The Poetical Works of William Cowper ...Little, Brown, 1859 |
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... them , With clear exemption from its own defects , A sparkling eye beneath a wrinkled front The veteran shows , and , gracing a gray beard With youthful smiles , descends toward the grave Sprightly , 16 B. I. THE TASK .
... them , With clear exemption from its own defects , A sparkling eye beneath a wrinkled front The veteran shows , and , gracing a gray beard With youthful smiles , descends toward the grave Sprightly , 16 B. I. THE TASK .
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William Cowper. With youthful smiles , descends toward the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden , Ease , when courted most , Farthest retires - an idol , at whose shrine Who oftenest sacrifice are favour'd ...
William Cowper. With youthful smiles , descends toward the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden , Ease , when courted most , Farthest retires - an idol , at whose shrine Who oftenest sacrifice are favour'd ...
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... grave : nor so content , Shall counterfeit the motions of the flood , And drown him in her dry and dusty gulfs . What then ! —were they the wicked above all , And we the righteous , whose fast - anchor'd isle Moved not , while theirs ...
... grave : nor so content , Shall counterfeit the motions of the flood , And drown him in her dry and dusty gulfs . What then ! —were they the wicked above all , And we the righteous , whose fast - anchor'd isle Moved not , while theirs ...
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... to sing in vain , I would not trifle merely , though the world Be loudest in their praise who do no more . Yet what can satire , whether grave or gay ? It may correct a foible , may chastise The freaks THE TIME - PIECE . 43.
... to sing in vain , I would not trifle merely , though the world Be loudest in their praise who do no more . Yet what can satire , whether grave or gay ? It may correct a foible , may chastise The freaks THE TIME - PIECE . 43.
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... grave and learned clerks should need such He doubtless is in sport , and does but droll , Assuming thus a rank unknown before- Grand caterer and drynurse of the church ! I venerate the man whose heart is warm , [ life , Whose hands are ...
... grave and learned clerks should need such He doubtless is in sport , and does but droll , Assuming thus a rank unknown before- Grand caterer and drynurse of the church ! I venerate the man whose heart is warm , [ life , Whose hands are ...
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Сторінка 97 - tis the twanging horn ! o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright, He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks ; News from all nations lumbering at his back.
Сторінка 34 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast : Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not "blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man...
Сторінка 152 - There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own.
Сторінка 38 - And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme. Did not his eye rule all things, and intend The least of our concerns (since from the least The greatest oft originate); could chance Find place in his dominion, or dispose One lawless particle to thwart his plan ; Then God might be surprised, and unforeseen Contingence might alarm him, and disturb The smooth and equal course of his affairs.
Сторінка 46 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on Earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner...
Сторінка 189 - Kneels with the native of the farthest West, And ^Ethiopia spreads abroad the hand, And worships. Her report has travelled forth Into all lands.
Сторінка 247 - Tis because resentment ties All the terrors of our tongues. Rome shall perish — write that word In the blood that she has spilt; Perish, hopeless and abhorr'd, Deep in ruin as in guilt.
Сторінка 40 - Suspend th' effect, or heal it? Has not God Still wrought by means since first he made the world? And did he not of old employ his means To drown it? What is his creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means Form'd for his use, and ready at his will? Go, dress thine eyes with eyesalve; ask of him, Or ask of whomsoever he has taught, And learn, though late, the genuine cause of all.
Сторінка 252 - I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away ! ' The meek intelligence of those dear eyes (Blest be the art that can immortalize, The art that baffles Time's tyrannic claim To quench it) here shines on me still the same.
Сторінка 151 - Patriots have toiled, and in their country's cause Bled nobly; and their deeds, as they deserve, Receive proud recompense. We give in charge Their names to the sweet lyre. The historic muse, Proud of the treasure, marches with it down To latest times...