 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 478 pages
...sorrow resigned. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloomed with its owner a while, And the tear, that is wiped with a little address, May be followed perhaps by a smile. THE DOVES. I REASONING at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, While meaner things, whom... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 316 pages
...sorrow resigned. This elegant rose, had 1 shaken it less, Might have bloomed with its owner a while, And the tear, that is wiped with a little address, May be followed perhaps by a stnile. -. ' THE DOVE Si I. REASONING at eviery step he treads, Man yet pij&tffces his way, While ;neanw... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...sorrow resigned. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloomed with its owner a while, And the tear, that is wiped with a little address, May be followed perhaps by a smile. THE DOVES. REASONING at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, While meaner things, whom instinct... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...sorrow resigned. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloomed with its owner awhile, And the tear, that is wiped with a little address, May be followed perhaps with a smile. THE DOVES. REASONING at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, While meaner... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...sorrow resigned. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloomed with its owner a while, And eive thy new possessor; one who brings THE POET'S NEW-YEAR'S GIFT TO mu. (NOW LADT) THROCKMORTOX. Maria ! I have every good For thee wished... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...sorrow inclined. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less Might have bloomed with its owner a while ; And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be followed perhaps by a smile. Cmoper. THE PARTING SONG. I hear thee, O thou rustling stream ! tfcou'rt from my native dell, Thou'rt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...sorrow resigned. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloomed with its owner awhile ; And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be followed perhaps by a smile. i THE DOVES. REASONING at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, While meaner things, whpm... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...resigned. 5. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might nave bloomed with its owner awhile : And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be followed perhaps by a smile. — COWPER. LESSON LXXII. Schemes of Life often Illusory. he appeared, the benedictions of the people proclaimed... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1834 - 480 pages
...sorrow resigned. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloomed with the owner awhile, And the tear that is wiped with a little address May be followed perhaps by a smile." OH! SAILOR-BOY, SAILOR-BOY, PEACE TO THY SOUL! IN slumbers of midnight the sailor-boy lay, His hammock... | |
 | Jacob Halls Drew - 1834 - 556 pages
...sympathy for a wounded spirit, he has often quoted, as a gentle rebuke, that fine expression of Cowper, " The tear that is wiped with a little address May be followed, perhaps, by a smile." Yet, at times, when his own children were in fault, his reproofs were very severe. Blended with his... | |
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I exclaimed, is the pitiless part Some act by the delicate mind, Regardless of wringing and breaking a heart Already to sorrow resigned. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloomed with its owner awhile ; And the tear that is wiped with... 
