Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts : Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining : the Whole Being a Collection of the Best Pieces in Our Language |
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... fmiling nature , with thy treasures fair , Confefs thy bounty and parental care ; Renew'd by Thee , the faithful feafons rife , And earth with plenty all her fons fupplies . The generous lion and the brindled boar , As nightly thro ...
... fmiling nature , with thy treasures fair , Confefs thy bounty and parental care ; Renew'd by Thee , the faithful feafons rife , And earth with plenty all her fons fupplies . The generous lion and the brindled boar , As nightly thro ...
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... fmiling morn With thy bright circlet , praife him in thy fphere , While day arifes , that fweet hour of prime . Thou fun , of this great world both eye and foul , Acknowledge him thy greater : found his praise In thy eternal courfe ...
... fmiling morn With thy bright circlet , praife him in thy fphere , While day arifes , that fweet hour of prime . Thou fun , of this great world both eye and foul , Acknowledge him thy greater : found his praise In thy eternal courfe ...
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... fmiling infant in his hand fhall take The crefted bafilifk and fpeckled fnake , Pleas'd the green luftre of the scales furvey , And with their forky tongue fhall innocently play . Rife , crown'd with light , imperial Salem , rife ...
... fmiling infant in his hand fhall take The crefted bafilifk and fpeckled fnake , Pleas'd the green luftre of the scales furvey , And with their forky tongue fhall innocently play . Rife , crown'd with light , imperial Salem , rife ...
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... fmiling virtue refts , nor dreads a foe ; And flumber shuts the weeping eyes of woe : " Twas then , amid the filence of the night , A graceful feraph ftood before my fight , And blaz'd meridian day - the rocking ground Flam'd as he mov ...
... fmiling virtue refts , nor dreads a foe ; And flumber shuts the weeping eyes of woe : " Twas then , amid the filence of the night , A graceful feraph ftood before my fight , And blaz'd meridian day - the rocking ground Flam'd as he mov ...
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... fmiling meads refign their lovely bloom ; Not Afia's fields th ' impetuous flood retain , It bounds with fury o'er the wide champaign , Whate'er to view revolving feafons bring , Each opening flow'r , the painted child of fpring , Bleak ...
... fmiling meads refign their lovely bloom ; Not Afia's fields th ' impetuous flood retain , It bounds with fury o'er the wide champaign , Whate'er to view revolving feafons bring , Each opening flow'r , the painted child of fpring , Bleak ...
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Page 34 - The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity. Lo, Earth receives him from the bending skies! Sink down, ye mountains! and ye valleys, rise! With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay! Be smooth, ye rocks! ye rapid floods, give way! The Saviour comes! by ancient bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold!
Page 227 - GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Page 39 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 39 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 33 - Aonian maids, Delight no more — O Thou my voice inspire Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire! Rapt into future times the bard begun: A Virgin shall conceive — a Virgin bear a Son ! From Jesse's root behold a Branch arise Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies: Th' Ethereal Spirit o'er its leaves shall move, And on its top descends the mystic Dove.
Page 31 - 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. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 63 - Has made my cup run o'er, And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store.
Page 64 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 30 - 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 42 - Lead it through various scenes of life and death, And from each scene the noblest truths inspire.