Poems, Volume 2S.A. Oddy, 1814 - English poetry |
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Page 127
... fruits of earth , regales the sense With luxury of unexpected sweets . There often wanders one , whom better days Saw better clad , in cloak of satin trimmed With lace , and hat with splendid ribband bound . A serving maid was she , and ...
... fruits of earth , regales the sense With luxury of unexpected sweets . There often wanders one , whom better days Saw better clad , in cloak of satin trimmed With lace , and hat with splendid ribband bound . A serving maid was she , and ...
Page 131
... fruits by radiant truth matured . War and the chase engross the savage War followed for revenge , or to supplant The envied tenants of some happier spot : The chase for sustenance , precarious trust ! His hard condition with severe ...
... fruits by radiant truth matured . War and the chase engross the savage War followed for revenge , or to supplant The envied tenants of some happier spot : The chase for sustenance , precarious trust ! His hard condition with severe ...
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William Cowper. Licentiousness of great Cities . By other hopes and richer fruits than yours . But though true worth and virtue , in the mild And genial soil of cultivated life Thrive most , and may perhaps thrive only there , Yet not in ...
William Cowper. Licentiousness of great Cities . By other hopes and richer fruits than yours . But though true worth and virtue , in the mild And genial soil of cultivated life Thrive most , and may perhaps thrive only there , Yet not in ...
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... fruits abroad , Her sweetest flowers , her aromatic gums , Disclosing paradise where'er he treads ? She quakes at his approach . Her hollow womb , Conceiving thunders , through a thousand deeps And fiery caverns , roars beneath his foot ...
... fruits abroad , Her sweetest flowers , her aromatic gums , Disclosing paradise where'er he treads ? She quakes at his approach . Her hollow womb , Conceiving thunders , through a thousand deeps And fiery caverns , roars beneath his foot ...
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... fruit in other days On all her branches : piety has found Friends in the friends of science , and true pray'r Has flow'd from lips wet with Castalian dews . Such was thy wisdom , Newton , childlike sage ! Sagacious reader of the works ...
... fruit in other days On all her branches : piety has found Friends in the friends of science , and true pray'r Has flow'd from lips wet with Castalian dews . Such was thy wisdom , Newton , childlike sage ! Sagacious reader of the works ...
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