Poems,J. Johnson, 1803 - 363 pages |
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Page 17
... She dreads An inftant's pause , and lives but while fhe moves . Its own revolvency upholds the world . Winds from all quarters agitate the air , And fit the limpid element for use , Elfe noxious : oceans , rivers , lakes , and ftreams ...
... She dreads An inftant's pause , and lives but while fhe moves . Its own revolvency upholds the world . Winds from all quarters agitate the air , And fit the limpid element for use , Elfe noxious : oceans , rivers , lakes , and ftreams ...
Page 19
... she draws , Is Nature's dictate . Strange ! there fhould be found , Who , felf - imprisoned in their proud faloons , Renounce the odours of the open field For the unfcented fictions of the loom ; Who , fatisfied with only pencilled ...
... she draws , Is Nature's dictate . Strange ! there fhould be found , Who , felf - imprisoned in their proud faloons , Renounce the odours of the open field For the unfcented fictions of the loom ; Who , fatisfied with only pencilled ...
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... she was not to know . She heard the doleful tidings of his death— And never smiled again ! and now the roams The dreary wafte ; there spends the livelong day , And there , unless when charity forbids , The livelong night . A tattered ...
... she was not to know . She heard the doleful tidings of his death— And never smiled again ! and now the roams The dreary wafte ; there spends the livelong day , And there , unless when charity forbids , The livelong night . A tattered ...
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... she spring spontaneous ) in remote And barbarous climes , where violence prevails , And ftrength is lord of all ; but gentle , kind , By culture tamed , by liberty refreshed , And all her fruits by radiant truth matured . War and the ...
... she spring spontaneous ) in remote And barbarous climes , where violence prevails , And ftrength is lord of all ; but gentle , kind , By culture tamed , by liberty refreshed , And all her fruits by radiant truth matured . War and the ...
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... she paints thee thus . She tells me too that duly every morn Thou climbest the mountain top , with eager eye Exploring far and wide the watery waste For fight of fhip from England . Every speck Seen in the dim horizon turns thee pale ...
... she paints thee thus . She tells me too that duly every morn Thou climbest the mountain top , with eager eye Exploring far and wide the watery waste For fight of fhip from England . Every speck Seen in the dim horizon turns thee pale ...
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