The poetical works of Mark Akenside, with memoir and critical dissertation by G. Gilfillan, Page 871857 |
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Akenside Amalthea Amid ancient arms arts Athens awful bard Beauty behold bends bless'd bloom bosom breast breath brow CHARLES TOWNSHEND charms cheerful Cimon deeds delight divine doth dread dwell e'er earth eternal fair faithful fame Fancy fate fix'd flame flowers forms frame freedom genius gloom glory groves hand haply harmonious hath haunt heart heaven Hesiod honour'd honours hope hour hovering fly human imagination immortal labours laws Lycurgus lyre maid MARK AKENSIDE Megacles merchant's hopes mind mortal Muse Muse's Naiads Nature Nature's nobler Nymphs o'er passions patriot Pindar Pisistratus Plato pleasing pleasure poet poetry pomp praise radiant rage reign ridicule rill round sacred scene scorn shade shame shine Sire smiles smiling band song sons soul springs strain streams sublime sway sweet taught tender Tethys thee things thou thought throne toil tongue Truth virtue Virtue's voice whate'er Whence wisdom youth
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Page 64 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Page 8 - Omnipotent might send him forth, In sight of mortal and immortal powers As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice ; to exalt His generous aim to all diviner deeds ; To chase each partial purpose from his breast ; And through the mists of passion and of sense, And through the tossing tide of chance and pain, To hold his course unfaltering, while the voice Of Truth and Virtue, up the steep ascent Of Nature, calls him to his high reward, — The applauding smile of Heaven...
Page 111 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Page 18 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, earth and heaven!) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime : here hand in hand. Sit paramount the Graces; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Page 6 - Wisdom's mien celestial. From the first Of days, on them his love divine he fix'd, His admiration : till in time complete, What he admired and loved, his vital smile Unfolded into being. Hence the breath Of life informing each organic frame, Hence the green earth, and wild resounding waves; Hence light and shade alternate ; warmth and cold ; And clear autumnal skies, and vernal showers, And all the fair variety of things.
Page 7 - By fabling Nilus, to the quivering touch Of Titan's ray, with each repulsive string Consenting, sounded through the warbling air. Unbidden strains ; even so did nature's hand To certain species of external things, Attune the finer organs of the mind...
Page 9 - Who that, from alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet ? The high-born soul Disdains to rest her heaven-aspiring wing Beneath its native quarry.
Page 63 - Fresh pleasure only: for the attentive mind By this harmonious action on her powers Becomes herself harmonious: wont so oft In outward things to meditate the charm Of sacred order, soon she seeks at home To find a kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspir'd delight: her temper'd powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien.
Page 12 - Whate'er the waters, or the liquid air, To deck thy lovely labour. Wilt thou fly With laughing Autumn to...
Page 63 - Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien. But if to ampler prospects, if to gaze On Nature's form, where, negligent of all These lesser graces, she assumes the port Of that eternal majesty that weigh'd The world's foundations, if to these the mind Exalts her daring eye ; then mightier far Will be the change, and nobler.