The Muse's Pocket Companion: A Collection of PoemsJ. Milliken, 1785 - 289 páginas |
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... a ryhme ) , With vengeance to purfue your facrilegious crime . XLII . But hail , ye mighty makers of the lay , Nature's true fons , the friends of man and truth ! Whose song , sublimely fweet , ferenely gay , Amufed [ 14 ]
... a ryhme ) , With vengeance to purfue your facrilegious crime . XLII . But hail , ye mighty makers of the lay , Nature's true fons , the friends of man and truth ! Whose song , sublimely fweet , ferenely gay , Amufed [ 14 ]
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A Collection of Poems. Whose song , sublimely fweet , ferenely gay , Amufed my childhood , and inform'd my youth . O let your spirit ftill my bofom footh , Infpire my dreams , and my wild wanderings guide ! Your voice each rugged path of ...
A Collection of Poems. Whose song , sublimely fweet , ferenely gay , Amufed my childhood , and inform'd my youth . O let your spirit ftill my bofom footh , Infpire my dreams , and my wild wanderings guide ! Your voice each rugged path of ...
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... fweet fancy's ray ! and hail the dream That weans the weary foul from guilt and woe ! Careless what others of my choice may deem , I long where Love and Fancy lead to go , And meditate on heaven ; enough of earth I know . ' XXXIX . I ...
... fweet fancy's ray ! and hail the dream That weans the weary foul from guilt and woe ! Careless what others of my choice may deem , I long where Love and Fancy lead to go , And meditate on heaven ; enough of earth I know . ' XXXIX . I ...
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... fweet the words of truth breathed from the lips of LIII . • What cannot Art and Industry perform , < · · When Science plans the progrefs of their toil ! They fmile at penury , difeafe , and form ; And oceans from their mighty mounds ...
... fweet the words of truth breathed from the lips of LIII . • What cannot Art and Industry perform , < · · When Science plans the progrefs of their toil ! They fmile at penury , difeafe , and form ; And oceans from their mighty mounds ...
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... yet unfung remains ) What fweet delirium o'er his bofom itole , When the great Shepherd of the Mantuan plains * His deep majeftic melody ' gan to roll : * VIRGIL . Fain would I fing , what tranfport ftorm'd his foul [ 37 ]
... yet unfung remains ) What fweet delirium o'er his bofom itole , When the great Shepherd of the Mantuan plains * His deep majeftic melody ' gan to roll : * VIRGIL . Fain would I fing , what tranfport ftorm'd his foul [ 37 ]
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Página 212 - Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 148 - Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow flies...
Página 166 - 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.
Página 144 - A wretch forlorn," she cried; "Whose feet unhallow'd thus intrude Where Heaven and you reside. " But let a maid thy pity share, Whom love has taught to stray ; Who seeks for rest, but finds despair Companion of her way.
Página 152 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal : But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
Página 162 - I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Página 153 - Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Página 164 - But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment, tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Página 211 - 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.
Página 146 - Turn, Angelina, ever- dear. My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restored to love and thee. "Thus let me hold thee to my heart; And every care resign : And shall we never, never part, My life — my all that's mine ? " No, never from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true, The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too.