The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations, Volume 5H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... waste The moments due to love ; Be wise , my fair , and gently treat These few that are our friends ; Think thus abused , what sad regret Their speedy flight attends ! Sure in those eyes I loved so well , And wish'd so long to see ...
... waste The moments due to love ; Be wise , my fair , and gently treat These few that are our friends ; Think thus abused , what sad regret Their speedy flight attends ! Sure in those eyes I loved so well , And wish'd so long to see ...
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... waste , Cheers e'en the face of misery to a smile ; But soon the momentary pleasure's past . How oft , my Delia , since our last farewell , ( Years that have roll'd since that distressful hour , ) Grieved I have said , when most our ...
... waste , Cheers e'en the face of misery to a smile ; But soon the momentary pleasure's past . How oft , my Delia , since our last farewell , ( Years that have roll'd since that distressful hour , ) Grieved I have said , when most our ...
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... waste . Think yourself station'd on a towering rock , To see a people scatter'd like a flock , Some royal mastiff panting at their heels , With all the savage thirst a tiger feels , Then view him self - proclaim'd in a gazette , Chief ...
... waste . Think yourself station'd on a towering rock , To see a people scatter'd like a flock , Some royal mastiff panting at their heels , With all the savage thirst a tiger feels , Then view him self - proclaim'd in a gazette , Chief ...
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... waste ; If these attendants , and if such as these , Must follow royalty , then welcome ease ! However humble and confined the sphere , Happy the state that has not these to fear . } A. Thus men , whose thoughts contemplative have dwelt ...
... waste ; If these attendants , and if such as these , Must follow royalty , then welcome ease ! However humble and confined the sphere , Happy the state that has not these to fear . } A. Thus men , whose thoughts contemplative have dwelt ...
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... waste it at the bidding of his hand . He gives the word , and mutiny soon roars In all her gates , and shakes her distant shores , The standards of all nations are unfurl'd , She has one foe , and that one foe , the world . And if he ...
... waste it at the bidding of his hand . He gives the word , and mutiny soon roars In all her gates , and shakes her distant shores , The standards of all nations are unfurl'd , She has one foe , and that one foe , the world . And if he ...
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Page 241 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 60 - The hand that gave it still supplies The gracious light and heat ; His truths upon the nations rise, — They rise, but never set.
Page 264 - Other Romans shall arise, Heedless of a soldier's name, Sounds, not arms, shall win the prize, Harmony the path to fame. Then the progeny that springs From the forests of our land, Armed with thunder, clad with wings, Shall a wider world command. Regions Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they.
Page 251 - Had cheer'd the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangu'd him thus, right eloquent— Did you admire my lamp...
Page 136 - Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true A. truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew ; And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes Her title to a treasure in the skies.
Page 40 - Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
Page 256 - Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather ; Look up, — your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds ; — that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.
Page 58 - Where'er they seek Thee, Thou art found, And every place is hallowed ground. 2 For Thou, within no walls confined, Inhabitest the humble mind ; Such ever bring Thee where they come, And going, take Thee to their home.
Page 241 - Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Page 38 - OH ! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, — A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb ! 2 Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord ? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word ? 3...