On Happiness (James Thomson Poems)
Warm'd by the summer sun's meridian ray,As underneath a spreading oak I layContemplating the mighty load of woe,In search of ...
Warm'd by the summer sun's meridian ray,As underneath a spreading oak I layContemplating the mighty load of woe,In search of ...
These, as they change, Almighty Father, theseAre but the varied God. The rolling yearIs full of thee. Forth in the ...
To praise thy Author, Soul, do not forget;Canst thou, in gratitude, deny the debt?Lord, thou art great, how great we ...
Beauty deserves the homage of the muse:Shall mine, rebellious, the dear theme refuse?No; while my breast respires the vital air,Wholly ...
DAVID.What means yon apparition in the sky,Thirsis, that dazzles every shepherd's eye?I slumbering was when from yon glorious cloudCame gliding ...
What is the task that to the muse belongs?What but to deck in her harmonious songsThe beauteous works of nature ...
I loathe, O Lord, this life below,And all its fading fleeting joys;'Tis a short space that's fill'd with woe,Which all ...
Hail! Power Divine, who by thy sole command, From the dark empty space,Made the broad sea and solid land Smile with a ...
Shook sudden from the bosom of the sky,A thousand shapes, or glide athwart the dusk,Or stalk majestic on. Deep-roused, I ...
Soon as the morning trembles o'er the sky,And unperceived, unfolds the spreading day;Before the ripen'd field the reapers stand,In fair ...
The hoop, the darling justly of the fair,Of every generous swain deserves the care.It is unmanly to desert the weak,'Twould ...
When blooming springArrays the laughing fields in green,Then flowers in open air are seen,And warbling birds are heard to sing, Almighty ...
See! Winter comes, to rule the varied Year, Sullen, and sad; with all his rising Train, Vapours, and Clouds, and ...
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