Mark Akenside - The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside

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With what attractive charms this goodly frame
Of Nature touches the consenting hearts
Of mortal men; and what the pleasing stores
Which beauteous Imitation thence derives
To deck the poet's or the painter's toil,
My verse unfolds.

Mark Akenside
How thick the shades of evening close!
How pale the sky with weight of snows!
Haste, light the tapers, urge the fire,
And bid the joyless day retire.

Mark Akenside
Is there in nature no kind power
To soothe affliction's lonely hour?
To blunt the edge of dire disease,
And teach these wintry shades to please?

Mark Akenside
Is there a youth whose anxious heart
Labours with love's unpitied smart?

Mark Akenside
Give me to learn each secret cause; Let number's figure motion's laws Revealed before me stand; These to great Nature's secret apply, And round the Globe, and through the sky, Disclose her working hand.

Mark Akenside
There are certain powers in human nature which seem to hold a middle place between the organs of bodily sense and the faculties of moral perception: They have been Call'd by a very general name, THE POWERS OF IMAGINATION.

Mark Akenside
Thou silent power, whose welcome sway charms every anxious thought away; in whose divine oblivion drown'd, sore pain and weary toil grow mild, love is with kinder looks beguiled, and Grief forgets her fondly cherish'd wound; oh, whither hast thou flown, indulgent god? God of kind shadows and of healing dews, whom dost thou touch with thy Lethaean rod? Around whose temples now thy opiate airs diffuse?

Mark Akenside
Speak, ye, the pure delight, whose favour'd steps The lamp of science, through the jealous maze Of nature guides, when haply you reveal Her secret honours.

Mark Akenside