 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1814 - 496 pages
...dnrable even than be.* * Mr. Cowper afterward altered this last stanza in the following mauner: — The change both my heart and my fancy employs, I reflect on the frailty of man, and his joys ; Short-liv'd as we arc, yet onr pleasnres, we see, Have a still shorter date, and die sooner than... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1815 - 356 pages
...durable even than he*. • Mr. Cowper afterward altered this tut rtanu in the following manner: — The change both my heart and my fancy employs, I reflect on the frailty of man, and his joys; ShorMiv'd as we are, yet our pleasures, we see, Have a still shorter date, and die sooner than we.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 252 pages
...fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my hreast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if any thing can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1818 - 240 pages
...My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. The change°both my heart and my fancy employs, I reflect on the frailly of man, and his joys; Short-lived... | |
 | Thomas Hudson - Songs, English - 1818 - 506 pages
...wonderful place ! CONTENT AND A PIPE. TUNE — "Sheep-shearing." " The change both my heart and ray fancy employs, '• I reflect on the frailty of man and his joys; " Short-liv'd as we are, yet our pleasures we see " Hate a still shorter date,• and die sooner than... | |
 | Thomas Hudson (grocer.) - 1820 - 486 pages
...grace, That Lunntin, this Lunnun's a wonderful place ! CONTENT AND A PIPE. TUNE — " Sheep-shearing." " The change both my heart and my fancy employs, " I reflect on the frailty of man and his joys ; " Short-livM as we are, yet our pleasures we see " Hare a still shorter date, and die sooner than... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in Its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if any thing can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 562 pages
...My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head. Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if any thing can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...My ftigitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head. Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. , 'Tis a sight to engage me, if any thing can, : To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...fugitive years are all hast'ning away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if any thing can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
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And the scene, where his melody charm'd me before, Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove... 
