Juvenile poemsJ. French, 1777 - 195 pages |
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Page 38
... youth ferments your blood , And purer fpirits fwell the sprightly flood , Now range the hills , the gameful woods beset , Wind the fhrill horn , or fpread the waving net . When milder autumn fummer's heat fucceeds , And in the new ...
... youth ferments your blood , And purer fpirits fwell the sprightly flood , Now range the hills , the gameful woods beset , Wind the fhrill horn , or fpread the waving net . When milder autumn fummer's heat fucceeds , And in the new ...
Page 40
... youth rush eager to the fylvan war , Swarm o'er the lawns , the forest - walks surround , Rouze the fleet hart , and chear the opening hound . Th'impatient courfer pants in every vein , And pawing , feems to beat the distant plain ...
... youth rush eager to the fylvan war , Swarm o'er the lawns , the forest - walks surround , Rouze the fleet hart , and chear the opening hound . Th'impatient courfer pants in every vein , And pawing , feems to beat the distant plain ...
Page 48
... youths and painted chiefs admire Our speech , our colour , and our ftrange attire ! Oh stretch thy reign , fair Peace ! from shore to fhore , ' Fill conqueft ceafe , and flavery be no more ; " Till the freed Indians in their native ...
... youths and painted chiefs admire Our speech , our colour , and our ftrange attire ! Oh stretch thy reign , fair Peace ! from shore to fhore , ' Fill conqueft ceafe , and flavery be no more ; " Till the freed Indians in their native ...
Page 56
... youths that dy'd for love , Wandering in the myrtle grove , Restore , restore Eurydice to life : Oh take the husband , or return the wife ! He fung , and hell confented To hear the poet's prayer ; Stern Proferpine relented , And gave ...
... youths that dy'd for love , Wandering in the myrtle grove , Restore , restore Eurydice to life : Oh take the husband , or return the wife ! He fung , and hell confented To hear the poet's prayer ; Stern Proferpine relented , And gave ...
Page 59
... YOUTHS AND VIRGINS . SEMICHORUS . OH tyrant Love ! hast thou possest The prudent , learn d and virtuous breaft ? Wisdom and wit in vain reclaim , And arts but foften us to feel thy flame . Love , foft intruder , enters here , But ...
... YOUTHS AND VIRGINS . SEMICHORUS . OH tyrant Love ! hast thou possest The prudent , learn d and virtuous breaft ? Wisdom and wit in vain reclaim , And arts but foften us to feel thy flame . Love , foft intruder , enters here , But ...
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