Joseph Addison

Poems (4)

• Hymn

  The spacious firmament on high, / With all the blue ethereal sky, …

• Ode: “The spacious firmament on high”

  From “The Spectator” / THE SPACIOUS firmament on high, …

• Sempronius’ Speech for War

  From “Cato,” Act II. Sc. 1. / MY voice is still for war. …

• Soliloquy: On Immortality

  From “Cato,” Act V. Sc. 1. / SCENE.—CATO, sitting in a thoughtful posture, with Plato’s book on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand, and a drawn sword on the table by him. …