Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, YoungAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... sighs , To feel my flesh decay , Then groan'd aloud with frighted eyes , To view the tottering clay . But I forbid my sorrows now , Nor dares the flesh complain ; Diseases bring their profit too ; The joy o'ercoines the pain . My ...
... sighs , To feel my flesh decay , Then groan'd aloud with frighted eyes , To view the tottering clay . But I forbid my sorrows now , Nor dares the flesh complain ; Diseases bring their profit too ; The joy o'ercoines the pain . My ...
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... sighs and groans , and raging pain , And Death , that never spares . What will ye do when light departs , And leaves your withering eyes Without one beam , to cheer your hearts , From the superior skies ? How will you meet God's ...
... sighs and groans , and raging pain , And Death , that never spares . What will ye do when light departs , And leaves your withering eyes Without one beam , to cheer your hearts , From the superior skies ? How will you meet God's ...
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... sigh , without a groan , And stretch and soar away . SINCERE PRAISE . ALMIGHTY Maker , God ! How wondrous is thy name ! Thy glories how diffus'd abroad Through the creation's frame ! Nature in every dress Her humble homage pays , And ...
... sigh , without a groan , And stretch and soar away . SINCERE PRAISE . ALMIGHTY Maker , God ! How wondrous is thy name ! Thy glories how diffus'd abroad Through the creation's frame ! Nature in every dress Her humble homage pays , And ...
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... sigh , and wait the high command . There glides the Moon her shining way , And shoots my heart through with a silver ray , Upward my heart aspires : A thousand lamps of golden light Hung high , in vaulted azure , charm my sight , And ...
... sigh , and wait the high command . There glides the Moon her shining way , And shoots my heart through with a silver ray , Upward my heart aspires : A thousand lamps of golden light Hung high , in vaulted azure , charm my sight , And ...
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... sighs , Till pitying winds shall hear , And gently bear them up the skies , And gently wound his ear . DESIRING HIS DESCENT TO EARTH . JESUS , I love . Come , dearest name , Come and possess this heart of mine ; I love , though ' tis a ...
... sighs , Till pitying winds shall hear , And gently bear them up the skies , And gently wound his ear . DESIRING HIS DESCENT TO EARTH . JESUS , I love . Come , dearest name , Come and possess this heart of mine ; I love , though ' tis a ...
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Page 206 - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail, Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Page 205 - He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down, And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ; And ever and anon he beat...
Page 204 - IF AUGHT of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Page 206 - 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 odours from his dewy wings.
Page 219 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong...
Page 207 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove ; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew...
Page 422 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Page 205 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Page 328 - In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name...
Page 425 - All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage. When young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...