 Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy, and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which if He please God in a moment executes with ease)...  Poems - Page 183by William Cowper - 1806Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 446 pages
...administered by an almighty Physician, are beautifully and affectingly described. Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright...he tune them, all their power and use. Then neither healthy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor soft declivities, with... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...administered by an almighty Physician, are beautifully and affectingly described. Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright...he tune them, all their power and use. Then neither healthy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor soft declivities, with... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 480 pages
...therefore, all farther remark must close in his own irresistible appeal : Man is a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. # # * * * No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels, No cure for such, till God, who makes them,... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 372 pages
...a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, dispos'd aright ; The screws revers'd (a task, which, if He please, God, in a moment, executes...Lost, 'till He tune them, all their power and use. No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels ; No cure for such, till God, who makes them, heals. And... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 376 pages
...a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, dispos'd aright ; The screws revers'd (a task, which, if He please, God, in a moment, executes...once go loose ; Lost, 'till He tune them, all their pow'r and use. No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels ; No cure for such, till God, who makes... | |
 | William Cowper - Authors, English - 1835 - 726 pages
...a harp, whose chords chide the sight, Each yielding harmony, dispos'd aright ; The screws rcvers'd (a task which, if he please, God, in a moment, executes...ease) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose ; No wounds like those a wounded spirit fuels ; No cure for such, till God, who makes them, heals.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...administered by an almighty Physician, are beautifully and affectingly described. Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright...he tune them, all their power and use. Then neither healthy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor soft declivities, with... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1836 - 388 pages
...sight, Each yielding harmony, dispos'd aright ; The screws revers'd (a task, which, if He please, (Tod, in a moment, executes with ease ;) Ten thousand, thousand...Lost, 'till He tune them, all their power and use. No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels ; No cure for such, till God, who makes them, heals. And... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1836 - 384 pages
...sight, Each yielding harmony, dispos'd aright ; The screws revers'd (a task, which, if He please, (rod. in a moment, executes with ease ;) Ten thousand, thousand...Lost, 'till He tune them, all their power and use. No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels ; No cure for such, till God, who makes them, heals. And... | |
 | 1852 - 1000 pages
...elude the tight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright; The screws reverted (a task which if he plcue God in a moment executes with ease), Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tunes them, all their power and use." COWPBB, WB discover on every side of UB melancholy confirmation*... | |
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