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 páginas |
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... born . See Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring , With all the incense of the breathing spring : See lofty Lebanon his head advance , See nodding forests on the mountains dance : See spicy clouds from lowly Sharon rise , And ...
... born . See Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring , With all the incense of the breathing spring : See lofty Lebanon his head advance , See nodding forests on the mountains dance : See spicy clouds from lowly Sharon rise , And ...
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... born cares are wrong : Man wants but little here below , Nor wants that little long . " Soft as the dew from heav'n descends , His gentle accents fell ; The modest stranger lowly bends , And follows to the cell . Far in a wilderness ...
... born cares are wrong : Man wants but little here below , Nor wants that little long . " Soft as the dew from heav'n descends , His gentle accents fell ; The modest stranger lowly bends , And follows to the cell . Far in a wilderness ...
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... born cares are wrong : Man wants but little here below , Nor wants that little long . " Soft as the dew from heav'n descends , His gentle accents fell ; The modest stranger lowly bends , And follows to the cell . Far in a wilderness ...
... born cares are wrong : Man wants but little here below , Nor wants that little long . " Soft as the dew from heav'n descends , His gentle accents fell ; The modest stranger lowly bends , And follows to the cell . Far in a wilderness ...
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... born ; The thoughtless day , the easy night , The spirits pure , the slumbers light , That fly the approach of morn . Alas ! regardless of their doom , The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come , No care beyond to ...
... born ; The thoughtless day , the easy night , The spirits pure , the slumbers light , That fly the approach of morn . Alas ! regardless of their doom , The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come , No care beyond to ...
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... born daughters vie With me ! Shall she , whose brightest eye But emulates the diamond's blaze , Whose cheek but mocks the peach's bloom , Whose breath the hyacinth's perfume , Whose melting voice the warbling woodlark's lays , Shall she ...
... born daughters vie With me ! Shall she , whose brightest eye But emulates the diamond's blaze , Whose cheek but mocks the peach's bloom , Whose breath the hyacinth's perfume , Whose melting voice the warbling woodlark's lays , Shall she ...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ... Elizabeth Tomkins Visualização completa - 1817 |
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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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Página 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.
Página 173 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 24 - From seeming Evil still educing Good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Página 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...
Página 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...