 And the scene, where his melody charm'd me before, Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove...  Poems - Page 210by William Cowper - 1817Full view - About this book
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...fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast and a. stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall...arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man; Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments,... | |
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...fugitive years are all wasting away, And I must ere long be as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. Put beside that melodious jingle the ordered diction and ordered sentiment of one of the best-known... | |
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...fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall...arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasure of man; Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments,... | |
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...fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. And then from his own, personal, individual sorrow of mortality, the poet's thoughts turn to the wider... | |
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...fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall...arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments,... | |
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...fugitive years are all hasting away. And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. The change both my heart and my fancy employs, I reflect on the frailty of man and his joys; Short-lived... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 524 pages
...at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments, I see, Have a being less durable even than he. 391 WILLIAM COWPER On the... | |
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...fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man; Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments,... | |
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...at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments, I see, Have a being less durable even than he. 20 W. CoWPER. 144 TO A MOUSE... | |
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...could have expressed it so gracefully, simply, and mournfully : "Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments, I see, Have a being less durable even than he. But when we come, six years... | |
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