Poems, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 - English poetry |
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... nature here With stern severity deals out the year . Winter invades the spring , and often pours A chilling flood on summer's drooping flowers ; Unwelcome vapours quench autumnal beams , Ungenial blasts attending curl the streams ; The ...
... nature here With stern severity deals out the year . Winter invades the spring , and often pours A chilling flood on summer's drooping flowers ; Unwelcome vapours quench autumnal beams , Ungenial blasts attending curl the streams ; The ...
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... nature shows , Less on exterior things than most suppose . Vigilant over all that he has made , Kind Providence attends with gracious aid ; Bids equity throughout his works prevail , And weighs the nations in an even scale ; He can ...
... nature shows , Less on exterior things than most suppose . Vigilant over all that he has made , Kind Providence attends with gracious aid ; Bids equity throughout his works prevail , And weighs the nations in an even scale ; He can ...
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William Cowper. The mind attains beneath her happy reign The growth , that nature meant she should attain ; The varied fields of science , ever new , Opening and wider opening on her view , She ventures onward with a prosperous force ...
William Cowper. The mind attains beneath her happy reign The growth , that nature meant she should attain ; The varied fields of science , ever new , Opening and wider opening on her view , She ventures onward with a prosperous force ...
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... nature's laws Unchangeably connected with its cause ) ; But Providence himself will intervene To throw this dark displeasure over the scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home , or threatens from afar , Nature ...
... nature's laws Unchangeably connected with its cause ) ; But Providence himself will intervene To throw this dark displeasure over the scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home , or threatens from afar , Nature ...
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... if the poet , purposing to wed , Should carve himself a wife in gingerbread . Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared , And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard : To carry nature lengths unknown before , To give a TABLE TALK . 29.
... if the poet , purposing to wed , Should carve himself a wife in gingerbread . Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared , And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard : To carry nature lengths unknown before , To give a TABLE TALK . 29.
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Page 423 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. "Stop, stop, John Gilpin!— Here's the house !" They all at once did cry; "The dinner waits, and we are tired;"— Said Gilpin, "So am I!
Page 417 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew. Would trouble him much more. 'Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, 'The wine is left behind!' ' Good lack,' quoth he — ' yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Page 419 - So, Fair and softly ! John he cried ; But John he cried in vain, That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Page 298 - Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd.
Page 322 - Ye winds ! that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 431 - The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown : No traveller ever reached that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briars in his road.
Page 304 - a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet.
Page 375 - All sustain'd by patience, taught us Only by a broken heart! / Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS.
Page 320 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 414 - John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.