A didactic poem celebrating hope as the consolation that gilds human life and sustains the mind through suffering.
Books that mention The Pleasures of Hope (3)
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein: “And robes the mountain in its azure hue. --CAMPBELL, _Pleasures of Hope_.”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: “If she had but clutched the old Roman and young American weapon, and come to close quarters, there might have been a chance for her; but it would have spoiled the best passage in "The Pleasures of Hope."”
Old Mortality by Walter Scott: “Horseman and horse confess'd the bitter pang, And arms and warrior fell with heavy clang. Pleasures of Hope.”