Poems Selected and Printed by a Small Party of English, who Made this Amusement a Substitute for Society, which the Disturbed Situation of the Country Prevented Their Enjoyingin the month of February, 1792 - 91 pages |
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... labour free , Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree , While many a pastime circle'd in the shade , The young contending as the old survey'd ; ' And many a gambol frolicd o'er the ground , And fleights of art and feats of ...
... labour free , Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree , While many a pastime circle'd in the shade , The young contending as the old survey'd ; ' And many a gambol frolicd o'er the ground , And fleights of art and feats of ...
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... labour spread her wholesome store ; Juft gave what life requir'd , but gave no more ; His best companions , innocence and health ; And his best riches , ignorance of wealth . BUT times are alter'd : trade's unfeeling train Ufurp the ...
... labour spread her wholesome store ; Juft gave what life requir'd , but gave no more ; His best companions , innocence and health ; And his best riches , ignorance of wealth . BUT times are alter'd : trade's unfeeling train Ufurp the ...
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... crowns , in shades like these , A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try , And , fince ' tis hard to combat , learns to fly ! For For him no wretches , born to work and weep 4 THE DESERTED.
... crowns , in shades like these , A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try , And , fince ' tis hard to combat , learns to fly ! For For him no wretches , born to work and weep 4 THE DESERTED.
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... bleft ; That trade's proud empire haftes to swift decay , As ocean fweeps the labour'd mole away ; While felf - dependent pow'r can time defy , As rocks refift the billows and the sky . E WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH - Y A R D. VILLAGE . 17.
... bleft ; That trade's proud empire haftes to swift decay , As ocean fweeps the labour'd mole away ; While felf - dependent pow'r can time defy , As rocks refift the billows and the sky . E WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH - Y A R D. VILLAGE . 17.
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... labour'd to rear ; Not a shrub that I heard her admire But I hasted and planted it there . O how fudden the jeffamine strove With the lilac to render it gay ! Already it calls for my love , To prune the wild branches away . From the ...
... labour'd to rear ; Not a shrub that I heard her admire But I hasted and planted it there . O how fudden the jeffamine strove With the lilac to render it gay ! Already it calls for my love , To prune the wild branches away . From the ...
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Page 22 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 2 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 3 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Page 1 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 10 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 22 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 23 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Page 66 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Page 8 - The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 18 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.