The Poetical Works of William CowperMacmillan and Company, limited, 1924 - 536 pages |
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... fear 347 501 Silent I sat , dejected , and alone No more shall hapless Celia's ears None ever shared the social feast Nor oils of balmy scent produce No strength of Nature can suffice Not a flower can be found in the fields Obscurest ...
... fear 347 501 Silent I sat , dejected , and alone No more shall hapless Celia's ears None ever shared the social feast Nor oils of balmy scent produce No strength of Nature can suffice Not a flower can be found in the fields Obscurest ...
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... fear of losing all mental influence over a man of genius and virtue , whom she has been long accustomed to inspirit and to guide ? 66 Cowper perceived the painful necessity of sacrificing a great portion of his present gratifications ...
... fear of losing all mental influence over a man of genius and virtue , whom she has been long accustomed to inspirit and to guide ? 66 Cowper perceived the painful necessity of sacrificing a great portion of his present gratifications ...
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... fear of trespassing by acceptance . To you , therefore , I reply , yes . Whensoever , and whatsoever , and in what manner soever you please ; and add , moreover , that my affection for the giver is such as will increase to tenfold the ...
... fear of trespassing by acceptance . To you , therefore , I reply , yes . Whensoever , and whatsoever , and in what manner soever you please ; and add , moreover , that my affection for the giver is such as will increase to tenfold the ...
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... what we call evangelical light , are ornaments to a Christian country - men who fear God more than some who profess to love Him . " * January 28 , 1786 . . 66 In the spring of this year Lady Hesketh INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR . lxi.
... what we call evangelical light , are ornaments to a Christian country - men who fear God more than some who profess to love Him . " * January 28 , 1786 . . 66 In the spring of this year Lady Hesketh INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR . lxi.
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... fear ; While victories and laurels come To heighten joy and love at home : Can Heaven greater gifts confer ? Can more success a monarch share ? Ye songsters of the ærial tribe , Break forth in sweet melodious sounds ; Ye flowery fields ...
... fear ; While victories and laurels come To heighten joy and love at home : Can Heaven greater gifts confer ? Can more success a monarch share ? Ye songsters of the ærial tribe , Break forth in sweet melodious sounds ; Ye flowery fields ...
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Page 165 - Ye winds that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 267 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Page 308 - So am I!" 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.
Page 348 - 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. His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men.
Page 309 - And thus unto the youth she said, That drove them to the Bell, " This shall be yours, when you bring back My husband safe and well." The youth did ride, and soon did meet John coming back amain; Whom in a trice he tried to stop, By catching at his rein : But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted more, And made him faster run. Away went Gilpin, and away Went postboy at his heels, The postboy's horse right glad to misB The lumbering of the wheels.
Page 34 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take ; The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Page 217 - 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. In his side he bore, And in his hands and feet, the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth, and heal'd, and bade me live.
Page 187 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore...
Page 206 - I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain, And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty man.
Page 281 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, * Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !* The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain-tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.