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" But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh, Yet heard in scenes where... "
Poems - Page 13
by William Cowper - 1826
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - 1837 - 276 pages
...boding owl Sounds inharmonious in themselves, and harsh, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. Yet heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, And only there, please highly for their sake.—COWPKR SECTION III. The rose. THE rose had been wash'd, just wash'd in a showe. VV hich Mary...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volumes 12-13

1838 - 544 pages
...that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. Sounds...heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, And only then, please highly for their sakes. — COWFEH. The jay, the rook, the daw, And each harsh pipe, discordant...
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The Magazine of Natural History, Volume 5

1832 - 834 pages
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 12

1838 - 274 pages
...loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. Bounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh, Yet heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, And only then, please highly for their sakcs.— COWTEII. The jay, the rook, the daw, And each harsh pipe, discordant...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...that swim sublime In still repeated circles, sereaming loud, The jay, the pie, and even the boding owl That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. Sounds...sake. Peace to the artist, whose ingenious thought Devised the weather-house, that useful toy ! Fearless of humid air and gathering rains Forth steps...
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The English Reader; Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray - 1842 - 262 pages
...screaming loud ; The jay, the pye, and ev'n the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charm? for me. Sounds inharmonious in themselves, and harsh,...reigns, And only there, please highly for their sake.— cowl** SECTION III. The Rose. THE rose had been wash'd, just wash'd in a show'r, Which Mary to Anna...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...that swim sublime In still-repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and even the boding owl fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sword, and pen, Fireside,...dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; ОЫ r The freedom of this versification, and the admirable variety of pause and cadence, must strike the...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...that swim sublime In still-repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and even the boding owl his beer, the glass window which lets in the heat...requisite for preparing that beautiful and happy inve The freedom of this versification, and the admirable variety of pause and cadence, must strike the...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. Sounds...reigns, And only there, please highly for their sake. SLAVERY.1 OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 pages
...swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and even the boding owl, Sounds inharmonious in themselves, and harsh, Yet...reigns, And only there, please highly for their sake. Like a coy maiden, ease, when courted most, Farthest retires — an idol, at whose shrine Who oftenest...
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