Poems,C. Whittingham. : Sold by R. Jennings ... London., 1817 |
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... wishes are , Would oft anticipate his glad return , And dream of transports she was not to know . She heard the doleful tidings of his death- And never smiled again ! and now she roams The dreary waste ; there spends the livelong day ...
... wishes are , Would oft anticipate his glad return , And dream of transports she was not to know . She heard the doleful tidings of his death- And never smiled again ! and now she roams The dreary waste ; there spends the livelong day ...
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... wishes and industrious hands . Here virtue thrives as in her proper soil ; Not rude and surly , and beset with thorns , And terrible to sight , as when she springs ( If ever she spring spontaneous ) in remote And barbarous climes ...
... wishes and industrious hands . Here virtue thrives as in her proper soil ; Not rude and surly , and beset with thorns , And terrible to sight , as when she springs ( If ever she spring spontaneous ) in remote And barbarous climes ...
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... console at noon The pensive wanderer in their shades . At eve The moon - beam , sliding softly in between The sleeping leaves , is all the light they wish , Birds warbling all the music . We can spare The 24 BOOK I. THE TASK .
... console at noon The pensive wanderer in their shades . At eve The moon - beam , sliding softly in between The sleeping leaves , is all the light they wish , Birds warbling all the music . We can spare The 24 BOOK I. THE TASK .
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... wish ; Prolific all , and harbingers of more . The crowded roots demand enlargement now , And transplantation in an ampler space . Indulged in what they wish , they soon supply Large foliage , overshadowing golden flowers , Blown on the ...
... wish ; Prolific all , and harbingers of more . The crowded roots demand enlargement now , And transplantation in an ampler space . Indulged in what they wish , they soon supply Large foliage , overshadowing golden flowers , Blown on the ...
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William Cowper. Had I the choice of sublunary good , What could I wish , that I possess not here ? Health , leisure , means t ' improve it , friendship , peace , No loose or wanton , though a wandering , muse , And constant occupation ...
William Cowper. Had I the choice of sublunary good , What could I wish , that I possess not here ? Health , leisure , means t ' improve it , friendship , peace , No loose or wanton , though a wandering , muse , And constant occupation ...
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Aspasio beauty beneath betimes boast bound breath cause charms Chiswick dæmons death deem delight distant divine dread dream e'en earth ease ev'n fair fame fancy fear feed feel flower folly fountain of eternal give glory grace grave hand happy hare hast heard heart heaven honour human JOSEPH HILL labour less liberty live lost lyre March 9 mind muse nature nature's Nebaioth never o'er once peace perhaps play pleasure plebeian powdered coat praise prize proud prove Puss quake rapture rest rude rural sacred scene scorn seek seems shade shine silent clock skies sleep sloth smile smooth song soon soul sound sweet task taste thee theme thine thou art thought Tiney toil truth twas virtue walnut shade waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wonder worth youth
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Page 117 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers : his to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who with filial confidence inspired Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all.
Page 199 - I seem to have lived my childhood o'er again ; To have renewed the joys that once were mine, Without the sin of violating thine : And, while the wings of Fancy still are free, And I can view this mimic show of thee, Time has but half succeeded in his theft — Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left.
Page 74 - And having dropped the expected bag — pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy, Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him,...
Page 52 - My panting side was charged when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.^ There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the archers.
Page 117 - There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared...
Page 98 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.
Page 197 - Dupe of to-morrow even from a child. Thus many a sad to-morrow came and went, Till, all my stock of infant sorrow spent, I learned at last submission to my lot; But, though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot. Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more, Children not thine have trod my nursery floor...
Page 56 - Philosophy baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love Has eyes indeed ; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives Him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Page 165 - Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy'd ; The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot ; As happy as we once, to kneel and draw The chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw...
Page 74 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.