Poems, Volumen1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... eyes the flatterer bows , And binds a wreath about their baby brows ; Whom education stiffens into state , And death awakens from that dream too late . Oh ! if servility with supple knees , Whose trade it is to smile , to crouch , to ...
... eyes the flatterer bows , And binds a wreath about their baby brows ; Whom education stiffens into state , And death awakens from that dream too late . Oh ! if servility with supple knees , Whose trade it is to smile , to crouch , to ...
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... eyes ; No shades of superstition blot the day , Liberty chases all that gloom away ; The soul , emancipated , unoppressed , Free to prove all things and hold fast the best , Learns much ; and to a thousand listening minds Communicates ...
... eyes ; No shades of superstition blot the day , Liberty chases all that gloom away ; The soul , emancipated , unoppressed , Free to prove all things and hold fast the best , Learns much ; and to a thousand listening minds Communicates ...
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... eye like his to catch the distant goal : Or , ere the wheels of verse begin to roll , Like his to shed illuminating rays On every scene and subject it surveys : Thus graced , the man asserts a poet's name , And the world cheerfully ...
... eye like his to catch the distant goal : Or , ere the wheels of verse begin to roll , Like his to shed illuminating rays On every scene and subject it surveys : Thus graced , the man asserts a poet's name , And the world cheerfully ...
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... eye - ball to be seen . Still I insist , though music heretofore Has charmed me much , ( not even Occiduus more ) Love , joy , and peace make harmony more meet For sabbath evenings , and perhaps as sweet . Will not the sickliest sheep ...
... eye - ball to be seen . Still I insist , though music heretofore Has charmed me much , ( not even Occiduus more ) Love , joy , and peace make harmony more meet For sabbath evenings , and perhaps as sweet . Will not the sickliest sheep ...
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... eyes , Folly and innocence are so alike , The difference , though essential , fails to strike . Yet folly ever has a vacant stare , A simpering countenance , and a trifling air ; But innocence , sedate , serene , erect , Delights us ...
... eyes , Folly and innocence are so alike , The difference , though essential , fails to strike . Yet folly ever has a vacant stare , A simpering countenance , and a trifling air ; But innocence , sedate , serene , erect , Delights us ...
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Página 423 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. "Stop, stop, John Gilpin!— Here's the house !" They all at once did cry; "The dinner waits, and we are tired;"— Said Gilpin, "So am I!
Página 417 - 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!' ' Good lack,' quoth he — ' yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Página 419 - So, Fair and softly ! John he cried ; But John he cried in vain, That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Página 298 - 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.
Página 322 - 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.
Página 431 - The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown : No traveller ever reached that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briars in his road.
Página 304 - a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet.
Página 375 - All sustain'd by patience, taught us Only by a broken heart! / Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS.
Página 320 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 414 - John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.