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An ODE.
I.
1 ON Stow, the Muse's happy theme,
2 Let fancy's eye enamour'd gaze;
3 Where thro' one nobly simple scheme,
4 Ten thousand varying beauties please.
5 There patriot-virtue rears her shrine,
6 Nor love! art thou depriv'd of thine.
II.
7 Mark where from POPE'S exhaustless vein,
8 Pure flows the stream of copious thought,
9 While nature pours the genial strain,
10 With fairest springs of learning fraught;
11 The treasures of each clime and age,
12 Grace and enrich his sacred page.
III.
[Page 218]13 So while thro' Britain's fields her Thames
14 Prolifick rolls his silver tide;
15 The tribute of a thousand streams
16 Swells the majestick river's pride;
17 And where his gen'rous current strays,
18 The wealth of either world conveys.
IV.
19 Far other, is that wretch's song,
20 Whose scanty rill devoid of force,
21 With idle tinklings creeps along,
22 A narrow, crooked, dubious course;
23 Or foul with congregated floods,
24 Spreads a wide waste o'er plains, and woods.
V.
25 In action thus the mind express'd
26 High soars in Pope the true sublime;
27 A Stow unfolds a Cobham's breast,
28 A Bavius crawls in doggrel rhyme.
29 Thro' all their various works we trace
30 The greatly virtuous, and the base.
About this text
Themes:
places; poetry; literature; writing; patriotism; glory of the British nation; nature
Genres:
ode
References:
DMI 22431
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Source edition
Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. II. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], pp. 217-218. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.002) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)
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Other works by Robert Craggs Nugent, Earl Nugent
- EPIGRAM I. ()
- EPIGRAM II. ()
- EPIGRAM III. ()
- EPIGRAM IV. Upon the Bust of English worthies, at Stow. ()
- EPIGRAM V. ()
- EPIGRAM VI. ()
- EPIGRAM VII. ()
- EPIGRAM VIII. On Mrs. PENELOPE. ()
- EPIGRAM IX. On one who first abused, and then made love to a LADY. ()
- EPIGRAM X. ()
- EPIGRAM XI. ()
- EPIGRAM XII. ()
- EPIGRAM XIII. ()
- EPIGRAM XIV. ()
- EPIGRAM XV. To CLARISSA. ()
- EPIGRAM XVI. ()
- EPIGRAM [XVII.] ()
- An EPISTLE to a LADY. ()
- An EPISTLE to Mr. POPE. ()
- EPISTLE to POLLIO, from the Hills of HOWTH in IRELAND. ()
- An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount CORNBURY. ()
- An EPISTLE. ()
- An INSCRIPTION on the TOMB, Raised to the memory of the author's father, and of others his ancestors. ()
- An ODE to MANKIND. Address'd to the Prince. ()
- An Ode to the Right Honourable the Lord LONSDALE. ()
- An ODE to WILLIAM PULTNEY, Esq; ()
- An ODE. ()
- An ODE. ()
- To CLARISSA. ()
- VERSES to CAMILLA. ()