Cowper: Poetry and ProseHart-Davis, 1968 - 1018 pages |
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Page 254
... thou didst not dare exert , Verse cannot stoop so low as thy desert , It shakes the sides of splenetic disdain , Thou self - entitled ruler of the main , To trace thee to the date when yon fair sea , That clips thy shores , had no such ...
... thou didst not dare exert , Verse cannot stoop so low as thy desert , It shakes the sides of splenetic disdain , Thou self - entitled ruler of the main , To trace thee to the date when yon fair sea , That clips thy shores , had no such ...
Page 373
... Thou canst not : Nature pulling at thine heart Condemns th ' unfatherly , th ' imprudent part . Thou wouldst not , deaf to Nature's tend'rest plea , Turn him adrift upon a rolling sea , Nor say , go thither , conscious that there lay A ...
... Thou canst not : Nature pulling at thine heart Condemns th ' unfatherly , th ' imprudent part . Thou wouldst not , deaf to Nature's tend'rest plea , Turn him adrift upon a rolling sea , Nor say , go thither , conscious that there lay A ...
Page 512
... thou art heard , imaginations vain Possess the heart , and fables false as hell ; Yet deemed oracular , lure down to death The uninform'd and heedless souls of men . We give to chance , blind chance , ourselves as blind , The glory of ...
... thou art heard , imaginations vain Possess the heart , and fables false as hell ; Yet deemed oracular , lure down to death The uninform'd and heedless souls of men . We give to chance , blind chance , ourselves as blind , The glory of ...
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