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 Tomkinseditor, and J. Wallis, 1780 - 204 страници |
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... mourn the glories which it could not gain . He said , and as he faid , his foul on fire , With a difdainful air he struck the lyre ; Quick to the touch the tides of music flow , Swell into strength , or melt away in woe : Now raise the ...
... mourn the glories which it could not gain . He said , and as he faid , his foul on fire , With a difdainful air he struck the lyre ; Quick to the touch the tides of music flow , Swell into strength , or melt away in woe : Now raise the ...
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... arife , And a pure azure arches o'er the skies . But when the gloomy reign of Night returns , Stript of her fading pride , all Nature mourns : The trees no more their wonted verdure boast , But SELECT POEMS . 33 Contemplation on Night Gay.
... arife , And a pure azure arches o'er the skies . But when the gloomy reign of Night returns , Stript of her fading pride , all Nature mourns : The trees no more their wonted verdure boast , But SELECT POEMS . 33 Contemplation on Night Gay.
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... mourn like mine too late . Does fome angelic lonely - whisp'ring voice , Some facred impulse , or some dream divine , Approve the dictates of thy early choice ? ---- Approach with confidence the awful shrine . There , kneeling at yon ...
... mourn like mine too late . Does fome angelic lonely - whisp'ring voice , Some facred impulse , or some dream divine , Approve the dictates of thy early choice ? ---- Approach with confidence the awful shrine . There , kneeling at yon ...
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... in fluid air , And woods and wilds , and thorny ways appear : A tedious road the weary wretch returns , And as he goes , the tranfient vifion mourns . Copenhagen , March 9th , 1709 . 90 THE FIRE - SIDE . BY DR . COTTON H 3 SELECT POEMS .
... in fluid air , And woods and wilds , and thorny ways appear : A tedious road the weary wretch returns , And as he goes , the tranfient vifion mourns . Copenhagen , March 9th , 1709 . 90 THE FIRE - SIDE . BY DR . COTTON H 3 SELECT POEMS .
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... mourn his tranquil eve ! Your Garrick hail ! -- he breathes , -- he lives again , Lives in the thought , and breathes in every strain ! Triumphant fame enrols his acts on high , And tells the mourner --- Garrick cannot die ! THE FRIAR ...
... mourn his tranquil eve ! Your Garrick hail ! -- he breathes , -- he lives again , Lives in the thought , and breathes in every strain ! Triumphant fame enrols his acts on high , And tells the mourner --- Garrick cannot die ! THE FRIAR ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 178 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.