Cowper: Poetry and ProseHart-Davis, 1968 - 1018 pages |
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Page 57
... hurries me back to despair . But the sea fowl is gone to her nest , The beast is laid down in his lair , Ev'n here is a season of rest , And I to my cabbin repair . There is mercy in ev'ry place , And mercy , 57 THE SHORTER POEMS.
... hurries me back to despair . But the sea fowl is gone to her nest , The beast is laid down in his lair , Ev'n here is a season of rest , And I to my cabbin repair . There is mercy in ev'ry place , And mercy , 57 THE SHORTER POEMS.
Page 235
... mercy from above , How does it grate upon his thankless ear , Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear ! His will and judgment at continual strife , That civil war imbitters all his life ; In vain he points his pow'rs against the ...
... mercy from above , How does it grate upon his thankless ear , Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear ! His will and judgment at continual strife , That civil war imbitters all his life ; In vain he points his pow'rs against the ...
Page 989
... mercy ? A mercy it would be to beat them , since there is no other chance that they can ever be brought to their senses ; and mercy they deserve none , being perfectly merciless themselves . Were they not so , would they suffer such a ...
... mercy ? A mercy it would be to beat them , since there is no other chance that they can ever be brought to their senses ; and mercy they deserve none , being perfectly merciless themselves . Were they not so , would they suffer such a ...
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