Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Moral and Descriptive, with Songs, and Copious NotesPrinted at the Dumfries & Galloway courier office, 1822 - Всего страниц: 283 |
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... his family restored ; Let an all - powerful Providence still be adored . For many their homes left the morn of that day Whose spirits departed from their houses of clay . ON SOLITUDE . O Solitude ! sweet are thy charms 26.
... his family restored ; Let an all - powerful Providence still be adored . For many their homes left the morn of that day Whose spirits departed from their houses of clay . ON SOLITUDE . O Solitude ! sweet are thy charms 26.
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... sweet are thy charms , Though known to , and valued by few , Who love to repose in thy arms , The Muses and Science to woo . Yes ! Science doth fly to the shade Just like a coy virgin , ' tis true , Who wishes the more to engage Her ...
... sweet are thy charms , Though known to , and valued by few , Who love to repose in thy arms , The Muses and Science to woo . Yes ! Science doth fly to the shade Just like a coy virgin , ' tis true , Who wishes the more to engage Her ...
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... sweet on the spray , And perfumes the senses do greet . The tulips such beauties display , That art is obliged to recoil ; The painter with colours so gay , Must always come off with the foil . The auricula such sweets doth bestow ...
... sweet on the spray , And perfumes the senses do greet . The tulips such beauties display , That art is obliged to recoil ; The painter with colours so gay , Must always come off with the foil . The auricula such sweets doth bestow ...
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... sweets doth bestow , That rewardeth the gardener's toil , So modestly still it does blow , That I would be loath it ... sweet , Το With the honey suckle seeming to vie , crop them I do not think meet , Their treasures I leave to the bee ...
... sweets doth bestow , That rewardeth the gardener's toil , So modestly still it does blow , That I would be loath it ... sweet , Το With the honey suckle seeming to vie , crop them I do not think meet , Their treasures I leave to the bee ...
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... sweet Solitude , From the bustle of bus'ness afar . I will to the brook now descend , And in angling exert all my skill ; But my pastime I cannot defend , I use all endeavours to kill . My counterfeit fly I display On purpose the fish ...
... sweet Solitude , From the bustle of bus'ness afar . I will to the brook now descend , And in angling exert all my skill ; But my pastime I cannot defend , I use all endeavours to kill . My counterfeit fly I display On purpose the fish ...
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admire Andrew Meikle appear banks battle BATTLE OF WATERLOO beauties bestow bold bonnie bosom bout brave breast British Britons brow Cæsar Carron cheeks cheer Closeburn command corn Criffel cuirassiers Dalveen dark dear display dost doth down-how dreadful Duke Dumfries e'er endeavour EPISTLE fair faithful fame field flow Fortune frae gallant grand chain grave happy heart Heaven heroes Highland laddies honour Isle king land of cakes Lavalette live Lord Lord Exmouth lowland Scot mankind Meikle mind mirth MOORLAND moral mourn Muse Nature's ne'er nigh night nought numbers o'er passions peace plain plough poem praise Prince repair Roman legion sage scarce scene Scots shepherd shore skill smile Solitude song soul stern storm straits of Dover subdue sure sweet tears thee There's thou thought true tyrants unto virtue Waterloo wish yonder yore younker
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