Cowper: Poetry and ProseHart-Davis, 1968 - 1018 pages |
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Page 57
... land I shall visit no more . My friends do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend , K Though a friend I am never to see . How fleet is a glance of the mind ! « Compar'd with the speed of its ...
... land I shall visit no more . My friends do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend , K Though a friend I am never to see . How fleet is a glance of the mind ! « Compar'd with the speed of its ...
Page 334
... lands , Shall own itself a stamm'rer in that cause , Or plead its silence as its best applause . He knows indeed that ... land , Nor quits till ev'ning - watch his giddy stand , Then swift descending with a seaman's haste , Slips to his ...
... lands , Shall own itself a stamm'rer in that cause , Or plead its silence as its best applause . He knows indeed that ... land , Nor quits till ev'ning - watch his giddy stand , Then swift descending with a seaman's haste , Slips to his ...
Page 403
... land . There from the sun - burnt hay - field homeward creeps The loaded wain , while lighten'd of its charge , The wain that meets it , passes swiftly by , The boorish driver leaning o'er his team 1 In England , contrary to the general ...
... land . There from the sun - burnt hay - field homeward creeps The loaded wain , while lighten'd of its charge , The wain that meets it , passes swiftly by , The boorish driver leaning o'er his team 1 In England , contrary to the general ...
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