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James Thomson

1700 AD — 1748 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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01c. 1724 AD

Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come.

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02c. 1724 AD

Base Envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.

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03c. 1724 AD

But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

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04c. 1724 AD

Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest.

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05c. 1724 AD

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.

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06c. 1724 AD

An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!

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07c. 1724 AD

The meek-ey'd Morn appears, mother of dews.

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08c. 1724 AD

Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?

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09c. 1724 AD

But yonder comes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east.

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10c. 1724 AD

Ships dim-discover'd dropping from the clouds.

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11c. 1724 AD

And Mecca saddens at the long delay.

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12c. 1724 AD

For many a day, and many a dreadful night, Incessant lab'ring round the stormy cape.

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13c. 1724 AD

Sigh'd and look'd unutterable things.

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14c. 1724 AD

A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.

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15c. 1724 AD

So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.

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16c. 1724 AD

Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age.

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17c. 1724 AD

Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain.

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18c. 1724 AD

Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.

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19c. 1724 AD

He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.

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20c. 1724 AD

For still the world prevail'd, and its dread laugh, Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn.

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21c. 1724 AD

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year.

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22c. 1724 AD

Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.

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23c. 1724 AD

There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead.

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24c. 1724 AD

The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid.

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