The Bee: A Selection of PoetryJ. Gough, 1796 - 191 pages |
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... himself engaged to achieve No unimportant , though a filent task . A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wife , and to be prais'd ; But wisdom is a pearl with most fuccefs Sought in ftill water , and beneath ...
... himself engaged to achieve No unimportant , though a filent task . A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wife , and to be prais'd ; But wisdom is a pearl with most fuccefs Sought in ftill water , and beneath ...
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... himself a man ? I would not have a flave to till my ground , To carry me , to fan me while I sleep , And tremble when I wake , for all the wealth That finews bought and fold have ever earn'd . No ; dear as freedom is , and in my heart's ...
... himself a man ? I would not have a flave to till my ground , To carry me , to fan me while I sleep , And tremble when I wake , for all the wealth That finews bought and fold have ever earn'd . No ; dear as freedom is , and in my heart's ...
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... himself had made . Next Anger rufh'd , his eyes on fire , In light'nings own'd his fecret ftings , In one rude clash he ftruck the lyre , And fwept , with hurried hand , the ftrings . With woful measures , wan Defpair- Low fullen founds ...
... himself had made . Next Anger rufh'd , his eyes on fire , In light'nings own'd his fecret ftings , In one rude clash he ftruck the lyre , And fwept , with hurried hand , the ftrings . With woful measures , wan Defpair- Low fullen founds ...
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... himself endure Dishonour , and be wrong'd without redress , Hafte then , and wheel away a shatter'd world , Ye flow revolving feafons ! We would fee , ( A fight to which our eyes are ftrangers yet ) A world that does not dread and hate ...
... himself endure Dishonour , and be wrong'd without redress , Hafte then , and wheel away a shatter'd world , Ye flow revolving feafons ! We would fee , ( A fight to which our eyes are ftrangers yet ) A world that does not dread and hate ...
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... himself shall shine Reveal'd , and God's eternal day be thine ! The feas fhall wafte , the skies in fmoke decay , Rocks fall to duft , and mountains melt away ; But fix'd his word , his faving pow'r remains : Thy realm for ever lafts ...
... himself shall shine Reveal'd , and God's eternal day be thine ! The feas fhall wafte , the skies in fmoke decay , Rocks fall to duft , and mountains melt away ; But fix'd his word , his faving pow'r remains : Thy realm for ever lafts ...
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Page 44 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 102 - Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day, With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 45 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 51 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 29 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Page 58 - Ordain'd by thee ; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift...
Page 10 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 152 - The crackling faggot flies. But nothing could a charm impart To soothe the stranger's woe; For grief was heavy at his heart, And tears began to flow. His rising cares the Hermit spied, With answering care opprest : " And whence, unhappy youth," he cried, " The sorrows of thy breast ? " From better habitations spurn'd, Reluctant dost thou rove?
Page 41 - Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell; There needs but thinking right, and meaning well ; And mourn our various portions as we please, Equal is common sense, and common ease. Remember, man, the universal cause Acts not by partial, but by gen'ral laws ; And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
Page 49 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...