 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...Mother's Picture out tin'- gift of my cousin Ann Bndham. OThat those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine— thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solac'd me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Anecdotes - 1809 - 234 pages
...remarks on this subject with large extracts from it. " Oh that those lips had language ! life has pass'U With me but roughly since I heard thee last.) Those lips are thine—tliy own sweet smiles I see, The same that oft in chiMhood solac'd me ; Voice only fails, else,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...PICTURE OUT OF NORFOLK, THE GIFT OF MY COUSIN ANN BODHAM. O THAT those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that .oft in childhood solac'd me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 404 pages
...PICTURE OUT OF NORFOLK, THE GIFT OF MY COUSIN ANN BODHAM. O THAT those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thine own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood sftlac'd me ; Voice only fails, else... | |
 | 1809 - 448 pages
...companion" to Cowper's exquisitely pa196 (hetick lines on hia,Mother's Picture. 1 will take Cowpev from my shelf, and quote the first dozen lines, and...those lips had language ! Life has passed With me hut roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine ; thy own sweet smiles I see, The same that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1812 - 390 pages
...PICTURE OUT OF NORFOLK, THE GIFT OF MY COUSIN ANN BODHAM. O THAT those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine—thine own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solac'd me; Voice only foils,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...Picture 'eut Norfolk, the gift of my cousin Aim Sod/tarn. O THAT those lips bad language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solac'd me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1818 - 244 pages
...OUT OF NORFOLK. THE GIFT OF MY COUSIN ANNE BOOIIAM. O THAT those lips had language ! Life has pass'it With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I sec, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1818 - 244 pages
...OUT OF NORFOLK. THE GIFT OF MY COUSIN ANNE BODHAM. O THAT those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...Love, Esteem thy present far above The best things kept within it. LINES ON HIS MOTHER'S PICTURE. O THAT those lips had language ! Life has passed With...thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solac'd me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they... | |
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RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE OUT OF NORFOLK, THE GIFT OF MY COUSIN, ANN BODHAM. OH that those lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood... 
