PoemsW. A. Bartow, 1821 - 216 pages |
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... smiling land . But small the bliss that sense alone bestows , And sensual bliss is all the nation knows . In florid beauty groves and fields appear , Man seems the only growth that dwindles here . Contrasted faults through all his ...
... smiling land . But small the bliss that sense alone bestows , And sensual bliss is all the nation knows . In florid beauty groves and fields appear , Man seems the only growth that dwindles here . Contrasted faults through all his ...
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... Smiles by his cheerful fire , and round surveys , His children's looks , that brighten at the blaze : While his loved partner , boastful of her hoard , Displays her cleanly platter on the board ; And haply , too , some pilgrim thither ...
... Smiles by his cheerful fire , and round surveys , His children's looks , that brighten at the blaze : While his loved partner , boastful of her hoard , Displays her cleanly platter on the board ; And haply , too , some pilgrim thither ...
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... smiling long - frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son , the sire decayed , The modest matron , and the blushing maid , Forced from their homes , a melancholy train , To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where wild ...
... smiling long - frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son , the sire decayed , The modest matron , and the blushing maid , Forced from their homes , a melancholy train , To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where wild ...
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... smiling spring its earliest visit paid , And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed . Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease , Seats of my youth , when every sport could please , How often have I loitered o'er thy green , Where ...
... smiling spring its earliest visit paid , And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed . Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease , Seats of my youth , when every sport could please , How often have I loitered o'er thy green , Where ...
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... smiling village ! loveliest of the lawn , Thy sports are fled , and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen , And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain , And half a ...
... smiling village ! loveliest of the lawn , Thy sports are fled , and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen , And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain , And half a ...
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Page 51 - A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 45 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene ! How often have I paused on every charm.
Page 46 - While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; 20 And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round; And still, as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired; The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down...
Page 53 - No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear...
Page 49 - 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 47 - A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches ignorance of wealth.
Page 46 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green; One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain...
Page 50 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claimed kindred there, and had his claims allowed...
Page 30 - No product here the barren hills afford But man and steel, the soldier and his sword ; No vernal blooms their torpid- rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May ; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.