The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the AuthorBaldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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... rest , performs no good , And nought remains of all my former power . My peace of heart is fled , I know not where ; My happy hours , like shadows , pass'd away ; Their sweet remembrance doubles all my care , Night darker seems ...
... rest , performs no good , And nought remains of all my former power . My peace of heart is fled , I know not where ; My happy hours , like shadows , pass'd away ; Their sweet remembrance doubles all my care , Night darker seems ...
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... we love thee not ? This heart , that cannot rest , Shall thine for ever prove ; Though bleeding and distress'd , Yet joyful in thy love : ' Tis happy , though it breaks Beneath thy chastening THE JOY OF THE CROSS . 53.
... we love thee not ? This heart , that cannot rest , Shall thine for ever prove ; Though bleeding and distress'd , Yet joyful in thy love : ' Tis happy , though it breaks Beneath thy chastening THE JOY OF THE CROSS . 53.
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... rest , whom fate had placed In modest mediocrity , content With base materials , sat on well - tann'd hides Obdurate and unyielding , glassy smooth , With here and there a tuft of crimson yarn , Or scarlet crewel in the cushion fixt : 5 ...
... rest , whom fate had placed In modest mediocrity , content With base materials , sat on well - tann'd hides Obdurate and unyielding , glassy smooth , With here and there a tuft of crimson yarn , Or scarlet crewel in the cushion fixt : 5 ...
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... 17 Run , To ease and silence every Muse's son . Pope . Hor . ii . 2 . Lord Bacon . Silence is the rest of the soul , and refreshes invention . 220 225 230 235 240 He dips his bowl into the weedy ditch , And 72 COWPER'S POEMS .
... 17 Run , To ease and silence every Muse's son . Pope . Hor . ii . 2 . Lord Bacon . Silence is the rest of the soul , and refreshes invention . 220 225 230 235 240 He dips his bowl into the weedy ditch , And 72 COWPER'S POEMS .
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... rest To which he forfeits even the rest he loves 28 . Not such the alert and active . Measure life By its true worth , the comforts it affords , And theirs alone seems worthy of the name . Good health , and its associate in the most ...
... rest To which he forfeits even the rest he loves 28 . Not such the alert and active . Measure life By its true worth , the comforts it affords , And theirs alone seems worthy of the name . Good health , and its associate in the most ...
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Page 88 - 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 earned.
Page 302 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit " But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case." Said John, — " It is my wedding-day, And all the world would stare, If wife should dine at Edmonton, And I should dine at Ware.
Page 249 - 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 229 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 163 - 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 303 - ... off with all his might, as he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away went Gilpin's hat and wig : He lost them sooner than at first; — for why? — they were too big. Now Mistress Gilpin, when she saw her husband posting down Into the country far away, she...
Page 154 - 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 70 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 125 - 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...
Page 87 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.