 Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy, and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which if He please God in a moment executes with ease)...  Poems - Page 183by William Cowper - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pages
...as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy, and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which if he plta.e God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 460 pages
...as heads that never achs suppose, Forgery of fancy, and adfeam of woes , Man is a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use." " No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels, No cure for such, till God, who makes them, heals."... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 434 pages
...heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy, and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use." " No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels, No cure for such, till God, who makes th«m, heals."... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 530 pages
...woes ; Man is a harp, whose cords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The serews reversed, (a task, which, if he please, God in a moment...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.' ' No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels, No cure for such, till God who made them, heals.' And... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...is a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony dispos'd aright ; The screws revers'd (a task which if he please God in a moment executes...once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their pow'r and use. Then neither healthy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompens'd the peasant's care,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...a harp, whose chords elude the sight. Each yielding harmony, dispos'd aright; The screws revers'd, (a task which, if he please, God in a moment executes...once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their pow'r and use. Then neither healthy wilds, nor scenes as fair A* ever recompens'd the peasant's care,... | |
 | Benjamin Rush - 1830 - 400 pages
...it as "A harp, whose chorda elude the Each yielding harmony, dispos'd aright. The screws revers'd! (A task, which, if he please, God in a moment executes with ease) Ten thousand times ten thousand strings go loose ; Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use." There is a... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy, and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright...executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at oifcc go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright ; The screws revers'd (& task which, if he please, God in a moment executes...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.' The uninterrupted enjoyment of our mental powers, in full vigour and activity, is a blessing for which... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...we may now examine the deplorable case of one that is disordered : — Man is a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which, if he p'ease, God in a moment executes with ease), Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost,... | |
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