Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And with a View to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English Poetry. By Thomas TomkinsJ. Wallis, 1782 - 204 pages |
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... ev'ry change . Here beauteous Health for all the year remain , When the next comes , I'll charm thee thus again . Oh come , thou Goddess of my rural fong ! And bring thy daughter , calm Content , along ; Dame of thy ruddy cheek and ...
... ev'ry change . Here beauteous Health for all the year remain , When the next comes , I'll charm thee thus again . Oh come , thou Goddess of my rural fong ! And bring thy daughter , calm Content , along ; Dame of thy ruddy cheek and ...
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... ev'ry care refign : " And fhall we never , never part , " My life , my all that's mine . " No , never from this hour to part , " We'll live and love fo true ; " The figh that rends thy constant heart ,, " Shall break thy Edwin's too ...
... ev'ry care refign : " And fhall we never , never part , " My life , my all that's mine . " No , never from this hour to part , " We'll live and love fo true ; " The figh that rends thy constant heart ,, " Shall break thy Edwin's too ...
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... ev'ry nerve , and quivers on her wings ; In vain her finking fpirits fade away , And in a tuneful agony decay ; Dying the fell , and as the strains expire , B 3 SELECT POEMS . 17.
... ev'ry nerve , and quivers on her wings ; In vain her finking fpirits fade away , And in a tuneful agony decay ; Dying the fell , and as the strains expire , B 3 SELECT POEMS . 17.
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... ev'ry fainting flower , XVIII . Now the hill - the hedge - is green , Now the warblers ' throats in tune ; Blithfome is the verdant fcene , Brighten'd by the beams of Noon ! EVENING . XIX . O'ER the heath the heifer strays SELECT POEMS .
... ev'ry fainting flower , XVIII . Now the hill - the hedge - is green , Now the warblers ' throats in tune ; Blithfome is the verdant fcene , Brighten'd by the beams of Noon ! EVENING . XIX . O'ER the heath the heifer strays SELECT POEMS .
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... ev'ry frown , and foftens ev'ry pain : " That veftals tread contentment's flow'ry lawn , " Approv'd of innocence , by health careft : " That rob'd in colours bright , ' by fancy drawn , " Celestial Hope fits fmiling at their breast ...
... ev'ry frown , and foftens ev'ry pain : " That veftals tread contentment's flow'ry lawn , " Approv'd of innocence , by health careft : " That rob'd in colours bright , ' by fancy drawn , " Celestial Hope fits fmiling at their breast ...
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