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Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round , Where'er his stages may have been , May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn . A SIMILE . WHAT Village but has sometimes seen The clumsy shape , the frightful mien ...
Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round , Where'er his stages may have been , May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn . A SIMILE . WHAT Village but has sometimes seen The clumsy shape , the frightful mien ...
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appear arms bear beauty beneath breast breath bright charms dark dear death deep delight divine dreadful Earth eternal eyes fair fall fame fate fear fields fire flame flowers give glory grace grove hand happy head hear heart Heaven hills honour hope hour human immortal kind king labour land leave light live Lord maid mind mortal Muse Nature never night o'er once pain passion peace plain pleasure poet praise pride reason rich rise round sacred scene shade shine shore sing skies smile soft song soon soul sound spread strain stream sweet tears thee thine things thou thought throne toil truth turn vain vale various verse virtue wave wide wild wind Young youth
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Seite 206 - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail, Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Seite 205 - He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down, And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ; And ever and anon he beat...
Seite 204 - IF AUGHT of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Seite 206 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round : Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Seite 219 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong...
Seite 207 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove ; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew...
Seite 422 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Seite 205 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Seite 328 - In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name...
Seite 425 - All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage. When young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young Band 13 von The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Alexander Chalmers |
| Herausgeber | Alexander Chalmers |
| Verlag | J. Johnson, 1810 |
| Original von | Harvard University |
| Digitalisiert | 1. Febr. 2008 |
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