Poems, Том 2E. Lincoln, 1802 |
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... blast , And all their leaves fast flutt'ring , all at once . Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods , or on the softer voice Of neighb'ring fountain , or of rills that slip Through BOOK I. 15 THE SOFA .
... blast , And all their leaves fast flutt'ring , all at once . Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods , or on the softer voice Of neighb'ring fountain , or of rills that slip Through BOOK I. 15 THE SOFA .
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... voice of all its elements To preach the gen'ral doom . * When were the winds Let slip with such a warrant to destroy ? When did the waves so haughtily o'erleap Their ancient barriers , deluging the dry ? Fires from beneath , and ...
... voice of all its elements To preach the gen'ral doom . * When were the winds Let slip with such a warrant to destroy ? When did the waves so haughtily o'erleap Their ancient barriers , deluging the dry ? Fires from beneath , and ...
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... voice of singing and the sprightly chord Are silent . Revelry , and dance , and show Suffer a syncope and solemn pause ; While God performs upon the trembling stage Of his own works his dreadful part alone . How does the earth receive ...
... voice of singing and the sprightly chord Are silent . Revelry , and dance , and show Suffer a syncope and solemn pause ; While God performs upon the trembling stage Of his own works his dreadful part alone . How does the earth receive ...
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... voice Which winds and waves obey , invades the shore Resistless . Never such a sudden flood , Upridg'd so high , and sent on such a charge , Possess'd an inland scene . Where now the throng That press'd the beach , and , hasty to depart ...
... voice Which winds and waves obey , invades the shore Resistless . Never such a sudden flood , Upridg'd so high , and sent on such a charge , Possess'd an inland scene . Where now the throng That press'd the beach , and , hasty to depart ...
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... voice ! -fast wedg'd between Two empirics he stands , and with swollen cheeks Inspires the news , his trumpet . Keener far Than all invective is his bold harangue , While through that public organ of report He hails the clergy ; and ...
... voice ! -fast wedg'd between Two empirics he stands , and with swollen cheeks Inspires the news , his trumpet . Keener far Than all invective is his bold harangue , While through that public organ of report He hails the clergy ; and ...
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beauty beneath betimes blood boast breath call'd cause charms creature dear death delight divine dread dream earth ease ev'n ev'ry fair faith fancy fear feed feel flow'r folly form'd fountain of eternal frown fruit give glory grace grave hand happy hate hear heart heav'n heav'nly honour hopes and fears human Israel JEHOVAH JESUS king labour learn'd less liberty light live LORD lyre mercy Mighty winds mind nature nature's Nebaioth never o'er once peace perhaps pity pleas'd pleasure plebeian poor pow'r praise pray'r proud rapture rest rise sacred Saviour scene seek seem'd shine sight skies slaves sleep sloth smile song soon soul sound spirit storm stream sweet task taste taught thee theme thine thou art thought toil trembling truth Twas virtue voice WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wise worth youth
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Страница 37 - 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.
Страница 34 - Deep in unfathomable mines Of never- failing skill, He treasures up His bright designs And works His sovereign will. 3 Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take ; The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Страница 61 - Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest; I hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast.
Страница 100 - Cataracts of declamation thunder here ; There forests of no meaning spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald...
Страница 178 - And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. 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.
Страница 151 - And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.
Страница 32 - The hand that gave it, still supplies The gracious light and heat ; His truths upon the nations rise, They rise, but never set. 4 Let everlasting thanks be thine, For such a bright display, As makes a world of darkness shine With beams of heavenly day.
Страница 98 - And having dropped the expected bag — pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent- whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him,...
Страница 50 - I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
Страница 153 - Acquaint thyself with God, if thou wouldst taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou wast blind before : Thine eye shall be instructed ; and thine heart Made pure shall relish, with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.