 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...addressed to Mrs. Unwin. No language can exhibit a specimen of verse more exquisitely tender. TO MARY. The twentieth year is well nigh past, Since first our...have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow — 'Twas my distress that brought thee low. My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 460 pages
...resource to prove, And may ye, sometimes landing here, Instruct us how to love ! June, 1793. TU MARY. THE twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky...have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow 'Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...Olney but with the highest respect and veneration." The poem was written .11 the autumn of 1793.] THE twentieth year is well nigh past, Since first our...have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow — 'Twas my distress that brought thee. low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 446 pages
...addressed to Mrs. Unwin. No language can exhibit a specimen of verse more exquisitely tender. TO MARY. The twentieth year is well nigh past, Since first our...have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow — 'Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store. For my sake... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 464 pages
...resource to prove, And may ye, sometimes landing here, Instruct us how to love ! June, 1793. TO MARY. THE twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky was overcast ; Ah ! would that this might be the lastl My Mary ! Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow 'Twas my distress that... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 pages
...still current among the peasantry of that coast East Lothian Journal. VERSES TO MRS MARY UNWIX. THE twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky was overcast ; Ah, would lhat thia might be our last ! My Mary. Thy np'rits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow... | |
 | 1835 - 440 pages
...augment it, as the following beautiful poem, written about this time, will show: — TO MARY. " The twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky was overcast, And would that this might be the last, My Mary ! Thy spirits have a fainter glow; I see thee daily... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 420 pages
...slew them all. ON RECEIVING HEYNE'S VIRGIL FROM MR. HAYLEY. OCT. 1793. TO MARY. AUTUMN OF 1793. THE twentieth year is well nigh past, Since first our...have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow ;— 'Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 378 pages
...whether any language on earth can exhibit a specimen of verse more exquisitely tender. TO MARY. THE twentieth year is well nigh past, Since first our...have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow ; 'Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 462 pages
...resource to prove, And may ye, sometimes landing here, Instruct us how to love ! June, 1793. TO MARY. THE twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky...; Ah ! would that this might be the last! My Mary I Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow 'Twas my distress »that brought thee... | |
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Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more, My Mary ! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now... 
