The Task and Other PoemsCarey and Hart, 1842 - 324 pages |
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... thine are honest tears , A patriot's for his country . Thou art sad At thought of her forlorn and abject state , From which no power of thine can raise her up . Thus Fancy paints thee , and , though apt to err , Perhaps errs little when ...
... thine are honest tears , A patriot's for his country . Thou art sad At thought of her forlorn and abject state , From which no power of thine can raise her up . Thus Fancy paints thee , and , though apt to err , Perhaps errs little when ...
Page 42
... thine escape , Far guiltier England , lest he spare not thee ! Happy the man , who sees a God employ'd In all the good and ill that checker life ! Resolving all events , with their effects And manifold results , into the will And ...
... thine escape , Far guiltier England , lest he spare not thee ! Happy the man , who sees a God employ'd In all the good and ill that checker life ! Resolving all events , with their effects And manifold results , into the will And ...
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... thine eyes with eye - salve ; ask of Him , Or ask of whomsoever He has taught ; And learn , though late , the genuine cause of all ! England , with all thy faults , I love thee still- My country ! and , while yet a nook is left , Where ...
... thine eyes with eye - salve ; ask of Him , Or ask of whomsoever He has taught ; And learn , though late , the genuine cause of all ! England , with all thy faults , I love thee still- My country ! and , while yet a nook is left , Where ...
Page 66
... thine arms She smiles , appearing , as in truth she is , Heaven - born , and destined to the skies again . Thou art not known where Pleasure is adored , That reeling goddess with the zoneless waist And wandering eyes , still leaning on ...
... thine arms She smiles , appearing , as in truth she is , Heaven - born , and destined to the skies again . Thou art not known where Pleasure is adored , That reeling goddess with the zoneless waist And wandering eyes , still leaning on ...
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... thine own : and , if it be , What edge of subtlety canst thou suppose Keen enough , wise and skilful as thou art , To cut the link of brotherhood , by which One common Maker bound me to the kind ? True ; I am no proficient , I confess ...
... thine own : and , if it be , What edge of subtlety canst thou suppose Keen enough , wise and skilful as thou art , To cut the link of brotherhood , by which One common Maker bound me to the kind ? True ; I am no proficient , I confess ...
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