Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose

by Various

48 chapters1h 53mEnglish0

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A collection of prose and poetry written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English language or are in English translation. (Summary by Alan Davis Drake) NOTE: Poem 35, “Hills of Home,” was written around 1922 and is therefore not an 18th Century poem.

Chapters (48)

1Spleen, The: A Pindarik Poem

549

2There's No To-Morrow

107

3Inner Vision, The

4London

5Composed upon Westminster Bridge

6Red, Red, Rose, A

7Letter to Lord Chesterfield

203

8Day of Judgment, The

142

9Wrestling Jacob

209

10Cradle Hymn, A

195

11Care for the Lowest

125

12Love's Secret

13One and Twenty

112

14I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

15Speech in Commons on India, 1783

316

16Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ

17Debtor to Mercy Alone

18Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation, The

19Ode on a Grecian Urn

206

20Kubla Khan

204

21Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General, A

137

22One and Twenty

123

23On A Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes

167

24Poison Tree, A

25Prometheus

226

26Origin of Trades, The

241

27Copernican System, The

186

28Portrait, A

572

29To The Poor

139

30Moon

112

31Garden of Love

32On Virtue

129

33Introduction to Songs of Innocence

34Without Distinction

35Hills of Home

36Young and Old

37Nightingale and the Glow-Worm, The

106

38Had I a Heart for Falsehood Framed

39Solitude

105

40If Lawyer's Hand is Fee'd

41Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

133

42Sonnet I

43To Ruin

126

44Mathematical Problem in Verse, A

115

45Glove, The

198

46Lamb, The

47Light Shining Out of Darkness

118

48Man Frail and God Eternal

122

Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose

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