A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Volume 4Robert Dodsley |
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... fwain at first exhorting chides Their feely fear ; at length impatient grown , With his rude crook he wounds their tender fides ; And all regardless of their piteous moan , Into the dashing wave compels them furious down . a Faitour ...
... fwain at first exhorting chides Their feely fear ; at length impatient grown , With his rude crook he wounds their tender fides ; And all regardless of their piteous moan , Into the dashing wave compels them furious down . a Faitour ...
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... fwain with ruddy cheek Prepares to yoke his oxen meek , And early dreft in neat array The milk - maid chanting fhrill her lay , Comes abroad with milking pail ; And the found of distant flail Gives the ear a rough good - morrow , And ...
... fwain with ruddy cheek Prepares to yoke his oxen meek , And early dreft in neat array The milk - maid chanting fhrill her lay , Comes abroad with milking pail ; And the found of distant flail Gives the ear a rough good - morrow , And ...
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... fwain , who looks with cark aftoun'd " Because his leman ill rewards his care , " Oh , let him ftond to all a lout renown'd , " Ne gibing fcorn her twitting bords forhear ; " Are there not other nymphs lefs coy , and full as fair ...
... fwain , who looks with cark aftoun'd " Because his leman ill rewards his care , " Oh , let him ftond to all a lout renown'd , " Ne gibing fcorn her twitting bords forhear ; " Are there not other nymphs lefs coy , and full as fair ...
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... fwain reply'd , " O gentle youth , " Yon fruitful meads my num'rous herds poffefs'd , " My days roll'd on unknown to pain or ruth , And one fair daughter my old age yblefs'd . " Oh , " Oh , had you feen her for the wake ( 144 )
... fwain reply'd , " O gentle youth , " Yon fruitful meads my num'rous herds poffefs'd , " My days roll'd on unknown to pain or ruth , And one fair daughter my old age yblefs'd . " Oh , " Oh , had you feen her for the wake ( 144 )
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... fwain on Shannon's banks yborn " ( Had not my care the deep - laid plot prevented ) " Would from my arms my Rofabel have born . " Have I not caufe to weep from rifing morn " " Til ! Phoebus welketh in the western main , " To fee my ...
... fwain on Shannon's banks yborn " ( Had not my care the deep - laid plot prevented ) " Would from my arms my Rofabel have born . " Have I not caufe to weep from rifing morn " " Til ! Phoebus welketh in the western main , " To fee my ...
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Page 5 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 5 - Tis folly to be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When...
Page 5 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 340 - With the lilac to render it gay ! Already it calls for my love, To prune the wild branches away.
Page 143 - And scarce a sycophant was fed by pride; Where ne'er was known the form of mock debate, Or seen a new-made mayor's unwieldy state; Where change of fav'rites made no change of laws, And senates heard before they judg'da cause; How wouldst thou shake at Britain's modish tribe, Dart the quick taunt, and edge the piercing gibe?
Page 5 - Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
Page 242 - Our portion is not large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For nature's calls are few : In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do.
Page 149 - But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 5 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 5 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.