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 oldal |
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44. oldal
... bloom , The spring of life , is o'er , That rosy season takes its flight , And must return no more . Yet judge by Reason's sober rules , From false opinion free , And mark how little pilf'ring years Can steal from you or me . Each moral ...
... bloom , The spring of life , is o'er , That rosy season takes its flight , And must return no more . Yet judge by Reason's sober rules , From false opinion free , And mark how little pilf'ring years Can steal from you or me . Each moral ...
45. oldal
... Unfading myrtles bloom . Nor with the narrow bounds of time The beauteous prospect ends , But lengthen'd through the vale of death , To paradise extends . THE STORY OF LAVINIA . FROM THOMSON'S SEASONS . Soon SELECT POEMS 45.
... Unfading myrtles bloom . Nor with the narrow bounds of time The beauteous prospect ends , But lengthen'd through the vale of death , To paradise extends . THE STORY OF LAVINIA . FROM THOMSON'S SEASONS . Soon SELECT POEMS 45.
47. oldal
... blooming flowers ; Or when the mournful tale her mother told , Of what her faithless fortune promis'd once , Thrill'd in her thought , they , like the dewy star Of Evening , shone in tears . A native grace Sat fair proportion'd on her ...
... blooming flowers ; Or when the mournful tale her mother told , Of what her faithless fortune promis'd once , Thrill'd in her thought , they , like the dewy star Of Evening , shone in tears . A native grace Sat fair proportion'd on her ...
48. oldal
... blooming , and unseen by all , The sweet Lavinia ; till , at length , compell'd By strong Necessity's supreme command , With smiling Patience in her looks , ' she went To glean Palemon's fields . The pride of swains Palemon was ! the ...
... blooming , and unseen by all , The sweet Lavinia ; till , at length , compell'd By strong Necessity's supreme command , With smiling Patience in her looks , ' she went To glean Palemon's fields . The pride of swains Palemon was ! the ...
50. oldal
... bloom , As thus Palemon , passionate , and just , Pour'd out the pious rapture of his soul : " And art thou then Acasto's dear remains ? She , whom my restless gratitude has sought So long in vain ? O heavens ! the very same , The ...
... bloom , As thus Palemon , passionate , and just , Pour'd out the pious rapture of his soul : " And art thou then Acasto's dear remains ? She , whom my restless gratitude has sought So long in vain ? O heavens ! the very same , The ...
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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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170. oldal - 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.
173. oldal - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
168. oldal - 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.
56. oldal - 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...
169. oldal - 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...
79. oldal - 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...
116. oldal - 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.
24. oldal - From seeming Evil still educing Good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
109. oldal - 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...
134. oldal - 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...