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... land is rife , Where peace and love are canker'd by the worm Of pride , each bud of joy industrious to deform . XV . The wight , whose tale these artless lines unfold , Was all the offspring of this humble pair : His birth no oracle or ...
... land is rife , Where peace and love are canker'd by the worm Of pride , each bud of joy industrious to deform . XV . The wight , whose tale these artless lines unfold , Was all the offspring of this humble pair : His birth no oracle or ...
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... land ; nor those alone ; All human weal and woe learn thou to make thine own . " XXX . See , in the rear of the warm sunny shower The visionary boy from shelter fly ; For now the storm of summer rain is o'er , And cool , and fresh , and ...
... land ; nor those alone ; All human weal and woe learn thou to make thine own . " XXX . See , in the rear of the warm sunny shower The visionary boy from shelter fly ; For now the storm of summer rain is o'er , And cool , and fresh , and ...
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... land , For many a long month lost in snow profound , When Sol from Cancer sends the season bland , And in their northern cave the storms are bound ; From silent mountains , straight , with startling sound , Torrents are hurl'd ; green ...
... land , For many a long month lost in snow profound , When Sol from Cancer sends the season bland , And in their northern cave the storms are bound ; From silent mountains , straight , with startling sound , Torrents are hurl'd ; green ...
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... land wafts merrily away ! L. " And even where Nature loads the teeming plain With the full pomp of vegetable store , Her bounty , unimproved , is deadly bane . Dark woods and rankling wilds , from shore to shore , Stretch their enormous ...
... land wafts merrily away ! L. " And even where Nature loads the teeming plain With the full pomp of vegetable store , Her bounty , unimproved , is deadly bane . Dark woods and rankling wilds , from shore to shore , Stretch their enormous ...
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... land , or when the rabble's headlong rage Order transforms to anarchy and spoil , Deep - versed in man the philosophic sage Prepares with lenient hand their frenzy to assuage . LV . " " Tis he alone , whose comprehensive mind , From ...
... land , or when the rabble's headlong rage Order transforms to anarchy and spoil , Deep - versed in man the philosophic sage Prepares with lenient hand their frenzy to assuage . LV . " " Tis he alone , whose comprehensive mind , From ...
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Page 169 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 180 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 251 - And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound. And curs of low degree.
Page 189 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow — Or by the lazy Scheldt or wandering Po, Or onward where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door, Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies A weary waste expanding to the skies — Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart, untravell'd, fondly turns to thee ; Still to my Brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Page 234 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn ; Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them. " But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring, A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. "Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong : Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Page 59 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of Winter I mourn ; Kind Nature the embryo blossom will save.
Page 204 - ... humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close. And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Page 208 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all : And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 189 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Page 230 - Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.