Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English PoetryB. Crosby and Company, 1804 - 256 pages |
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... sweet bride , and come with me . ” " With you ! and quit my Susan's side ! With you ! " the hapless husband cry'd : " Young as I am ! ' tis monstrous hard ! Besides , in truth , I'm not prepar'd : My thoughts on other matters go , This ...
... sweet bride , and come with me . ” " With you ! and quit my Susan's side ! With you ! " the hapless husband cry'd : " Young as I am ! ' tis monstrous hard ! Besides , in truth , I'm not prepar'd : My thoughts on other matters go , This ...
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... sweet Humanity ! 2 . Come , ever welcome , to my breast ! A tender , but a cheerful , guest ; Nor always in the gloomy cell Of life - consuming sorrow dwell ; For sorrow , long indulg'd and slow , Is to Humanity a foe ; And grief , that ...
... sweet Humanity ! 2 . Come , ever welcome , to my breast ! A tender , but a cheerful , guest ; Nor always in the gloomy cell Of life - consuming sorrow dwell ; For sorrow , long indulg'd and slow , Is to Humanity a foe ; And grief , that ...
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... sweet Humanity ! 10 . Parent of Virtue , if thine ear Attend not now to sorrow's cry ; If now the pity - streaming tear Should haply on thy cheek be dry ; Indulge my votive strain , O sweet Humanity ! THE NIGHTINGALE . BY POPE . As ...
... sweet Humanity ! 10 . Parent of Virtue , if thine ear Attend not now to sorrow's cry ; If now the pity - streaming tear Should haply on thy cheek be dry ; Indulge my votive strain , O sweet Humanity ! THE NIGHTINGALE . BY POPE . As ...
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... Sweet Philomel , the chorister of love , The musical enchantress of the grove , With wonder heard the shepherd as he play'd , And stole , attentive , to the tuneful shade . Perch'd o'er his head the silver syren sate , With envy burning ...
... Sweet Philomel , the chorister of love , The musical enchantress of the grove , With wonder heard the shepherd as he play'd , And stole , attentive , to the tuneful shade . Perch'd o'er his head the silver syren sate , With envy burning ...
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... sweet he sings , but sweetly sings in vain , For Philomela breathes a softer strain ; With easier art she modulates each note , More natʼral music melting in her throat , Much he admir'd the magic of her tongue , But more to find his ...
... sweet he sings , but sweetly sings in vain , For Philomela breathes a softer strain ; With easier art she modulates each note , More natʼral music melting in her throat , Much he admir'd the magic of her tongue , But more to find his ...
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beauteous beauty behold BLAGDON bless blest bliss bloom blush bosom breast breath CEPHISUS charms cheer Crazy Jane cries dear death delight divine dwell E'en earth ev'ry FABLE fair fairie fancy fate fear flow flower fond gales gentle glory glow grace grove Hackthorn hand happy hear heart Heaven holy honour hour Hymen Langhorne life's light Lincolnshire live lyre maid MATILDA BETHAM meads mind morn mourn Muse Musidora Nature's night night raven nymph o'er pain passion peace Philomela pity plain pleas'd pleasure pow'r praise pride rest rise RIVER TWEED ROBERT FARREN rose round scenes shade shepherd shine sigh sight sings skies smiling soft song sorrow soul sound spring Strymon sublunary sphere swain sweet tale tear tender thee thine thou thought train trembling Twas vale virgin vision virtue voice wings youth
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Page 170 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 173 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 168 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 56 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave...
Page 169 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all...
Page 79 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 116 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 24 - From seeming Evil still educing Good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 109 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled Dawn doth rise...
Page 134 - With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise : Join voices, all ye living souls ; ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise...