The Poetical Works of William Cowper, 2권W. Pickering, 1830 |
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... , and the feet hung dangling down , Anxious in vain to find the distant floor . These for the rich ; the rest , whom Fate had placed In modest mediocrity , content With base materials , sat on well tann'd hides , 4 B. I. THE TASK .
... , and the feet hung dangling down , Anxious in vain to find the distant floor . These for the rich ; the rest , whom Fate had placed In modest mediocrity , content With base materials , sat on well tann'd hides , 4 B. I. THE TASK .
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... vain , But cawing rooks , and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles , screaming loud , The jay , the pie , and e'en the boding owl , That hails the rising moon , have charms for me . Sounds inharmonious in themselves and ...
... vain , But cawing rooks , and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles , screaming loud , The jay , the pie , and e'en the boding owl , That hails the rising moon , have charms for me . Sounds inharmonious in themselves and ...
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... Vain thought ! the dweller in that still retreat Dearly obtains the refuge it affords . Its elevated site forbids the wretch To drink sweet waters of the crystal well ; He dips his bowl into the weedy ditch , And , heavy laden , brings ...
... Vain thought ! the dweller in that still retreat Dearly obtains the refuge it affords . Its elevated site forbids the wretch To drink sweet waters of the crystal well ; He dips his bowl into the weedy ditch , And , heavy laden , brings ...
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... The tumult and the overthrow , the pangs And agonies of human and of brute Multitudes , fugitive on every side , And fugitive in vain . The sylvan scene Migrates uplifted ; and , with all its soil Alighting 36 B. II . THE TASK .
... The tumult and the overthrow , the pangs And agonies of human and of brute Multitudes , fugitive on every side , And fugitive in vain . The sylvan scene Migrates uplifted ; and , with all its soil Alighting 36 B. II . THE TASK .
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... ambitious not to sing in vain , I would not trifle merely , though the world Be loudest in their praise who do no more . Yet what can satire , whether grave or gay ? It may correct a foible , may chastise The freaks THE TIME - PIECE . 43.
... ambitious not to sing in vain , I would not trifle merely , though the world Be loudest in their praise who do no more . Yet what can satire , whether grave or gay ? It may correct a foible , may chastise The freaks THE TIME - PIECE . 43.
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Æsop Aspasio beauty beneath betimes boast breath call'd cause charms creatures death delight design'd distant divine dread dream e'en earth ease fair fame fancy farewell flight fear feed feel fieldfare flowers folly form'd fruit grace grave hand happy happy prisoners hast heard heart Heaven high raised honour hope infant sorrows John Throckmorton labour learn'd less life's live lyre mind mischief mounted best muse nature Nature's Nebaioth never numbers o'er once pass'd peace perhaps play pleasure plebeian praise prize proud prove rest sacred scene schools seek seem'd sensual world shade shine sight skies smile song soon soul sound Stamp'd sweet task taste taste Of evils thee theme thine thou art thought toil truth vex'd virtue voice waste WILLIAM COWPER winds winter wisdom wise wisely store wonder worth youth
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97 페이지 - tis the twanging horn ! o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright, He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks ; News from all nations lumbering at his back.
34 페이지 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast : Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not "blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man...
33 페이지 - 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...
13 페이지 - Nor less attractive is the woodland scene, Diversified with trees of every growth, Alike yet various. Here the grey smooth trunks Of ash, or lime, or beech, distinctly shine, Within the twilight of their distant shades ; There lost behind a rising ground, the wood Seems sunk, and shorten'd to its topmost boughs.
254 페이지 - Could time, his flight reversed, restore the hours, When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I prick'd them into paper with a pin, (And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head and smile...
256 페이지 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents pass'd into the skies.
163 페이지 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half...
100 페이지 - The manners, customs, policy of all Pay contribution to the store he gleans ; He sucks intelligence in every clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return — a rich repast for me.
299 페이지 - Though duly from my hand he took His pittance every night, He did it with a jealous look, And, when he could, would bite. His diet was of wheaten bread, And milk, and oats, and straw ; Thistles, or lettuces instead, With sand to scour his maw. On twigs of hawthorn he regaled, On pippins...
8 페이지 - The sloping land recedes into the clouds; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tow'r, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the list'ning ear, Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.