A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Volume 1J. Hughs, 1765 - English poetry |
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... true fighs thy absence to bemoan , And grave with faithful epitaphs thy stone . If e'er from me thy lov'd memorial part , May fhame afflict this alienated heart ; Of thee forgetful if I form a fong , My lyre be broken , and untun'd my ...
... true fighs thy absence to bemoan , And grave with faithful epitaphs thy stone . If e'er from me thy lov'd memorial part , May fhame afflict this alienated heart ; Of thee forgetful if I form a fong , My lyre be broken , and untun'd my ...
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... - ever now remains . XVII . Oft at this place the constant hind And plighted maid are seen ; With garlands gay , and true - love knots They deck the facred green . C 3 XVIII . But XVIII . But , fwain forfworn , whoe'er thou art ( 37 )
... - ever now remains . XVII . Oft at this place the constant hind And plighted maid are seen ; With garlands gay , and true - love knots They deck the facred green . C 3 XVIII . But XVIII . But , fwain forfworn , whoe'er thou art ( 37 )
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... true , and voice fo rufty , ( A loyal foul ) thy troops affright , While hoarfely he demands the fight ? Do'st thou not gen'rous Ilay dread , The braveft hand , the wifeft head ? Undaunted do'ft thou hear th ' alarms Of hoary Athol ...
... true , and voice fo rufty , ( A loyal foul ) thy troops affright , While hoarfely he demands the fight ? Do'st thou not gen'rous Ilay dread , The braveft hand , the wifeft head ? Undaunted do'ft thou hear th ' alarms Of hoary Athol ...
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... true , ye watery powers , my lineage came From Neptune mingling with a mortal dame ; Down to his court , with coral gardens crown'd , Through all your grottoes waft my plaintive found , And urge the god , whofe trident shakes the earth ...
... true , ye watery powers , my lineage came From Neptune mingling with a mortal dame ; Down to his court , with coral gardens crown'd , Through all your grottoes waft my plaintive found , And urge the god , whofe trident shakes the earth ...
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... true , Rejoin the vital trunk whence first it grew ; And , whilft in wonder fix'd poor Albion stood , Plung'd the curs'd fabre in his heart's warm blood . The golden broidery tender Milkah wove , The breaft to Kenna facred and to love ...
... true , Rejoin the vital trunk whence first it grew ; And , whilft in wonder fix'd poor Albion stood , Plung'd the curs'd fabre in his heart's warm blood . The golden broidery tender Milkah wove , The breaft to Kenna facred and to love ...
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Page 260 - While partial Fame doth with her blasts adorn Such deeds alone as pride and pomp disguise; Deeds of ill sort, and mischievous emprize...
Page 30 - There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Page 215 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His pow'rful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast.
Page 231 - Grongar Hill Silent nymph! with curious eye Who the purple evening lie On the mountain's lonely van Beyond the noise of busy man, Painting fair the form of things...
Page 209 - This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways.
Page 261 - ... green, On which the tribe their gambols do display ; And at the door...
Page 217 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Page 131 - To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen, Some recommend the bowling-green ; Some, hilly walks ; all, exercise ; Fling but a stone, the giant dies. Laugh and be well. Monkeys have been Extreme good doctors for the Spleen ; And kitten, if the humour hit, Has harlequin'd away the fit.
Page 234 - That cast an awful look below ; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps : So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; Tis now th...
Page 265 - On thee she calls, on thee her parent dear! . . (Ah ! too remote to ward the shameful blow!) She sees no kind domestic visage near, And soon a flood of tears begins to flow ; And gives a loose at last to unavailing woe.