The Poems of William Cowper, Volume 2Press of C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Page 76
... kind , All healthful are the ' employs of rural life , Reiterated as the wheel of time Runs round ; still ending , and beginning still . Nor are these all . To deck the shapely knoll , That softly swell'd and gaily dress'd appears A ...
... kind , All healthful are the ' employs of rural life , Reiterated as the wheel of time Runs round ; still ending , and beginning still . Nor are these all . To deck the shapely knoll , That softly swell'd and gaily dress'd appears A ...
Page 79
... kind , And undebauch'd . But we have bid farewell To all the virtues of those better days , And all their honest pleasures . Mansions once Knew their own masters ; and laborious hinds , Who had survived the father , served the son . Now ...
... kind , And undebauch'd . But we have bid farewell To all the virtues of those better days , And all their honest pleasures . Mansions once Knew their own masters ; and laborious hinds , Who had survived the father , served the son . Now ...
Page 105
... kind . And , though the ' Almighty Maker has throughout Discriminated each from each , by strokes And touches of his hand , with so much art Diversified that two were never found Twins at all points - yet this obtains in all , That all ...
... kind . And , though the ' Almighty Maker has throughout Discriminated each from each , by strokes And touches of his hand , with so much art Diversified that two were never found Twins at all points - yet this obtains in all , That all ...
Page 110
... kind . Clean riddance quickly made , one only care Remains to each , the search of sunny nook , Or shed impervious to the blast . Resign'd To sad necessity , the cock foregoes His wonted strut ; and , wading at their head With well ...
... kind . Clean riddance quickly made , one only care Remains to each , the search of sunny nook , Or shed impervious to the blast . Resign'd To sad necessity , the cock foregoes His wonted strut ; and , wading at their head With well ...
Page 127
... kind , and then enacting laws So strict that less than perfect must despair ? Falsehood ! which whoso but suspects of truth Dishonours God , and makes a slave of man . Do they themselves , who undertake for hire The teacher's office ...
... kind , and then enacting laws So strict that less than perfect must despair ? Falsehood ! which whoso but suspects of truth Dishonours God , and makes a slave of man . Do they themselves , who undertake for hire The teacher's office ...
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ALEXANDER SELKIRK Aspasio beauty beneath bids bird boast breath call'd cause charms Chiswick death delight design'd divine dream e'en earth ease fair fame fancy fast fear feed feel flowers folly form'd fountain of eternal give glory GLOWWORM grace grave hand happy hast hear heard heart Heaven honour labour learn'd less life's light live lyre Mighty winds mind Muse nature Nature's Nebaioth never night nymphs o'er once pass'd peace perhaps pity pleasure poets praise press'd prize proud prove rapture rest rude scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine shrubs sighs sight skies sleep sloth smile soft song soon soul sound spaniel spare stamp'd sweet task taste thee theme thine thou art thought THRACIAN toil truth Twas virtue voice waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wonder worm worth youth