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Yet should this Verse , my leisure's best resource , When thro ' the world it steals its secret course , Revive but once a generous wish supprest , Chase but a sigh , or charm a care to rest ; In one good deed a fleeting hour employ ...
Yet should this Verse , my leisure's best resource , When thro ' the world it steals its secret course , Revive but once a generous wish supprest , Chase but a sigh , or charm a care to rest ; In one good deed a fleeting hour employ ...
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The mouldering gateway strews the grass - grown court , Once the calm scene of many a simple sport ; When nature pleased , for life itself was new , And the heart promised what the fancy drew . See , thro ' the fractured pediment ...
The mouldering gateway strews the grass - grown court , Once the calm scene of many a simple sport ; When nature pleased , for life itself was new , And the heart promised what the fancy drew . See , thro ' the fractured pediment ...
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That massive beam , with curious carvings wrought , Whence the caged linnet soothed my pensive thought ; Those muskets , cased with venerable rust ; Those once 4 ROGERS ' POEMS .
That massive beam , with curious carvings wrought , Whence the caged linnet soothed my pensive thought ; Those muskets , cased with venerable rust ; Those once 4 ROGERS ' POEMS .
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Those muskets , cased with venerable rust ; Those once - loved forms , still breathing thro ' their dust , Still , from the frame in mould gigantic cast , Starting to life — all whisper of the Past ! · As thro ' the garden's desert ...
Those muskets , cased with venerable rust ; Those once - loved forms , still breathing thro ' their dust , Still , from the frame in mould gigantic cast , Starting to life — all whisper of the Past ! · As thro ' the garden's desert ...
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Ah , then , what honest triumph flushed my breast ; This truth once known_To bless is to be blest ! We led the bending beggar on his way , ( Bare were his feet , his tresses silver - gray ) Soothed the keen pangs his aged spirit felt ...
Ah , then , what honest triumph flushed my breast ; This truth once known_To bless is to be blest ! We led the bending beggar on his way , ( Bare were his feet , his tresses silver - gray ) Soothed the keen pangs his aged spirit felt ...
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| Title | Poems |
| Author | Samuel Rogers |
| Publisher | Lea and Blanchard, 1843 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 316 pages |
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