Poems. With an introductory essay by J. Montgomery1826 |
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... Prize it , ye ministers ; ye monarchs , spare ; Ye patriots , guard it with a miser's care . A. Patriots , alas ! the few that have been found , Where most they flourish , upon English ground , The country's need have scantily supplied ...
... Prize it , ye ministers ; ye monarchs , spare ; Ye patriots , guard it with a miser's care . A. Patriots , alas ! the few that have been found , Where most they flourish , upon English ground , The country's need have scantily supplied ...
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... prize of happier times , will serve thee now . Our ancestry , a gallant , Christian race , Patterns of every virtue , every grace , Confessed a God ; they kneeled before they fought , And praised him in the victories he wrought . Now ...
... prize of happier times , will serve thee now . Our ancestry , a gallant , Christian race , Patterns of every virtue , every grace , Confessed a God ; they kneeled before they fought , And praised him in the victories he wrought . Now ...
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... prize belongs to none but the sincere ; The least obliquity is fatal here . With caution taste the sweet Circean cup : He that sips often , at last drinks it up . Habits are soon assumed ; but when we strive To PROGRESS OF ERROR . 91.
... prize belongs to none but the sincere ; The least obliquity is fatal here . With caution taste the sweet Circean cup : He that sips often , at last drinks it up . Habits are soon assumed ; but when we strive To PROGRESS OF ERROR . 91.
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... prize . Grace leads the right way : if you choose the wrong , Take it and perish ; but restrain your tongue ; Charge not , with light sufficient , and left free , Your wilful suicide on God's decree . O how unlike the complex works of ...
... prize . Grace leads the right way : if you choose the wrong , Take it and perish ; but restrain your tongue ; Charge not , with light sufficient , and left free , Your wilful suicide on God's decree . O how unlike the complex works of ...
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... prize . Envy , ye great , the dull unlettered small : Ye have much cause for envy - but not all . We boast some rich ones whom the gospel sways , And one who wears a coronet and prays : Like gleanings of an olive tree they show , Here ...
... prize . Envy , ye great , the dull unlettered small : Ye have much cause for envy - but not all . We boast some rich ones whom the gospel sways , And one who wears a coronet and prays : Like gleanings of an olive tree they show , Here ...
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ALEXANDER SELKIRK Beau marked beauty beneath bids blest boast breath cause charms Cowper deem delight distant divine dream e'en earth ease eyes fair fame fancy fatal egg fear feel fire flowers folly frown fruit give glory grace hand happy hast heart Heaven honour hope human John Gilpin JOSEPH HILL labour land light live lyre mankind mercy mind mounted best muse nature Nature's Nebaioth never o'er once palæstra peace perhaps PINE-APPLE pity pleasure poet poet's praise pride prize proud prove red vengeance rude sacred scene scorn seek seems shade shine sighs sight skies slave smile song soon soul sound stand stream sweet task taste telescopic eye thee theme thine thought thousand toil tongue trifler truth Twas verse VINCENT BOURNE virtue waste whate'er wind wisdom wisely store wonder worth youth
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Page 463 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Page 386 - I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Page 339 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Page 439 - He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more.
Page 385 - 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 386 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after...
Page 469 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.
Page 442 - 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.
Page 459 - Other Romans shall arise Heedless of a soldier's name; Sounds, not arms, shall win the prize, Harmony the path to fame.
Page 284 - I crown thee King of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know.