The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volum 2William Pickering, 1830 |
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... life of pleasure . Change of scene sometimes expedient . A com- mon described , and the character of crazy Kate introduced . Gipsies . The blessings of civilized life . That state most favourable to virtue . The South Sea islanders ...
... life of pleasure . Change of scene sometimes expedient . A com- mon described , and the character of crazy Kate introduced . Gipsies . The blessings of civilized life . That state most favourable to virtue . The South Sea islanders ...
Side 7
... life declines , speed rapidly away , And not a year but pilfers as he goes Some youthful grace , that age would gladly keep ; A tooth or auburn lock , and by degrees Their length and colour from the locks they spare ; The elastic spring ...
... life declines , speed rapidly away , And not a year but pilfers as he goes Some youthful grace , that age would gladly keep ; A tooth or auburn lock , and by degrees Their length and colour from the locks they spare ; The elastic spring ...
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... life , Society for me ! -thou seeming sweet , Be still a pleasing object in my view ; My visit still , but never mine abode . Not distant far , a length of colonnade Invites us . Monument of ancient taste , Now scorn'd , but worthy of a ...
... life , Society for me ! -thou seeming sweet , Be still a pleasing object in my view ; My visit still , but never mine abode . Not distant far , a length of colonnade Invites us . Monument of ancient taste , Now scorn'd , but worthy of a ...
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... life By its true worth , the comforts it affords , And theirs alone seems worthy of the name . Good health , and , its associate in the most , Good temper ; spirits prompt to undertake , And not soon spent , though in an arduous task ...
... life By its true worth , the comforts it affords , And theirs alone seems worthy of the name . Good health , and , its associate in the most , Good temper ; spirits prompt to undertake , And not soon spent , though in an arduous task ...
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... joys , That palls and satiates , and makes languid life A pedler's pack , that bows the bearer down . Health suffers , and the spirits ebb ; the heart Recoils from its own choice at the full feast Is 18 B. I. THE TASK .
... joys , That palls and satiates , and makes languid life A pedler's pack , that bows the bearer down . Health suffers , and the spirits ebb ; the heart Recoils from its own choice at the full feast Is 18 B. I. THE TASK .
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Æsop Aspasio beauty beneath betimes boast breath call'd cause charms creatures death delight design'd distant divine dread dream e'en earth ease fair fame fancy farewell flight fear feed feel fieldfare flowers folly form'd fruit grace grave hand happy happy prisoners hast heard heart Heaven high raised honour hope infant sorrows John Throckmorton labour learn'd less life's live lyre mind mischief mounted best muse nature Nature's Nebaioth never numbers o'er once pass'd peace perhaps play pleasure plebeian praise prize proud prove rest sacred scene schools seek seem'd sensual world shade shine sight skies smile song soon soul sound Stamp'd sweet task taste taste Of evils thee theme thine thou art thought toil truth vex'd virtue voice waste WILLIAM COWPER winds winter wisdom wise wisely store wonder worth youth
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Side 254 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession! but the record fair That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced. Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...
Side 34 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast : Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not "blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man...
Side 255 - Shoots into port at some well-havened isle, Where spices breathe and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods, that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay, So thou, with sails how swift, hast reached the shore 'Where tempests never beat nor billows roar,' And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
Side 77 - How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too ! • Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry...
Side 34 - We have no slaves at home : — Then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Side 256 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents pass'd into the skies.
Side 213 - Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy'd ; The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot, As happy as we once, to kneel and draw The chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw...
Side 164 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude, unprofitable mass, (The mere materials with which Wisdom builds) Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud, that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Side 247 - Other Romans shall arise Heedless of a soldier's name; Sounds, not arms, shall win the prize, Harmony the path to fame. Then...
Side 98 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.