The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and Improvements : to which is Prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Volume 1Alexander Donaldson, 1774 |
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... winds the stealing wave ! The year's best sweets shall duteous rife To deck its poet's fylvan grave ! II . In yon deep bed of whifp'ring reeds His airy harp * fhall now be laid , That he , whofe heart in forrow bleeds , May love thro ...
... winds the stealing wave ! The year's best sweets shall duteous rife To deck its poet's fylvan grave ! II . In yon deep bed of whifp'ring reeds His airy harp * fhall now be laid , That he , whofe heart in forrow bleeds , May love thro ...
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... Winds the whole work , and fidelong lays the glebe . 35 40 WHITE thro ' the neighb'ring fields the fower stalks , With meafur'd step ; and lib'ral throws the grain 45 Into the faithful bofom of the ground ; The harrow follows harfh ...
... Winds the whole work , and fidelong lays the glebe . 35 40 WHITE thro ' the neighb'ring fields the fower stalks , With meafur'd step ; and lib'ral throws the grain 45 Into the faithful bofom of the ground ; The harrow follows harfh ...
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... winds Blow not.in vain . Far hence they keep reprefs'd Thofe deep'ning clouds on clouds , furcharg'd with rain , That o'er the vaft Atlantic hither borne , In endless train , would quench the fummer blaze , And , cheerlefs , drown the ...
... winds Blow not.in vain . Far hence they keep reprefs'd Thofe deep'ning clouds on clouds , furcharg'd with rain , That o'er the vaft Atlantic hither borne , In endless train , would quench the fummer blaze , And , cheerlefs , drown the ...
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... winds , Innum'rous mix'd them with the nurfing mold , The moist'ning current , and prolific rain . But who their virtues can declare ? who pierce , With vifion pure , into these secret ftores Of health , and life , and joy ? the food of ...
... winds , Innum'rous mix'd them with the nurfing mold , The moist'ning current , and prolific rain . But who their virtues can declare ? who pierce , With vifion pure , into these secret ftores Of health , and life , and joy ? the food of ...
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... Warbling the varied heart ; the woodlands round Apply'd their quire ; and winds and waters flow'd In confonance . Such were thofe prime of days . 270 BUT now those white unblemish'd manners , whence The fabling 12 SPRING .
... Warbling the varied heart ; the woodlands round Apply'd their quire ; and winds and waters flow'd In confonance . Such were thofe prime of days . 270 BUT now those white unblemish'd manners , whence The fabling 12 SPRING .
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amid beauty beneath beſt bloom bofom boundleſs breaſt breathes breeze clouds courfe croud deep defcends earth ether Ev'n ev'ry facred fafe fatire fave fcene feafon fecret feem fenfe fhade fhake fhall fhining fhoots fhore filent fing firſt fkies flame fleep flocks flood flow'rs fmile fnow focial foft folemn fome fong fons foreft foul fpirit friendſhip ftill ftorm fuch fudden funk fwain fwell gale gen'rous gloom grace grove heart heav'n hills himſelf inceffant JAMES THOMSON laft laſt lefs loft mingled mix'd mountains Mufe mufic Muſe Nature Nature's night o'er paffions pleaſure pow'r rage raiſe rife round ſcarce ſcene ſky ſpread Spring ſtate ſteep ſtill ſtores ſtorm ſtream taſte tempeft thee thefe theſe thofe Thomfon thoſe thou thouſand thro toil treaſures vale virtue wafte waſte wave whofe whoſe wild winds wing wintry woods
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Page 205 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Page 42 - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love ; Where friendship...
Page 8 - Sits on the horizon round a settled gloom : Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed, Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of nature.
Page 176 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 207 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Page 23 - Thee disposed into congenial soils, Stands each attractive plant, and sucks, and swells The juicy tide ; a twining mass of tubes. At Thy command the vernal sun awakes The torpid sap, detruded to the root By wintry winds, that now in fluent dance, And lively fermentation, mounting, spreads All this innumerous-coloured scene of things.
Page 122 - Beneath the shelter of encircling hills, A myrtle rises, far from human eye, And breathes its balmy fragrance o'er the wild...
Page 179 - Now, all amid the rigours of the year, In the wild depth of Winter, while without The ceaseless winds blow ice, be my retreat, Between the groaning forest and the shore, Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, shelter'd, solitary scene ; Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers join To cheer the gloom. /There studious let me sit...
Page 173 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 60 - O'ercharged, amid the kind oppression roll. Wide flies the tedded grain; all in a row Advancing broad, or wheeling round the field, They spread their breathing harvest to the sun, That throws refreshful round a rural smell...