The Muse's Pocket Companion: A Collection of PoemsJ. Milliken, 1785 - 289 páginas |
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... made for man below . Yet all her fchemes with niceft art are plann'd , Good counteracting ill , and gladness wo . With gold and gems if Chilian mountains glow , If bleak and barren Scotia's hills arife ; There plague [ 4 ]
... made for man below . Yet all her fchemes with niceft art are plann'd , Good counteracting ill , and gladness wo . With gold and gems if Chilian mountains glow , If bleak and barren Scotia's hills arife ; There plague [ 4 ]
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A Collection of Poems. If bleak and barren Scotia's hills arife ; There plague and poifon , luft and rapine grow ; Here peaceful are the vales , and pure the skies , And freedom fires the foul , and fparkles in the eyes . VII . Then ...
A Collection of Poems. If bleak and barren Scotia's hills arife ; There plague and poifon , luft and rapine grow ; Here peaceful are the vales , and pure the skies , And freedom fires the foul , and fparkles in the eyes . VII . Then ...
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... hills emerge ; and lo , The trees with foliage , cliffs with flowers are crown'd ; Pure rills through vales of verdure warbling go ; And wonder , love , and joy , the peafant's heart o'erflow . * LX . Here paufe my Gothic lyre , a ...
... hills emerge ; and lo , The trees with foliage , cliffs with flowers are crown'd ; Pure rills through vales of verdure warbling go ; And wonder , love , and joy , the peafant's heart o'erflow . * LX . Here paufe my Gothic lyre , a ...
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... hills , and glittering waves , and fkies in gold array'd . VIII . Along this narrow valley you might fee The wild deer fporting on the meadow ground , And here and there , a folitary tree , Or moffy ftone , or rock with woodbine crown'd ...
... hills , and glittering waves , and fkies in gold array'd . VIII . Along this narrow valley you might fee The wild deer fporting on the meadow ground , And here and there , a folitary tree , Or moffy ftone , or rock with woodbine crown'd ...
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... hill that skirts the down : Where a green graffy turff is all I crave , With here and there a violet beftrown , Faft by a brook , or fountain's murmuring wave ; And many an evening fun fhine fweetly on my grave . XVIII . And thither let ...
... hill that skirts the down : Where a green graffy turff is all I crave , With here and there a violet beftrown , Faft by a brook , or fountain's murmuring wave ; And many an evening fun fhine fweetly on my grave . XVIII . And thither let ...
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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.