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

  • Mark Akenside
Date:
1754
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Credit: The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The P L E A S U R E S Than all the blandifhments of found his ear* Than all of tafte his tongue. Nor ever yet The melting rainbow’s vernal-tindur’d hues To me have fhone fo pleafing, as when firft 105 The hand of fcience pointed out the path In which the fun-beams gleaming from the weft Fall on the watry cloud, whofe darkfome veil Involves the orient; and that trickling fhow’r « Piercing thro’ ev’ry cryftaliine convex 110 Of cluftering dew-drops to their flight oppos’d. Recoil at length where concave all behind Th’ internal fur face of each giafFy orb Re pel Is their forward paflage into air; That thence dired they feek the radiant goal 115 From with their courfe began ; and, as they ftrike In different lines the gazer’s obvious eye, Aflfume a diflf’rent luftre, thro’ the brede Of colours changing from the fplendid rofe To the pale violet’s dejeded hue. 120 ■V Or fhall we touch that kind accefs of joy, That fprings to each fair objed, while we trace Thro1