Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin and other poemsBaldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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... never men resort ; For in an age so frantic Impiety is sport ; For riot and confusion They barter things above , Condemning , as delusion , The joy of perfect love . In this sequester'd corner , None hears what I express 14 COWPER'S POEMS .
... never men resort ; For in an age so frantic Impiety is sport ; For riot and confusion They barter things above , Condemning , as delusion , The joy of perfect love . In this sequester'd corner , None hears what I express 14 COWPER'S POEMS .
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... never tasted love Who shuns a pang so graciously design'd . Sweet is the cross , above all sweets , To souls enamour'd with thy smiles ; The keenest woe life ever meets , Love strips of all its terrors , and beguiles . ' Tis just that ...
... never tasted love Who shuns a pang so graciously design'd . Sweet is the cross , above all sweets , To souls enamour'd with thy smiles ; The keenest woe life ever meets , Love strips of all its terrors , and beguiles . ' Tis just that ...
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... never failing course Bespeaks a providential force , Go , tell the tidings of my flame To him who calls the stars by name , Whose absence kills , whose presence cheers , Who blots 36 COWPER'S POEMS . The Secrets of Divine Love are to be ...
... never failing course Bespeaks a providential force , Go , tell the tidings of my flame To him who calls the stars by name , Whose absence kills , whose presence cheers , Who blots 36 COWPER'S POEMS . The Secrets of Divine Love are to be ...
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... never yet sunk plummet - line ; Trust me , the vast leviathan Is merciful , compared with man ; Avoid his arts , forsake the beach , And never play within his reach ! My soul her bondage ill endures ; I pant for liberty like yours ; I ...
... never yet sunk plummet - line ; Trust me , the vast leviathan Is merciful , compared with man ; Avoid his arts , forsake the beach , And never play within his reach ! My soul her bondage ill endures ; I pant for liberty like yours ; I ...
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... to Love and me ; Fresh entanglements occur , — Comes the night , and sets me free . Never more , sweet sleep , suspend My enjoyments , VICISSITUDES IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE . 45 Watching unto God in the Night Season Tom iii Cant 71.
... to Love and me ; Fresh entanglements occur , — Comes the night , and sets me free . Never more , sweet sleep , suspend My enjoyments , VICISSITUDES IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE . 45 Watching unto God in the Night Season Tom iii Cant 71.
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Page 259 - 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 173 - 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 98 - 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 earn'd.
Page 164 - 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 129 - Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 239 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God. The beauties of the wilderness are his, That make so gay the solitary place Where no eye sees them. And the fairer forms That cultivation glories in, are his. He sets the bright procession on its way, And marshals all the order of the year. He marks the bounds which winter may not pass, And blunts his pointed fury. In its case Russet and rude, folds up the tender germ Uninjured, with inimitable art, And ere...
Page 250 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 133 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the archers. In his side he bore, And in his hands and feet, the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth, and heal'd, and bade me live.
Page 135 - 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...