Poems: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, Volume 2Milner and Sowerby, 1852 - 447 pages |
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... themes like these employ the poet's tongue , I hear as mute as if a syren sung . Or tell me , if you can , what power maintains A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains : That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets ...
... themes like these employ the poet's tongue , I hear as mute as if a syren sung . Or tell me , if you can , what power maintains A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains : That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets ...
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... theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art Fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee th ' ennobling pow'rs of verse , Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires : Place me where Winter breathes his keenest ...
... theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art Fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee th ' ennobling pow'rs of verse , Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires : Place me where Winter breathes his keenest ...
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... theme , that others never feel . If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame ; She pours a sensibility divine Along the nerve of ev'ry feeling line . But if a deed , not tamely to be borne TABLE TALK . 31.
... theme , that others never feel . If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame ; She pours a sensibility divine Along the nerve of ev'ry feeling line . But if a deed , not tamely to be borne TABLE TALK . 31.
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... theme , The fruit of all her labour is whipp'd cream . As if an eagle flew aloft , and then Stoop'd from its highest pitch to pounce a wren , As if the poet , purposing to wed , Should carve himself a wife in gingerbread . Ages elaps'd ...
... theme , The fruit of all her labour is whipp'd cream . As if an eagle flew aloft , and then Stoop'd from its highest pitch to pounce a wren , As if the poet , purposing to wed , Should carve himself a wife in gingerbread . Ages elaps'd ...
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... theme ! That theme on earth exhausted , though above ' Tis found as everlasting as his love . Man lavish'd all his thoughts on human things- The feats of heroes , and the wrath of kings , But still , while Virtue kindled his delight ...
... theme ! That theme on earth exhausted , though above ' Tis found as everlasting as his love . Man lavish'd all his thoughts on human things- The feats of heroes , and the wrath of kings , But still , while Virtue kindled his delight ...
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Æsop beauty beneath bless'd boast breath call'd cause charms delight design'd divine docet dread dream earth ease eyes fair fancy fear feel flowers flowers of Eden folly form'd frown fruit give glory grace grave groves hand happy hast heart Heaven honour hope human John Gilpin labour land learn'd light live lost lyre mankind mercy mind mounted best muse nature Nature's Nebaioth never night nymphs o'er once palæstra peace perhaps pity pleas'd pleasure poet poet's praise pride proud prove rapture rest rude sacred scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine sight skies smile song soon soul sound spleen stamp'd stream sweet taste telescopic eye thee theme thine thou art thought toil tongue trembling trifler truth Twas vex'd VINCENT BOURNE virtue voice waste WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom wisely store worth youth
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Page 420 - Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more ; My Mary ! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not thy will, - My Mary ! But well thou play'dst the housewife's part; And all thy threads with magic art, Have wound themselves about this heart, My Mary...
Page 373 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, — The son of parents pass'd into the skies.
Page 254 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 254 - And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...
Page 324 - Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...
Page 367 - WHEN the British warrior queen, Bleeding from the Roman rods, Sought, with an indignant mien, Counsel of her country's gods ; Sage beneath the spreading oak Sat the Druid, hoary chief; Every burning word he spoke Full of rage, and full of grief.
Page 304 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 319 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came : for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more.
Page 251 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, Eternal Word ! From thee departing, they are lost and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace.
Page 258 - Happy who walks with him ! whom what he finds Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flower, Or what he views of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad majestic oak To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present God.