The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Band 2W. Pickering, 1830 |
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... dream of transports she was not to know . She heard the doleful tidings of his death- And never smiled again ! and now she roams The dreary waste ; there spends the livelong day , And there , unless when charity forbids , The livelong ...
... dream of transports she was not to know . She heard the doleful tidings of his death- And never smiled again ! and now she roams The dreary waste ; there spends the livelong day , And there , unless when charity forbids , The livelong ...
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... dream is past ; and thou hast found again Thy cocoas and bananas , palms and yams , And homestall thatch'd with leaves . thou found But hast Their former charms ? And , having seen our state , Our palaces , our ladies , and our pomp Of ...
... dream is past ; and thou hast found again Thy cocoas and bananas , palms and yams , And homestall thatch'd with leaves . thou found But hast Their former charms ? And , having seen our state , Our palaces , our ladies , and our pomp Of ...
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... Dream after dream ensues ; And still they dream , that they shall still succeed ; And still are disappointed . Rings the world With the vain stir . I sum up half mankind , And add two thirds of the remaining half , And find the total of ...
... Dream after dream ensues ; And still they dream , that they shall still succeed ; And still are disappointed . Rings the world With the vain stir . I sum up half mankind , And add two thirds of the remaining half , And find the total of ...
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... dream they have a taste for fields and groves , Would find them hideous nurseries of the spleen , And crowd the roads , impatient for the town ! They love the country , and none else , who seek For their own sake its silence and its ...
... dream they have a taste for fields and groves , Would find them hideous nurseries of the spleen , And crowd the roads , impatient for the town ! They love the country , and none else , who seek For their own sake its silence and its ...
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... and confess , Fearless , a soul that does not always think . Me oft has Fancy ludicrous and wild . Soothed with a waking dream of houses , towers , Trees , churches , and strange visages , express'd In 106 B. IV . THE TASK .
... and confess , Fearless , a soul that does not always think . Me oft has Fancy ludicrous and wild . Soothed with a waking dream of houses , towers , Trees , churches , and strange visages , express'd In 106 B. IV . 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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Seite 97 - 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, He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks ; News from all nations lumbering at his back.
Seite 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...
Seite 33 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war Might never reach me more...
Seite 13 - Nor less attractive is the woodland scene, Diversified with trees of every growth, Alike yet various. Here the grey smooth trunks Of ash, or lime, or beech, distinctly shine, Within the twilight of their distant shades ; There lost behind a rising ground, the wood Seems sunk, and shorten'd to its topmost boughs.
Seite 254 - Could time, his flight reversed, restore the hours, When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I prick'd them into paper with a pin, (And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head and smile...
Seite 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.
Seite 163 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half...
Seite 100 - The manners, customs, policy of all Pay contribution to the store he gleans ; He sucks intelligence in every clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return — a rich repast for me.
Seite 299 - Though duly from my hand he took His pittance every night, He did it with a jealous look, And, when he could, would bite. His diet was of wheaten bread, And milk, and oats, and straw ; Thistles, or lettuces instead, With sand to scour his maw. On twigs of hawthorn he regaled, On pippins...
Seite 8 - The sloping land recedes into the clouds; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tow'r, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the list'ning ear, Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.