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Ye , who with warmth the public triumph feel of talents , dignified by sacred zeal , Here to devotion's bard devoutly just , Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper's dust ! England , exulting in his spotless fame , Ranks with her dearest ...
Ye , who with warmth the public triumph feel of talents , dignified by sacred zeal , Here to devotion's bard devoutly just , Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper's dust ! England , exulting in his spotless fame , Ranks with her dearest ...
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Think yourself stationed on a towering rock , To see a people scattered like a flock , Some royal mastiff panting at their heels , With all the savage thirst a tiger feels ; Then view him self - proclaimed in a gazette , Chief monster ...
Think yourself stationed on a towering rock , To see a people scattered like a flock , Some royal mastiff panting at their heels , With all the savage thirst a tiger feels ; Then view him self - proclaimed in a gazette , Chief monster ...
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To be suspected , thwarted , and withstood , Even when he labours for his country's good ; To see a band , called patriot for no cause , But that they catch at popular applause , Careless of all the anxiety he feels , Hook ...
To be suspected , thwarted , and withstood , Even when he labours for his country's good ; To see a band , called patriot for no cause , But that they catch at popular applause , Careless of all the anxiety he feels , Hook ...
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He drinks his simple beverage with a gust ; And , feasting on an onion and a crust , We never feel the alacrity and joy With which he shouts and carols VIVE LE Roy , Filled with as much true merriment and glee , As if he heard his king ...
He drinks his simple beverage with a gust ; And , feasting on an onion and a crust , We never feel the alacrity and joy With which he shouts and carols VIVE LE Roy , Filled with as much true merriment and glee , As if he heard his king ...
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B. I know the mind , that feels indeed the ... Whatever the theme , that others never feel ; If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame , She pours a sensibility divine Along the nerve of every feeling ...
B. I know the mind , that feels indeed the ... Whatever the theme , that others never feel ; If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame , She pours a sensibility divine Along the nerve of every feeling ...
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| Title | Poems, Volume 1 Poems, William Cowper Poems. by William Cowper. With the life of the author by T. Greatheed, William Cowper |
| Author | William Cowper |
| Publisher | W. Wilson, 1821 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 25 Sep 2006 |
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