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William Collins
25 December 1721 – 12 June 1759
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.
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Read More About William Collins below poetry list
| | Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | 1: | A Song From Shakespeare's Cymbeline | To fair Fidele’s grassy tomb | | | 1159 | | 2: | An Ode On The Popular Superstitions Of The Highlands Of Scotland, Considered As The Subject Of Poetry | Home, thou return’st from Thames, whose naiads long | | | 1157 | | 3: | Fidele | To fair Fidele’s grassy tomb | | | 1117 | | 4: | How Sleep The Brave | How sleep the brave, who sink to rest | | | 1136 | | 5: | In The Downhill Of Life | In the downhill of life, when I find I’m declining, | | | 2526 | | 6: | Ode On The Poetical Character | As once, if not with light regard, | | | 1338 | | 7: | Ode To Evening | If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song | | | 1260 | | 8: | Ode to Liberty | Who shall awake the Spartan fife, | | | 1048 | | 9: | Ode to Simplicity | O thou, by Nature taught | | | 1142 | | 10: | Ode Written In The Beginning Of The Year 1746 | How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, | | | 1115 | | 11: | The Passions, An Ode to Music | When Music, heavenly maid, was young, | | | 1091 |
About:
William Collins (25 December 1721 – 12 June 1759), English poet
Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. His lyrical odes mark a turn away from the Augustan poetry of Alexander Pope's generation and towards the romantic era which would soon follow.
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