 Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech; I start at the...  Poems - Page 172by William Cowper - 1817Full view - About this book
 | William Harris Elson - Reading (Elementary) - 1923 - 100 pages
...Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. "I am out of humanity's reach, 1 must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet...music of speech; I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see; They are so unacquainted with man, Their... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 524 pages
...my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech ; I start at the sound of my own. The beasts, that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow 'd upon man, Oh, had I the... | |
 | Robert Bridges - English poetry - 1924 - 296 pages
...Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet...music of speech ; I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1924 - 774 pages
...journey alone, 10 Never hear the sweet music of speech ; I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, 15 Their tameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love Divinely bestow'd upon man, O had... | |
 | English poetry - 1924 - 296 pages
...my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech ; I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, 38 Society, Friendship, and Love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, O had I the wings of a dove, How soon... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach ; I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, — I start at the sound of rny own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted... | |
 | James William Lowther Ullswater (1st viscount) - Great Britain - 1925 - 376 pages
...man and will hardly move out of the way ; in fact, to use the words of Alexander Selkirk : The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. On the 3rd of July the King paid a visit to Rugby School, to open the fine... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 pages
...Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet...music of speech; I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see; They are so unacquainted with man, Their... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, 92 I am out of humanity's reach ; I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. — Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon men ! Oh ! had I the wings of a dove, How... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 332 pages
...revealingly reshaped from its source, this time lines spoken by Cowper's supposed "Selkirk": The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.51 "Crusoe" ignores Cowper's particular satiric point here that the insulting... | |
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