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" Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with... "
Poems - Page 214
by William Cowper - 1803 - 363 pages
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...Indifference see; They are so unacquainted with man, Their lameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon man I (), had I the...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1830 - 244 pages
...are the charms, ;' That sajres have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, ;, ^ 2. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone ; Never hear tlje sweet musick of speech ; ; I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain,...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verses; Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...have seen in thy face* ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms*, Than reign in this horrible place'. 2 I am out of humanity's reach* ; I must finish my journey alone* j Never hear the sweet music of speech* ; I start at the sound of my own\ The beasts that roam over...
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...midst of alarms, . • Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, Must finish mj journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech,...indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their lameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestowed upon man, O, had I the...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestowed upon man. Oh, had I the wings of a dove, How soon...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best Writers

Lindley Murray - 1832 - 260 pages
...out of humanity's reach ; I must finish my journey alone : Never hear the sweet music of speech ; 1 start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain, My form u ith indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their lameness is shocking to me. 3 Society,...
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Poetic gems: partly original; but chiefly selected from the best authors: by ...

Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach ; I must finish my journey...unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, Oh, had I the wings of a dove, How soon...
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The Shorter Poems of the Eighteenth Century

Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 528 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow 'd upon man, Oh, had I the wings of a dove, How soon...
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A Book of British and American Verse

Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. l am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their lameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestowed upon man, Oh, had I the...
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Manual for the Elson Readers: Book, Book 5

William Harris Elson - 1923 - 100 pages
...Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. "I am out of humanity's reach, 1 must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet...unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. "Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report...
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