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... 28 31 35 36 37 38 38 William Shakespeare 39 • Song 40 A Long Story 40 Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude 47 The Alliance of Education and Government 49 Ode for Music 53 COWPER'S POEMS : The Diverting History of John Gilpin On vii.
... 28 31 35 36 37 38 38 William Shakespeare 39 • Song 40 A Long Story 40 Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude 47 The Alliance of Education and Government 49 Ode for Music 53 COWPER'S POEMS : The Diverting History of John Gilpin On vii.
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... pleasure as they fly , Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gathered fragrance fling . Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade , Where'er the rude and moss - grown beech O'er - canopies the glade ...
... pleasure as they fly , Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gathered fragrance fling . Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade , Where'er the rude and moss - grown beech O'er - canopies the glade ...
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... pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave , With pliant arm , thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed , Or urge the flying ball ? 20 20 25 25 30 30 ...
... pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave , With pliant arm , thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed , Or urge the flying ball ? 20 20 25 25 30 30 ...
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... pleasure brings to happier men : 10 The fields to all their wonted tribute bear : To warm their little loves the birds complain : I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear , And weep the more , because I weep in vain . ODE ON THE DEATH ...
... pleasure brings to happier men : 10 The fields to all their wonted tribute bear : To warm their little loves the birds complain : I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear , And weep the more , because I weep in vain . ODE ON THE DEATH ...
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... Pleasures , Frisking light in frolic measures ; Now pursuing , now retreating , Now in circling troops they meet : To brisk notes in cadence beating , Glance their many - twinkling feet . 20 25 330 35 Slow melting strains their Queen's ...
... Pleasures , Frisking light in frolic measures ; Now pursuing , now retreating , Now in circling troops they meet : To brisk notes in cadence beating , Glance their many - twinkling feet . 20 25 330 35 Slow melting strains their Queen's ...
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Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cæsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden golden reign grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cæsar king Lady liberty live lyre Macaulay's Essay Mary Milton mind morn Muse ne'er never night nymphs o'er Odin once Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost peace Pindar pleasure Poems poet poetry praise PROPHETESS Queen scene Scott's shade Shakespeare's sing skies sleep smile song soon sorrow soul sound spirit spring stanza sweet taste tear thee thine Thomas Gray thought Twas verse voice Welsh wild William Cowper wind wonder written wrote