Mark Akenside, poet
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Mark Akenside

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About Mark Akenside

1721 - 1770/EnglishMark Akenside was an English poet and physician. Akenside was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the son of a butcher. He was slightly lame all his life from a wound he received as a child from his father's cleaver. All his relations were dissenters, a

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If rightly tuneful bards decide,If it be fix’d in Love’s decrees,
— Mark Akenside
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Away! away!Tempt me no more, insidious Love:
— Mark Akenside
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Poetry & Stories

  1. Amoret

    If rightly tuneful bards decide,If it be fix’d in Love’s decrees,

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  2. The Nightingale

    To-night retired, the queen of heavenWith young Endymion stays;

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  3. The Complaint

    Away! away!Tempt me no more, insidious Love:

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