The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of ThomsonLippincott, Grambo & Company, 1854 - 553 pages |
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... Heart, - The Shining Light, . - - . . . . Thinning for God, - - - - . . . A Tale, . - . . . . . . Song on Peace, - . . . Bonnet to John Johnson, - - - . . . Inscription on a grove of Oaks, - - - - . Love Abused, . . - . . . . . Memorial ...
... Heart, - The Shining Light, . - - . . . . Thinning for God, - - - - . . . A Tale, . - . . . . . . Song on Peace, - . . . Bonnet to John Johnson, - - - . . . Inscription on a grove of Oaks, - - - - . Love Abused, . . - . . . . . Memorial ...
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... Heart , The Shining Light , Thirsting for God , A Tale , Song on Peace , Sonnet to John Johnson , Inscription on a grove of Oaks , Love Abused , Memorial for Ashley Cowper , Esq . To the memory of John Thornton , Esq . To a Young Friend ...
... Heart , The Shining Light , Thirsting for God , A Tale , Song on Peace , Sonnet to John Johnson , Inscription on a grove of Oaks , Love Abused , Memorial for Ashley Cowper , Esq . To the memory of John Thornton , Esq . To a Young Friend ...
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... heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art . When Labour and when Dullness , club in hand , Like the two figures at St. Dunstan's stand , Beating alternately , in measured time , The clock - work tintinabulum of rhyme , Exact and ...
... heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art . When Labour and when Dullness , club in hand , Like the two figures at St. Dunstan's stand , Beating alternately , in measured time , The clock - work tintinabulum of rhyme , Exact and ...
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... heart . Go , fool ; and , arm in arm with Clodio , plead Your cause before a bar you little dread ; But know , the law that bids the drunkard die , Is far too just to pass the trifler by . Both baby - featured , and of infant size ...
... heart . Go , fool ; and , arm in arm with Clodio , plead Your cause before a bar you little dread ; But know , the law that bids the drunkard die , Is far too just to pass the trifler by . Both baby - featured , and of infant size ...
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... heart , was worthy of thine own ! Now , while the poison all high life pervades , Write , if thou canst , one letter from the shades ; One , and one only , charged with deep regret , That thy worse part , thy principles , live yet : One ...
... heart , was worthy of thine own ! Now , while the poison all high life pervades , Write , if thou canst , one letter from the shades ; One , and one only , charged with deep regret , That thy worse part , thy principles , live yet : One ...
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Æsop beauty beneath bids blessing blest boast breath cause charms dear cousin death delight divine dream e'en earth ease eyes fair fancy fear feel flowers folly frown give glory grace hand happy hast hear heard heart Heaven HESKETH honour hope hour human Huntingdon John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON JOSEPH HILL labour land less light live lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature Nebaioth never nymph o'er Olney once pain palæstra peace perhaps pleasure poet poet's praise pride prize prove rest sacred scene scorn Scripture seek seems shine sigh sight skies smile song soon soul sound stream sweet taste telescopic eye thee theme thine things thou thought toil trifler true truth Twas UNWIN verse Vincent Bourne virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY wind wisdom wish wonder worth youth