The poetical works of William Cowper, Volume 2W. Pickering, 1853 |
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... Fear 53. For the Poor 54. My Soul thirfteth for God 55. Love constraining to Obedience 56. The Heart healed and changed by Mercy 57. Hatred of Sin Page 239 240 · 241 • 243 244 245 246 247 248 • 249 · 250 · 251 252 253 253 254 255 · 256 ...
... Fear 53. For the Poor 54. My Soul thirfteth for God 55. Love constraining to Obedience 56. The Heart healed and changed by Mercy 57. Hatred of Sin Page 239 240 · 241 • 243 244 245 246 247 248 • 249 · 250 · 251 252 253 253 254 255 · 256 ...
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... fear'd In Albion's happy ifle . The lumber stood Ponderous and fix'd by its own maffy weight . But elbows still were wanting ; thefe , fome fay , An Alderman of Cripplegate contrived ; And some ascribe the invention to a priest , Burly ...
... fear'd In Albion's happy ifle . The lumber stood Ponderous and fix'd by its own maffy weight . But elbows still were wanting ; thefe , fome fay , An Alderman of Cripplegate contrived ; And some ascribe the invention to a priest , Burly ...
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... fear to die , Yet fcorn the purposes for which they live . Then wherefore not renounce them ? No - the dread , The flavish dread of folitude , that breeds Reflection and remorfe , the fear of fhame , And their inveterate habits , all ...
... fear to die , Yet fcorn the purposes for which they live . Then wherefore not renounce them ? No - the dread , The flavish dread of folitude , that breeds Reflection and remorfe , the fear of fhame , And their inveterate habits , all ...
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... fears . But comes at last the dull and dusky eve , And fends thee to thy cabin , well prepared To dream all night of what the day denied . Alas ! expect it not . We found no bait To tempt us in thy country . Doing good , Difinterested ...
... fears . But comes at last the dull and dusky eve , And fends thee to thy cabin , well prepared To dream all night of what the day denied . Alas ! expect it not . We found no bait To tempt us in thy country . Doing good , Difinterested ...
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... fear . Thou fool ! will thy discovery of the cause Sufpend the effect , or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means fince first he made the world ? And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation lefs Than ...
... fear . Thou fool ! will thy discovery of the cause Sufpend the effect , or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means fince first he made the world ? And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation lefs Than ...
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Page 32 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Page 252 - A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun : It gives a light to every age ; It gives, but borrows none.
Page 176 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain for us ! " The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy, Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Page 91 - tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright...
Page 221 - Where is the blessedness I knew, When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoyed ! How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
Page 92 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 170 - The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 44 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 346 - Puss was tamed by gentle usage; Tiney was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had a courage and confidence that made him tame from the beginning. I always admitted them into the parlour after supper, when, the carpet affording their feet a firm hold, they would frisk, and bound, and play a thousand gambols...
Page 27 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves...