Poetical Blossoms. Being a Selection of Short Poems: Intended for Young People to Repeat from Memory. By the Rev. Mr. CooperE. Newbery, 1793 - 176 pages |
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... charms his sheep , While the birds unbounded fly , And with music fill the sky , Now , ev'n now , my joys run high . } INCONSISTENCY OF MIND . SUCH is our inconsistency of mind , We court fociety and hate mankind , With fome we quarrel ...
... charms his sheep , While the birds unbounded fly , And with music fill the sky , Now , ev'n now , my joys run high . } INCONSISTENCY OF MIND . SUCH is our inconsistency of mind , We court fociety and hate mankind , With fome we quarrel ...
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... charms decay . Among the good it meets with no applause , And to its ruin the malicious draws : A flave to all who force it , or entice , It falls by chance in virtue or in vice . WIT AND MEMORY . HOW hard foe'er it be to bridle wit ...
... charms decay . Among the good it meets with no applause , And to its ruin the malicious draws : A flave to all who force it , or entice , It falls by chance in virtue or in vice . WIT AND MEMORY . HOW hard foe'er it be to bridle wit ...
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... charm to - day , or o'er a glass , Perhaps at court , or next day , would not país . Then leave to low buffoons , by custom bred , And form'd by nature to be kick'd and fed , The vulgar and unenvied task , to hit All perfons right or ...
... charm to - day , or o'er a glass , Perhaps at court , or next day , would not país . Then leave to low buffoons , by custom bred , And form'd by nature to be kick'd and fed , The vulgar and unenvied task , to hit All perfons right or ...
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... charms and honours of the war , Who hop'd to fhare his friend's illustrious doom , And in the battle find a ... CHARM me , ye powers [ 16 ] PROSPECT OF PEACE. ...
... charms and honours of the war , Who hop'd to fhare his friend's illustrious doom , And in the battle find a ... CHARM me , ye powers [ 16 ] PROSPECT OF PEACE. ...
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... CHARM me , ye powers , with scenes lefs nobly bright , Far humbler thoughts th ' inglorious mufe de light , Content to see the horrors of the field By plough - fhares levell'd , or in flowers con- ceal'd . O'er fhatter'd walls may ...
... CHARM me , ye powers , with scenes lefs nobly bright , Far humbler thoughts th ' inglorious mufe de light , Content to see the horrors of the field By plough - fhares levell'd , or in flowers con- ceal'd . O'er fhatter'd walls may ...
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Page 14 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO MERCY.
Page 66 - LET observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Page 103 - Tis here with boundless power I reign, And every health which I begin Converts dull port to bright champagne ; Such freedom crowns it at an Inn. I fly from pomp, I fly from plate! I fly from Falsehood's specious grin ! Freedom I love, and form I hate, And choose my lodgings at an Inn. Here, waiter ! take my sordid ore, Which...
Page 78 - Shall through the gloomy vale attend, And cheer our dying breath ; Shall, when all other comforts cease, Like a kind angel whisper peace, And smooth the bed of death.
Page 73 - How blest my days, my thoughts how free, In sweet society with thee ! Then all was joyous, all was young, And years unheeded...
Page 166 - Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile : The barren wilderness shall smile, With sudden greens and herbage crowned, And streams shall murmur all around...
Page 28 - HAIL, mildly pleasing solitude, Companion of the wise and good, But, from whose holy, piercing eye, The herd of fools and villains fly.
Page 79 - Let me ne more myfelf deceive ; Ne more regret the toys I leave ; The world I quit, the proud, the vain, Corruption's and Ambition's train ; But not the good, perdie nor fair...
Page 3 - As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air Which to those who journey near Barren, brown and rough appear: Still we tread the same coarse way; The present's still a cloudy day.
Page 92 - I have nothing to do but to weep. Yet do not my folly reprove ; She was fair — and my passion begun ; She smil'd — and I could not but love ; She is faithless — and I am undone.