The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the AuthorBaldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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... boast of liberty in vain , Of Love , and feel it not . He whose bosom glows with Thee , He , and he alone , is free . Oh blessedness , all bliss above , When thy pure fires prevail ! Love only teaches what is Love ; All other lessons ...
... boast of liberty in vain , Of Love , and feel it not . He whose bosom glows with Thee , He , and he alone , is free . Oh blessedness , all bliss above , When thy pure fires prevail ! Love only teaches what is Love ; All other lessons ...
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... boasting of a soul sincere . Love causes grief , but ' tis to move And stimulate the slumbering mind ; And he has never tasted love Who shuns a pang so graciously design'd . Sweet is the cross , above all sweets , To souls enamour'd ...
... boasting of a soul sincere . Love causes grief , but ' tis to move And stimulate the slumbering mind ; And he has never tasted love Who shuns a pang so graciously design'd . Sweet is the cross , above all sweets , To souls enamour'd ...
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... boasts , the pain it shares , Surrender , without guile or art , To God , an undivided heart ; The savage form , so fear'd before , Shall scare your trembling soul no more ; For loathsome as the sight may be , ' Tis but the Love of self ...
... boasts , the pain it shares , Surrender , without guile or art , To God , an undivided heart ; The savage form , so fear'd before , Shall scare your trembling soul no more ; For loathsome as the sight may be , ' Tis but the Love of self ...
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... boasted powers . O Thou ! whose sacred charms These hearts so seldom love , Although thy beauty warms And blesses all above ; How slow are human things To choose their happiest lot ! All - glorious King of kings , Say why we love thee ...
... boasted powers . O Thou ! whose sacred charms These hearts so seldom love , Although thy beauty warms And blesses all above ; How slow are human things To choose their happiest lot ! All - glorious King of kings , Say why we love thee ...
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... boast of mere pretenders to the name . The innocent are gay ; —the lark is gay That dries his feathers saturate with dew Beneath the rosy cloud , while yet the beams Of day - spring overshoot his humble nest . The peasant too , a ...
... boast of mere pretenders to the name . The innocent are gay ; —the lark is gay That dries his feathers saturate with dew Beneath the rosy cloud , while yet the beams Of day - spring overshoot his humble nest . The peasant too , a ...
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Page 88 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Page 302 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit " But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case." Said John, — " It is my wedding-day, And all the world would stare, If wife should dine at Edmonton, And I should dine at Ware.
Page 249 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Page 229 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 163 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Page 303 - ... off with all his might, as he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away went Gilpin's hat and wig : He lost them sooner than at first; — for why? — they were too big. Now Mistress Gilpin, when she saw her husband posting down Into the country far away, she...
Page 154 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 70 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 125 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Page 87 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.