 I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the...  Poems - Side 207av William Cowper - 1806Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - 1918 - 4009 sider
...sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...indifference see; They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is. shocking to me. Society, Friendship, and Love, Divinely bestowed upon man, 0, had I the... | |
 | Joslyn Gray - 1919 - 248 sider
...lines in the poem Rusty referred to that explained her allusion. He thought her wonderfully clever. " ' Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own,' " he quoted with a shadow of a smile. "Well, Rusty, after all, I don't believe you need to worry yet... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 461 sider
...brighter days.4 It is obvious, too, that when Cowper writes in his verses on Alexander Selkirk — I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own, he is thinking more of himself than of the ostensible subject of the poem. It is in this same poem,... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 478 sider
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow 'd upon man, Oh, had I the... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1923
...Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. "I am out of humanity's reach, 1 must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet...indifference see; They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. "Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore... | |
 | 1924 - 272 sider
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, 38 Society, Friendship, and Love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, O had I the wings of a dove, How soon... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1924 - 483 sider
...Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, 10 Never hear the sweet music of speech ; I start at...indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, 15 Their tameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love Divinely bestow'd upon man, O had... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 1100 sider
...sages have seen in thy fnce ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach ; I must finish my journey...sweet music of speech, — I start at the sound of rny own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted... | |
 | James William Lowther Ullswater (1st viscount) - 1925
...fear of man and will hardly move out of the way ; in fact, to use the words of Alexander Selkirk : The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. On the 3rd of July the King paid a visit to Rugby School, to open the fine... | |
 | 1926 - 727 sider
...sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...indifference see; They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. Society, Friendship, and Love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, Oh, had I the... | |
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