Mark Akenside (1721-1770)
English poet and physician

Poems by Mark Akenside

• A British Philippic
• A Song
• Ambition and Content
• Amoret
• An Ode to the Country Gentlemen of England
• Female Beauty
• For a Column at Runnymede
• For a Statue of Chaucer at Woodstock
• Friendship and Love
• Hymn to Science
• Hymn to the Naiads
• Ode 1. Allusion to Horace
• Ode 2. On the Winter-Solstice
• Ode 4. To a Gentleman whose Mistress had married an Old Man
• Ode 5. Against Suspicion
• Ode 6. On the Absence of the Poetic Inclination
• Ode 7. On the Use of Poetry
• Ode 8. On Leaving Holland
• Ode 9. To Sleep
• Ode 12. On Recovering from a Fit of Sickness, In the Country
• Ode to Thomas Edwards, Esq; on the late Edition of Mr. Pope's Works
• On a Sermon Against Glory
• On Love, To a Friend
• On Lyric Poetry
• Taste
• The Complaint
• The Nightingale
• The Pleasures of Imagination
• The Poet
• The Remonstrance of Shakespeare
• The Virtuoso; in imitation of Spencer's Style and Stanza
• To Cordelia
• To The Honourable Charles Townshend: From The Country

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