The Nursery Garland: Being a Selection of Short, Classical Poems, Adapted to Very Early Youth; Respectfully Inscribed to the Mothers of Families |
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... cities and from fields , To fell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace and glitt'ring arms ; And when ambition's voice commands , To march , and 12 THE NURSERY GARLAND . The Drum Sonnet, Written at the Close of Spring Mrs C Smith.
... cities and from fields , To fell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace and glitt'ring arms ; And when ambition's voice commands , To march , and 12 THE NURSERY GARLAND . The Drum Sonnet, Written at the Close of Spring Mrs C Smith.
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... charm for all is new ; How thy long - loft hours I mourn , " Never , never to return ! Then to tofs the circling ball , Caught rebounding from the wall ; Then the mimic fhip to guide Down the kennel's dusky tide ; Then the hoop's ...
... charm for all is new ; How thy long - loft hours I mourn , " Never , never to return ! Then to tofs the circling ball , Caught rebounding from the wall ; Then the mimic fhip to guide Down the kennel's dusky tide ; Then the hoop's ...
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... charms and produce share , For ever kind and true . Their fprightly notes from every fhaden Their mutual loves proclaim ; Till Winter's chilling blast invade , And damp th ' enlivening flame . Then all the jocund féene declines , Nor ...
... charms and produce share , For ever kind and true . Their fprightly notes from every fhaden Their mutual loves proclaim ; Till Winter's chilling blast invade , And damp th ' enlivening flame . Then all the jocund féene declines , Nor ...
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... storm , no chilling air , ' Prevent her opening charms ; And should a danger hover near , O fhield her in thy arms ! IAGO . So when Time ripens every grace , And calls forth 22 THE NURSERY GARLAND . Iago The Invocation.
... storm , no chilling air , ' Prevent her opening charms ; And should a danger hover near , O fhield her in thy arms ! IAGO . So when Time ripens every grace , And calls forth 22 THE NURSERY GARLAND . Iago The Invocation.
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... charm his frantic woe : When first Distress with dagger keen , Broke forth to wafte his deftin'd fcene-- His wild unfated foe ! By Pella's Bard , a magic name , By all the griefs his thought could frame , Receive my humble rite : Long ...
... charm his frantic woe : When first Distress with dagger keen , Broke forth to wafte his deftin'd fcene-- His wild unfated foe ! By Pella's Bard , a magic name , By all the griefs his thought could frame , Receive my humble rite : Long ...
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Page 159 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 103 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.
Page 158 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 158 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels; for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in Heaven, On earth join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 89 - It is a period nowhere to be found In all the hoary registers of time, Unless perchance in the fool's calendar. Wisdom disclaims the word, nor" holds society With those who own it.
Page 93 - How fair is the Rose ! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May : But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the Rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field ! When its leaves are all dead and...
Page 116 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Page 13 - I HATE that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round : To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace and glittering arms ; And when Ambition's voice commands, To march, and fight, and fall in foreign lands.
Page 121 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Page 115 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain.