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... reader finds himself under the same controlling spell that the quietude of summer evening in the country magically creates . Swinburne notes the similarity produced by Col- lins in verse and by Corot in painting . The poet was keenly ...
... reader finds himself under the same controlling spell that the quietude of summer evening in the country magically creates . Swinburne notes the similarity produced by Col- lins in verse and by Corot in painting . The poet was keenly ...
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... generous spark extinct revive , Teach me to love and to forgive , Exact my own defects to scan , What others are to feel , and know myself a Man . 45 WILLIAM COWPER 1731-1800 WILLIAM COWPER is known to young readers 42 SELECTED LYRICS.
... generous spark extinct revive , Teach me to love and to forgive , Exact my own defects to scan , What others are to feel , and know myself a Man . 45 WILLIAM COWPER 1731-1800 WILLIAM COWPER is known to young readers 42 SELECTED LYRICS.
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Charles Swain Thomas. WILLIAM COWPER 1731-1800 WILLIAM COWPER is known to young readers as the author of that deliciously farcical ballad , John Gilpin's Ride . Later , when we learn something of the poet's life , we are surprised to ...
Charles Swain Thomas. WILLIAM COWPER 1731-1800 WILLIAM COWPER is known to young readers as the author of that deliciously farcical ballad , John Gilpin's Ride . Later , when we learn something of the poet's life , we are surprised to ...
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... readers Scotch and non - Scotch - the reverberating shouts of praise and devotion . We go to his poetry and allow his words to phrase our emotions of courage , of sympathy , of patriotism , and of love . And we know that he who wrote so ...
... readers Scotch and non - Scotch - the reverberating shouts of praise and devotion . We go to his poetry and allow his words to phrase our emotions of courage , of sympathy , of patriotism , and of love . And we know that he who wrote so ...
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... readers of this poem are familiar with Navjok's picture of St. Cecilia seated at the organ with the angels hovering above . St. Cecilia is supposed to have lived dur- ing the third century . Legend depicts her as a pure and religious ...
... readers of this poem are familiar with Navjok's picture of St. Cecilia seated at the organ with the angels hovering above . St. Cecilia is supposed to have lived dur- ing the third century . Legend depicts her as a pure and religious ...
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Aeolian lyre Alexander ALEXANDER SELKIRK Alexander's Feast antistrophe apodosis baith bard beneath blaw bonnie Lesley breathe Burns Burns's Cecilia Cecilia's Day charm Collins Cowper Cromwell dear death Dryden Edward Edward III Eleanor of Castile Elegy Epode Eton ETON COLLEGE eyes Fair Lesley fate favorite flowers goddess Gray's harmony heart Heaven heroic couplet Highland Mary Horace Walpole hour Jean John Anderson Jove Julius Cæsar Kempenfelt King lassie LINE lived Luve LUVE'S lyre LYRICS Mary Morison melancholy meter mind mood Muse ne'er numbers o'er passage passion phrase Pindar pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise Progress of Poesy purple reader Richard Kempenfelt shade sigh'd simplicity sing Skylark smile Song for St sorrow soul sound springs stanza Stoke Pogis Strophe sweet taste thee theme thou thought thro tone Unwin vale verse voice winds wooing o't write
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Page 64 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Page 37 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 64 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi...
Page 37 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 13 - WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Throng'd around her magic cell...
Page 24 - Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...
Page 48 - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade. The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his...
Page 38 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 7 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Page 17 - 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.