PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page iii
... charm a care to rest ; In one good deed a fleeting hour employ , Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy ; Blest were my lines , tho ' limited their sphere , Tho ' short their date , as his who traced them here . 1793 . A CONTENTS ...
... charm a care to rest ; In one good deed a fleeting hour employ , Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy ; Blest were my lines , tho ' limited their sphere , Tho ' short their date , as his who traced them here . 1793 . A CONTENTS ...
Page lviii
... charm to find that the clergymen were thinking of him , while he had been willing to fancy that they were at their devotions . During his last few years he spent the three winter months at Brighton , in the same house with his sister ...
... charm to find that the clergymen were thinking of him , while he had been willing to fancy that they were at their devotions . During his last few years he spent the three winter months at Brighton , in the same house with his sister ...
Page lxiii
... charm a care to rest ; ' In one good deed a fleeting hour employ , ' Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy . ' Such was his aim at the age of thirty when he wrote these lines ; and every reader of his poems will at once grant , that ...
... charm a care to rest ; ' In one good deed a fleeting hour employ , ' Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy . ' Such was his aim at the age of thirty when he wrote these lines ; and every reader of his poems will at once grant , that ...
Page 8
... charms this silent spot endear ? Mark yon old Mansion frowning thro ' the trees , Whose hollow turret wooes the whistling breeze . That casement , arched with ivy's brownest shade , First to these eyes the light of heaven conveyed . The ...
... charms this silent spot endear ? Mark yon old Mansion frowning thro ' the trees , Whose hollow turret wooes the whistling breeze . That casement , arched with ivy's brownest shade , First to these eyes the light of heaven conveyed . The ...
Page 9
... charms the wildered sight ; And still , with Heraldry's rich hues imprest , On the dim window glows the pictured crest . The screen unfolds its many - coloured chart . The clock still points its moral to the heart . That faithful ...
... charms the wildered sight ; And still , with Heraldry's rich hues imprest , On the dim window glows the pictured crest . The screen unfolds its many - coloured chart . The clock still points its moral to the heart . That faithful ...
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