The Votive Wreath, and Other PoemsBulcock, 1826 - 158 pages |
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... soon are snapp'd the links of love : Now memory breathes in every sigh Some loss that wakens agony . As through the lonely path I stray'd , And Nature's cheerless face survey'd ; I saw , from out it's wintry bed , A snow - drop rear ...
... soon are snapp'd the links of love : Now memory breathes in every sigh Some loss that wakens agony . As through the lonely path I stray'd , And Nature's cheerless face survey'd ; I saw , from out it's wintry bed , A snow - drop rear ...
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... soon arrive When mirth shall yield to care . Youth is the season made for joy . While to the future blind : And chasten'd mirth can never cloy , Nor leave a sting behind . Laugh then and still enjoy each hour ; Each guiltless hour that ...
... soon arrive When mirth shall yield to care . Youth is the season made for joy . While to the future blind : And chasten'd mirth can never cloy , Nor leave a sting behind . Laugh then and still enjoy each hour ; Each guiltless hour that ...
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... bright days of innocence and peace Offer to GOD thy pure and spotless heart ; Ere evil overtake , and pleasures cease , And thou in life's gay vision's have no part . The fleeting scenes of youth will soon be o'er , TO THE MOTHER'S HOPE.
... bright days of innocence and peace Offer to GOD thy pure and spotless heart ; Ere evil overtake , and pleasures cease , And thou in life's gay vision's have no part . The fleeting scenes of youth will soon be o'er , TO THE MOTHER'S HOPE.
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Mrs. Anne Parminter. The fleeting scenes of youth will soon be o'er , And if that season thou shalt spend in vain , Thou may'st with tears the precious loss deplore , And vainly wish the blessing to regain . Oh seize the opening dawn of ...
Mrs. Anne Parminter. The fleeting scenes of youth will soon be o'er , And if that season thou shalt spend in vain , Thou may'st with tears the precious loss deplore , And vainly wish the blessing to regain . Oh seize the opening dawn of ...
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... soon recall'd , For Discipline was there ( with eagle eye Glancing through every avenue to ill , ) The guard of morals and the nurse of truth . Hertford , I loved thee ! and now ling'ring dwell With fond delight on thy remember'd scenes ...
... soon recall'd , For Discipline was there ( with eagle eye Glancing through every avenue to ill , ) The guard of morals and the nurse of truth . Hertford , I loved thee ! and now ling'ring dwell With fond delight on thy remember'd scenes ...
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Page 82 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 31 - Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, or ever the evil days come and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
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