The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred PoetryC. Whittingham, 1806 - 304 страници |
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... looks adorn'd the venerable place : Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway , And fools , who came to scoff , remain'd to pray . The service past , around the pious man , With ready zeal , each honest rustic ran : Ev'n children ...
... looks adorn'd the venerable place : Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway , And fools , who came to scoff , remain'd to pray . The service past , around the pious man , With ready zeal , each honest rustic ran : Ev'n children ...
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... looks profound , And news much older than their ale went round . Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendors of that festive place ; The white - wash'd wall , the nicely - sanded floor , The varnish'd clock that click'd ...
... looks profound , And news much older than their ale went round . Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendors of that festive place ; The white - wash'd wall , the nicely - sanded floor , The varnish'd clock that click'd ...
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... looks the cottage might adorn , Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn : Now lost to all ; her friends , her virtue fled , Near her betrayer's door she lays her head , And , pinch'd with cold , and shrinking from the show'r ...
... looks the cottage might adorn , Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn : Now lost to all ; her friends , her virtue fled , Near her betrayer's door she lays her head , And , pinch'd with cold , and shrinking from the show'r ...
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... look'd their last , And took a long farewel , and wish'd in vain For seats like these beyond the western main , And shudd'ring still to face the distant deep , Return'd and wept , and still return'd to weep : The good old sire , that ...
... look'd their last , And took a long farewel , and wish'd in vain For seats like these beyond the western main , And shudd'ring still to face the distant deep , Return'd and wept , and still return'd to weep : The good old sire , that ...
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... looks more gay , For them more lively hues the fields adorn ; To them more fair the fairest smile of day , To them more sweet the sweetest breath of morn . They feel the bliss that hope and faith supply ; They pass serene th ' appointed ...
... looks more gay , For them more lively hues the fields adorn ; To them more fair the fairest smile of day , To them more sweet the sweetest breath of morn . They feel the bliss that hope and faith supply ; They pass serene th ' appointed ...
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Страница 19 - On earth, join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end ! Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Страница 94 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Страница 78 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Страница 90 - But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But. all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Страница 92 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Страница 95 - Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth, His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green...
Страница 89 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Страница 147 - The next with dirges due in sad array Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Страница 26 - His hand to execute what his decree Fix'd on this day? Why do I overlive? Why am I mock'd with death, and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap ? There I should rest, And sleep secure...
Страница 145 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...