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... Ungenial blasts attending curl the streams ; The peasants urge their harvest , ply the fork With double toil , and shiver at their work : Thus with a rigour , for his good designed , She rears her favourite man of all mankind .
... Ungenial blasts attending curl the streams ; The peasants urge their harvest , ply the fork With double toil , and shiver at their work : Thus with a rigour , for his good designed , She rears her favourite man of all mankind .
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The stream , that feeds the well - spring of the heart , Not more invigorates life's noblest part , Than virtue quickens with a warmth divine The powers , that sin has brought to a decline . A. The inestimable estimate of Brown Rose ...
The stream , that feeds the well - spring of the heart , Not more invigorates life's noblest part , Than virtue quickens with a warmth divine The powers , that sin has brought to a decline . A. The inestimable estimate of Brown Rose ...
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Give me the line , that ploughs its stately course Like a proud swan conquering the stream by force ; That , like some cottage beauty , strikes the heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art . When labour and when dulness , club in ...
Give me the line , that ploughs its stately course Like a proud swan conquering the stream by force ; That , like some cottage beauty , strikes the heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art . When labour and when dulness , club in ...
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... Was natural as is the flowing stream , And yet magnificent - A god the theme ! That theme on earth exhausted , though above ' Tis found as everlasting as his love , Man lavished all his thoughts on human thingsThe feats of heroes ...
... Was natural as is the flowing stream , And yet magnificent - A god the theme ! That theme on earth exhausted , though above ' Tis found as everlasting as his love , Man lavished all his thoughts on human thingsThe feats of heroes ...
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... in th ' abuse or by th ' excess . Is man then only for his torment placed The centre of delights he may not taste ? Like fabled Tantalus , condemned to hear The precious stream still purling in his ear , Lip - deep in what he ...
... in th ' abuse or by th ' excess . Is man then only for his torment placed The centre of delights he may not taste ? Like fabled Tantalus , condemned to hear The precious stream still purling in his ear , Lip - deep in what he ...
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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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