 See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ; The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening...  Poetry for children, selected by L. Aikin - Page 67by Poetry - 1806Full view - About this book
 | James Montgomery - Christian poetry, English - 1826 - 464 pages
...most likely to have originated hymns, uniting the charms of poesy with the beauties of holiness: — " See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed...vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life. See the wretch, that long has toss'd On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...repair his vigour lost, Aod hreathe an.! walk again : The meanest flon'ret of the vale, The limpie note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him areopentos paradise." It is evident that the love of life includes, n some measure, the idea of happiness,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe ; And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life. See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed...vigour lost, And breathe, and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To... | |
 | American periodicals - 1827 - 496 pages
...a superficial survey of the whole firmament studded with its thousand fires. " The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise." Time and space would fail us to enumerate all the inducements presented for the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1827 - 492 pages
...our lives, all that moralists have said, and all that poets have sung, of the blessings of health. See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of Pain, At length repair his vigor lost, And breathe and walk again. VOL. I. 12 The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 526 pages
...acquisition of knowledge, every step he takes affords new delight ; and, in the language of Gray, " The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note...gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise." Of the truth of this we have a happy illustration in the following memoir. The earlier... | |
 | 1828 - 498 pages
...acquisition of knowledge, every step he takes affords new delight ; and, in the language of Gray, " The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note...gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise." Of the truth of this we have a happy illustration in the following memoir. The earlier... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...then he will seize the spoil, And will murder thee, thou poor little Bee ! -Anthology. RECOVERY FKOM SICKN'ESS. See the wretch that long has tost On the...pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe und walk again : The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...No yesterday, nor morrow know ; 'Tis man aloue that joy descries, With forward, and reverted eyes. See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed...gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise. SUMMER. THOMSON. FROM brightening fields of ether fair disclos'd, Child of the Sun,... | |
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