Cowper: Poetry and ProseHart-Davis, 1968 - 1018 pages |
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Page 170
... course ! Winds , clouds , and lightnings ! and ye waves whose heads Curl'd into monstrous forms , the seaman dreads ! Horrid abyss , where all experience fails , Spread with the wreck of planks and shatter'd sails ; On whose broad back ...
... course ! Winds , clouds , and lightnings ! and ye waves whose heads Curl'd into monstrous forms , the seaman dreads ! Horrid abyss , where all experience fails , Spread with the wreck of planks and shatter'd sails ; On whose broad back ...
Page 517
... course Defies the check of winter , haunts of deer , And sheep - walks populous with bleating lambs , And lanes in which the primrose ' ere her time Peeps through the moss that cloaths the hawthorn root , Deceive no student . Wisdom ...
... course Defies the check of winter , haunts of deer , And sheep - walks populous with bleating lambs , And lanes in which the primrose ' ere her time Peeps through the moss that cloaths the hawthorn root , Deceive no student . Wisdom ...
Page 534
... course , reflecting clear , If not the virtues yet the worth of brutes . x And I am recompensed , and deem the toils Of poetry not lost , if verse of mine May stand between an animal and woe , And teach one tyrant pity for his drudge ...
... course , reflecting clear , If not the virtues yet the worth of brutes . x And I am recompensed , and deem the toils Of poetry not lost , if verse of mine May stand between an animal and woe , And teach one tyrant pity for his drudge ...
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