Poems,: In Two Volumes,Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... Brother , The Darling of Children and men ? Could Father Adam open his eyes , And see this sight beneath the skies , He'd wish to close them again . If the Butterfly knew but his friend Hither his flight The Redbreast and the Butterfly.
... Brother , The Darling of Children and men ? Could Father Adam open his eyes , And see this sight beneath the skies , He'd wish to close them again . If the Butterfly knew but his friend Hither his flight The Redbreast and the Butterfly.
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... children , So painfully in the wood ? What ail'd thee Robin that thou could'st pursue A beautiful Creature , That is gentle by nature ? Beneath the summer sky From flower to flower let him fly ; ' Tis all that he wishes to do . The ...
... children , So painfully in the wood ? What ail'd thee Robin that thou could'st pursue A beautiful Creature , That is gentle by nature ? Beneath the summer sky From flower to flower let him fly ; ' Tis all that he wishes to do . The ...
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... Children of the flaring hours ! Buttercups , that will be seen , Whether we will see or no ; Others , too , of lofty mien ; They have done as worldlings do , Taken praise that should be thine , Little , humble Celandine ! VOL . I ...
... Children of the flaring hours ! Buttercups , that will be seen , Whether we will see or no ; Others , too , of lofty mien ; They have done as worldlings do , Taken praise that should be thine , Little , humble Celandine ! VOL . I ...
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... children build their bowers , Sticking ' kerchief - plots of mold All about with full - blown flowers , Thick as sheep in shepherd's fold ! With the proudest Thou art there , Mantling in the tiny square . Often have I sigh'd to measure ...
... children build their bowers , Sticking ' kerchief - plots of mold All about with full - blown flowers , Thick as sheep in shepherd's fold ! With the proudest Thou art there , Mantling in the tiny square . Often have I sigh'd to measure ...
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... Children of one Mother : I could not say in one short day What love they bore each other , A Garland of seven Lilies wrought ! Seven Sisters that together dwell ; But he , bold Knight as ever fought , Their Father , took of them no ...
... Children of one Mother : I could not say in one short day What love they bore each other , A Garland of seven Lilies wrought ! Seven Sisters that together dwell ; But he , bold Knight as ever fought , Their Father , took of them no ...
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answer'd Art thou beauty beneath Bird blast bold bowers breath bright Brother CALAIS call thee calm Celandine Chaise chearful Child Cloak clouds Creature dead Dear delight doth drest Dundee earth EGREMONT CASTLE England espy eyes face Faery fair fancy fear Fleet Street flowers France Friend gentle glittering glorious glory Glow-worm grief ground happy hath hear heard heart heaven Hither honour Horn hour Hubert land Liberty living melancholy mighty mind moor morning mountain mournfully never night o'er pleas'd pleasure Pond praise Rill rock sate seem'd SEVEN SISTERS Shepherd sight silent Sing Sir Eustace Sir Philip Sydney Sleep Solitude of Binnorie SONNET sorrow soul sound Spirit Star stir sweet Tarn thine things Thou art Thou dost Thou hast thought Traveller Twas utter'd Vale vex'd voice wind wood words Ye Men youth
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Page 73 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 123 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 70 - I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee. Tis past, that melancholy dream! Nor will I quit thy shore A second time; for still I seem To love thee more and more.
Page 140 - Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 36 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 75 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
Page 103 - Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room, And hermits are contented with their cells, And students with their pensive citadels; Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells; In truth the prison unto which we doom Ourselves no prison is...
Page 25 - Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine. Eyes of some men travel far For the finding of a star; Up and down the heavens they go, Men that keep a mighty rout! I'm as great as they, I trow, Since the day I found thee out, Little Flower! — I'll make a stir, Like a sage astronomer.
Page 37 - Come when it will, is equal to the need: — He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; 60 Sweet images!
Page 34 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...