(9 January 1728 — 21 May 1790 / Basingstoke)

Poems of Thomas Warton Jr.

1. Ode to Sleep 1/1/2004
2. On King Arthur's Round Table at Winchester 1/1/2004
3. Solitude at an Inn 1/1/2004
4. The Pleasures of Melancholy 1/1/2004
5. Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold's Painted Window at New College, Oxford 1/1/2004
6. While Summer Suns O'er the Gay Prospect Play'd 1/1/2004
7. Written at Stonehenge 1/1/2004

Solitude at an Inn

Oft upon the twilight plain,
Circled with thy shadowy train,
While the dove at distance coo'd,
Have I met thee, Solitude!
Then was loneliness to me
Best and true society,
But ah! how alter'd is thy mien
In this sad deserted scene!
Here all thy classic pleasures cease,

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