Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English PoetryB. Crosby and Company, 1804 - 256 pages |
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... sense confin'd To know but this , that thou art good , And that myself am blind . Yet gave me , in this dark estate , To see the good from ill ; And , binding - nature fast in fate , Left free the human will . What conscience dictates ...
... sense confin'd To know but this , that thou art good , And that myself am blind . Yet gave me , in this dark estate , To see the good from ill ; And , binding - nature fast in fate , Left free the human will . What conscience dictates ...
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... sense have they of ills to come , No care beyond to - day : Yet see how all around them wait , The ministers of human fate , And black Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah , show them where in ambush stand , To seize their prey the murd'rous ...
... sense have they of ills to come , No care beyond to - day : Yet see how all around them wait , The ministers of human fate , And black Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah , show them where in ambush stand , To seize their prey the murd'rous ...
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... sense and polish'd air , What maid with Mira might compare ? While Lucia's eyes and Lucia's lyre Did unresisted love inspire . Imagine now the table clear , And mirth in every face appear : The song , the tale , the jest went round ...
... sense and polish'd air , What maid with Mira might compare ? While Lucia's eyes and Lucia's lyre Did unresisted love inspire . Imagine now the table clear , And mirth in every face appear : The song , the tale , the jest went round ...
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... sense of mine , Which dooms me still to smart ; Which pleasure can to pain refine , To pains new pangs impart . Oh , haste to shed the sacred balm ! My shatter'd nerves new string ; And for my guest , serenely calm , The nymph ...
... sense of mine , Which dooms me still to smart ; Which pleasure can to pain refine , To pains new pangs impart . Oh , haste to shed the sacred balm ! My shatter'd nerves new string ; And for my guest , serenely calm , The nymph ...
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... care I've sought , And though my realms with wonder fraught , In remedies abound , No grain of cold indifference Was ever yet ally'd to sense , In all my fairy round . " The regions of the sky I'd trace , I'd SELECT POEMS . 103.
... care I've sought , And though my realms with wonder fraught , In remedies abound , No grain of cold indifference Was ever yet ally'd to sense , In all my fairy round . " The regions of the sky I'd trace , I'd SELECT POEMS . 103.
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beauteous beauty behold BLAGDON bless blest bliss bloom blush bosom breast breath CEPHISUS charms cheer Crazy Jane cries dear death delight divine dwell E'en earth ev'ry FABLE fair fairie fancy fate fear flow flower fond gales gentle glory glow grace grove Hackthorn hand happy hear heart Heaven holy honour hour Hymen Langhorne life's light Lincolnshire live lyre maid MATILDA BETHAM meads mind morn mourn Muse Musidora Nature's night night raven nymph o'er pain passion peace Philomela pity plain pleas'd pleasure pow'r praise pride rest rise RIVER TWEED ROBERT FARREN rose round scenes shade shepherd shine sigh sight sings skies smiling soft song sorrow soul sound spring Strymon sublunary sphere swain sweet tale tear tender thee thine thou thought train trembling Twas vale virgin vision virtue voice wings youth
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Page 170 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 173 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 168 - 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 56 - 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 169 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all...
Page 79 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 116 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 24 - From seeming Evil still educing Good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 109 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled Dawn doth rise...
Page 134 - With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise : Join voices, all ye living souls ; ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise...