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... pow'r to charm me still . And witnefs , dear companion of my walks , Whofe arm this twentieth winter I perceive Faft lock'd in mine , with pleasure fuch as love , Confirm'd by long experience of thy worth And well - tried virtues ...
... pow'r to charm me still . And witnefs , dear companion of my walks , Whofe arm this twentieth winter I perceive Faft lock'd in mine , with pleasure fuch as love , Confirm'd by long experience of thy worth And well - tried virtues ...
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... pow'r of thine can raise her up . Thus fancy paints thee , and , though apt to err , Perhaps errs little when she paints thee thus . She tells me , too , that duly ev'ry morn Thou climb'ft the mountain top , with eager eye Exploring far ...
... pow'r of thine can raise her up . Thus fancy paints thee , and , though apt to err , Perhaps errs little when she paints thee thus . She tells me , too , that duly ev'ry morn Thou climb'ft the mountain top , with eager eye Exploring far ...
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... Of brotherhood is fever'd as the flax That falls afunder at the touch of fire . He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own ; and , having pow'r T'enforce the wrong , for fuch a worthy cause Dooms The Time-Piece.
... Of brotherhood is fever'd as the flax That falls afunder at the touch of fire . He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own ; and , having pow'r T'enforce the wrong , for fuch a worthy cause Dooms The Time-Piece.
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... pow'r Is felt , mankind may feel her mercy too . Sure there is need of focial intercourse , Benevolence , and peace , and mutual aid , Between the nations , in a world that feems To toll the death - bell of its own decease , And by the ...
... pow'r Is felt , mankind may feel her mercy too . Sure there is need of focial intercourse , Benevolence , and peace , and mutual aid , Between the nations , in a world that feems To toll the death - bell of its own decease , And by the ...
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... pow'r that wields it . God proclaims His hot difpleasure againft foolish men , That live an atheift life : involves the heav'n In tempefts ; quits his grafp upon the winds , And gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery ...
... pow'r that wields it . God proclaims His hot difpleasure againft foolish men , That live an atheift life : involves the heav'n In tempefts ; quits his grafp upon the winds , And gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery ...
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Poems: By William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. In Two Volumes. Vol. I-II. William Cowper Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1800 |
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Side 327 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown: A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, " Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. "To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.
Side 40 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Side 119 - tis the twanging horn ! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright...
Side 335 - Said Gilpin — So am I ! But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For why? — his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew, Shot by an archer strong ; So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.
Side 40 - 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.
Side 41 - 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 34 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves?
Side 56 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own — Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design.
Side 189 - Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of interest his, Whose eye they fill with tears of holy joy, Whose heart with praise, and whose exalted mind With worthy thoughts of that unwearied love That plann'd, and built, and still upholds a world So...
Side 333 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...