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Joseph Addison
May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719
Poetry Listing
Please Note: This list is not comprehensive, but is an ongoing work of the love of poetry.
Within this area you will be able to read, and give your thoughts on the poetry listed.
Please, if you find an error, let me know.
Read More About Joseph Addison below poetry list
| | Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | 1: | A Letter From Italy | While you, my Lord, the rural shades admire, | | | 2891 | | 2: | A Poem To His Magesty, Presented To The Lord Keeper. To The Right Hon. Sir John Somers, Lord Keeper | If yet your thoughts are loose from state affairs, | | | 1308 | | 3: | A Song For St. Cecilia's Day | Cecilia, whose exalted hymns | | | 1368 | | 4: | An Account Of The Greatest English Poets | Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, | | | 1445 | | 5: | An Ode For St. Cecilia's Day | Prepare the hallow'd strain, My Muse, | | | 1258 | | 6: | Hope | Our lives, discoloured with our present woes, | | | 1751 | | 7: | How Are Thy Servants Blest | How are thy servants blest, O Lord! | | | 1360 | | 8: | Hymn | The spacious firmament on high, | | | 1427 | | 9: | Immortality | O Liberty! thou goddess, heavenly bright, | | | 1571 | | 10: | Ode | The spacious firmament on high, | | | 1364 | | 11: | Ode to Creation | The Spacious Firmament on high, | | | 1456 | | 12: | On The Lady Manchester | While haughty Gallia's dames, that pread | | | 1440 | | 13: | Prologue To Steele's Tender Husband | In the first rise and infancy of farce, | | | 1292 | | 14: | The Campaign | While crowds of princes your deserts proclaim, | | | 1309 | | 15: | The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare | The Lord my pasture shall prepare | | | 1462 | | 16: | The Spacious Firmament On High | The spacious firmament on high, | | | 1348 | | 17: | To Mr. Dryden | How long, great Poet, shall thy sacred lays | | | 1336 | | 18: | When All Thy Mercies, O My God | When all Thy mercies, O my God, | | | 1333 | | 19: | When Rising From The Bed Of Death | When rising from the bed of death, | | | 1435 |
About:
Joseph Addison (May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719) was an English essayist, poet and man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison, later dean of Lichfield. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.
In early eighteenth-century English coffeehouse culture, no patron was as distinguished a conversationalist or as delightful an essayist as the Oxford-educated Joseph Addison. Born on May 1, 1672, in Milston, Wiltshire, where his father was rector, Addison had a long career in English politics as a committed Whig and in which he held many offices, including Secretary of Ireland and Secretary of State. He died in London at the age of forty-seven.
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