A Collection of Poems ...Robert Dodsley J. Hughs, 1758 |
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... Muse , content with humbler praise , Warbled in Windfor's grove her fylvan lays ; Though now fublimely borne on Homer's wing , Of glorious wars , and godlike chiefs she sing : Wilt thou with me re - vifit once again The crystal fountain ...
... Muse , content with humbler praise , Warbled in Windfor's grove her fylvan lays ; Though now fublimely borne on Homer's wing , Of glorious wars , and godlike chiefs she sing : Wilt thou with me re - vifit once again The crystal fountain ...
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... Muse on lofty bards bestows ; Let other swains to praise or fame aspire : I from her lips my recompence require . Hark how the bees with murmurs fill the plain , While ev'ry flow'r of ev'ry sweet they drain : See , how beneath yon ...
... Muse on lofty bards bestows ; Let other swains to praise or fame aspire : I from her lips my recompence require . Hark how the bees with murmurs fill the plain , While ev'ry flow'r of ev'ry sweet they drain : See , how beneath yon ...
Side 9
... Muse , and Damon's woes rehearse , In wildeft numbers and diforder'd verse . On a romantick mountain's airy head ( While browzing goats at ease around him fed ) Anxious he lay , with jealous cares opprefs'd ; Distrust and anger lab'ring ...
... Muse , and Damon's woes rehearse , In wildeft numbers and diforder'd verse . On a romantick mountain's airy head ( While browzing goats at ease around him fed ) Anxious he lay , with jealous cares opprefs'd ; Distrust and anger lab'ring ...
Side 11
... Muses paid , And all things mourn'd but the relentless maid . Wou'd I cou'd die like him and be at peace , These torments in the quiet grave wou'd cease ; There my vex'd thoughts a calm repofe wou'd find , And reft as if my Delia ftill ...
... Muses paid , And all things mourn'd but the relentless maid . Wou'd I cou'd die like him and be at peace , These torments in the quiet grave wou'd cease ; There my vex'd thoughts a calm repofe wou'd find , And reft as if my Delia ftill ...
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... Muses , skill'd in ev'ry winning art , Teach me more deeply to engage her heart ; Ye Nymphs , to her your freshest roses bring , And crown her with the pride of all the fpring : On all her days let health and peace attend ; May the ne ...
... Muses , skill'd in ev'ry winning art , Teach me more deeply to engage her heart ; Ye Nymphs , to her your freshest roses bring , And crown her with the pride of all the fpring : On all her days let health and peace attend ; May the ne ...
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Side 269 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began.
Side 267 - That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo! Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th
Side 79 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove...
Side 265 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Side 264 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Side 46 - Tell me, my heart, if this be love? If she some other youth commend, Though I was once his fondest friend, His instant enemy I prove: Tell me, my heart, if this be love?
Side 37 - To whom I gave my own harmonious lyre, If high exalted on the Throne of Wit, Near Me and Homer thou afpire to...
Side 70 - VII. Where were ye, Mufes, when relentlefs fate From thefe fond arms your fair difciple tore, From thefe fond arms that vainly ftrove With haplefs...
Side 2 - Damon came, unknowing where he ftray'd, Full of the image of his beauteous maid : His flock far off, unfed, untended lay, To ev'ry favage a defencelefs prey ; No fenfe of int'reft could their matter move, And ev'ry care feem'd trifling now but Love. Awhile in penfive filence he remain'd> But tho...
Side 43 - Seek to be good, but aim not to be great: A woman's noblest station is retreat; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, Domestic worth, that shuns too strong a light.