Thomas Warton Jr. (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

Written at Stonehenge

Thou noblest monument of Albion's isle!
Whether by Merlin's aid, from Scythia's shore,
To Amber's fatal plain Pendragon bore,
Huge frame of giant-hands, the mighty pile
T' entomb his Britons slain by Hengist's guile:
Or Druid priests, sprinkled with human gore,
Taught 'mid thy massy maze their mystic lore:
Or Danish chiefs, enrich'd with savage spoil,
To Victory's idol vast, an unhewn shrine,

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