William Collins

Poems (4)

• How sleep the Brave

  How sleep the brave, who sink to rest / By all their country's wishes blest! …

• Ode to Evening

  If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, / May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear, …

• Ode to Simplicity

  o THOU, by Nature taught / To breathe her genuine thought …

• The Passions

  An Ode for Music / WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, …