Poems ..., Volum 1W. Collins, 1834 - 564 sider |
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... breathe though it was but the old world , in the concerns of which he now took an interest , unfelt be- fore , since he resolutely left it , - Cowper was embold- ened to undertake an incomparably greater achieve- ment - the translation ...
... breathe though it was but the old world , in the concerns of which he now took an interest , unfelt be- fore , since he resolutely left it , - Cowper was embold- ened to undertake an incomparably greater achieve- ment - the translation ...
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... breath of Fame , Prompt his endeavour and engage his aim , Debased to servile purposes of pride , How are the powers of genius misapplied ! The gift , whose office is the Giver's praise , To trace him in his word , his works , his ways ...
... breath of Fame , Prompt his endeavour and engage his aim , Debased to servile purposes of pride , How are the powers of genius misapplied ! The gift , whose office is the Giver's praise , To trace him in his word , his works , his ways ...
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... breath , And smothered in't at last , is praised to death . Yon cottager , who weaves at her own door , Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean , and cheerful if not gay , Shuffling her threads about the livelong ...
... breath , And smothered in't at last , is praised to death . Yon cottager , who weaves at her own door , Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean , and cheerful if not gay , Shuffling her threads about the livelong ...
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... hung harps they bore With fingers deeply died in human gore ; And , while the victim slowly bled to death , Upon the rolling chords rung out his dying breath . Who brought the lamp , that with awaking beams Dispelled 144 EXPOSTULATION .
... hung harps they bore With fingers deeply died in human gore ; And , while the victim slowly bled to death , Upon the rolling chords rung out his dying breath . Who brought the lamp , that with awaking beams Dispelled 144 EXPOSTULATION .
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... breath Sighs for his exit , vulgarly called death : For he , with all his follies , has a mind Not yet so blank , or fashionably blind , But now and then perhaps a feeble ray Of distant wisdom shoots across his way . By which he reads ...
... breath Sighs for his exit , vulgarly called death : For he , with all his follies , has a mind Not yet so blank , or fashionably blind , But now and then perhaps a feeble ray Of distant wisdom shoots across his way . By which he reads ...
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ALEXANDER SELKIRK Aspasio beauty beneath bids blank verse blest boast breath cause charms Cowper death deem delight distant divine dread dream e'en earth ease eyes fair fame fancy fatal egg fear feel fire flowers folly frown give glory grace hand happy hast heart Heaven honour hope human JOHN GILPIN JOSEPH HILL labour land light live lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature Nebaioth never night nymph o'er once peace perhaps PINE-APPLE pity pleasure poet poet's praise pride prize proud prove rapture rest rude sacred scene scorn seek seems shade shine sighs sight skies slave smile song soon soul sound stand stream sweet task taste telescopic eye thee theme thine thought thousand toil tongue touch trifler truth Twas verse VINCENT BOURNE virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom woes worth youth