The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each |
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... hear how shepherds pass their golden days . Not all are 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 ...
... hear how shepherds pass their golden days . Not all are 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 ...
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... hear a British shell ' TO FEAR . THOU , to whom the world unknown , With all its shadowy shapes , is shewn ; Who see'st appall'd th ' unreal scene , While Fancy lifts the veil between ; Ah Fear ! ah , frantic Fear ! I see , I see thee ...
... hear a British shell ' TO FEAR . THOU , to whom the world unknown , With all its shadowy shapes , is shewn ; Who see'st appall'd th ' unreal scene , While Fancy lifts the veil between ; Ah Fear ! ah , frantic Fear ! I see , I see thee ...
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... Hear drowning seamen's cries in tempests brought ? Dark Power ! with shuddering , meek , submitted thought , Be mine to read the visions old , Which thy awakening bards have told And , lest thou meet my blasted view , Hold each strange ...
... Hear drowning seamen's cries in tempests brought ? Dark Power ! with shuddering , meek , submitted thought , Be mine to read the visions old , Which thy awakening bards have told And , lest thou meet my blasted view , Hold each strange ...
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... hear ; On which that ancient trump he reach'd was hung : Thither oft his glory greeting , From Waller's myrtle shades retreating , With many a vow from Hope's aspiring tongue , My trembling feet his guiding step pursue ; In vain - Such ...
... hear ; On which that ancient trump he reach'd was hung : Thither oft his glory greeting , From Waller's myrtle shades retreating , With many a vow from Hope's aspiring tongue , My trembling feet his guiding step pursue ; In vain - Such ...
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... hear , Winn'st from his fatal grasp the spear , And hidest in wreaths of flowers his bloodless sword ! Thou who , amidst the deathful field , By godlike chiefs alone beheld , Oft with thy bosom bare art found , Pleading for him , the ...
... hear , Winn'st from his fatal grasp the spear , And hidest in wreaths of flowers his bloodless sword ! Thou who , amidst the deathful field , By godlike chiefs alone beheld , Oft with thy bosom bare art found , Pleading for him , the ...
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adorn Amyntas arms balmy bard beauty blast blest bloom blooming band bosom bower breast breathe Bring Daphnis brow charms cliffs clouds Codrus Corydon Damætas Damastas dark deep delight divine dread eclogue Eton College fair fame Fancy Fancy's fate fire flame flocks flowers forlorn gale gentle glory glow grace grove hail heart Heaven hope Julius Cæsar lofty lonely Lycidas lyre maid Menalcas mighty mind Mopsus mountains mourn Muse Nature's ne'er numbers nymphs o'er peace Pindaric plain poem pomp pride promised song racter rage rapture roam roll round sacred scene shade shepherd shine sing skies smile soft song soothe soul spring storm strain stream sublime sung swain sweet tear thee thine thou thought Thyrsis Tityrus toil truth Twas vale verse virtue Virtue's voice warbling wave WESTMINSTER ABBEY wild winds wings youth
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Page 110 - 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 107 - ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 82 - The Summer Friend, the flatt'ring Foe, By vain Prosperity receiv'd, To her they vow their truth, and are again believ'd. . Wisdom, in sable garb array'd Immers'd in rapturous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid, With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend : Warm Charity, the general friend ; With Justice, to herself severe ; And Pity, dropping soft the sadly pleasing tear.
Page 78 - A stranger yet to pain ? I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 78 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave...
Page 108 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands...
Page 93 - He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
Page 108 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Page 109 - Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind...
Page 111 - twas all he wish'd, a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.