| William Cowper - 1883 - 274 pages
...too The firstborn efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus,... | |
| William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pages
...efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells Ere yet her ear was m istress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus,... | |
| William Cowper - 1891 - 204 pages
...too The first-born efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus,... | |
| William Cowper - 1896 - 348 pages
...700 The firstborn efforts of my youthful Muse, Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells, Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats 705 Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus,... | |
| William Cowper - 1898 - 334 pages
...free. My very dreams were rural, rural too 7°° Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats 7°5 Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus,... | |
| William Cowper, Alice Meynell - 1904 - 440 pages
...too The first-born efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive, and jingling here poetic bells Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus,... | |
| William Cowper - 1905 - 1050 pages
...youthful muse, Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells Ere yet her ear was mistress of their pow'rs. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tun'd To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus, assembling, as he sang, The rustic throng beneath... | |
| William Cowper - 1905 - 916 pages
...700 The firstborn efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus assembling,... | |
| William Cowper - 1905 - 920 pages
...700 The firstborn efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells s Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was timed To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, ne ver weary of the pipe The rustic... | |
| William Cowper - 1905 - 948 pages
...700 The firstborn efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus assembling,... | |
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