A Song : The Sparkling Eye (William Cowper Poems)
The sparkling eye, the mantling cheek,The polished front, the snowy neck,How seldom we behold in one!Glossy locks, and brow serene,Venus' ...
The sparkling eye, the mantling cheek,The polished front, the snowy neck,How seldom we behold in one!Glossy locks, and brow serene,Venus' ...
Fame came to himLike the shadow of a mountain,As the sun weighs heavy upon itObliquely on its back.It turned somber,It ...
A ray of light, to an oblique observer,Remains invisible in pure dry air;But shone into a turbid elementIt throws distracting ...
I. OF all that men with zeal and ardour chace, Pour'd here and there on life's promiscuous ground,Some points are ...
The Contemplation.ARGUMENT. Pango nec humanis Opus enarrabile Verbis, Quae meli?s possem Mira silendo loqui! Da, DEUS, Illa canam, quae Vox ...
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
The Mighty Mother, and her son who brings The Smithfield muses to the ear of kings, I sing. Say you, ...
IRed SlippersRed slippers in a shop-window, and outside in the street, flaws of grey,windy sleet!Behind the polished glass, the slippers ...
Fabio ! the courtier's hopes are chains that windWith fatal strength around the ambitious mind; And he who breaks or ...
"THE breeze was hush'd; the modest moon-beam slept On the green bosom of the treach'rous wave; The lover Marli wander'd ...
I PASSED a day on Mosel river,-- A day beginning with the sun; It ended not till light was over, ...
To the Spirit of her Lover. Wilt thou follow me into the wild? Wilt thou follow me over the ...
A click of window glass had roused me Out of my sleep at early dawn. Beneath me Venice swam in ...
My words and thoughts do both expresse this notion,That Life hath with the sun a double motion.The first Is straight, ...
Cross-hatchings of rain against grey walls, Slant lines of black rain In front of the up and down, wet stone ...
The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo, His mental processes are plain--one knows what he will do, ...
As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do ...
Cruising these residential Sunday streets in dry August sunlight: what offends us is the sanities: the houses in pedantic rows, ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
Close by those meads, for ever crown'd with flow'rs, Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow'rs, There stands a ...
Some people find out they are Jews. They can't believe it. Thy had always hated Jews. As children they had ...
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