Mark Akenside

Poems (4)

• Amoret

  If rightly tuneful bards decide, / If it be fix'd in Love's decrees, …

• Song: “The shape alone let others prize”

  The Shape alone let others prize, / The features of the fair: …

• The Complaint

  away! away! / Tempt me no more, insidious Love: …

• The Nightingale

  To-night retired, the queen of heaven / With young Endymion stays; …