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Page 78
... scenes and prospects waste Alike admonish not to roam ; These tell me of enjoyments past , And those of sorrows yet to come . THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT FORCED from home and all its pleasures , Afric's coast I left forlorn , To increase a ...
... scenes and prospects waste Alike admonish not to roam ; These tell me of enjoyments past , And those of sorrows yet to come . THE NEGRO'S COMPLAINT FORCED from home and all its pleasures , Afric's coast I left forlorn , To increase a ...
Page 94
... scene Appeared two lovely foes , Aspiring to the rank of queen , The Lily and the Rose . III The Rose soon reddened into rage , And swelling with disdain , 5 10 15 Appealed to many a poet's page , To prove 94 COWPER'S POEMS The Lily and ...
... scene Appeared two lovely foes , Aspiring to the rank of queen , The Lily and the Rose . III The Rose soon reddened into rage , And swelling with disdain , 5 10 15 Appealed to many a poet's page , To prove 94 COWPER'S POEMS The Lily and ...
Page 96
... scene , where his melody charmed me before , Resounds with his sweet - flowing ditty no more . My fugitive years are all hasting away , And I must ere long lie as lowly as they , With a turf on my breast , and a stone at my head , 15 ...
... scene , where his melody charmed me before , Resounds with his sweet - flowing ditty no more . My fugitive years are all hasting away , And I must ere long lie as lowly as they , With a turf on my breast , and a stone at my head , 15 ...
Page 129
... scene , I will perform Myself the oracle , and will discourse . In my own ear such matter as I may . One man alone , the father of us all , Drew not his life from woman ; never gazed , With mute unconsciousness of what he saw , On all ...
... scene , I will perform Myself the oracle , and will discourse . In my own ear such matter as I may . One man alone , the father of us all , Drew not his life from woman ; never gazed , With mute unconsciousness of what he saw , On all ...
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... scenes that Maro ° sings , And Sidney , warbler of poetic prose . O 500 505 510 515 Nymphs were Dianas ° then , and swains had hearts That felt their virtues : Innocence , it seems , From courts dismissed , found shelter in the groves ...
... scenes that Maro ° sings , And Sidney , warbler of poetic prose . O 500 505 510 515 Nymphs were Dianas ° then , and swains had hearts That felt their virtues : Innocence , it seems , From courts dismissed , found shelter in the groves ...
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