The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson |
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... themes like these employ the poet's tongue , I hear as mute as if a syren sung . Or tell me , if you can , what power maintains , A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains : That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of ...
... themes like these employ the poet's tongue , I hear as mute as if a syren sung . Or tell me , if you can , what power maintains , A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains : That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of ...
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... theme , that others never feel . If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame ; She pours a sensibility divine B. I know the mind , that feels indeed the fire Along the nerve of every feeling line . But ...
... theme , that others never feel . If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame ; She pours a sensibility divine B. I know the mind , that feels indeed the fire Along the nerve of every feeling line . But ...
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... theme ! That theme on earth exhausted , though above ' Tis found as everlasting as his love . Man lavished all his thoughts on human things . The feats of heroes , and the wrath of kings ; But still , while Virtue kindled his delight ...
... theme ! That theme on earth exhausted , though above ' Tis found as everlasting as his love . Man lavished all his thoughts on human things . The feats of heroes , and the wrath of kings ; But still , while Virtue kindled his delight ...
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... themes are sped ; Hackneyed and worn to the last flimsy thread , Satire has long since done his best ; and curst And loathsome Ribaldry has done his worst ; Fancy has sported all her powers away In tales , in trifles , and in children's ...
... themes are sped ; Hackneyed and worn to the last flimsy thread , Satire has long since done his best ; and curst And loathsome Ribaldry has done his worst ; Fancy has sported all her powers away In tales , in trifles , and in children's ...
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... theme , so dark , so long , May find a muse to grace it with a song , ) By what unseen and unsuspected arts The serpent Error twines round human hearts ; Tell where she lurks , beneath what flowery shades , That not a glimpse of genuine ...
... theme , so dark , so long , May find a muse to grace it with a song , ) By what unseen and unsuspected arts The serpent Error twines round human hearts ; Tell where she lurks , beneath what flowery shades , That not a glimpse of genuine ...
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beauty beneath blank verse blessing boast Bodham cause charms COWPER dear cousin DEAR FRIEND death delight divine dream e'en earth eyes fair fancy favour fear feel flowers folly give glory grace hand happy hast hear heard heart Heaven Homer honour hope Huntingdon Iliad John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON JOSEPH HILL kind labour LADY HESKETH least less letter live Lord lyre mercy mind muse nature never numbers o'er occasion Olney once peace perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poor praise present prove received scene scorn Scripture seems shine sight skies smile song soon soul spirit suppose sure sweet taste tell thank thee theme thine thing thou thought Throckmorton tion truth Twas verse virtue Weston Weston Underwood WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY WILLIAM UNWIN wisdom wish wonder worth write