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... delights are often such , Exposed to view but not to touch ; The sight our foolish heart inflames , We long for pineapples in frames ; With hopeless wish one looks and lingers ; One breaks the glass , and cuts his fingers ; But they ...
... delights are often such , Exposed to view but not to touch ; The sight our foolish heart inflames , We long for pineapples in frames ; With hopeless wish one looks and lingers ; One breaks the glass , and cuts his fingers ; But they ...
Page 89
... season of rest , And I to my cabin repair . There's mercy in every place , And mercy , encouraging thought ! Gives even affliction a grace , And reconciles man to his lot . 55 55 50 50 ODE TO PEACE COME , peace of mind , delightful.
... season of rest , And I to my cabin repair . There's mercy in every place , And mercy , encouraging thought ! Gives even affliction a grace , And reconciles man to his lot . 55 55 50 50 ODE TO PEACE COME , peace of mind , delightful.
Page 90
Thomas Gray. ODE TO PEACE COME , peace of mind , delightful guest ! Return and make thy downy nest Once more in this sad heart : Nor riches I nor power pursue , Nor hold forbidden joys in view ; 5 We therefore need not part . II Where ...
Thomas Gray. ODE TO PEACE COME , peace of mind , delightful guest ! Return and make thy downy nest Once more in this sad heart : Nor riches I nor power pursue , Nor hold forbidden joys in view ; 5 We therefore need not part . II Where ...
Page 92
... delight , Though some folks can't endure them , Who say the mob are mad outright , And that a rope must cure them . VI A rope ! I wish we patriots had Such strings for all who need ' em What ! hang a man for going mad ! Then farewell ...
... delight , Though some folks can't endure them , Who say the mob are mad outright , And that a rope must cure them . VI A rope ! I wish we patriots had Such strings for all who need ' em What ! hang a man for going mad ! Then farewell ...
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... Robin , day by day , Drew me to school along the public way , Delighted with my bauble coach , and wrapped 50 In scarlet mantle warm , and velvet cap , ' Tis now become a history little known , That 98 COWPER'S POEMS.
... Robin , day by day , Drew me to school along the public way , Delighted with my bauble coach , and wrapped 50 In scarlet mantle warm , and velvet cap , ' Tis now become a history little known , That 98 COWPER'S POEMS.
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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