Cowper's Text: A PoemW. and J. Eddowes, 1827 - 70 pages |
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... dear protectress merg'd In a protected one , still dearer , Mary , Thy more than sapphic Mary , shews return'd The pressure of thy hand and all repaid : What then was wanting to thy happiness , But for thyself that happiness to know ...
... dear protectress merg'd In a protected one , still dearer , Mary , Thy more than sapphic Mary , shews return'd The pressure of thy hand and all repaid : What then was wanting to thy happiness , But for thyself that happiness to know ...
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... dear sake , Or him collector for imperial domes Of all that coarsely breathes or coarsely died , Menagerie's and mausoleum's lord , And lord of designations numberless Pale , barren classifiers of fair flow'rs , And too oft substitutes ...
... dear sake , Or him collector for imperial domes Of all that coarsely breathes or coarsely died , Menagerie's and mausoleum's lord , And lord of designations numberless Pale , barren classifiers of fair flow'rs , And too oft substitutes ...
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... dear promise , and those names Were often heard on earth with Abraham's And Joseph's intermingl'd e'en when fraud , And violence , and sanguinary rage , And bestial concupiscence , and the whole Material fermentation was in stout ...
... dear promise , and those names Were often heard on earth with Abraham's And Joseph's intermingl'd e'en when fraud , And violence , and sanguinary rage , And bestial concupiscence , and the whole Material fermentation was in stout ...
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... dear , And laureate him , who paid for odes , forgets The sovereign's birthday , and the ode's birthright , I challeng'd daringly in Virgil's name , And aim'd at theme and line , that rais'd my own . These facts announce my nature , and ...
... dear , And laureate him , who paid for odes , forgets The sovereign's birthday , and the ode's birthright , I challeng'd daringly in Virgil's name , And aim'd at theme and line , that rais'd my own . These facts announce my nature , and ...
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... dear to recollection as enforc'd With candour and simplicity and pow'r , Not without explanation and review By the fire - side for after - questioners , Though our professor fills the chair of Gray , Though Fox and Lansdowne the ...
... dear to recollection as enforc'd With candour and simplicity and pow'r , Not without explanation and review By the fire - side for after - questioners , Though our professor fills the chair of Gray , Though Fox and Lansdowne the ...
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author's best regards bard barouche beamy bless'd blessing boasted breathe bright Briton call'd Cestrian charm charm'd claim claim'd condens'd COWPER'S crucible Dear death diff'rent Doric e'en e'er Edinburgh eloquence emense encreas'd Eugenius ev'ry false pretence fasces fast father feast fix'd flow'r fruit garden gen❜ral gentle giv'n glory grace grave hadst thou hallow'd Haply harmony heart heav'n and earth heav'nly honours Hosanna innocence JAMES MASON kingdom light Liverpool lord marr'd merg'd mighty theme mod'rate moral ne'er nectar o'er Olney pard'ning peace Plato playful poet poetry and truth Porsonian pow'r prepar'd prevail'd Proserpine prov'd pure spirit rais'd realms reconcil'd robe Rome scene scholar's seal'd Seem'd Shrewsbury smile social sense storm strong stye surt sympathy tears thee thine thou hadst Thou wast thro throne Thurlow Thyself toil tow'r town Tusculum Twas two-fold verse welcom'd whate'er woes wounds Yorick
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Page 1 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the archers. In his side he bore, And in his hands and feet, the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth, and heal'd, and bade me live.
Page 61 - The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit, And the loud laugh — I long to know them all; I burn to set the imprisoned wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again.
Page 6 - Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind ; Riches have wings and grandeur is a dream. The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him ignoble graves.