Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin and other poemsBaldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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... sleep a God bestows . GLORY TO GOD ALONE . OH loved ! but not enough — though dearer far Than self and its most loved enjoyments are ; None duly loves thee , but who , nobly free From sensual objects , finds his all in Thee . Glory of ...
... sleep a God bestows . GLORY TO GOD ALONE . OH loved ! but not enough — though dearer far Than self and its most loved enjoyments are ; None duly loves thee , but who , nobly free From sensual objects , finds his all in Thee . Glory of ...
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... SLEEP at last has fled these eyes , Nor do I regret his flight , More alert my spirits rise , And my heart is free and light . Nature silent all around , Not a single witness near ; God as soon as sought is found , And the flame of love ...
... SLEEP at last has fled these eyes , Nor do I regret his flight , More alert my spirits rise , And my heart is free and light . Nature silent all around , Not a single witness near ; God as soon as sought is found , And the flame of love ...
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... Sleep , self - lovers is for you ; - Souls that love celestial know , Fairer scenes by night can view . Than the sun could ever show . ON THE SAME . SEASON of my purest pleasure , Sealer of observing eyes ! When , in larger , freer ...
... Sleep , self - lovers is for you ; - Souls that love celestial know , Fairer scenes by night can view . Than the sun could ever show . ON THE SAME . SEASON of my purest pleasure , Sealer of observing eyes ! When , in larger , freer ...
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... sleep instils her poppy In every slumbering eye , I watch , to meditate and muse , In blest tranquillity . dews And when I feel a God immense Familiarly impart , With every proof he can dispense , His favour to my heart ; My native ...
... sleep instils her poppy In every slumbering eye , I watch , to meditate and muse , In blest tranquillity . dews And when I feel a God immense Familiarly impart , With every proof he can dispense , His favour to my heart ; My native ...
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... sleep has no delights for me , Lest thou shouldst disappear . My Saviour ! occupy me still In this secure recess ; Let Reason slumber if she will , My joy shall not be less : Let Reason slumber out the night ; But if thou deign to make ...
... sleep has no delights for me , Lest thou shouldst disappear . My Saviour ! occupy me still In this secure recess ; Let Reason slumber if she will , My joy shall not be less : Let Reason slumber out the night ; But if thou deign to make ...
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beauty beneath bliss boast breath cause charms Cowper dear deep delight distant divine divine simplicity dream Dunciad earth ease fair fame fancy fear feel Fête champêtre flower folly form'd frown glory grace grove hand happy heart heaven honour human John Gilpin Julius Cæsar King L'Allegro labour less live Lord lost Mighty winds mind nature Nature's Nebaioth never night o'er once pain peace pleased pleasure Pope praise proud prove pure repose rove rude sacred Satire Satire iv Satire vi scene scorn secret fire seek shades shine sighs sight silent skies sleep smile Soame Jenyns song Sonnet 18 soon sorrow soul Spleen stream sweet task taste thee theme thine things thou art thou hast thought toil trembling truth Twas Vincent Bourne virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wonder worth
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Página 98 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Página 80 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Página 97 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Página 235 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude, unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Página 261 - Come then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy .' It was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood.
Página 129 - Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 305 - Now Mistress Gilpin, careful soul, Had two stone bottles found, To hold the liquor that she loved, And keep it safe and sound. Each bottle had a curling ear, Through which the belt he drew, And hung a bottle on each side To make his balance true. Then over all, that he might be Equipped from top to toe, His long red cloak well brushed and neat He manfully did throw.
Página 259 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us-! " The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Página 309 - 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.