| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | After Seeing the Collection of Pictures at Wilton House | | By Thomas Warton (1728–1790) |
| | | FROM Pembroke’s princely dome, where mimic Art | |
| Decks with a magic hand the dazzling bowers, | |
| Its living hues where the warm pencil pours, | |
| And breathing forms from the rude marble start— | |
| How to life’s humbler scene can I depart, | 5 |
| My breast all glowing from these gorgeous towers? | |
| In my low cell how cheat the sullen hours? | |
| Vain the complaint; for Fancy can impart | |
| (To Fate superior, and to Fortune’s doom) | |
| Whate’er adorns the stately-storied hall. | 10 |
| She, ’mid the dungeon’s solitary gloom, | |
| Can dress the Graces in their Attic pall; | |
| Bid the green landscape’s vernal beauty bloom, | |
| And in bright trophies clothe the twilight wall. | | | | |
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