO CHEERFULNESS Poem Text First Line: How thick the shades of evening close Last Line: Which none but friends and lovers know. Subject(s): Joy ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 7. ON THE USE OF POETRY Poem Text First Line: Not for themselves did human kind Last Line: Their dread assertor own. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 8. ON LEAVING HOLLAND Poem Text First Line: Farewell to leyden's lonely bound Last Line: There public zeal shall all reproof disclaim. Subject(s): Nostalgia; Travel; Journeys; Trips ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 9. TO CURIO Poem Text First Line: Thrice hath the spring beheld thy faded fame Last Line: And no sublimer lot will fate reserve for man. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 1 Poem Text First Line: If, yet regardful of your native land Last Line: And made it fame and virtue to oppose. Subject(s): Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 10. TO THOMAS EDWARDS, ON ... POPE'S WORKS Poem Text First Line: Believe me, edwards, to restrain Last Line: To keep inviolate their fame. Subject(s): Edwards, Thomas (1699-1757); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Edwards, Thomas (1699-1757); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 11. TO THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND Poem Text First Line: Whither is europe's ancient spirit fled? Last Line: And train her valiant youth, and watch around her shore. Subject(s): Europe ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 12. ON RECOVERING FROM A FIT OF SICKNESS IN COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: Thy verdant scenes, o goulder's hill Last Line: "comes, worthy of thy heart, and equal to thy mind." Subject(s): Illness ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 13. TO AUTHOR OF MEMOIRS OF HOUSE OF BRANDENBURGH Poem Text First Line: The men renown'd as chiefs of human race Last Line: Which tamed the savage world to your divine commands? Subject(s): Frederick Ii, King Of Prussia (1712-1786) ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 14. THE COMPLAINT Poem Text First Line: Away! Away! / tempt me no more, insidious love Last Line: Or placed thy friends above her stern decrees? Subject(s): Love ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 15. ON DOMESTIC MANNERS (UNFINISHED) Poem Text First Line: Meek honour, female shame Last Line: (I watch'd her awful words and made them mine.) Subject(s): Women ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 2. TO SLEEP Poem Text First Line: Thou silent power, whose welcome sway Last Line: Or to the trembling sire his age's hope restored. Subject(s): Sleep ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 3. TO THE CUCKOO Poem Text First Line: O rustic herald of the spring Last Line: The cuckoo joins his lay. Subject(s): Cuckoos ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 4. TO THE HON. CHARLES TOWNSHEND, IN THE COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: How oft shall I survey Last Line: "from youth to honour'd age my arts and me hath view'd." Subject(s): Friendship ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 5. ON LOVE OF PRAISE Poem Text First Line: Of all the springs within the mind Last Line: The suffrage of the good and wise. Subject(s): Praise ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 6. TO WILLIAM HALL, ESQ., WITH THE WORKS OF CHAULIEU Poem Text First Line: Attend to chaulieu's wanton lyre Last Line: —ye have no bribe his grace to win. Subject(s): Chaulieu, Guillaume Amfrye De (1639-1720 ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 7. TO REVEREND BENJAMIN, LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER Poem Text First Line: For toils which patriots have endured Last Line: Which thou hast kept entire from force and factious guile. Subject(s): Hoadley, Benjamin (1676-1761); Benjamin, Bishop Of Winchester ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 8. AMORET Poem Text First Line: If rightly tuneful bards decide Last Line: Sweet amoret in all her prime. Subject(s): Beauty ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 9. AT STUDY Poem Text First Line: Whither did my fancy stray? Last Line: Languishes for true content. Subject(s): Duty ON LYRIC POETRY: 1 First Line: I see anacreon smile and sing Subject(s): Poetry And Poets ON LYRIC POETRY: 2 First Line: Broke from the fetters of his native land Subject(s): Poetry And Poets ON LYRIC POETRY: 3 First Line: But lo! To sappho's melting airs Subject(s): Poetry And Poets ON LYRIC POETRY: 4 First Line: But, o melpomene! For whom Subject(s): Poetry And Poets ON TASTE First Line: Say, what is taste, but the internal PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION, SELS. Subject(s): Travel POETS First Line: But the chief %are poets RICHES OF A MAN OF TASTE First Line: What thought not all SONG Poem Text First Line: The shape alone let others prize Last Line: And read it perfect there. Subject(s): Admiration TEMPE Poem Text First Line: The smooth peneus from his glassy flood Last Line: And spring's elysian bloom. Subject(s): Tempe (vale), Greece THE BRITISH PHILIPPIC Poem Text First Line: Whence this unwonted transport in my breast? Last Line: And hurl the bolts of justice on her foes. Subject(s): Patriotism THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 1 Poem Text First Line: With what attractive charms this goodly frame Last Line: And tune to attic themes the british lyre. Subject(s): Imagination; Perception; Philosophy & Philosophers; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 2 Poem Text First Line: When shall the laurel and the vocal string Last Line: Nor so effaced the image of its sire. Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Imagination; Philosophy & Philosophers; Vision; Fancy THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 3 Poem Text First Line: What wonder therefore, since the endearing ties Last Line: And form to his, the relish of their souls. Subject(s): Imagination; Philosophy & Philosophers; Reason; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 1 Poem Text First Line: With what enchantment nature's goodly scene Last Line: And tune to attic themes the british lyre. Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 2 Poem Text First Line: Thus far of beauty and the pleasing forms Last Line: Nor so effaced the image of her sire. Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Truth; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 3 Poem Text First Line: What tongue then may explain the various fate Last Line: "I flung me, sad, faint, overworn with toil." Subject(s): Imagination; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION; A POEM. ENLARGED VERSION: BOOK 4 Poem Text First Line: One effort more, one cheerful sally more Last Line: The palm of spotless beauty doth resign. Subject(s): Imagination; Prophecy & Prophets; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE POET: A RHAPSODY Poem Text First Line: Of all the various lots around the ball Last Line: "to warn thee from the service of the ingrate." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET; A RHAPSODY Poem Text First Line: Of all the various lots around the ball Last Line: To warn thee from the service of th' ingrate Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE VIRTUOSO; IN IMITATION OF SPENCER'S STYLE AND STANZA Poem Text First Line: Whilom by silver thame's gentle stream Last Line: And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. Subject(s): Art Patronage; Museums; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Patrons Of The Arts; Art Gallerys TO CORDELIA Poem Text First Line: From pompous life's dull masquerade Last Line: For ever active, yet for ever calm. Subject(s): Love |
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