Poems, moral & entertaining, by a ladyW. Sheardown, 1808 - 153 pages |
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... rise ; How should I gaze , with rapture more refined , On the still dearer portrait of thy mind ; By virtue's touch , in innocence arrayed , And bright with colours that can never fade . There , strongly marked , may every grace appear ...
... rise ; How should I gaze , with rapture more refined , On the still dearer portrait of thy mind ; By virtue's touch , in innocence arrayed , And bright with colours that can never fade . There , strongly marked , may every grace appear ...
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... everlasting joy . Has thy sun but ' gan to rise ? Be thou early good , and wise , Ere temptation clouds thy way ; Danger lurks beneath delay . E But if thou hast to lament , Closing day , 33 On a Sun Dial over a Church Porch.
... everlasting joy . Has thy sun but ' gan to rise ? Be thou early good , and wise , Ere temptation clouds thy way ; Danger lurks beneath delay . E But if thou hast to lament , Closing day , 33 On a Sun Dial over a Church Porch.
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... rise in sad succession , still to claim The tender tribute of affection's sigh ! Sacred to ties dissolved , yet ever dear , That bound us once to those we now deplore ; While all that ever charmed or fixed the heart , Mingling its ...
... rise in sad succession , still to claim The tender tribute of affection's sigh ! Sacred to ties dissolved , yet ever dear , That bound us once to those we now deplore ; While all that ever charmed or fixed the heart , Mingling its ...
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... share , I'll bid it a grateful adieu . Though its blessings no longer are mine , Past kindnesses still should be dear ; Ah ! let others then bow at the shrine , And welcome the new rising year . 1 ON A BLANK IN THE LOTTERY . IN the wheel ...
... share , I'll bid it a grateful adieu . Though its blessings no longer are mine , Past kindnesses still should be dear ; Ah ! let others then bow at the shrine , And welcome the new rising year . 1 ON A BLANK IN THE LOTTERY . IN the wheel ...
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... affection condemned me to feel , What inscrutable anguish may rise , From a wish , though obtained , when it leaves us to weep O'er the blank we had fancied a prize . G THE ANT HILL . " Go to the Ant , 49 On a Blank in the Lottery.
... affection condemned me to feel , What inscrutable anguish may rise , From a wish , though obtained , when it leaves us to weep O'er the blank we had fancied a prize . G THE ANT HILL . " Go to the Ant , 49 On a Blank in the Lottery.
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