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• Tell me, my Heart, if this be Love

  When Delia on the plain appears,
  Awed by a thousand tender fears
  I would approach, but dare not move: …

  George Lyttelton, Lord Lyttelton

• One-and-Twenty

  Long-expected one-and-twenty,
  Ling'ring year, at length is flown:
  Pride and pleasure, pomp and plenty, …

  Samuel Johnson

• On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet,a Practiser in Physic

  Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine,
  As on we toil from day to day,
  By sudden blasts or slow decline …

  Samuel Johnson

• Absence

  With leaden foot Time creeps along
  While Delia is away:
  With her, nor plaintive was the song, …

  Richard Jago

• Elegy written in a Country Churchyard

  The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
  The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
  The plowman homeward plods his weary way, …

  Thomas Gray

• The Curse upon Edward

  Weave the warp, and weave the woof,
  The winding-sheet of Edward's race.
  Give ample room, and verge enough …

  Thomas Gray

• The Progress of Poesy

  awake, Æolian lyre, awake,
  And give to rapture all thy trembling strings,
  From Helicon's harmonious springs …

  Thomas Gray

• On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in aTub of Gold Fishes

  Twas on a lofty vase's side,
  Where China's gayest art had dyed
  The azure flowers that blow; …

  Thomas Gray

• Ode to Simplicity

  o THOU, by Nature taught
  To breathe her genuine thought
  In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong: …

  William Collins

• How sleep the Brave

  How sleep the brave, who sink to rest
  By all their country's wishes blest!
  When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, …

  William Collins

• Ode to Evening

  If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song,
  May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear,
  Like thy own solemn springs, …

  William Collins

• Amoret

  If rightly tuneful bards decide,
  If it be fix'd in Love's decrees,
  That Beauty ought not to be tried …

  Mark Akenside

• The Complaint

  away! away!
  Tempt me no more, insidious Love:
  Thy soothing sway …

  Mark Akenside

• The Nightingale

  To-night retired, the queen of heaven
  With young Endymion stays;
  And now to Hesper it is given …

  Mark Akenside

• To Leven Water

  Pure stream, in whose transparent wave
  My youthful limbs I wont to lave;
  No torrents stain thy limpid source, …

  Tobias George Smollett

• Song to David

  Sublime—invention ever young,
  Of vast conception, tow'ring tongue
  To God th' eternal theme; …

  Christopher Smart

• A Lament for Flodden

  I've heard them lilting at our ewe-milking,
  Lasses a' lilting before dawn o' day;
  But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning— …

  Jane Elliot

• Woman

  When lovely woman stoops to folly,
  And finds too late that men betray,
  What charm can soothe her melancholy? …

  Oliver Goldsmith

• If Doughty Deeds

  If doughty deeds my lady please,
  Right soon I'll mount my steed;
  And strong his arm and fast his seat, …

  Robert Cunninghame-Graham of Gartmore

• To Mary Unwin

  Mary! I want a lyre with other strings,
  Such aid from Heaven as some have feign'd they drew,
  An eloquence scarce given to mortals, new …

  William Cowper

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