A Collection of Poems: Occasionally Writ on Several Subjects |
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... Rofe , And as it bursts , a Flood of Fragrance flows . The blooming Groves a flowry Gleam display , That adds unto the Brightness of the Day ; While those to these , in balmy Breezes figh , And all Things feel the Joys of Love but I ...
... Rofe , And as it bursts , a Flood of Fragrance flows . The blooming Groves a flowry Gleam display , That adds unto the Brightness of the Day ; While those to these , in balmy Breezes figh , And all Things feel the Joys of Love but I ...
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... rofe ere Phebus fhot a Ray , To roufe the Stag , and chace the savage Prey : Companion of your Sport , as of your Love , The Deer furpris'd , adown the Hills we drove ; Well pleas'd , you smil'd , as in the flying Chace , You heard me ...
... rofe ere Phebus fhot a Ray , To roufe the Stag , and chace the savage Prey : Companion of your Sport , as of your Love , The Deer furpris'd , adown the Hills we drove ; Well pleas'd , you smil'd , as in the flying Chace , You heard me ...
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... Rofe in her Bosom , and under [ her Feet , Spread all that was pleasant and lovely and sweet . While DAMON walk'd by her , her Charms he confest , And Pit - a - pat , Pit - a - pat , beat in his Breast ; A Pain full of Pleasure , and ...
... Rofe in her Bosom , and under [ her Feet , Spread all that was pleasant and lovely and sweet . While DAMON walk'd by her , her Charms he confest , And Pit - a - pat , Pit - a - pat , beat in his Breast ; A Pain full of Pleasure , and ...
Page 86
... Rofe in her Bofom , thou Vagrant of mine , " How dar'ft thou fo bold in that Paradise shine ? " Look up to her Cheeks , and confeffing , declare " Thy felf a faint Sketch of the Life that is there . The Goddefs faid thus , and the Rofe ...
... Rofe in her Bofom , thou Vagrant of mine , " How dar'ft thou fo bold in that Paradise shine ? " Look up to her Cheeks , and confeffing , declare " Thy felf a faint Sketch of the Life that is there . The Goddefs faid thus , and the Rofe ...
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... all flow'ry , bloom to Day , Not Rofes brighter , nor the Pink more gay ; The Rofe in Blossom will not always laft , As foon , the Pink will find it's Fragrance waste ; / Each Each Flower ungather'd , useless muft decay , And all POEMS .
... all flow'ry , bloom to Day , Not Rofes brighter , nor the Pink more gay ; The Rofe in Blossom will not always laft , As foon , the Pink will find it's Fragrance waste ; / Each Each Flower ungather'd , useless muft decay , And all POEMS .
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Abfence arife Beauties Bleffings bleft Blifs Bloom blooming Groves Bofom Breaſt bright caft Charms DAMON Daphnis dear Defire Delight diff'rent Ev'n ev'ry Eyes facred fafe Fame feems felf fhall fhining fhould figh'd fince fing Fire firſt Flame flow flow'ry fmile foft fome foon ftill fuch fweet fwell gen'rous Genius Glories glow Groves happy Heart Heav'n heav'nly Hills John Joys juſt lafting laſt lefs lov'd Love Mankind melting Mind moſt Mount Ida mourn Mufe Muſe muſt ne'er Numbers Nymph o'er OENONE OVID Paffion Paftoral Pain PARIS Plain pleas'd pleaſe Pleaſure Pow'r Praife Praiſe PRIAM purſue Rapture raviſh'd rife Robert Rofe Scenes Seafon Senfe Shades ſhall ſhe Shepherd ſhine Silvia's Skie Skies Song Soul ſtay ſtill Streams STREPHON Swain tender thee thefe theſe Things feel thofe Thomas thoſe thou Thought thouſand thro Verfe Verſe VIRG whofe Whoſe William Youth
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Page viii - ... wing, (Her guide now lost) no more attempts to rise, But in low numbers short excursions tries: Content, if hence, th...
Page 129 - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
Page vi - Ten cenfure wrong, for one who writes amifs ; A fool might once himfelf alone expofe, Now one in verfe makes many more in profe. Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go juft alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 154 - Flocks, fecms to be the firft Employment of Mankind, the moft antient Sort of Poetry, was probably Paftoral : 'Tis natural to imagine, that the Leifure of thofe antient Shepherds requiring fome Diverfion, none was fo proper to that folitary Life, as finging, and that in their Songs, they took Occafion...
Page 101 - No doleful fighs in airy circles rove, But all be rapture, blifs, and joy and love ; Without a ruffle, ev'ry moment flow, More gentle than the fofteft breezes blow.
Page xv - Rofes in Hedges, King-cups on the green, Birds in the Woods, and Larks upon the Skies, Say, is't not Spring that makes you all rejoyce?
Page 33 - Swell'd to my Eyes, and melted out in Tears; " My trembling Limbs could fcarce my Weight fuftain, " And Life furpriz'd, ftood paufing with the Pain.
Page 30 - Place for Contemplation, or for Care, To lift the Soul, or pour out fad DeJpair ! And And here lay Cc///'», haplefs Swain!
Page vii - One moral, or a meer well-natur'd Deed Does all Defert in Sciences exceed. Moreover, I can ajjure all my Readers, 'who are not of my Acquaintance, that I am not extravagant...