The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations, Volume 5H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... painful and un- avoidable anxieties , inspire it with stable peace and solid hope , and furnish those motives and prospects , which in the present state of things , are absolutely necessary to produce a conduct worthy of a rational ...
... painful and un- avoidable anxieties , inspire it with stable peace and solid hope , and furnish those motives and prospects , which in the present state of things , are absolutely necessary to produce a conduct worthy of a rational ...
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... painful approaches of that event which dissolves every social con- nexion . One day , amusing myself with the poetical works of the celebrated Madame Guion , I was struck with the peculiar beauty of some of her poems , as well as ...
... painful approaches of that event which dissolves every social con- nexion . One day , amusing myself with the poetical works of the celebrated Madame Guion , I was struck with the peculiar beauty of some of her poems , as well as ...
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... pains of emptiness , Nor noontide feast , nor evening's cool repast , Hopes she from this , presumptuous - though perhaps The cobbler , leather - carving artist , might . Nathless she thanks thee , and accepts thy boon , Whatever ; not ...
... pains of emptiness , Nor noontide feast , nor evening's cool repast , Hopes she from this , presumptuous - though perhaps The cobbler , leather - carving artist , might . Nathless she thanks thee , and accepts thy boon , Whatever ; not ...
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... pain . Fondly we think all danger fled , For Death is ever nigh ; Outstrips our unavailing speed , Or meets us as we fly . Thus the wreck'd mariner may strive Some desert shore to gain , Secure of life , if he survive The fury of the ...
... pain . Fondly we think all danger fled , For Death is ever nigh ; Outstrips our unavailing speed , Or meets us as we fly . Thus the wreck'd mariner may strive Some desert shore to gain , Secure of life , if he survive The fury of the ...
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... pains . The sense was dark , ' twas therefore fit With simile to illustrate it ; But as too much obscures the sight , As often as too little light , We have our similes cut short , For matters of more grave import . That Matthew's ...
... pains . The sense was dark , ' twas therefore fit With simile to illustrate it ; But as too much obscures the sight , As often as too little light , We have our similes cut short , For matters of more grave import . That Matthew's ...
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Page 241 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 60 - The hand that gave it still supplies The gracious light and heat ; His truths upon the nations rise, — They rise, but never set.
Page 264 - Other Romans shall arise, Heedless of a soldier's name, Sounds, not arms, shall win the prize, Harmony the path to fame. Then the progeny that springs From the forests of our land, Armed with thunder, clad with wings, Shall a wider world command. Regions Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they.
Page 251 - Had cheer'd the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangu'd him thus, right eloquent— Did you admire my lamp...
Page 136 - Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true A. truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew ; And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes Her title to a treasure in the skies.
Page 40 - Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
Page 256 - Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather ; Look up, — your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds ; — that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.
Page 58 - Where'er they seek Thee, Thou art found, And every place is hallowed ground. 2 For Thou, within no walls confined, Inhabitest the humble mind ; Such ever bring Thee where they come, And going, take Thee to their home.
Page 241 - Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Page 38 - OH ! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, — A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb ! 2 Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord ? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word ? 3...