The Task And Other Poems1891 |
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... fields , and female feet , Too weak to struggle with tenacious clay , Or ford the rivulets , are best at home , The task of new discoveries falls on me . At such a season and with such a charge Once went I forth , and found , till then ...
... fields , and female feet , Too weak to struggle with tenacious clay , Or ford the rivulets , are best at home , The task of new discoveries falls on me . At such a season and with such a charge Once went I forth , and found , till then ...
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William Cowper. At first , progressive as a stream , they seek The middle field ; but scattered by degrees , Each to his choice , soon whiten all the land . There , from the sunburnt hay - field homeward creeps The loaded wain ; while ...
William Cowper. At first , progressive as a stream , they seek The middle field ; but scattered by degrees , Each to his choice , soon whiten all the land . There , from the sunburnt hay - field homeward creeps The loaded wain ; while ...
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... are favoured least . The love of Nature and the scene she draws Is Nature's dictate . Strange , there should be found Who , self - imprisoned in their proud saloons , Renounce the odours of the open field For the unscented 22 THE TASK .
... are favoured least . The love of Nature and the scene she draws Is Nature's dictate . Strange , there should be found Who , self - imprisoned in their proud saloons , Renounce the odours of the open field For the unscented 22 THE TASK .
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William Cowper. Renounce the odours of the open field For the unscented fictions of the loom ; Who , satisfied with only pencilled scenes , Prefer to the performance of a God The inferior wonders of an artist's hand . Lovely indeed the ...
William Cowper. Renounce the odours of the open field For the unscented fictions of the loom ; Who , satisfied with only pencilled scenes , Prefer to the performance of a God The inferior wonders of an artist's hand . Lovely indeed the ...
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... fields appear below , such as he left Far distant , such as he would die to find- He seeks them headlong , and is seen no more . The spleen is seldom felt where Florą reigns ; The lowering eye , the petulance , the frown , And sullen ...
... fields appear below , such as he left Far distant , such as he would die to find- He seeks them headlong , and is seen no more . The spleen is seldom felt where Florą reigns ; The lowering eye , the petulance , the frown , And sullen ...
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