The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books.

  • Mark Akenside
Date:
1754
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Where young Dione flays. With fweetefl airs 31 o Intice her forth to lend her angel-form For beauty’s honour’d image. FIither turn Thy graceful footfleps •, hither, gentle maid. Incline thy polifh’d forehead : let thy eyes Effufe the mildnefs of their azure dawn ; 315 And may the fanning breezes waft afide Thy radiant locks, difcloflng, as it bends With airy foftnefs from the marble neck, The cheek fair-blooming, and the rofy lip Where winning lmiles and pleafure fweet as love, 3 20 With fandlity and wifdom, temp’ring blend Their foft allurement. Then the pleafmg force Of nature, and her kind parental care Worthier I’d fing: then all th’ enamour’d youth. With each admiring virgin to my lyre 325 Should throng attentive, while I point on high Where beauty’s living image, like the morn That wakes in Zephyr’s arms the blufhing May,. Moves onward ; or as Venus, when fhe flood Effulgent on the pearly car, and fmil’d C 33° Frefh