Selections from Cowper's PoemsMacmillan, 1883 - 234 pages |
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... sweet in her own everlasting calm . This was what healed the troubled spirit of the writer himself when works and ways of men were all distasteful to him , and everything out of joint . From the very directness of the effect upon him ...
... sweet in her own everlasting calm . This was what healed the troubled spirit of the writer himself when works and ways of men were all distasteful to him , and everything out of joint . From the very directness of the effect upon him ...
Page xvi
... sweet and fresh and cool recesses . Their influence is always wholesome , restoring , purifying ; and they are very nearly , if not altogether , unique in their extraordinary simplicity and truth . This is not to say that Cowper ...
... sweet and fresh and cool recesses . Their influence is always wholesome , restoring , purifying ; and they are very nearly , if not altogether , unique in their extraordinary simplicity and truth . This is not to say that Cowper ...
Page xx
... sweet , instinctive charity by damning with a cordial faith those who , being unknown , may be as bad as anybody pleases . The contrast between Voltaire and the cottager , which everybody knows , is a fine instance of straightforward ...
... sweet , instinctive charity by damning with a cordial faith those who , being unknown , may be as bad as anybody pleases . The contrast between Voltaire and the cottager , which everybody knows , is a fine instance of straightforward ...
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... sweet it was to reconcile After this heavy pelt ; That we should gain by this allay When next we met , and laugh away The care we never felt . Happy ! when we but seek to endure A little pain , then find a cure By double joy requited ...
... sweet it was to reconcile After this heavy pelt ; That we should gain by this allay When next we met , and laugh away The care we never felt . Happy ! when we but seek to endure A little pain , then find a cure By double joy requited ...
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... sweet smile I see , The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails , else how distinct they say , Grieve not , my child , chase all thy fears away ! " The meek intelligence of those dear eyes ( Blessed be the art that can ...
... sweet smile I see , The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails , else how distinct they say , Grieve not , my child , chase all thy fears away ! " The meek intelligence of those dear eyes ( Blessed be the art that can ...
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bard beauty beneath birds Book breath charms Cowper dear death delight distant divine dream earth ease Edmonton fair faith fame fancy farewell fast fear feel flower gentle Gilpin GLOWWORM grace Greece half happy heard heart Heaven hope hopes and fears hour human John Gilpin king knew knows labour land landscape light Lord lost lurcher lyre Mary mind muse Naiads nature never nose o'er Olney once Ouse pain peace perhaps play pleasure poet poet's poetry poor postboy praise rapture scene scorn seems shade shine shrubs sigh sight silent skies slaves smile song soon sorrow soul sound SPANIEL sublime sweet Task tears tempest thee theme thine thou art thought toil tongue touch true truth Twas verse WARREN HASTINGS whate'er wind winter worth youth
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Page 220 - With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought, His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men.
Page 26 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th
Page 170 - So, Fair and softly ! John he cried ; But John he cried in vain, That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Page 158 - GOD moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform ; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines Of never-failing skill, He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace ; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will...
Page 131 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Page 82 - 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 81 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war Might never reach me more...
Page 169 - Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more. 'Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty, screaming, came down stairs, The wine is left behind ! Good lack ! quoth he — yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Page 139 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 167 - Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, "Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. " To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton, All in a chaise and pair.