The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 2W. Pickering, 1830 |
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... pleased Than when employ'd to accommodate the fair , Heard the sweet moan with pity , and devised The soft settee ; one elbow at each end , And in the midst an elbow it received , United yet divided , twain at once . So sit two kings of ...
... pleased Than when employ'd to accommodate the fair , Heard the sweet moan with pity , and devised The soft settee ; one elbow at each end , And in the midst an elbow it received , United yet divided , twain at once . So sit two kings of ...
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... pleased him . Learning grew Beneath his care a thriving vigorous plant ; The mind was well inform'd , the passions held Subordinate , and diligence was choice . If e'er it chanced , as sometimes chance it must , That one among so many ...
... pleased him . Learning grew Beneath his care a thriving vigorous plant ; The mind was well inform'd , the passions held Subordinate , and diligence was choice . If e'er it chanced , as sometimes chance it must , That one among so many ...
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... pleased , The scent regaled , each odoriferous leaf , Each opening blossom freely breathes abroad Its gratitude , and thanks him with its sweets . So manifold , all pleasing in their kind , All healthful , are the employs of rural life ...
... pleased , The scent regaled , each odoriferous leaf , Each opening blossom freely breathes abroad Its gratitude , and thanks him with its sweets . So manifold , all pleasing in their kind , All healthful , are the employs of rural life ...
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... pleased to find it , asks no more . Not so the mind that has been touch'd from Heaven , And in the school of sacred wisdom taught To read his wonders , in whose thought the world , Fair as it is , existed ere it was . Not for its own ...
... pleased to find it , asks no more . Not so the mind that has been touch'd from Heaven , And in the school of sacred wisdom taught To read his wonders , in whose thought the world , Fair as it is , existed ere it was . Not for its own ...
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... pleased With melting airs , or martial , brisk , or grave : Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us , and the heart replies . How soft the music of those village bells , Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence ...
... pleased With melting airs , or martial , brisk , or grave : Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us , and the heart replies . How soft the music of those village bells , Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 163 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.