The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper,esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama; from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini, with a Memoir of the AuthorD. Appleton, 1854 |
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... Heaven's easy , artless , unencumber'd plan ! . No meretricious graces to beguile , No clustering ornaments to clog the pile ; From ostentation as from weakness free , It stands like the cerulean arch we see , Majestic in its own ...
... Heaven's easy , artless , unencumber'd plan ! . No meretricious graces to beguile , No clustering ornaments to clog the pile ; From ostentation as from weakness free , It stands like the cerulean arch we see , Majestic in its own ...
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... Heaven turns from with abhorence and disdain ; Not more affronted by avow'd neglect , Than by the mere dissembler's feign'd respect . What is all righteousness that men devise ? What - but a sordid bargain for the skies ? But Christ as ...
... Heaven turns from with abhorence and disdain ; Not more affronted by avow'd neglect , Than by the mere dissembler's feign'd respect . What is all righteousness that men devise ? What - but a sordid bargain for the skies ? But Christ as ...
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... Heaven has cloth'd thee with dis And , long provoked , repaid thee to thy face [ grace , ( For thou hast known eclipses , and endured Dimness and anguish , all thy beams obscured , When sin has shed dishonour on thy brow ; And never of ...
... Heaven has cloth'd thee with dis And , long provoked , repaid thee to thy face [ grace , ( For thou hast known eclipses , and endured Dimness and anguish , all thy beams obscured , When sin has shed dishonour on thy brow ; And never of ...
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... Heaven , The word of prophecy , those truths divine , Which make that heaven , if thou desire it , thine ( Awful alternative ! believed , beloved , -- Thy glory and thy shame if unimproved ) , Are never long vouchsafed , if push'd aside ...
... Heaven , The word of prophecy , those truths divine , Which make that heaven , if thou desire it , thine ( Awful alternative ! believed , beloved , -- Thy glory and thy shame if unimproved ) , Are never long vouchsafed , if push'd aside ...
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... Heaven will weigh man's virtues and his crimes With nice attention , in a righteous scale , And save or damn as these or those prevail . I plant my foot upon this ground of trust , And silence every fear with - God is just . But if ...
... Heaven will weigh man's virtues and his crimes With nice attention , in a righteous scale , And save or damn as these or those prevail . I plant my foot upon this ground of trust , And silence every fear with - God is just . But if ...
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ADAM angels art thou Avernus BEELZEBUB Behold beneath boast bosom breast breath bright brow call'd charms CHERUBIM creature dark dear death delight divine docet dost thou dread dream e'en earth eternal eyes fair falchions fear feel fire flame FLESH flowers form'd fruit give glory GOD THE FATHER gold grace groves hand hands united happy hast hear heart heaven heavenly hell honour hope human JOHN MILTON light live Lord LUCIFER lyre mighty mind muse nature never night nymphs o'er once pain peace pleasure praise prove sacred SATAN scene seem'd SERPENT shade shew shine sighs sight skies smile song soon sorrow soul sound spirit stars stream sweet taste tears thee theme thine thou art thou hast thought toil tongue truth Twas verse VINCENT BOURNE virtue voice VOLANO WILLIAM HAYLEY wings worth wretched youth