The Poetical Works of William CowperBell and Daldy, 1825 - 611 pages |
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Page 18
... light the graceful arch , Yet aweful as the consecrated roof Re - echoing pious anthems ! while beneath The checker'd earth seems restless as a flood Brush'd by the wind . So sportive is the light Shot through the boughs , it dances as ...
... light the graceful arch , Yet aweful as the consecrated roof Re - echoing pious anthems ! while beneath The checker'd earth seems restless as a flood Brush'd by the wind . So sportive is the light Shot through the boughs , it dances as ...
Page 20
... light on English walls : But imitative strokes can do no more Than please the eye - sweet Nature's , ev'ry sense . The air salubrious of her lofty hills , The cheering fragrance of her dewy vales , And music 20 THE TASK .
... light on English walls : But imitative strokes can do no more Than please the eye - sweet Nature's , ev'ry sense . The air salubrious of her lofty hills , The cheering fragrance of her dewy vales , And music 20 THE TASK .
Page 21
... light : His cheek recovers soon it's healthful hue ; His eye relumines its extinguish'd fires ; He walks , he leaps , he runs - is wing'd with joy , And riots in the sweets of ev'ry breeze . He does not scorn it , who has long endur'd A ...
... light : His cheek recovers soon it's healthful hue ; His eye relumines its extinguish'd fires ; He walks , he leaps , he runs - is wing'd with joy , And riots in the sweets of ev'ry breeze . He does not scorn it , who has long endur'd A ...
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... softly in between The sleeping leaves , is all the light they wish , Birds warbling all the music . We can spare The splendour of your lamps ; they but eclipse Our softer satellite . Your songs confound Our more harmonious 30 THE TASK .
... softly in between The sleeping leaves , is all the light they wish , Birds warbling all the music . We can spare The splendour of your lamps ; they but eclipse Our softer satellite . Your songs confound Our more harmonious 30 THE TASK .
Page 37
... light skiff , The sport of ev'ry wave ? No : none are clear , And none than we more guilty . But , where all Stand chargeable with guilt , and to the shafts Of wrath obnoxions , God may choose his mark ; May panish , if he please , the ...
... light skiff , The sport of ev'ry wave ? No : none are clear , And none than we more guilty . But , where all Stand chargeable with guilt , and to the shafts Of wrath obnoxions , God may choose his mark ; May panish , if he please , the ...
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