<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=454940" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode IX: At Study</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>Whither did my fancy stray?<br>By what magic drawn away<br>Have I left my studious theme?<br>From this philosophic page,<br>From the problems of the sage,<br>Wandering thro' a pleasing dream?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.<br>'Tis in vain alas! i find,<br>Much in vain, my zealous mind<br>Would to learned wisdom's throne<br>Dedicate each thoughtful hour:<br>Nature bids a softer power<br>Claim some minutes for his own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.<br>Let the busy or the wise<br>View him with contemptuous eyes;<br>Love is native to the heart:<br>Guide its wishes as you will;<br>Without Love you'll find it still<br>Void in one essential part.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV.<br>Me though no peculiar fair<br>Touches with a lover's care;<br>Though the pride of my desire<br>Asks immortal friendship's name,<br>Asks the palm of honest fame,<br>And the old heroic lyre;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V.<br>Though the day have smoothly gone,<br>Or to letter'd leisure known,<br>Or in social duty spent;<br>Yet at eve my lonely breast<br>Seeks in vain for perfect rest;<br>Languishes for true content.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mark+Akenside">Mark Akenside</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=454940" data-title="Ode IX: At Study de Mark Akenside" data-description="I. Whither did my fancy stray? By what magic drawn away Have I left my studious theme? From this philosophic page, From the problems of the sage, Wandering thro' a pleasing dream? II. 'Tis in vain alas! i find, Much in vain, my zealous mind Would..."></div> </div> </div>

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