The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volume 71804 |
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... earth , to live and thine . Thofe lights that sparkle fo on high , Are but the glow - worms of the sky , And kings on earth their gems admire , Because they imitate my fire . She fpoke . Attentive on a spray , A Nightingale forbore his ...
... earth , to live and thine . Thofe lights that sparkle fo on high , Are but the glow - worms of the sky , And kings on earth their gems admire , Because they imitate my fire . She fpoke . Attentive on a spray , A Nightingale forbore his ...
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... earth , and ambient air , With varying elements endu'd , Was form'd to fall , and rife renew'd . The stars no fix'd duration know , Wide oceans ebb , again to flow , The moon repletes her waneing face , All - beauteous , from her late ...
... earth , and ambient air , With varying elements endu'd , Was form'd to fall , and rife renew'd . The stars no fix'd duration know , Wide oceans ebb , again to flow , The moon repletes her waneing face , All - beauteous , from her late ...
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... earth ; White was the robe this infant wore , And Chastity the name the bore . As now the maid in stature grew , ( A flow'r just op'ning to the view ) Oft through her native lawns the stray'd , And wrestling with the lambkins play'd ...
... earth ; White was the robe this infant wore , And Chastity the name the bore . As now the maid in stature grew , ( A flow'r just op'ning to the view ) Oft through her native lawns the stray'd , And wrestling with the lambkins play'd ...
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... earth's unequal frame They deem'd the heav'n - compounded Dame , If matter , fure the most refin'd , High wrought , and temper'd into mind , Some darling daughter of the day , And body'd by her native ray . Where - e'er the paffes ...
... earth's unequal frame They deem'd the heav'n - compounded Dame , If matter , fure the most refin'd , High wrought , and temper'd into mind , Some darling daughter of the day , And body'd by her native ray . Where - e'er the paffes ...
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... earth despise , Heav'n beholds with gentler eyes ; Heav'n thy friendless steps fhall guide , Chear thy hours , and guard thy fide . When the fatal trump shall found , When th ' immortals pour around , Heav'n fhall thy return atteft ...
... earth despise , Heav'n beholds with gentler eyes ; Heav'n thy friendless steps fhall guide , Chear thy hours , and guard thy fide . When the fatal trump shall found , When th ' immortals pour around , Heav'n fhall thy return atteft ...
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Página 278 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 276 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began.
Página 281 - This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy ; Of horror that...
Página 60 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.
Página 278 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Página 279 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 278 - 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 : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Página 282 - Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep. They do not sleep. On yonder cliffs, a...
Página 278 - To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore : What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others
Página 68 - The royal lover bore her from the plain ; Yet still her crook and bleating flock remain: Oft, as she went, she backward turn'd her view, And bade that crook and bleating flock adieu. Fair, happy maid ! to other...