The poetical works of William CollinsBell and Daldy., 1811 - 102 páginas |
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... maids , attend your poet's lays , And hear how shepherds pass their golden days . Not all are blest whom Fortune's hand sustains With wealth in courts ; nor all that haunt the plains : Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell ...
... maids , attend your poet's lays , And hear how shepherds pass their golden days . Not all are blest whom Fortune's hand sustains With wealth in courts ; nor all that haunt the plains : Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell ...
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... maid ; Or taught the swains that surest bliss to find , What groves nor streams bestow , a virtuous mind . When ... maids , I trust , than you are found , Grac'd with soft arts , the peopled world around ! The morn , that lights you , to ...
... maid ; Or taught the swains that surest bliss to find , What groves nor streams bestow , a virtuous mind . When ... maids , I trust , than you are found , Grac'd with soft arts , the peopled world around ! The morn , that lights you , to ...
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... maids , and such the charms they boast , By sense unaided , or to virtue lost . Self - flattering sex ! your hearts believe in vain That love shall blind , when once he fires , the swain ; Or hope a lover by your faults to win , As ...
... maids , and such the charms they boast , By sense unaided , or to virtue lost . Self - flattering sex ! your hearts believe in vain That love shall blind , when once he fires , the swain ; Or hope a lover by your faults to win , As ...
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... maid ; But man the most : -not more the mountain - doe Holds the swift falcon for her deadly foe . Cold is her ... maids of Bagdat verified the lay : Dear to the plains , the Virtues came along ; The shepherds lov'd ; and Selim bless'd ...
... maid ; But man the most : -not more the mountain - doe Holds the swift falcon for her deadly foe . Cold is her ... maids of Bagdat verified the lay : Dear to the plains , the Virtues came along ; The shepherds lov'd ; and Selim bless'd ...
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... maid , When fast she dropt her tears , as thus she said : " Farewell the youth whom sighs could not detain ; " Whom Zara's breaking heart implor'd in vain ! " Yet , as thou go'st , may every blast arise " Weak and unfelt , as these ...
... maid , When fast she dropt her tears , as thus she said : " Farewell the youth whom sighs could not detain ; " Whom Zara's breaking heart implor'd in vain ! " Yet , as thou go'st , may every blast arise " Weak and unfelt , as these ...
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Página 70 - And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
Página 69 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Página 44 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Página 68 - When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell...
Página 60 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge, And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still, The pensive pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.
Página 37 - O THOU by Nature taught To breathe her genuine thought, In numbers warmly pure, and sweetly strong : Who first, on mountains wild, In Fancy, loveliest child, Thy babe or Pleasure's, nurs'd the pow'rs of song ! Thou who with hermit heart Disdain'st the wealth of art...
Página 72 - Can well recall what then it heard. Where is thy native simple heart Devote to Virtue, Fancy, Art?
Página 85 - Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in Pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest...
Página 71 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemmed with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call, to faun and dryad known! The oak-crowned sisters, and their chaste-eyed queen, Satyrs and sylvan boys, were seen, Peeping from forth their alleys green: Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear; And Sport leapt up, and seized his beechen spear.
Página 68 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound...