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Page 96
... pleasures of man , Though his life be a dream , his enjoyments , I see , Have a being less durable even than he . 0 F But And Fan Shall 20 A m M Sav How ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PIC- TURE OUT OF 96 COWPER'S POEMS The Poplar Field.
... pleasures of man , Though his life be a dream , his enjoyments , I see , Have a being less durable even than he . 0 F But And Fan Shall 20 A m M Sav How ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PIC- TURE OUT OF 96 COWPER'S POEMS The Poplar Field.
Page 98
... less deplored thee , ne'er forgot . ° 40 45 Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more , Children not thine have trod my nursery floor ; And where the gardener , Robin , day by day , Drew me to school along the public way , Delighted ...
... less deplored thee , ne'er forgot . ° 40 45 Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more , Children not thine have trod my nursery floor ; And where the gardener , Robin , day by day , Drew me to school along the public way , Delighted ...
Page 99
... less deeply traced . Thy nightly visits to my chamber made , 55 55 60 That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid ; Thy morning bounties ere I left my home , The biscuit , or confectionery plum , The fragrant waters on my cheeks ...
... less deeply traced . Thy nightly visits to my chamber made , 55 55 60 That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid ; Thy morning bounties ere I left my home , The biscuit , or confectionery plum , The fragrant waters on my cheeks ...
Page 105
... less ? Contemplate first The depth how awful ! falling there we burst : Or should the brambles , interposed , our fall In part abate , that happiness were small : For with a race like theirs no chance I see Of peace or ease to creatures ...
... less ? Contemplate first The depth how awful ! falling there we burst : Or should the brambles , interposed , our fall In part abate , that happiness were small : For with a race like theirs no chance I see Of peace or ease to creatures ...
Page 116
... less hope of thriving . Then judge , or ere you choose your man As circumspectly as you can , And , having made election , See that no disrespect of yours , Such as a friend but ill endures , Enfeeble his affection . It is not timber ...
... less hope of thriving . Then judge , or ere you choose your man As circumspectly as you can , And , having made election , See that no disrespect of yours , Such as a friend but ill endures , Enfeeble his affection . It is not timber ...
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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