Love And Solitude (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
WHILE others, lost in pleasure's guilty round, Blast the glad season of their fleeting youth,Let me in solitary joys abound, Fond of ...
WHILE others, lost in pleasure's guilty round, Blast the glad season of their fleeting youth,Let me in solitary joys abound, Fond of ...
What is he thinking lying there so still,This tiny piece of soft humanity,This little unknown stranger in our midst ?Is ...
VAIN are those joys that erring man provides, Vain the pursuit of sublunary things!Wisdom the sandy edifice derides, Scoffs at the fading ...
I HAVE seen thee again, my beloved,Thou art come in the pride of thy youth,With thy beauty a garment about ...
FAREWELL thou restless world, whose unsound joy,False hopes, and vain pursuits, man's life destroy;Poison in golden cups thou gav'st to ...
O Moon, that sailest in the heavens above,Inscrutable, pale, beautiful, alone.Art weary of thy solitary throne ?Dost long sometimes for ...
The days are sped, and never shall return,Days of deep joy, which Helen did beguileWide her sweet presence and enchanting ...
BE hush'd my tongue, nor murmur or complain;With pious awe the struggling tear restrain.Dark is my path and intricate my ...
THE hardest task the Christian heart can know,Is to relinquish all it loves below.Where creature comforts, tender ties, conspireTo rule ...
Once again in thy meadows of Christ Church,Through thy chapels and gardens againI walk as of old, while thy towersRing ...
AH hapless maid! whose virtues, once thy own,The lustre of thy brilliants far outshone;Couldst thou awhile thy waken'd self attend,And ...
HOW sweet in silent thought to trace The riches of redeeming grace! To reckon mercies o'er and o'er, And find them such an ...
SO then farewell ye fugitive delights,Ye glassy splendours, once so much enjoy'd,And hop'd more lasting O my halcyon days,Whose pleasing ...
To paths of bliss incline their straying feet,With heavenly wisdom make their souls replete;Give them, O God! that source of ...
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