The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the AuthorBaldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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... delicious vales , Green slopes and plains , whose plenty never fails ; S. C. - 9 . B Deep rooted groves , whose heads sublimely rise , Earth TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH OF MADAME DE MOTHE-GUION THE Nativity Poeme Heroique Tom iv Sect.
... delicious vales , Green slopes and plains , whose plenty never fails ; S. C. - 9 . B Deep rooted groves , whose heads sublimely rise , Earth TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH OF MADAME DE MOTHE-GUION THE Nativity Poeme Heroique Tom iv Sect.
Pàgina 4
... never tires , No God is like the God my soul desires ! He at whose voice heaven trembles , even He , Great as he is , knows how to stoop to me . Lo ! there he lies , -that smiling infant said , " Heaven , earth , and sea exist ! " — and ...
... never tires , No God is like the God my soul desires ! He at whose voice heaven trembles , even He , Great as he is , knows how to stoop to me . Lo ! there he lies , -that smiling infant said , " Heaven , earth , and sea exist ! " — and ...
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... never bestow A thought upon any thing filthy as dung . Let us leave it ourselves ( ' tis a mortal abode , ) To bask every moment in infinite Love ; Let us fly the dark winter , and follow the road That leads to the dayspring appearing ...
... never bestow A thought upon any thing filthy as dung . Let us leave it ourselves ( ' tis a mortal abode , ) To bask every moment in infinite Love ; Let us fly the dark winter , and follow the road That leads to the dayspring appearing ...
Pàgina 11
... Never to forsake it more ? No : - " My soul , " I cried , " be still ! If I must be lost , I will . " Next he hasten'd to convey Both my frail supports away 11 A figurative Description of the Procedure of Divine Love, in bringing a Soul ...
... Never to forsake it more ? No : - " My soul , " I cried , " be still ! If I must be lost , I will . " Next he hasten'd to convey Both my frail supports away 11 A figurative Description of the Procedure of Divine Love, in bringing a Soul ...
Pàgina 13
... Never strife shall more betide ' Twixt the Bridegroom and his Bride . A CHILD OF GOD LONGING TO SEE HIM BELOVED . THERE'S not an echo round me , But I am glad should learn How pure a fire has found me , The love with which I burn . For ...
... Never strife shall more betide ' Twixt the Bridegroom and his Bride . A CHILD OF GOD LONGING TO SEE HIM BELOVED . THERE'S not an echo round me , But I am glad should learn How pure a fire has found me , The love with which I burn . For ...
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The Works of William Cowper, Esq: Comprising His Poems ..., Volum 9 William Cowper,Robert Southey Visualització completa - 1836 |
The Works of William Cowper Comprising His Poems, Correspondence ..., Volum 9 William Cowper Visualització completa - 1836 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 88 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Pàgina 302 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit " But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case." Said John, — " It is my wedding-day, And all the world would stare, If wife should dine at Edmonton, And I should dine at Ware.
Pàgina 249 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Pàgina 229 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Pàgina 163 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Pàgina 303 - ... off with all his might, as he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away went Gilpin's hat and wig : He lost them sooner than at first; — for why? — they were too big. Now Mistress Gilpin, when she saw her husband posting down Into the country far away, she...
Pàgina 154 - 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.
Pàgina 70 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Pàgina 125 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Pàgina 87 - 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.