The Poetical Works: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the AuthorM. & W. Ward, 1811 - 72 pages |
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... sounds molest , Clings close and closer to the mother's breast , So the loud torrent , and the whirlwind's roar , But bind him to his native mountains more . Such are the charms to barren states assign'd ; Their wants but few , their ...
... sounds molest , Clings close and closer to the mother's breast , So the loud torrent , and the whirlwind's roar , But bind him to his native mountains more . Such are the charms to barren states assign'd ; Their wants but few , their ...
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... sound , my genius spreads her wing , And flies where Britain courts the western spring ; Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride , And brighter streams than fam'd Hydaspis glide , ' There all around the gentlest breezes stray ...
... sound , my genius spreads her wing , And flies where Britain courts the western spring ; Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride , And brighter streams than fam'd Hydaspis glide , ' There all around the gentlest breezes stray ...
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... sound ? Even now , perhaps , as there some pilgrim strays Thro ' tangled forests , and thro ' dangerous ways , Where beasts with man divided empire claim , And the brown Indian marks with murd'rous aim ; There , while above the giddy ...
... sound ? Even now , perhaps , as there some pilgrim strays Thro ' tangled forests , and thro ' dangerous ways , Where beasts with man divided empire claim , And the brown Indian marks with murd'rous aim ; There , while above the giddy ...
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... d decay , While resignation gently slopes the way ; And , all his prospects bright'ning to the last , His heaven commences ere the world be past . Sweet was the sound , when oft , at evening's THE DESERTED VILLAGE . 29.
... d decay , While resignation gently slopes the way ; And , all his prospects bright'ning to the last , His heaven commences ere the world be past . Sweet was the sound , when oft , at evening's THE DESERTED VILLAGE . 29.
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... sound , when oft , at evening's close , Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There , as I past with careless ... sounds of population fail , No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale , No busy steps the grass - grown foot - way tread ...
... sound , when oft , at evening's close , Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There , as I past with careless ... sounds of population fail , No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale , No busy steps the grass - grown foot - way tread ...
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