The Poetical Works of William CowperBell and Daldy, 1825 - 611 pages |
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... shine , Within the twilight of their distant shades ; There , lost behind a rising ground , the wood Seems sunk , and shorten'd to its topmost boughs . No tree in all the grove but has it's charms , Though each it's bue peculiar ; paler ...
... shine , Within the twilight of their distant shades ; There , lost behind a rising ground , the wood Seems sunk , and shorten'd to its topmost boughs . No tree in all the grove but has it's charms , Though each it's bue peculiar ; paler ...
Page 30
... shine ; There only minds like yours can do no harm . Our groves were planted to console at noon The pensive wand'rer in their shades . At eve The moon - beam , sliding softly in between The sleeping leaves , is all the light they wish ...
... shine ; There only minds like yours can do no harm . Our groves were planted to console at noon The pensive wand'rer in their shades . At eve The moon - beam , sliding softly in between The sleeping leaves , is all the light they wish ...
Page 41
... shine by situation , hardly less Than by the labour and the skill it cost ; Are occupations of the poet's mind So pleasing , and that steal away the thought With such address from themes of sad import , That , lost in his own musings ...
... shine by situation , hardly less Than by the labour and the skill it cost ; Are occupations of the poet's mind So pleasing , and that steal away the thought With such address from themes of sad import , That , lost in his own musings ...
Page 56
... shine abroad , And give the world their talents and themselves , Small thanks to those , whose negligence or sloth Expos'd their inexperience to the snare , And left them to an undirected choice . See then the quiver broken and decay'd ...
... shine abroad , And give the world their talents and themselves , Small thanks to those , whose negligence or sloth Expos'd their inexperience to the snare , And left them to an undirected choice . See then the quiver broken and decay'd ...
Page 83
... shine , the thirst to be amus'd , That at the sound of Winter's hoary wing Unpeople all our counties of such herds Of flutt'ring , loitring , cringing , begging , loose , And wanton vagrants , as make London , vast And boundless as it ...
... shine , the thirst to be amus'd , That at the sound of Winter's hoary wing Unpeople all our counties of such herds Of flutt'ring , loitring , cringing , begging , loose , And wanton vagrants , as make London , vast And boundless as it ...
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