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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors - Page 175
edited by - 1822
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Gathered Flowers: Chiefly from the Works of the British Poets

1832 - 206 pages
...the rural shade, By love's simplicity betrayed, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled is laid Low i' the dust Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starred ! Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starred ! Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is given, Who long with wants and woes has striven,...
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A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank].

James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...Persia to the Macedonian." If poets may possess some enjoyment ; if, to use the language of Burns — " Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean...prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ; " — how much more may the calm and well-regulated philosopher enjoy, who, possessing...
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The Works of Robert Burns: With His Life, Volume 2

Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 370 pages
...Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, 'Till she, like thee, all soil'd,...prudent lore, 'Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n,...
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Advertisement ; Life of Burns ; Glossary ; Preface to the first edition ...

Robert Burns - Poetry, Modern - 1834 - 206 pages
...thy bedt And low Uiou ties ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like tbee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough oceao luckless starr'd ', Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore. Till billows rage, and gales...
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The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on ...

Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 pages
...Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet floweret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity hetray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd,...Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till hillows rage, and gales hlow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who...
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Flora and Thalia; or, Gems of flowers and poetry, by a lady

Flora (goddess.) - 1835 - 314 pages
...Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust ; Till she, like thee, all soil'd is laid Low T the dust. Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd I Unskilful he...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd,...prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard," And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n,...
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The cynosure, select passages from the most distinguished writers [ed. by ...

Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd,...prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering worth is given, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n,...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd,...prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n,...
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