Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. (William Cowper Poems)
SCENE I.-- Adam and Eve.Oh, my beloved companion!Oh thou of my existence,The very heart and soul!Hast thou, with such excess ...
SCENE I.-- Adam and Eve.Oh, my beloved companion!Oh thou of my existence,The very heart and soul!Hast thou, with such excess ...
The labours of the plough, the various toilsThat, still returning with the changeful year,Demand the husbandman's and cottar's care;The joys ...
Beneath the fervour of the noon-tide beamAll Nature's works in placid stillness pause,--Save man, and his joint labourer the horse,The ...
I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a ...
THE FAIRY 'The present and the past thou hast beheld. It was a desolate sight. Now, Spirit, learn, The secrets of the future--Time! Unfold ...
There is a land where rivers flowThrough humming forests merrilyAnd babble gaily as they goWhile tuneful skylarks sing in glee.There ...
From sunward rocks the icicle's faint drop,By lonely river side, is heard, at times,To break the silence deep; for now ...
_P_. Farewell to Europe, and at once farewellTo all the follies which in Europe dwell;To Eastern India now, a richer ...
In his village greyAt foot of the dykes, that encompass himWith weary weaving of curves and linesToward the sea outstretching ...
A sight that gives me much distress Is George without his trousers,Garbed, scantily, in bathing dress Proscribed by saintly Wowsers,And ...
Come not in terrors clad, to claim An unresisting prey:Come like an evening shadow, Death! So stealthily, so silently!And ...
O Sweet!I kiss thy feet.It is permitted meSo much to keep of thee,So much to give to thee.ReverentlyI touch thy ...
One Blessing had I than the rest So larger to my Eyes That I stopped gauging -- satisfied -- For ...
It was in the days of a gay British King (In the old fashion'd custom of merry-making) The Palace of ...
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