Poems, moral & entertaining, by a ladyW. Sheardown, 1808 - 153 pages |
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Poems. ADDRESS TO THE READERS . From the rich harvest that fair science yields , To those who cultivate her ample fields , Poetic reapers cull the mind's repast , By wit and genius seasoned to each taste : If , gleaner - like , my muse ...
Poems. ADDRESS TO THE READERS . From the rich harvest that fair science yields , To those who cultivate her ample fields , Poetic reapers cull the mind's repast , By wit and genius seasoned to each taste : If , gleaner - like , my muse ...
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... Mutual transport ever gave . Yield then to the fond emotion , Bid love spread his silken sail ; Gently waft us o'er life's ocean , Fanned by pleasure's constant gale . THE FLY'S REMONSTRANCE . CAN Sylvia barbarously try , ' 24.
... Mutual transport ever gave . Yield then to the fond emotion , Bid love spread his silken sail ; Gently waft us o'er life's ocean , Fanned by pleasure's constant gale . THE FLY'S REMONSTRANCE . CAN Sylvia barbarously try , ' 24.
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... yields to no entreaty , prayer , or plea ; Nor can we murmur if it then denies , The lavished blessing we had failed to prize . Mark the fleet era of life's longest date , And the frail tenure of its happiest state ; Not swifter does ...
... yields to no entreaty , prayer , or plea ; Nor can we murmur if it then denies , The lavished blessing we had failed to prize . Mark the fleet era of life's longest date , And the frail tenure of its happiest state ; Not swifter does ...
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... Yield not thy youthful heart a tempter's prey , Those cannot love thee who would lead astray ; Whose specious arts they falsely friendship call , Will first delude , then triumph in thy fall . Not thus my tenderness I sought to show ...
... Yield not thy youthful heart a tempter's prey , Those cannot love thee who would lead astray ; Whose specious arts they falsely friendship call , Will first delude , then triumph in thy fall . Not thus my tenderness I sought to show ...
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... yield , in his stead , to the laws . For this , to the army she sped , Disguised in a soldier's array , But all hopes of mercy were fled , And the morrow was marked as the day . Each bosom to pity was moved , As they sighing repeated ...
... yield , in his stead , to the laws . For this , to the army she sped , Disguised in a soldier's array , But all hopes of mercy were fled , And the morrow was marked as the day . Each bosom to pity was moved , As they sighing repeated ...
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Page 109 - And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?