The Complete Poetical Works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver Goldsmith: With Biographical Sketches and Notes |
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... blest whom Fortune's hand sustains With wealth in courts , nor all that haunt the plains : Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell ; ' Tis virtue makes the bliss , where'er we dwell . " Thus Selim sung , by sacred Truth inspired ...
... blest whom Fortune's hand sustains With wealth in courts , nor all that haunt the plains : Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell ; ' Tis virtue makes the bliss , where'er we dwell . " Thus Selim sung , by sacred Truth inspired ...
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... to find , The loved perfections of a female mind ! " Blest were the days when Wisdom held her reign , And shepherds sought her on the silent plain ! With Truth she wedded in the secret grove , Immortal 30 COLLINS ' POEMS .
... to find , The loved perfections of a female mind ! " Blest were the days when Wisdom held her reign , And shepherds sought her on the silent plain ! With Truth she wedded in the secret grove , Immortal 30 COLLINS ' POEMS .
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... blest , or verdant vales , bestow : Here rocks alone , and tasteless sands , are found , And faint and sickly winds forever howl around . Sad was the hour , and luckless was the day , When first from Schiraz ' walls I bent my way ...
... blest , or verdant vales , bestow : Here rocks alone , and tasteless sands , are found , And faint and sickly winds forever howl around . Sad was the hour , and luckless was the day , When first from Schiraz ' walls I bent my way ...
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... Blest was the life that royal Abbas led : Sweet was his love , and innocent his bed . What if in wealth the noble maid excel ? The simple shepherd girl can love as well . Let those who rule on Persia's jewelled throne Be famed for love ...
... Blest was the life that royal Abbas led : Sweet was his love , and innocent his bed . What if in wealth the noble maid excel ? The simple shepherd girl can love as well . Let those who rule on Persia's jewelled throne Be famed for love ...
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... blest , for every maid was kind ; At that still hour , when awful midnight reigns , And none , but wretches , haunt the twilight plains ; What time the moon had hung her lamp on high , And past in radiance through the cloudless sky ...
... blest , for every maid was kind ; At that still hour , when awful midnight reigns , And none , but wretches , haunt the twilight plains ; What time the moon had hung her lamp on high , And past in radiance through the cloudless sky ...
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Page 68 - Echo still through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose A soft responsive voice was heard at every close ; And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair...
Page 62 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own.
Page 59 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre ; But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
Page 44 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 43 - 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 30 - The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Page 46 - Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where gray-beard mirth, and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talked with looks profound And news much older than their ale went round.
Page 61 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 70 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round: Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound ; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odors from his dewy wings.
Page 24 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.