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 Tomkins |
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... shed around , Wav'd with applause , and liften'd to the found . Sweet Philomel , the chorister of love , The musical enchantress of the grove , With wonder heard the shepherd as he play'd , And ftole , attentive , to the tuneful shade ...
... shed around , Wav'd with applause , and liften'd to the found . Sweet Philomel , the chorister of love , The musical enchantress of the grove , With wonder heard the shepherd as he play'd , And ftole , attentive , to the tuneful shade ...
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... sheds allurement on the wishful heart . Lo ! Difcord enters at the facred porch , Rage in her frown , and terror on her crest : Ev'n at the hallow'd lamps fhe lights her torch , And holds it flaming to each virgin breaft . But fince the ...
... sheds allurement on the wishful heart . Lo ! Difcord enters at the facred porch , Rage in her frown , and terror on her crest : Ev'n at the hallow'd lamps fhe lights her torch , And holds it flaming to each virgin breaft . But fince the ...
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... shed : Of meek - ey'd novices the circling band , With blooming chaplets wove around their head . --- My willing foul was caught in rapture's flame , While facred ardour glow'd in ev'ry vein : Methought applauding angels fung my name ...
... shed : Of meek - ey'd novices the circling band , With blooming chaplets wove around their head . --- My willing foul was caught in rapture's flame , While facred ardour glow'd in ev'ry vein : Methought applauding angels fung my name ...
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... shed the facred balm ! My fhatter'd nerves new string ; And for my gueft , ferenely calm , The nymph , Indifference , bring . At her approach , fee Hope , fee Fear , See Expectation fly ; And Disappointment in the rear , That blasts the ...
... shed the facred balm ! My fhatter'd nerves new string ; And for my gueft , ferenely calm , The nymph , Indifference , bring . At her approach , fee Hope , fee Fear , See Expectation fly ; And Disappointment in the rear , That blasts the ...
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... shed fresh sweets for you . And what of life remains for me , I'll pass in fober ease ; Half - pleas'd , contented will I be , Content but half to please . ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE S 0 U L. If we with brutes must share a common fate ...
... shed fresh sweets for you . And what of life remains for me , I'll pass in fober ease ; Half - pleas'd , contented will I be , Content but half to please . ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE S 0 U L. If we with brutes must share a common fate ...
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Page 150 - Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 81 - 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 186 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 178 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 183 - Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 193 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 99 - 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 82 - Or aught Thy goodness lent. 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 149 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 185 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On.