Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin and other poemsBaldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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... force , Urge down the valleys your impetuous course ! Winds , clouds , and lightnings ! and , ye waves , whose heads , Curl'd into monstrous forms , the seaman dreads ! Horrid abyss , where all experience fails , Spread with the wreck ...
... force , Urge down the valleys your impetuous course ! Winds , clouds , and lightnings ! and , ye waves , whose heads , Curl'd into monstrous forms , the seaman dreads ! Horrid abyss , where all experience fails , Spread with the wreck ...
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... force should know ; And if thou strike me into dust , My soul approves the blow . The heart that values less its ease Than it adores thy ways , In thine avenging anger sees A subject of its praise . Pleased I could lie , conceal'd and ...
... force should know ; And if thou strike me into dust , My soul approves the blow . The heart that values less its ease Than it adores thy ways , In thine avenging anger sees A subject of its praise . Pleased I could lie , conceal'd and ...
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... Thou Moon ! whose never failing course Bespeaks a providential force , Go , tell the tidings of my flame To him who calls the stars by name , Whose absence kills , whose presence cheers , Who blots 36 COWPER'S Poems .
... Thou Moon ! whose never failing course Bespeaks a providential force , Go , tell the tidings of my flame To him who calls the stars by name , Whose absence kills , whose presence cheers , Who blots 36 COWPER'S Poems .
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... force ; And I thy sovereign will , Without a wish to escape my doom , Though still a sufferer from the womb , And doom'd to suffer still . By thy command , where'er I stray , Sorrow attends me all my way , A never failing friend ; And ...
... force ; And I thy sovereign will , Without a wish to escape my doom , Though still a sufferer from the womb , And doom'd to suffer still . By thy command , where'er I stray , Sorrow attends me all my way , A never failing friend ; And ...
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... force , And all were swift to follow whom all loved . Those suns are set . Oh rise some other such ! Or all that we have left is empty talk Of old achievements , and despair of new . Now hoist the sail , and let the streamers float Upon ...
... force , And all were swift to follow whom all loved . Those suns are set . Oh rise some other such ! Or all that we have left is empty talk Of old achievements , and despair of new . Now hoist the sail , and let the streamers float Upon ...
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beauty beneath bliss boast breath cause charms Cowper dear deep delight distant divine divine simplicity dream Dunciad earth ease fair fame fancy fear feel Fête champêtre flower folly form'd frown glory grace grove hand happy heart heaven honour human John Gilpin Julius Cæsar King L'Allegro labour less live Lord lost Mighty winds mind nature Nature's Nebaioth never night o'er once pain peace pleased pleasure Pope praise proud prove pure repose rove rude sacred Satire Satire iv Satire vi scene scorn secret fire seek shades shine sighs sight silent skies sleep smile Soame Jenyns song Sonnet 18 soon sorrow soul Spleen stream sweet task taste thee theme thine things thou art thou hast thought toil trembling truth Twas Vincent Bourne virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wonder worth
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Page 306 - John he cried, But John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane with both his hands And eke with all his might.
Page 98 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 80 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 97 - 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 235 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude, unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Page 261 - Come then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy .' It was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood.
Page 129 - Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 305 - Now Mistress Gilpin, careful soul, Had two stone bottles found, To hold the liquor that she loved, And keep it safe and sound. Each bottle had a curling ear, Through which the belt he drew, And hung a bottle on each side To make his balance true. Then over all, that he might be Equipped from top to toe, His long red cloak well brushed and neat He manfully did throw.
Page 259 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us-! " The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Page 309 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. "But let me scrape the dirt away, That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.