Poetical Blossoms. Being a Selection of Short Poems: Intended for Young People to Repeat from Memory. By the Rev. Mr. CooperE. Newbery, 1793 - 176 pages |
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... O'er other men , must with himself begin ; Elfe , like a town by mutiny opprefs'd , He's ruin'd by the foe within his breast . And they alone , who in themselves oft view Man's image , know what method to pursue . All other creatures ...
... O'er other men , must with himself begin ; Elfe , like a town by mutiny opprefs'd , He's ruin'd by the foe within his breast . And they alone , who in themselves oft view Man's image , know what method to pursue . All other creatures ...
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... o'er which it never ought to pass . When stretch'd too far , its honour dies away , Its merit finks , and all its charms decay . Among the good it meets with no applause , And to its ruin the malicious draws : A flave to all who force ...
... o'er which it never ought to pass . When stretch'd too far , its honour dies away , Its merit finks , and all its charms decay . Among the good it meets with no applause , And to its ruin the malicious draws : A flave to all who force ...
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... o'er a glass , Perhaps at court , or next day , would not país . Then leave to low buffoons , by custom bred , And form'd by nature to be kick'd and fed , The vulgar and unenvied task , to hit All perfons right or wrong with random wit ...
... o'er a glass , Perhaps at court , or next day , would not país . Then leave to low buffoons , by custom bred , And form'd by nature to be kick'd and fed , The vulgar and unenvied task , to hit All perfons right or wrong with random wit ...
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... o'er and o'er , To find if all be not refolv'd before . If such the case , in spite of all his art , Some words will give the foundings of his heart : And why fhould you a bootlefs freedom ufe , That serves him not , and may his ...
... o'er and o'er , To find if all be not refolv'd before . If such the case , in spite of all his art , Some words will give the foundings of his heart : And why fhould you a bootlefs freedom ufe , That serves him not , and may his ...
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... O'er fhatter'd walls may creeping ivy twine , And grass luxuriant cloath the harmless mine ; Tame flocks afcend the breach without a wound , Or crop the bastion , now a fruitful ground ; While fhepherds fleep , along the rampart laid ...
... O'er fhatter'd walls may creeping ivy twine , And grass luxuriant cloath the harmless mine ; Tame flocks afcend the breach without a wound , Or crop the bastion , now a fruitful ground ; While fhepherds fleep , along the rampart laid ...
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Page 14 - 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.
Page 66 - LET observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Page 103 - Tis here with boundless power I reign, And every health which I begin Converts dull port to bright champagne ; Such freedom crowns it at an Inn. I fly from pomp, I fly from plate! I fly from Falsehood's specious grin ! Freedom I love, and form I hate, And choose my lodgings at an Inn. Here, waiter ! take my sordid ore, Which...
Page 78 - Shall through the gloomy vale attend, And cheer our dying breath ; Shall, when all other comforts cease, Like a kind angel whisper peace, And smooth the bed of death.
Page 73 - How blest my days, my thoughts how free, In sweet society with thee ! Then all was joyous, all was young, And years unheeded...
Page 166 - Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile : The barren wilderness shall smile, With sudden greens and herbage crowned, And streams shall murmur all around...
Page 28 - HAIL, mildly pleasing solitude, Companion of the wise and good, But, from whose holy, piercing eye, The herd of fools and villains fly.
Page 79 - Let me ne more myfelf deceive ; Ne more regret the toys I leave ; The world I quit, the proud, the vain, Corruption's and Ambition's train ; But not the good, perdie nor fair...
Page 3 - As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air Which to those who journey near Barren, brown and rough appear: Still we tread the same coarse way; The present's still a cloudy day.
Page 92 - I have nothing to do but to weep. Yet do not my folly reprove ; She was fair — and my passion begun ; She smil'd — and I could not but love ; She is faithless — and I am undone.