The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Band 2W. Pickering, 1830 |
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... season , and with such a charge , Once went I forth ; and found , till then unknown , A cottage , whither oft we since repair : " Tis perch'd upon the green hill top , but close Environ'd with a ring of branching elms , That overhang ...
... season , and with such a charge , Once went I forth ; and found , till then unknown , A cottage , whither oft we since repair : " Tis perch'd upon the green hill top , but close Environ'd with a ring of branching elms , That overhang ...
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... seasons with a grateful smile , Can boast but little virtue ; and , inert Through plenty , lose in morals what they gain In manners - victims of luxurious ease . These therefore I can pity , placed remote From all that science traces ...
... seasons with a grateful smile , Can boast but little virtue ; and , inert Through plenty , lose in morals what they gain In manners - victims of luxurious ease . These therefore I can pity , placed remote From all that science traces ...
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... the winter . Reasons why it is deserted at that season . Ruinous effects of gaming , and of expensive improvement . Book concludes with an apostrophe to the metropolis . THE TASK . BOOK III . THE GARDEN . As The Garden.
... the winter . Reasons why it is deserted at that season . Ruinous effects of gaming , and of expensive improvement . Book concludes with an apostrophe to the metropolis . THE TASK . BOOK III . THE GARDEN . As The Garden.
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... season , and be seen no more . The rest are sober dreamers , grave and wise , And pregnant with discoveries new and rare . Some write a narrative of wars , and feats Of heroes little known ; and call the rant A history describe the man ...
... season , and be seen no more . The rest are sober dreamers , grave and wise , And pregnant with discoveries new and rare . Some write a narrative of wars , and feats Of heroes little known ; and call the rant A history describe the man ...
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... seasons recommend His warm but simple home , where he enjoys With her , who shares his pleasures and his heart , Sweet converse , sipping calm the fragrant lymph , Which neatly she prepares ; then to his book Well chosen , and not ...
... seasons recommend His warm but simple home , where he enjoys With her , who shares his pleasures and his heart , Sweet converse , sipping calm the fragrant lymph , Which neatly she prepares ; then to his book Well chosen , and not ...
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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.