The Poems of William CowperMethuen, 1906 - 741 pages |
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... heaven upon earth , " or " I believe he never had a comfortable hour since New Year's Day 1773 , the last day of his attendance upon public worship . " Such a man is sure to have exaggerated both the early happiness and the later ...
... heaven upon earth , " or " I believe he never had a comfortable hour since New Year's Day 1773 , the last day of his attendance upon public worship . " Such a man is sure to have exaggerated both the early happiness and the later ...
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... heaven ; and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few . " The fine note of such hymns as " O Strength and Stay , upholding all creation , " or " God of the living , " where the rare quality consists as much in the consciousness ...
... heaven ; and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few . " The fine note of such hymns as " O Strength and Stay , upholding all creation , " or " God of the living , " where the rare quality consists as much in the consciousness ...
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... heaven and new earth of his faith , in which fraud and cruelty would be known no more . There he must , on the whole , be held to fail : he has neither the profundity of mind nor the greatness of style called for by such a theme . Here ...
... heaven and new earth of his faith , in which fraud and cruelty would be known no more . There he must , on the whole , be held to fail : he has neither the profundity of mind nor the greatness of style called for by such a theme . Here ...
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... Heaven to cheer my pathless way , A star arose the radiant star of love . The God propitious joined our willing hands , And Hymen wreathed us in his rosy bands . Yet not the beaming eye , or placid brow , Or golden tresses , hid the ...
... Heaven to cheer my pathless way , A star arose the radiant star of love . The God propitious joined our willing hands , And Hymen wreathed us in his rosy bands . Yet not the beaming eye , or placid brow , Or golden tresses , hid the ...
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... Heaven , be this my latest breath ! Here end my life , or make it worth my care ; Absence from whom we love is worse than death , And frustrate hope severer than despair . TO DELIA 1755 ME to whatever state the gods assign , Believe ...
... Heaven , be this my latest breath ! Here end my life , or make it worth my care ; Absence from whom we love is worse than death , And frustrate hope severer than despair . TO DELIA 1755 ME to whatever state the gods assign , Believe ...
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admire beauty beneath blest boast breast charms Child & Co DEAR FRIEND death Delia delight divine dream earth edition eyes fair fame fancy fear feel flowers GEORGE ROMNEY give glory grace hand happy hast Hayley hear heart heaven Homer honour hope John Fenn John Gilpin John Johnson Johnson Joseph Hill labour Lady Austen Lady Hesketh letter lines live Lord lyre mind Muse nature never Newton night numbers nymphs o'er Olney Olney Hymns once pain peace perhaps pleasure poems poet poet's poetic portrait praise prove rest scene scorn seems shade shine skies smile song soon sorrow soul sound Southey stream sweet Task taste tears tell thee theme thine things thou art thought truth Unwin Vaughan Johnson verse Vincent Bourne virtue Weston Weston Underwood WILLIAM COWPER wish Yaxham youth