The Nursery Garland: Being a Selection of Short, Classical Poems, Adapted to Very Early Youth; Respectfully Inscribed to the Mothers of Families |
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... first , and threat'ning words , That are but noify breath , May grow to clubs and naked fwords , To murder and to death . The devil tempts one mother's fon To rage against another ; So wicked Cain was hurried on ' Till he had kill'd his ...
... first , and threat'ning words , That are but noify breath , May grow to clubs and naked fwords , To murder and to death . The devil tempts one mother's fon To rage against another ; So wicked Cain was hurried on ' Till he had kill'd his ...
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... first Distress with dagger keen , Broke forth to wafte his deftin'd fcene-- His wild unfated foe ! By Pella's Bard , a magic name , By all the griefs his thought could frame , Receive my humble rite : Long , Pity , let the nations view ...
... first Distress with dagger keen , Broke forth to wafte his deftin'd fcene-- His wild unfated foe ! By Pella's Bard , a magic name , By all the griefs his thought could frame , Receive my humble rite : Long , Pity , let the nations view ...
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... the doth broad difplay ; Lo ! fee foon after , how the fades and falls away . So paffeth in the paffing of a day , Of mortal Life the leaf , the bud , the flower , No more doth flourish after first decay , That erft 46 THE NURSERY GARLAND .
... the doth broad difplay ; Lo ! fee foon after , how the fades and falls away . So paffeth in the paffing of a day , Of mortal Life the leaf , the bud , the flower , No more doth flourish after first decay , That erft 46 THE NURSERY GARLAND .
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... first decay , That erft was fought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady , and many a paramour ; Gather the rofe of love , whilft yet is time , While loving thou mayft loved be , without a crime . SPENSER . ODE TO GOOD - NATURE ...
... first decay , That erft was fought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady , and many a paramour ; Gather the rofe of love , whilft yet is time , While loving thou mayft loved be , without a crime . SPENSER . ODE TO GOOD - NATURE ...
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... first , " My gentle comrades , say , " Where each of you may probably be found , " Should accident divide us on the way . " If torn ( fhe added ) from my lov'd allies , " A friendly patronage I hope to find , " Where the fine arts from ...
... first , " My gentle comrades , say , " Where each of you may probably be found , " Should accident divide us on the way . " If torn ( fhe added ) from my lov'd allies , " A friendly patronage I hope to find , " Where the fine arts from ...
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ANWYLL beams beauty Belfield beſt blaſt bleffings bleft blifs bloom bofom breaſt breath caft canker-worm charms Churchill crown'd darkneſs dear delight dwell earth EDMUND EDWARD Elinor eternal ev'ry facred fafe fair fame fate fcene fear feek feems ferene fhade fhall fhine fhould figh filent fing fleep flower fmile foft fome fong foon foothe forrow foul ftar ftill ftore ftrain ftream fuch fupply furveys fweet glory grace hand happy heart Heaven hour Howard marks lefs light mind Miss Onslow misty mountains moffy morn mourn Mufe MYLO night nymph o'er paffions peace pity pleaſe pleaſure poor pow'r praiſe pride purſue rife rill rofe round ſhade ſhall ſhare ſkies ſky ſmile ſpirit ſpread Spring ſtill ſweet tears thee thefe theſe thine thou thouſand thro toil treaſure truth vale Virtue wakeful eye Whofe Wiſdom youth
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Page 159 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 103 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.
Page 158 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 158 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels; for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in Heaven, On earth join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 89 - It is a period nowhere to be found In all the hoary registers of time, Unless perchance in the fool's calendar. Wisdom disclaims the word, nor" holds society With those who own it.
Page 93 - How fair is the Rose ! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May : But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the Rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field ! When its leaves are all dead and...
Page 116 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Page 13 - I HATE that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round : To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace and glittering arms ; And when Ambition's voice commands, To march, and fight, and fall in foreign lands.
Page 121 - 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 115 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain.