Cowper: Poetry and ProseHart-Davis, 1968 - 1018 pages |
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... lost the pow'r to please ; To cross his ambling poney day by day , Seems at the best , but dreaming life away , The prospect , such as might enchant despair , He views it not , or sees no beauty there , With aching heart and ...
... lost the pow'r to please ; To cross his ambling poney day by day , Seems at the best , but dreaming life away , The prospect , such as might enchant despair , He views it not , or sees no beauty there , With aching heart and ...
Page 404
... lost behind a rising ground , the wood Seems sunk , and shorten'd to its topmost boughs . No tree in all the grove but has its charms , Though each its hue peculiar ; paler some , And of a wannish grey ; the willow such And poplar ...
... lost behind a rising ground , the wood Seems sunk , and shorten'd to its topmost boughs . No tree in all the grove but has its charms , Though each its hue peculiar ; paler some , And of a wannish grey ; the willow such And poplar ...
Page 511
... lost , With intellects bemaz'd in endless doubt , 2 But runs the road of wisdom . Thou hast built , With means that ... Lost , II , 555-61 : ' ... And found no end , in wand'ring mazes lost . ' ' Till thou proclaim thyself . Their's is ...
... lost , With intellects bemaz'd in endless doubt , 2 But runs the road of wisdom . Thou hast built , With means that ... Lost , II , 555-61 : ' ... And found no end , in wand'ring mazes lost . ' ' Till thou proclaim thyself . Their's is ...
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