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Pagina 6
... themes like these employ the poet's tongue , I hear as mute as if a syren sung . Or tell me , if you can , what power maintains A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains ? That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets ...
... themes like these employ the poet's tongue , I hear as mute as if a syren sung . Or tell me , if you can , what power maintains A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains ? That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets ...
Pagina 9
... theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee , th ' ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires ; Place me where winter breathes his ...
... theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee , th ' ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires ; Place me where winter breathes his ...
Pagina 14
... theme , that others never feel ; If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame , She pours a sensibility divine Along the nerve of every feeling line . But if a deed not tamely to be borne Fire ...
... theme , that others never feel ; If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame , She pours a sensibility divine Along the nerve of every feeling line . But if a deed not tamely to be borne Fire ...
Pagina 16
... theme , The fruit of all her labour is whipt - cream . As if an eagle flew aloft , and then --- Stooped from its highest pitch to pounce a wren , As if the poet , purposing to wed , Should carve himself a wife in gingerbread . Ages ...
... theme , The fruit of all her labour is whipt - cream . As if an eagle flew aloft , and then --- Stooped from its highest pitch to pounce a wren , As if the poet , purposing to wed , Should carve himself a wife in gingerbread . Ages ...
Pagina 17
... theme ! That theme on earth exhausted , though above ' Tis found as everlasting as his love , Man lavished all his thoughts on human things- The feats of heroes , and the wrath of kings : But still , while virtue kindled his delight ...
... theme ! That theme on earth exhausted , though above ' Tis found as everlasting as his love , Man lavished all his thoughts on human things- The feats of heroes , and the wrath of kings : But still , while virtue kindled his delight ...
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beauty beneath bids blest boast breath cause charms dæmons deem delight divine dream e'en earth ease East Dereham eyes fair fame fancy fear feel fire flowers folly frown give glory grace hand happy hast heard heart heaven honour hope hour human Inner Temple John Gilpin labour land light live lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature Nebaioth never night nymph o'er Olney Hymns once peace perhaps pleasure poet poet's praise pride prize proud prove rest Robert Throckmorton rude sacred scene scorn seek seems shine sighs sight skies smile song soon soul sound stand stream sweet taste telescopic eye thee theme thine thou art thought toil tongue trifler truth Twas VINCENT BOURNE virtue waste William Bull WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY WILLIAM WILBERFORCE wind wisdom wonder worth youth