Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And with a View to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English Poetry. By Thomas Tomkins |
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... pleasing Art of Poetry's defign'd To raise the thoughts and moralize the mind ; The chaste delights of virtue to inspire , And warm the bofom with feraphic fire ; Sublime the paffions , lend devotion wings , And celebrate the First ...
... pleasing Art of Poetry's defign'd To raise the thoughts and moralize the mind ; The chaste delights of virtue to inspire , And warm the bofom with feraphic fire ; Sublime the paffions , lend devotion wings , And celebrate the First ...
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... pleasing walk he wander'd through , A cover'd arbour clos'd the diftant view ; There refts the youth , and , while the feather'd throng Raise their wild mufic , thus contrives a fong . Here , wafted o'er by mild Etefian air , Thou ...
... pleasing walk he wander'd through , A cover'd arbour clos'd the diftant view ; There refts the youth , and , while the feather'd throng Raise their wild mufic , thus contrives a fong . Here , wafted o'er by mild Etefian air , Thou ...
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... pleasing sense depart . Ye Cares , O harden not my heart ! IV . If the fair ftar of fortune smile , Let not it's flattering power beguile , Nor , borne along the fav'ring tide , My full fails fwell with bloating pride . Let me from ...
... pleasing sense depart . Ye Cares , O harden not my heart ! IV . If the fair ftar of fortune smile , Let not it's flattering power beguile , Nor , borne along the fav'ring tide , My full fails fwell with bloating pride . Let me from ...
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... pleasing strains , Breathe out the lover's joys , and lover's pains . He fung ; and ceas'd her rival notes to hear , As his dy'd lift'ning in the ambient air . But now , too late , her noble folly found , Sad Philomela ftood fubdu'd by ...
... pleasing strains , Breathe out the lover's joys , and lover's pains . He fung ; and ceas'd her rival notes to hear , As his dy'd lift'ning in the ambient air . But now , too late , her noble folly found , Sad Philomela ftood fubdu'd by ...
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... pleasing shade By the ivy'd abbey wall . Echo in her airy round , XIII . O'er the river , rock , and hill Cannot catch a fingle found , Save the clack of yonder mill . XIV . Cattle court the zephyrs bland , Where the 20 SELECT POEMS .
... pleasing shade By the ivy'd abbey wall . Echo in her airy round , XIII . O'er the river , rock , and hill Cannot catch a fingle found , Save the clack of yonder mill . XIV . Cattle court the zephyrs bland , Where the 20 SELECT POEMS .
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æther beauty beſt beſtow bleffings blifs bloom bluſh bofom breaſt breath charms cheek DAVID GARRICK defcends e'er eaſe Ev'n ev'ry facred fafe fair fate fcenes fecret feek fhade fhall figh filent filver fing firſt fleep flow flow'rs fmiles foft folemn fome fong fons footh forrow foul fpread friendſhip ftill fuch fweet glow goodneſs grace grove happineſs heart heav'n hour laſt luftre lyre mind moffy morn moſt mourn mufe mufic muſt nature's ne'er night nymph o'er paffions peace pleaſing pleaſure Plutus pow'r praife praiſe pride raiſe reft reſt rife riſe rofe ſcene ſhade ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhed ſhine ſhould ſkies ſky ſmiling ſpread ſpring ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtrain ſtream ſweet tear thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand train trembling tuneful vale virtue voice warbling whofe Whoſe wiſh youth
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Page 150 - Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 81 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 186 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 178 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 183 - Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 193 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 99 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Page 82 - Or aught Thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 149 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 185 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On.