The Beauties of English Poetry: Selected from the Most Esteemed Authors, ... Containing Several Original Pieces, Never Before Published, Volume 2W. Spilsbury, 1804 - English poetry |
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... ev'ry toe . " But , brother sinner , do explain " How ' tis that you are not in pain ; " What Pow'R hath work'd a wonder for your " Whilst I just like a snail - am crawling , [ toes ; " Now swearing , now on saints devoutly bawling ...
... ev'ry toe . " But , brother sinner , do explain " How ' tis that you are not in pain ; " What Pow'R hath work'd a wonder for your " Whilst I just like a snail - am crawling , [ toes ; " Now swearing , now on saints devoutly bawling ...
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... ry's brink , Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heaven , He , ruin'd , sink ' ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate , That fate is thine - no distant date : Stern ruin's plough - share drives elate Full on thy TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY . To ...
... ry's brink , Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heaven , He , ruin'd , sink ' ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate , That fate is thine - no distant date : Stern ruin's plough - share drives elate Full on thy TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY . To ...
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... ev'ry grace ; They'll add new beauties to your face : And , when old - age impairs your prime , You'll triumph o'er the spoils of time . Childhood and youth engage my pen ; ' Tis labour lost to talk to men : Youth may perhaps reform ...
... ev'ry grace ; They'll add new beauties to your face : And , when old - age impairs your prime , You'll triumph o'er the spoils of time . Childhood and youth engage my pen ; ' Tis labour lost to talk to men : Youth may perhaps reform ...
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... ev'ry friendless sky ! Here foul - mouth'd Slander lay reclin'd , Her snaky tresses hiss'd behind ; A bloated toad - stool rais'd her head , The plumes of ravens were her hed ; ' * She fed upon the viper's brood , And slak'd her impious ...
... ev'ry friendless sky ! Here foul - mouth'd Slander lay reclin'd , Her snaky tresses hiss'd behind ; A bloated toad - stool rais'd her head , The plumes of ravens were her hed ; ' * She fed upon the viper's brood , And slak'd her impious ...
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... ev'ry hour . Her troops a deeper scarlet wore Than ever armies knew before .. No plea diverts the fury's rage ,. The fury spares nor sex nor age . E'en Merit , with destructive charms , Provokes the vengeance of her arms . Whene'er the ...
... ev'ry hour . Her troops a deeper scarlet wore Than ever armies knew before .. No plea diverts the fury's rage ,. The fury spares nor sex nor age . E'en Merit , with destructive charms , Provokes the vengeance of her arms . Whene'er the ...
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agen bard beneath Bids blessing blest boast breast breath Brentford brow charms cheek CLODIO convey'd crowd crown'd dare dome Drayman E'en e'er Emperor of China Eurus ev'ry fair fame Fancy fane fate flow'rs foes Freedom Freedom calls gales gibbets glories Goddess grace grove guiltless hand Hark heart Heaven Heroic Epistle Isis Jemmy Twitcher King lov'd maid majestic marble arches mind Muse ne'er numbers nymph o'er yon pale patriot peace PETER PINDAR plain pleas'd poet poison'd pow'r praise pride proud rage rise round sacred sage scene shade Shepherd shine shore sigh sing Sir William Sir William Chambers slave smile smiling train smoke soft solemn song soul SPLENDID SHILLING sport stream sublime swain sweet taste tear tender thee thine thou Tobacco tow'r train trembling truth vale Verse VIRG virtue waves wild wings youth
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Page 50 - Winter yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes; So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favorite name ! THE PASSIONS.
Page 32 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent Lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is...
Page 49 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet, Prepare thy shadowy car.
Page 48 - O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...
Page 30 - Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Page 48 - If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Page 30 - mang the dewy weet, Wi' spreckled breast! When upward-springing, blithe, to greet The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flow'rs our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield, But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field Unseen, alane.
Page 66 - Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter, with dire chilling blasts Portending agues.
Page 60 - Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie or...
Page 118 - Immersed in rapturous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend ; Warm Charity, the general friend, With Justice to herself severe, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chastening hand ! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad...