Retired Hours (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
YE gentle days that once were mine, In every charm of life array'd,No more awaken my regret, No more my settled peace ...
YE gentle days that once were mine, In every charm of life array'd,No more awaken my regret, No more my settled peace ...
VAIN are those joys that erring man provides, Vain the pursuit of sublunary things!Wisdom the sandy edifice derides, Scoffs at the fading ...
O Moon, that sailest in the heavens above,Inscrutable, pale, beautiful, alone.Art weary of thy solitary throne ?Dost long sometimes for ...
Sail not too rashly out to sea,My friend, nor, fearful of the roarOf winds and waters, hug too closeThe rocky ...
The weeks go by, the weary weeks go by,The months are lengthened into years, the yearsAre filled with sordid toil, ...
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