The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 2George Bell, 1909 |
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... Winter Evening v . The Winter Morning Walk VI . The Winter Walk at Noon Epistle to Joseph Hill , Esq . Tirocinium ; or , a Review of Schools To the Reverend Mr. Newton Catharina The Moralizer corrected The faithful Bird • The needless ...
... Winter Evening v . The Winter Morning Walk VI . The Winter Walk at Noon Epistle to Joseph Hill , Esq . Tirocinium ; or , a Review of Schools To the Reverend Mr. Newton Catharina The Moralizer corrected The faithful Bird • The needless ...
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... winter * I perceive 145 * In this charming introduction of Mrs. Unwin , effected with so much grace and ease , Cowper gives the date of their first acquaintance , as well as the period of the year in which the lines were written . His ...
... winter * I perceive 145 * In this charming introduction of Mrs. Unwin , effected with so much grace and ease , Cowper gives the date of their first acquaintance , as well as the period of the year in which the lines were written . His ...
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... Winter soaks the fields , and female feet 215 Too weak to struggle with tenacious clay , Or ford the rivulets , are best at home , The task of new discoveries falls on me . At such a season , and with such a charge , * This cheap ...
... Winter soaks the fields , and female feet 215 Too weak to struggle with tenacious clay , Or ford the rivulets , are best at home , The task of new discoveries falls on me . At such a season , and with such a charge , * This cheap ...
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... winter fills again . The folded gates would bar my progress now , But that the lord * of this enclosed demesne , Communicative of the good he owns , Admits me to a share : the guiltless eye Commits no wrong , nor wastes what it enjoys ...
... winter fills again . The folded gates would bar my progress now , But that the lord * of this enclosed demesne , Communicative of the good he owns , Admits me to a share : the guiltless eye Commits no wrong , nor wastes what it enjoys ...
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... the town even in the winter . Reasons why it is deserted at that season . Ruinous effects of gaming , and of expensive improvement . Book concludes with an apostrophe to the metropolis . THE TASK . BOOK III . THE GARDEN . S.
... the town even in the winter . Reasons why it is deserted at that season . Ruinous effects of gaming , and of expensive improvement . Book concludes with an apostrophe to the metropolis . THE TASK . BOOK III . THE GARDEN . S.
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Aspasio beauty Bell beneath boast breath bright British Museum cause charms Clifton Reynes Cowper Dale death Deciduous declension deem delight distant divine dream earth ease fair fame Fancy fear feel flowers folly Friendship fruit give grace grave Grimshawe hand happy hast Hayley heard heart Heaven honour hope John Johnson labour less live lyre Mighty winds mind Muse Nature Nature's Nebaioth never Newport Pagnel night numbers Nymphs o'er Olney once peace perhaps pleasures Poems poet praise printed prove rest scene scorn seek seems shine sight skies sleep smile soft song soon soul sound Southey Southey's spare subsequent editions sweet task taste taste Of evils tattlers thee theme thine things thou art thought toil truth Twas virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wise wonder worth youth