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... once we called the pastoral house our own . Cowper . THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS O , not in cruelty , not in wrath , The Reaper came that day ; ' Twas an angel visited the green earth , And took the flowers away . THE BOY CONFESSOR . W ...
... once we called the pastoral house our own . Cowper . THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS O , not in cruelty , not in wrath , The Reaper came that day ; ' Twas an angel visited the green earth , And took the flowers away . THE BOY CONFESSOR . W ...
Page x
... once , to kneel and draw The chalky ring , and knuckle down at taw ; To pitch the ball into the grounded hat , Or drive it devious with a dext'rous pat . Cowper . The flames rolled on - he would not go , Without his father's word : That ...
... once , to kneel and draw The chalky ring , and knuckle down at taw ; To pitch the ball into the grounded hat , Or drive it devious with a dext'rous pat . Cowper . The flames rolled on - he would not go , Without his father's word : That ...
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... beaming love . And pity ; eager then they stretch their arms , And , cow'ring , lay their heads upon His breast . COWPER'S CHILDHOOD . 31 COWPER'S CHILDHOOD . WHERE once we 30 CHILDHOOD . The Saviour blessing Little Children Taylor.
... beaming love . And pity ; eager then they stretch their arms , And , cow'ring , lay their heads upon His breast . COWPER'S CHILDHOOD . 31 COWPER'S CHILDHOOD . WHERE once we 30 CHILDHOOD . The Saviour blessing Little Children Taylor.
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... history little known , That once we called the pastoral house our own . Short - lived possession ! but the record fair , That memory keeps of all thy kindness there , Still outlives many a storm , that has effaced A. Cowper's Childhood.
... history little known , That once we called the pastoral house our own . Short - lived possession ! but the record fair , That memory keeps of all thy kindness there , Still outlives many a storm , that has effaced A. Cowper's Childhood.
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... once a child . ' They shall all bloom in fields of light , Transplanted by my care , And saints , upon their garments white , These sacred blossoms wear . " THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS . 39 And the mother 38 CHILDHOOD . The Reaper and ...
... once a child . ' They shall all bloom in fields of light , Transplanted by my care , And saints , upon their garments white , These sacred blossoms wear . " THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS . 39 And the mother 38 CHILDHOOD . The Reaper and ...
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Page 35 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 142 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...
Page 140 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 163 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Page 38 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child.
Page 38 - I have nought that is fair?" saith he; "Have nought but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves.
Page 137 - Make me a fire, Close by whose living coal I sit, And glow like it. Lord, I confess too, when I dine, The pulse is thine, And all those other bits that be There placed by thee; The worts, the purslain, and the mess Of...
Page 199 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Page xiv - At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 41 - They climbed the steep ascent of heaven Through peril, toil, and pain : O God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train.