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 ...
WHILE others, lost in pleasure's guilty round, Blast the glad season of their fleeting youth,Let me in solitary joys abound, Fond of ...
VAIN are those joys that erring man provides, Vain the pursuit of sublunary things!Wisdom the sandy edifice derides, Scoffs at the fading ...
FAREWELL thou restless world, whose unsound joy,False hopes, and vain pursuits, man's life destroy;Poison in golden cups thou gav'st to ...
No. 1561. Private H. W. ReidOnly a number and a name, one moreThat dies for England. Wight and majestyAnd power ...
I KNOW not, in this dark and fateful hour,What England is to others, but to meShe is a noble heritage, ...
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