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 ...
What is he thinking lying there so still,This tiny piece of soft humanity,This little unknown stranger in our midst ?Is ...
COME, Holy Spirit, love divine, Thy cleansing power impart;Each erring thought and wish refine, That wanders near my heart.There let they quick'ning ...
VAIN are those joys that erring man provides, Vain the pursuit of sublunary things!Wisdom the sandy edifice derides, Scoffs at the fading ...
While the whole world is filled with noise of battle,And cries from many a devastated land,While day by day our ...
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