Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin and other poemsBaldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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... Thou art my bliss , the light by which I move ; In Thee alone dwells all that I can love ; All darkness flies when Thou art pleased to appear , A sudden spring renews the fading year ; Where'er I turn I see thy power and grace , The ...
... Thou art my bliss , the light by which I move ; In Thee alone dwells all that I can love ; All darkness flies when Thou art pleased to appear , A sudden spring renews the fading year ; Where'er I turn I see thy power and grace , The ...
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... See me subject to thy will ! Frown with wrath , or smile with grace , Only let me see thy face ! Evil I have none to fear , All is good , if Thou art near . Yet he leaves me , -cruel fate ! Leaves me 12 COWPER'S POems .
... See me subject to thy will ! Frown with wrath , or smile with grace , Only let me see thy face ! Evil I have none to fear , All is good , if Thou art near . Yet he leaves me , -cruel fate ! Leaves me 12 COWPER'S POems .
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William Cowper. Thy will is the treasure I seek , For thou art as faithful as strong ; There let me obedient and meek , Repose myself all the day long . My spirit and faculties fail ; Oh finish what love has begun ! Destroy what is ...
William Cowper. Thy will is the treasure I seek , For thou art as faithful as strong ; There let me obedient and meek , Repose myself all the day long . My spirit and faculties fail ; Oh finish what love has begun ! Destroy what is ...
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... Thou art in my sight : The more my woes in secret I deplore , I taste thy goodness and I love the more . There ... thou sovereign Good ! Thou art not loved , because not understood ; This grieves me most , that vain pursuits beguile ...
... Thou art in my sight : The more my woes in secret I deplore , I taste thy goodness and I love the more . There ... thou sovereign Good ! Thou art not loved , because not understood ; This grieves me most , that vain pursuits beguile ...
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William Cowper. DIVINE JUSTICE AMIABLE . THOU hast no lightnings , O thou just ! Or I their force should know ; And ... art kind ; And in my saddest hours , An unction of thy grace I find , Pervading all my powers . Alas ! Thou sparest me ...
William Cowper. DIVINE JUSTICE AMIABLE . THOU hast no lightnings , O thou just ! Or I their force should know ; And ... art kind ; And in my saddest hours , An unction of thy grace I find , Pervading all my powers . Alas ! Thou sparest me ...
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beauty beneath bliss boast breath cause charms Cowper dear deep delight distant divine divine simplicity dream Dunciad earth ease fair fame fancy fear feel Fête champêtre flower folly form'd frown glory grace grove hand happy heart heaven honour human John Gilpin Julius Cæsar King L'Allegro labour less live Lord lost Mighty winds mind nature Nature's Nebaioth never night o'er once pain peace pleased pleasure Pope praise proud prove pure repose rove rude sacred Satire Satire iv Satire vi scene scorn secret fire seek shades shine sighs sight silent skies sleep smile Soame Jenyns song Sonnet 18 soon sorrow soul Spleen stream sweet task taste thee theme thine things thou art thou hast thought toil trembling truth Twas Vincent Bourne virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wonder worth
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Página 306 - John he cried, But John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane with both his hands And eke with all his might.
Página 98 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Página 80 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Página 97 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Página 235 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude, unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Página 261 - Come then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy .' It was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood.
Página 129 - Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 305 - Now Mistress Gilpin, careful soul, Had two stone bottles found, To hold the liquor that she loved, And keep it safe and sound. Each bottle had a curling ear, Through which the belt he drew, And hung a bottle on each side To make his balance true. Then over all, that he might be Equipped from top to toe, His long red cloak well brushed and neat He manfully did throw.
Página 259 - 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.
Página 309 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. "But let me scrape the dirt away, That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.