The beauties of English poetry, selected from the most esteemed authors, by dr. Wolcot, Volumen 2John Wolcot 1804 |
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... maid ; But man the most - not more the mountain doe Holds the swift falcon for her deadly foe . Cold is her breast ... maids of Bagdat verified the lay : Dear to the plains , the Virtues came along , The shepherds lov'd , and Selim bless ...
... maid ; But man the most - not more the mountain doe Holds the swift falcon for her deadly foe . Cold is her breast ... maids of Bagdat verified the lay : Dear to the plains , the Virtues came along , The shepherds lov'd , and Selim bless ...
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... head In humble guise ; But now the share up tears thy bed , And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid , By love's simplicity ' betray'd , And guiltless trust , Sweet flowret of the rural shade ! TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY 31.
... head In humble guise ; But now the share up tears thy bed , And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid , By love's simplicity ' betray'd , And guiltless trust , Sweet flowret of the rural shade ! TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY 31.
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... maid , As is the rose - bud's modest head In the fresh bow'r of early spring ; And such thy shape , to equal thee , The garden of eternity Must its own cypress proudly bring ! Thy coyness , which affects to frown , Thy playful sports ...
... maid , As is the rose - bud's modest head In the fresh bow'r of early spring ; And such thy shape , to equal thee , The garden of eternity Must its own cypress proudly bring ! Thy coyness , which affects to frown , Thy playful sports ...
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... maid . The Graces danc'd before the fair ; And white - rob'd Innocence was there . The trees with golden fruits were crown'd , And rising flow'rs adorn'd the ground ; The sun display'd each brighter ray , And shone in all the pride of ...
... maid . The Graces danc'd before the fair ; And white - rob'd Innocence was there . The trees with golden fruits were crown'd , And rising flow'rs adorn'd the ground ; The sun display'd each brighter ray , And shone in all the pride of ...
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... maid , Whose heart at once inclines and fears to stray : The sprightly vigour of my youth is fled , Lonely and sick , on death is all my thought ; Oh spare , Persephone , this guiltless head ! Love , too much love , is all thy ...
... maid , Whose heart at once inclines and fears to stray : The sprightly vigour of my youth is fled , Lonely and sick , on death is all my thought ; Oh spare , Persephone , this guiltless head ! Love , too much love , is all thy ...
Términos y frases comunes
adorn'd awful bard beneath bids blessing blest boast breast breath Brentford brow charms cheek CLODIO convey'd cried crowd crown'd dare dome e'en e'er Emperor of China Ev'n ev'ry fair fame Fancy fane Fannius fate fix'd flow'rs foes Freedom Freedom calls gibbets glories grace groves guiltless hand hark head heart Heroic Epistle impious Isis Jemmy Twitcher Lacedemon lie Fit lov'd maid majestic mind Muse ne'er numbers nymph o'er pale paleful rivers patriot peace PETER PINDAR PINDAR plain plann'd pleas'd poet poison'd pow'r praise pride proud rage rise round sacred sage scene Scylla or Charybdis shade shepherds shine shore sighs Sir William Chambers Slander slave smile smiling train soft solemn song sons soul sport spring Stephen Duck stream sublime swain sweet tear tender thee thine thou tow'r train trembling truth vale Verse virtue waves wild wings youth
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Página 50 - Winter, yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes, — So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name.
Página 48 - If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste eve, to soothe thy modest ear. Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Página 32 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering Worth is...
Página 66 - Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter, with dire chilling blasts Portending agues.
Página 60 - Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie or...
Página 117 - Thy form benign, oh goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound my heart. The generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and know myself a man.
Página 120 - Heaven has brought me to the state you see; And your condition may be soon like mine, The Child of Sorrow and of Misery...
Página 50 - Or find some ruin midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds or driving rain Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires ; And hears their simple bell; and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Página 61 - Wisheth her health, and joy, and equal love. Meanwhile, he smokes, and laughs at merry tale, Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. But I, whom griping Penury surrounds, And Hunger, sure attendant upon Want, With scanty offals...
Página 31 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i