A collection of poems, by several hands [ed. by R. Dodsley]. [2 other copies of vols. 5,6].1766 |
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... bear below . Curs'd by the hind , when to the spoil he yields His year's whole sweat and vainly - ripen'd fields ; Curs'd by the maid , torn from her lover's fide , When left a widow , though not yet a bride ; By mothers curs'd , when ...
... bear below . Curs'd by the hind , when to the spoil he yields His year's whole sweat and vainly - ripen'd fields ; Curs'd by the maid , torn from her lover's fide , When left a widow , though not yet a bride ; By mothers curs'd , when ...
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... bear ; With Runic lays Smolensko's forests ring , And wond'ring Volga hears the Mufes fing . Did not the painted kings of India greet . Our Queen , and lay their fcepters at her feet ? Chiefs who full bowls of hoftile blood had quaff'd ...
... bear ; With Runic lays Smolensko's forests ring , And wond'ring Volga hears the Mufes fing . Did not the painted kings of India greet . Our Queen , and lay their fcepters at her feet ? Chiefs who full bowls of hoftile blood had quaff'd ...
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... bear he spies , And freezing spangles of the Lapland skies ; Now fwells his canvafs to the fultry line , With glitt'ring spoils where Indian grottoes shine ; Where fumes of incenfe glad the southern feas , And wafted citron fcents the ...
... bear he spies , And freezing spangles of the Lapland skies ; Now fwells his canvafs to the fultry line , With glitt'ring spoils where Indian grottoes shine ; Where fumes of incenfe glad the southern feas , And wafted citron fcents the ...
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... bears a tempeft on his founding wings , And his red arm the forky vengeance flings ; At length , heav'n's wrath appeas'd , he quits the war , To roll his orb , and guide his deftin'd ftar , To fhed kind fate , and lucky hours beftow ...
... bears a tempeft on his founding wings , And his red arm the forky vengeance flings ; At length , heav'n's wrath appeas'd , he quits the war , To roll his orb , and guide his deftin'd ftar , To fhed kind fate , and lucky hours beftow ...
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... bear my corfe , ye comrades dear , " The bridegroom blithe to meet ; " He in his wedding - trim fo gay , " I in my winding - fheet . " XII . She fpake , the dy'd , her corfe was borne , The bridegroom blithe to meet ; He in his wedding ...
... bear my corfe , ye comrades dear , " The bridegroom blithe to meet ; " He in his wedding - trim fo gay , " I in my winding - fheet . " XII . She fpake , the dy'd , her corfe was borne , The bridegroom blithe to meet ; He in his wedding ...
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Página 242 - While partial Fame doth with her blasts adorn Such deeds alone as pride and pomp disguise; Deeds of ill sort, and mischievous emprize...
Página 325 - Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As musing slow I hail Thy genial loved return. For when thy folding-star * arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours, and Elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.
Página 216 - Trees unnumber'd rise, Beautiful in various Dyes : The gloomy Pine, the Poplar blue, The yellow Beech, the sable Yew, The slender Fir...
Página 326 - And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Página 324 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO MERCY.
Página 139 - And may my humble dwelling stand Upon some chosen spot of land : A pond before full to the brim, Where cows may cool, and geese may swim; Behind, a green like velvet neat, Soft to the eye, and to the feet; Where od'rous plants in evening fair Breathe all around ambrosial air...
Página 194 - This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways.
Página 217 - And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life, to endless sleep...
Página 217 - But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Página 200 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His pow'rful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast.