The Poetical Works of William CowperRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1866 - 630 pages |
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appears beauty beneath cause charge charms close course Cowper dark death deep delight divine dream earth ease ev'ry eyes face fair fall fancy fear feel field fire force give glory grace half hand happy head hear heart heav'n hope hour human kind land least leaves less light live look lost mean mind nature never night o'er once peace perhaps play pleasure poet poor pow'r praise pride prove received rest scene seek seems seen sense shine side sight skies smile song soon soul sound speak stand stream sure sweet taste tell thee theme thine things thou thought thousand true truth turn virtue waste wind wisdom worth
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Page 360 - Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought, His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock.
Page 408 - I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Page 235 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was I found by One who had himself Been hurt by the archers.
Page 345 - Well done !" As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin — who but he ; His fame soon spread around — He carries weight, he rides a race, 'Tis for a thousand pound.
Page 197 - Of neighb'ring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Page 165 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 347 - And gallop'd off with all his might, As he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away Went Gilpin's hat and wig; He lost them sooner than at first, For why — they were too big. Now mistress Gilpin, when she saw Her husband posting down Into the country far away, She...
Page 217 - With dripping rains, or wither'd by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Page 487 - That pitiless perforce, They left their outcast mate behind, And scudded still before the wind. Some succour yet they could afford; And, such as storms allow, The cask, the coop, the floated cord, Delayed not to bestow.
Page 346 - But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For why? his owner had a house Full ten miles off at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew, Shot by an archer strong; So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song. Away went Gilpin out of breath, And sore against his will, Till at his friend the calender's His horse at last stood still. The...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Poetical Works of William Cowper Aldine edition of the British poets Mount Royal edition of the British poets Routledge's British poets |
| Author | William Cowper |
| Editor | Robert Aris Willmott |
| Illustrated by | Myles Birket Foster |
| Publisher | Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1866 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 630 pages |
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