Cowper's Text: A PoemW. and J. Eddowes, 1827 - 70 pages |
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... close , But beam'd on it with Milton's poetry Claiming translation still and many a note : ( Alas , for literature ! and holiness ! This should have lengthen'd out thy other tasks For poet and for prophet - Syria , Greece ! ) Thy ...
... close , But beam'd on it with Milton's poetry Claiming translation still and many a note : ( Alas , for literature ! and holiness ! This should have lengthen'd out thy other tasks For poet and for prophet - Syria , Greece ! ) Thy ...
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... close on thy delight and prophecy , And plunge thee in wild dreariness mid haunts Fir'd with hot tortures for the deathless dead , If patriot , scholar , poet , naturalist , Pitying and pitied saint , through intervals , Variously ...
... close on thy delight and prophecy , And plunge thee in wild dreariness mid haunts Fir'd with hot tortures for the deathless dead , If patriot , scholar , poet , naturalist , Pitying and pitied saint , through intervals , Variously ...
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... close sudden , ineffable , Would heav'n and earth shut on thee , and display thee , E'en as a demon of thy fav'rite bard , Exhausted , spiritless , afflicted , fall'n : Strange contribution to our mortal state Sad and perplex'd ! slow ...
... close sudden , ineffable , Would heav'n and earth shut on thee , and display thee , E'en as a demon of thy fav'rite bard , Exhausted , spiritless , afflicted , fall'n : Strange contribution to our mortal state Sad and perplex'd ! slow ...
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... close : I am in place - let me my budget ope : Here is my treasury - listen - ' tis the tax . Two pictures in our publish'd books find place , The one ideal , and the other , thou : The first is drawn with touches that recur With an ...
... close : I am in place - let me my budget ope : Here is my treasury - listen - ' tis the tax . Two pictures in our publish'd books find place , The one ideal , and the other , thou : The first is drawn with touches that recur With an ...
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... who speeds the parallel And so contributes to the contrast's close : That the material world shall have an end , And that the spiritual world shall never die , Experience whispers and the scriptures say : Therefore meanwhile the 61.
... who speeds the parallel And so contributes to the contrast's close : That the material world shall have an end , And that the spiritual world shall never die , Experience whispers and the scriptures say : Therefore meanwhile the 61.
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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.