Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And with a View to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English Poetry. By Thomas Tomkins |
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... fleep ; " A fhade that follows wealth or fame , " But leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is ftill an emptier found , " The modern fair one's jeft , " On earth unfeen , or only found " To warm the turtle's neft . " For fhame , fond ...
... fleep ; " A fhade that follows wealth or fame , " But leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is ftill an emptier found , " The modern fair one's jeft , " On earth unfeen , or only found " To warm the turtle's neft . " For fhame , fond ...
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... fleep the night rolls swift away , And neither clime laments his abfent ray . When the pure foul is from the body flown , No more fhall Night's alternate reign be known ; The fun no more shall rolling light bestow , But from th ...
... fleep the night rolls swift away , And neither clime laments his abfent ray . When the pure foul is from the body flown , No more fhall Night's alternate reign be known ; The fun no more shall rolling light bestow , But from th ...
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... fleep , Her image still foftens my dream . Together we range o'er the flow - rifing hills , Delighted with pastoral views , Or reft on the rock whence the streamlet diftills , And mark out new themes for my mufe . To pomp or proud ...
... fleep , Her image still foftens my dream . Together we range o'er the flow - rifing hills , Delighted with pastoral views , Or reft on the rock whence the streamlet diftills , And mark out new themes for my mufe . To pomp or proud ...
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... fleep ; My grottos are shaded with trees , And my hills are white - over with sheep . I feldom have met with a lofs , Such health do my fountains bestow ; My fountains all border'd with mofs , Where the hare - bells and violets grow ...
... fleep ; My grottos are shaded with trees , And my hills are white - over with sheep . I feldom have met with a lofs , Such health do my fountains bestow ; My fountains all border'd with mofs , Where the hare - bells and violets grow ...
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... fleep no more ! The day is broke , which never more shall close ! Above , around , beneath , amazement all ! Terror and glory join'd in their extremes ! Our God in grandeur , and our world on fire ! All nature ftruggling in the pangs of ...
... fleep no more ! The day is broke , which never more shall close ! Above , around , beneath , amazement all ! Terror and glory join'd in their extremes ! Our God in grandeur , and our world on fire ! All nature ftruggling in the pangs of ...
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Page 150 - Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 81 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 186 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 178 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 183 - Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 193 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 99 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Page 82 - Or aught Thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 149 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 185 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On.