Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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... o'er my head The fulness of thy vengeance thed . With pitying eye my weaknefs view , Heal my vex'd foul , my ftrength renew ; And O , if yet my fins demand The wife corrections of thy hand , Yet give my pains their bounds to know , And ...
... o'er my head The fulness of thy vengeance thed . With pitying eye my weaknefs view , Heal my vex'd foul , my ftrength renew ; And O , if yet my fins demand The wife corrections of thy hand , Yet give my pains their bounds to know , And ...
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... o'er my head , And fcreen'd me trembling in the mighty fhade : Against ali hoftile violence and power , He was my fword , my bulwark , and my tower . He o'er my people will maintain my fway , And teach my willing fubjects to obey . Lord ...
... o'er my head , And fcreen'd me trembling in the mighty fhade : Against ali hoftile violence and power , He was my fword , my bulwark , and my tower . He o'er my people will maintain my fway , And teach my willing fubjects to obey . Lord ...
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... o'er waves , and feas o'er feas arise . Around in heaps the liftening furges stand , Mute and obfervant of the high command . Congeal'd with fear attends the watery train , Rous'd from the fccret chambers of the main . With favage joy ...
... o'er waves , and feas o'er feas arise . Around in heaps the liftening furges stand , Mute and obfervant of the high command . Congeal'd with fear attends the watery train , Rous'd from the fccret chambers of the main . With favage joy ...
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... o'er the waves ; ev'n there thy hand Shall thro ' the watery defert guide my course , And o'er the broken furges pave my way , While on the dreadful whirls I hang fecure , And mock the warring ocean . If , with hopes As fond as falfe ...
... o'er the waves ; ev'n there thy hand Shall thro ' the watery defert guide my course , And o'er the broken furges pave my way , While on the dreadful whirls I hang fecure , And mock the warring ocean . If , with hopes As fond as falfe ...
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... o'er the tide ; While , gently perching on the leafy fpray , Each feather'd warbler tunes his various lay : And , while thy praife they fymphonize around , Creation echoes to the grateful found . Wide o'er the heav'ns the various bow he ...
... o'er the tide ; While , gently perching on the leafy fpray , Each feather'd warbler tunes his various lay : And , while thy praife they fymphonize around , Creation echoes to the grateful found . Wide o'er the heav'ns the various bow he ...
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