The Poetical Works of William CowperWarne, 1872 - 611 pages |
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... True Pleasures The Christian Lively Hope and Gracious Fear For the Poor My Soul Thirsteth for God Love Constrained to Obedience The Heart Healed and Changed by Mercy Hatred of Sin The New Convert True and False Comforts A Living and a ...
... True Pleasures The Christian Lively Hope and Gracious Fear For the Poor My Soul Thirsteth for God Love Constrained to Obedience The Heart Healed and Changed by Mercy Hatred of Sin The New Convert True and False Comforts A Living and a ...
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... True Friend On a Bath , by Plato • On a Fowler , by Isiodorus On Niobe On a Good Man On a Miser Another Another On Female Inconstancy On the Grasshopper On Hermocratia What Wealth cannot Buy 468 469 469 469 • · 469 470 470 470 470 470 ...
... True Friend On a Bath , by Plato • On a Fowler , by Isiodorus On Niobe On a Good Man On a Miser Another Another On Female Inconstancy On the Grasshopper On Hermocratia What Wealth cannot Buy 468 469 469 469 • · 469 470 470 470 470 470 ...
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... true : But that support soon failing , by him left On whom he most depended , -basely left , Betray'd , deserted , from his airy height Headlong he falls , and through the rest of life Drags the dull load of disappointment on . OF ...
... true : But that support soon failing , by him left On whom he most depended , -basely left , Betray'd , deserted , from his airy height Headlong he falls , and through the rest of life Drags the dull load of disappointment on . OF ...
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... true , Still hoped a gentler fate . With kindness bless the present hour , Or oh ! we meet in vain ! What can we do in absence more Than suffer and complain ? Fated to ills beyond redress , We must endure our woe ; The days allow'd us ...
... true , Still hoped a gentler fate . With kindness bless the present hour , Or oh ! we meet in vain ! What can we do in absence more Than suffer and complain ? Fated to ills beyond redress , We must endure our woe ; The days allow'd us ...
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... true delights of man Should spring from sympathy . Tis nature bids , and whilst the laws Of nature we retain , Our self - approving bosom draws A pleasure from its pain . Thus grief itself has comforts dear , The sordid never know ; And ...
... true delights of man Should spring from sympathy . Tis nature bids , and whilst the laws Of nature we retain , Our self - approving bosom draws A pleasure from its pain . Thus grief itself has comforts dear , The sordid never know ; And ...
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ANTISTROPHE bard beauty beneath boast Boötes bosom breast breath call'd charms Clifton Reynes Cowper dear death delight divine dream earth ease eyes fair faith fame fancy fear feel fire flowers folly give glory Gordon riots grace groves hand happy hear heart Heaven heavenly honour hope hour John Gilpin JOHN MILTON John Throckmorton kings labour light live Lord lost lyre mind Muse Nathaniel Cotton nature never night numbers nymphs o'er once pain Pallas Parnassian peace Phoebus pleasure poet praise prove rest rills sacred scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine shore sigh sight skies smile song soon sorrow soul sound Stamp'd stream sweet taste tears thee theme thine thou art thou hast thought toil trembling truth Twas verse VINCENT BOURNE virtue voice waste WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom wonder worth youth