 But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair.  Poems - Page 266by William Cowper - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...land, In a moment I seem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the seafowl is gone to her nest, The beast is...here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There is mercy in every place ; And mercy, encouraging thought ! Gives even affliction a grace, And... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...When I think of my own native land, But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is...his lair, Even here is a season of rest, And I to rrty cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought! Gives even affliction... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 298 pages
...land In a moment I seem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is...mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought 1 Gives even affliction a grace And reconciles man to his lot. To MARY UNWIN MARY ! I want a lyre with... | |
 | Readers - 1912 - 332 pages
...seem to be there : But alas ! Recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his...mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought I Gives even affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS CHARLES DICKENS... | |
 | Kate Forrest Oswell, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1912 - 520 pages
...alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea fowl is gone to her nest, 50 The beast is laid down in his lair; Even here is a...in every place, And mercy — encouraging thought! — 55 Gives even affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. WILLIAM COWPER. QUESTIONS FOTC... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1912 - 502 pages
...alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, 25 The beast is laid down in his lair ; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There 's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought ! 30 Gives even affliction a grace And... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas - English poetry - 1913 - 104 pages
...In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. 40 But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lab-; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, 45 And... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. ύe :p 5o Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There 's mercy in every place, And mercy,... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Kvrn u and I alike — Yon, at the point of your first p There 's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought ! Gives even affliction a grace, And... | |
 | Henry Festing Jones - Authors, English - 1919 - 540 pages
...of Cowper (who was a true poet). He evidently found comfort in bed. He makes Alexander Selkirk say : But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair j Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place — I quoted... | |
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