Poems, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1788 |
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... shine , Within the twilight of their distant shades ; There , loft behind a rifing ground , the wood Seems funk , and shorten'd to its topmost boughs . No tree in all the grove but has its charms , Though each its hue peculiar ; paler ...
... shine , Within the twilight of their distant shades ; There , loft behind a rifing ground , the wood Seems funk , and shorten'd to its topmost boughs . No tree in all the grove but has its charms , Though each its hue peculiar ; paler ...
Page 40
... shine , There only minds like yours can do no harm . Our groves were planted to confole at noon The penfive wand'rer in their fhades . At eve The moon - beam , fliding foftly in between The fleeping leaves , is all the light they wish ...
... shine , There only minds like yours can do no harm . Our groves were planted to confole at noon The penfive wand'rer in their fhades . At eve The moon - beam , fliding foftly in between The fleeping leaves , is all the light they wish ...
Page 86
... shine abroad , And give the world their talents and themselves , Small thanks to thofe whofe negligence or floth Expos'd their inexperience to the fnare , And left them to an undirected choice . See then ! the quiver broken and decay'd ...
... shine abroad , And give the world their talents and themselves , Small thanks to thofe whofe negligence or floth Expos'd their inexperience to the fnare , And left them to an undirected choice . See then ! the quiver broken and decay'd ...
Page 133
... shine , the thirst to be amus'd , That at the found of Winter's hoary wing , Unpeople all our counties , of fuch herds Of flutt'ring , loit'ring , cringing , begging , loofe And wanton vagrants , as make London , vast And boundless as ...
... shine , the thirst to be amus'd , That at the found of Winter's hoary wing , Unpeople all our counties , of fuch herds Of flutt'ring , loit'ring , cringing , begging , loofe And wanton vagrants , as make London , vast And boundless as ...
Page 171
... Shine out ; there only reach their proper use , But man , affociated and leagu'd with man By regal warrant , or felf - join'd by bond For interest - fake , or fwarming into clans Beneath one head for purposes of war , Like flow'rs ...
... Shine out ; there only reach their proper use , But man , affociated and leagu'd with man By regal warrant , or felf - join'd by bond For interest - fake , or fwarming into clans Beneath one head for purposes of war , Like flow'rs ...
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