Selections from Cowper's PoemsMacmillan, 1883 - 234 páginas |
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... distant spot removed , Hopeless to gain , unwilling to molest With fond entreaties whom I dearly loved , Despair or absence had redeemed my rest . But now , sole partner in my Delia's heart , Yet doomed far off in exile to complain ...
... distant spot removed , Hopeless to gain , unwilling to molest With fond entreaties whom I dearly loved , Despair or absence had redeemed my rest . But now , sole partner in my Delia's heart , Yet doomed far off in exile to complain ...
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... distant from a prosperous course . Yet , oh , the thought that thou art safe , and he ! That thought is joy , arrive what may to me . My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned , and rulers of the earth ; But higher far ...
... distant from a prosperous course . Yet , oh , the thought that thou art safe , and he ! That thought is joy , arrive what may to me . My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned , and rulers of the earth ; But higher far ...
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... distant shades . There was I found by One who had Himself Been hurt by the archers . In His side He bore , And in His hands and feet , the cruel scars . With gentle force soliciting the darts , He drew them forth , and healed and bade ...
... distant shades . There was I found by One who had Himself Been hurt by the archers . In His side He bore , And in His hands and feet , the cruel scars . With gentle force soliciting the darts , He drew them forth , and healed and bade ...
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... Wise , That guides and governs our affections , And plans and orders our connexions : Directs us in our distant road , And marks the bounds of our abode . Thus we were settled when you found us , Peasants 32 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL .
... Wise , That guides and governs our affections , And plans and orders our connexions : Directs us in our distant road , And marks the bounds of our abode . Thus we were settled when you found us , Peasants 32 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL .
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... distant Loire , to choose A cottage on the banks of Ouse . This page of Providence quite new , And now just opening to our view , Employs our present thoughts and pains To guess and spell what it contains : But day by day , and year by ...
... distant Loire , to choose A cottage on the banks of Ouse . This page of Providence quite new , And now just opening to our view , Employs our present thoughts and pains To guess and spell what it contains : But day by day , and year by ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Beau marked beauty beneath birds Book charms clouds COVENTRY PATMORE Cowper cried dear death delight distant divine dream earth ease fame fancy farewell fast fear feel flagged admiral flew flocks flower FRANCIS TURNER Palgrave Gilpin grace half happy harmony Harrow School heard heart Heaven HEIR OF REDCLYFFE homeless birds hope John Gilpin king knew knows labour land light live Lord lyre MARK LEMON mind muse nature Nature's never Nose o'er once peace perhaps play pleasure poet poet's poor praise scene scorn seems Selected and arranged shade shine sight silent SIR NOEL PATON skies smile song soon soul sound storm stout spurs sway sweet Task tear thee theme thine thou hast thought thy growth toil tongue truth Twas verse virtue WARREN HASTINGS whate'er WILLIAM ALLINGHAM wind winter wonder youth
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Página 24 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th
Página 156 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take : The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Página 129 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Página 231 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Página 80 - 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 earned.
Página 218 - His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men. — Weigh the vessel up Once dreaded by our foes ! And mingle with our cup The tears that England owes. Her timbers yet are sound, And she may float again Full charged with England's thunder, And plough the distant main: But Kempenfelt is gone, His victories are o'er; And he and his eight hundred Shall plough the wave no more.
Página 79 - 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 131 - How soft the music of those village bells Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet ! now dying all away, Now pealing loud again and louder still, Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on.
Página 167 - Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more. 'Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty, screaming, came down stairs, The wine is left behind ! Good lack ! quoth he — yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Página 137 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.