The poetical works of William Cowper, ed. by W.M. Rossetti1879 |
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... Dream 370 Dumps Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce ; or , The Slave - Trader in the 371 The Valediction 372 March 1789 On the Queen's Visit to London , the night of the 17th 374 Annus Memorabilis , 1789 376 in the year 1789 Hymn for the use of ...
... Dream 370 Dumps Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce ; or , The Slave - Trader in the 371 The Valediction 372 March 1789 On the Queen's Visit to London , the night of the 17th 374 Annus Memorabilis , 1789 376 in the year 1789 Hymn for the use of ...
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... dream too late . Oh ! if servility , with supple knees , Whose trade it is to smile , to crouch , to please ; If smooth dissimulation , skilled to grace A devil's purpose with an angel's face ; If smiling peeresses and simpering peers ...
... dream too late . Oh ! if servility , with supple knees , Whose trade it is to smile , to crouch , to please ; If smooth dissimulation , skilled to grace A devil's purpose with an angel's face ; If smiling peeresses and simpering peers ...
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... dreaming study and pedantic rust , And prate and preach about what others prove , As if the world and they were hand and glove . Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares , They have their weight to carry , subjects theirs ; Poets ...
... dreaming study and pedantic rust , And prate and preach about what others prove , As if the world and they were hand and glove . Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares , They have their weight to carry , subjects theirs ; Poets ...
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... pledge of all . O liberty ! the prisoner's pleasing dream , The poet's muse , his passion and his theme , Genius is thine , and thou art fancy's nurse , Lost without thee the ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic 6 TABLE TALK .
... pledge of all . O liberty ! the prisoner's pleasing dream , The poet's muse , his passion and his theme , Genius is thine , and thou art fancy's nurse , Lost without thee the ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic 6 TABLE TALK .
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... dream , Yours real , and pernicious in the extreme . What then , - —are appetites and lusts laid down , With the same ease the man puts on his gown ? Will avarice and concupiscence give place , Charmed by the sounds , your reverence ...
... dream , Yours real , and pernicious in the extreme . What then , - —are appetites and lusts laid down , With the same ease the man puts on his gown ? Will avarice and concupiscence give place , Charmed by the sounds , your reverence ...
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Page 274 - OH ! for a closer walk with God , A calm and heavenly frame ; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb...
Page 341 - And thus unto the youth she said That drove them to the Bell, This shall be yours when you bring back My husband safe and well. The youth did ride, and soon did meet John coming back amain, Whom in a trice he tried to stop By catching at his rein. But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted more, And made him faster run.
Page 428 - Its semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone, When, snatched from all effectual aid, We perished, each alone: But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.
Page 168 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 337 - I do admire Of womankind but one, And you are she, my dearest dear, Therefore it shall be done. " I am a linen-draper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the Calender Will lend his horse to go.
Page 316 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 202 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 136 - 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...
Page 274 - So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb.
Page 327 - OH, happy shades — to me unblest ! Friendly to peace, but not to me ! How ill the scene that offers rest, And heart that cannot rest, agree ! This glassy stream, that spreading pine, Those alders, quivering to the breeze, Might soothe a soul less hurt than mine, And please, if any thing could please. But fix'd unalterable Care Foregoes not what she feels within, Shows the same sadness every where, ' And slights the season and the scene.