PoemsWalter Scott, 1820 - 24 pages |
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... o'er life's narrow stage ; Then leave their crimes for history to scan , And ask , with busy scorn , Was this the man ? I pity kings , whom Worship waits upon Obsequious from the cradle to the throne ; Before whose infant eyes the ...
... o'er life's narrow stage ; Then leave their crimes for history to scan , And ask , with busy scorn , Was this the man ? I pity kings , whom Worship waits upon Obsequious from the cradle to the throne ; Before whose infant eyes the ...
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... o'er the scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home , or threatens from afar , Nature in arms , her elements at strife , The storms , that overset the joys of life , Are but his rods to scourge a guilty land ...
... o'er the scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home , or threatens from afar , Nature in arms , her elements at strife , The storms , that overset the joys of life , Are but his rods to scourge a guilty land ...
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... O'er all his thoughts , and swell'd his easy sail : His books well - trimm'd and in the gayest style , Like regimental coxcombs , rank and file , Adorn his intellects as well as shelves , And teach him notions splendid as themselves ...
... O'er all his thoughts , and swell'd his easy sail : His books well - trimm'd and in the gayest style , Like regimental coxcombs , rank and file , Adorn his intellects as well as shelves , And teach him notions splendid as themselves ...
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... o'er his woes ; The dying , trembling at the awful close ; Where the betray'd , forsaken , and oppress'd , The thousands whom the world forbids to rest ; Where should they find ( those comforts at an end The Scripture yields ) , or hope ...
... o'er his woes ; The dying , trembling at the awful close ; Where the betray'd , forsaken , and oppress'd , The thousands whom the world forbids to rest ; Where should they find ( those comforts at an end The Scripture yields ) , or hope ...
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... Levites , once a consecrated host , No longer Levites , and their lineage lost , And thou thyself , o'er every country sown , With none on Earth that thou canst call thine own ; Cry aloud , thou that sittest in the dust , 60 EXPOSTULATION .
... Levites , once a consecrated host , No longer Levites , and their lineage lost , And thou thyself , o'er every country sown , With none on Earth that thou canst call thine own ; Cry aloud , thou that sittest in the dust , 60 EXPOSTULATION .
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Aspasio beauty beneath bids bless'd boast breath call'd cause charms dæmons death delight design'd distant divine docet dread dream e'en earth ease eyes fair fame fancy fear feel fire flowers folly form'd frown fruit give glory grace hand happy hast heart Heaven honour hope hour human John Gilpin labour land learn'd light live lyre mankind mercy mind muse Nature Nature's Nebaioth never night nymph o'er once pass'd peace perhaps pity pleasure plebeian poet's praise pride prize proud prove rapture rest rude sacred scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine sighs sight skies slave smile song soon soul sound Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste teach telescopic eye thee theme thine thought toil tongue trembling trifler truth Twas VINCENT BOURNE Virg virtue waste whate'er WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom wonder worth youth