A collection of poems from various authors, fo young persons1856 - 102 pages |
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... sweet flowers and fruit . Turn thine eyes to earth and heaven ! God for thee the Spring has given , Taught the birds their melodies , Cloth'd the earth , and clear'd the skies , For thy pleasure or thy food : - Pour thy soul in ...
... sweet flowers and fruit . Turn thine eyes to earth and heaven ! God for thee the Spring has given , Taught the birds their melodies , Cloth'd the earth , and clear'd the skies , For thy pleasure or thy food : - Pour thy soul in ...
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... daughter - once the comfort of my age ! Lur'd by a villain from her native home , Is cast abandon'd on the world's wide stage , And doom'd in scanty poverty to roam My tender wife - sweet soother of my care ! SELECT POETRY . 13.
... daughter - once the comfort of my age ! Lur'd by a villain from her native home , Is cast abandon'd on the world's wide stage , And doom'd in scanty poverty to roam My tender wife - sweet soother of my care ! SELECT POETRY . 13.
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Collection. My tender wife - sweet soother of my care ! Struck with sad anguish at the stern decree , Fell - ling'ring fell , a victim to despair . And left the world to wretchedness and me . Pity the sorrows of a poor old man ! Whose ...
Collection. My tender wife - sweet soother of my care ! Struck with sad anguish at the stern decree , Fell - ling'ring fell , a victim to despair . And left the world to wretchedness and me . Pity the sorrows of a poor old man ! Whose ...
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... sweet consent , Till life's poor transient night is spent ; Respecting , in each other's case , The gifts of nature and of grace . Those Christians best deserve the name , Who studiously make peace their aim : - Peace , both the duty ...
... sweet consent , Till life's poor transient night is spent ; Respecting , in each other's case , The gifts of nature and of grace . Those Christians best deserve the name , Who studiously make peace their aim : - Peace , both the duty ...
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... sweet music of speech ; I start at the sound of my own . The beasts that roam over the plain , My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man , Their tameness is shocking to me . Society , friendship and love ...
... sweet music of speech ; I start at the sound of my own . The beasts that roam over the plain , My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man , Their tameness is shocking to me . Society , friendship and love ...
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ANON beautiful beneath biped bird breast breath bright Butterfly Cassowary cell charms Chough Cimmerian clouds coral strand COWPER cried dancing dark death delight door doth dwell earth Edmonton Ev'n Excelsior eyes fair fame FAVERSHAM flew flowers gleam glow grave Guillemot haste hath head hear heard heart heave heaven horse hour Il Penseroso John Gilpin L'Allegro light live look'd loud maid melancholy Milton mirth morn mournfully musing native ne'er nest never night numbers Nymph o'er passion peace Pelops pensive pity Pixies pleasure poems Ptarmigan rebecs rest Rose round Seven Sisters shade shine sing skies smiling Snail soft solitude of Binnorie song soon sorrow soul sound spirit star stormy winds story stream Superior Planets sweet tale Thebes thee thou Twas unseen vale voice wave wild winds do blow wings WORDSWORTH young youth ΑΝΟΝ