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A. Fouchsafe , at least , to pitch the key of rhyme To themes more pertinent , if less sublime . ... Or tell me , if you can , what power maintains A Briton's seorn of arbitrary chains : That were a theme might animate the dead ...
A. Fouchsafe , at least , to pitch the key of rhyme To themes more pertinent , if less sublime . ... Or tell me , if you can , what power maintains A Briton's seorn of arbitrary chains : That were a theme might animate the dead ...
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Oh liberty ! the prisoner's pleasing dream , The poet's muse , his passion and his theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee , th ' ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its ...
Oh liberty ! the prisoner's pleasing dream , The poet's muse , his passion and his theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee , th ' ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its ...
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... and kindles with a zeal , 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 line .
... and kindles with a zeal , 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 line .
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The man , that means success , should soar above A soldier's feather , or a lady's glove ; Else , summoning the muse to such a theme , The fruit of all her labour is whipt - cream . As if an eagle flew aloft , and thenStooped from its ...
The man , that means success , should soar above A soldier's feather , or a lady's glove ; Else , summoning the muse to such a theme , The fruit of all her labour is whipt - cream . As if an eagle flew aloft , and thenStooped from its ...
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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 , and the wrath of kings : But still , while virtue kindled his delight , The song ...
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 , and the wrath of kings : But still , while virtue kindled his delight , The song ...
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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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