Poems, Volume 1T. Bedlington, 1826 |
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... plays upon its face ; The sportive light , uncertain where it falls , Now strikes the roof , now flashes on the walls . VOL . I. STEREOTYPED BY T. H. CARTER & CO . BOSTON . Boston : PUBLISHED BY TIMOTHY BEDLINGTON , No. 31 , WASHINGTON ...
... plays upon its face ; The sportive light , uncertain where it falls , Now strikes the roof , now flashes on the walls . VOL . I. STEREOTYPED BY T. H. CARTER & CO . BOSTON . Boston : PUBLISHED BY TIMOTHY BEDLINGTON , No. 31 , WASHINGTON ...
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... Playing , at beat of drum , their martial pranks , Should'ring and standing as if stuck to stone , While condescending majesty looks on ; If monarchy consist in such base things , Sighing , I say again , I pity kings ! To be suspected ...
... Playing , at beat of drum , their martial pranks , Should'ring and standing as if stuck to stone , While condescending majesty looks on ; If monarchy consist in such base things , Sighing , I say again , I pity kings ! To be suspected ...
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... play , ) To win no praise , when well - wrought plans prevail , But to be rudely censur'd when they fail ; To doubt the love his fav'rites may pretend , And in reality to find no friend ; 160 If he indulge a cultivated taste , His gall ...
... play , ) To win no praise , when well - wrought plans prevail , But to be rudely censur'd when they fail ; To doubt the love his fav'rites may pretend , And in reality to find no friend ; 160 If he indulge a cultivated taste , His gall ...
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... play the wanton with her pow'rs , Grow freakish , and , o'erleaping every mound , Spread anarchy and terrour all around ? B. Agreed . But would you sell or slay your horse For bounding and curvetting in his course ? 300 305 Or if , when ...
... play the wanton with her pow'rs , Grow freakish , and , o'erleaping every mound , Spread anarchy and terrour all around ? B. Agreed . But would you sell or slay your horse For bounding and curvetting in his course ? 300 305 Or if , when ...
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... play with syllables , and sport in song . 505 A. At Westminster , where little poets strive To set a distich upon six and five , Where Discipline helps th ' op'ning buds of sense ; And makes his pupils proud with silver pence , I was a ...
... play with syllables , and sport in song . 505 A. At Westminster , where little poets strive To set a distich upon six and five , Where Discipline helps th ' op'ning buds of sense ; And makes his pupils proud with silver pence , I was a ...
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ALEXANDER SELKIRK beams beneath bids bless'd bliss boast call'd charms courser dark dear deeds delight design'd divine docet dream e'en earth Edmonton errour ev'ry eyes fair fancy fear feel fire flags of France flow'rs folly fools form'd frown Gilpin give glory GLOW-WORM God's grace hand happy hast hear heart Heav'n hope hour int'rest JOHN GILPIN joys land light lov'd lust lyre magick mankind mercy mind muse musick Nature never night o'er once opticks pain pass'd peace pharisee pine-apples pity plac'd pleasure poet poet's pow'r praise pray'rs pride proud prove publick rude sacred scene scorn Scripture seem'd shine sight skies slave smile song soon sorrow soul sound Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste teach thee theme thine thou thought toil tongue trifler truth Twas VINCENT BOURNE VIRG virtue waste Whate'er wild wisdom wrath zeal
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Page 241 - Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman ! Not one of them was mute ; And all and each that pass'd that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before, That Gilpin rode a race.
Page 240 - Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before.
Page 237 - Were shatter'd at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, Most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke As they had basted been. But still he...
Page 238 - What news? what news? your tidings tell; Tell me you must and shall — Say why bare-headed you are come, Or why you come at all ? Now Gilpin had a pleasant wit, And loved a timely joke! And thus unto the calender In merry guise he spoke: I came because your horse would come; And, if I well forebode, My hat and wig will soon be here, They are upon the road.
Page 236 - His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. Away went Gilpin neck or nought, Away went hat and wig, He little dreamt when he set out Of running such a rig.
Page 179 - Ye winds ! that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 235 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more. Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, 'The wine is left behind!
Page 239 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. "But let me scrape the dirt away, That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
Page 165 - Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd.
Page 100 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropp'd upon his Bible was sincere ; Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.