The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Band 2W. Pickering, 1830 |
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... peace for ever reigns , And only there , please highly for their sake . Peace to the artist , whose ingenious thought Devised the weatherhouse , that useful toy ! Fearless of humid air and gathering rains , Forth steps the man — an ...
... peace for ever reigns , And only there , please highly for their sake . Peace to the artist , whose ingenious thought Devised the weatherhouse , that useful toy ! Fearless of humid air and gathering rains , Forth steps the man — an ...
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... peaceful covert mine . Here , I have said , at least I should possess The poet's treasure , silence , and indulge The dreams of fancy , tranquil and secure . Vain thought ! the dweller in that still retreat Dearly obtains the refuge it ...
... peaceful covert mine . Here , I have said , at least I should possess The poet's treasure , silence , and indulge The dreams of fancy , tranquil and secure . Vain thought ! the dweller in that still retreat Dearly obtains the refuge it ...
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... Peace among the nations recommended on the ground of their common fellowship in sorrow . Prodigies enumerated . Sicilian earthquakes . Man rendered obnoxious to these ca- lamities by sin . God the agent in them . The philosophy that ...
... Peace among the nations recommended on the ground of their common fellowship in sorrow . Prodigies enumerated . Sicilian earthquakes . Man rendered obnoxious to these ca- lamities by sin . God the agent in them . The philosophy that ...
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... there is need of social intercourse , Benevolence , and peace , and mutual aid , Between the nations in a world that seems To toll the deathbell of its own decease , And by the voice of all its elements To preach 34 B. II . THE TASK .
... there is need of social intercourse , Benevolence , and peace , and mutual aid , Between the nations in a world that seems To toll the deathbell of its own decease , And by the voice of all its elements To preach 34 B. II . THE TASK .
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... peace , And brethren in calamity should love . Alas for Sicily ! rude fragments now Lie scatter'd where the shapely column stood . Her palaces are dust . In all her streets * Alluding to the calamities in Jamaica . + August 18 , 1783 ...
... peace , And brethren in calamity should love . Alas for Sicily ! rude fragments now Lie scatter'd where the shapely column stood . Her palaces are dust . In all her streets * Alluding to the calamities in Jamaica . + August 18 , 1783 ...
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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.