The Seasons, Hymns, Ode, and SongsJ. W. H. Payne, 1813 - 323 páginas |
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... flocks amid the laughing meads Their weary bodies lay , while wide - distent The plenteous udder teems with milky juice ; And o'er the grass , as their young hearts beat high , Swell'd by the pure and generous streams they drain ...
... flocks amid the laughing meads Their weary bodies lay , while wide - distent The plenteous udder teems with milky juice ; And o'er the grass , as their young hearts beat high , Swell'd by the pure and generous streams they drain ...
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... flocks ; and this provision has the secondary effect of gratifying the spectator with something of novelty and action even in the dreariness of a wintry prospect . But it is in the extraordinary changes and agitations which the elements ...
... flocks ; and this provision has the secondary effect of gratifying the spectator with something of novelty and action even in the dreariness of a wintry prospect . But it is in the extraordinary changes and agitations which the elements ...
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... flocks Drop the dry sprig , and mute - imploring eye The falling verdure . Hush'd in short suspense , The plumy people streak their wings with oil , To throw the lucid moisture trickling off ; And wait th ' approaching sign to strike ...
... flocks Drop the dry sprig , and mute - imploring eye The falling verdure . Hush'd in short suspense , The plumy people streak their wings with oil , To throw the lucid moisture trickling off ; And wait th ' approaching sign to strike ...
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... flock . 245 Meantime the song went round ; and dance and sport , Wisdom and friendly talk , succesive , stole Their ... flocks , commixing , play'd secure . This when , emergent from the gloomy wood , The glaring lion saw , his horrid ...
... flock . 245 Meantime the song went round ; and dance and sport , Wisdom and friendly talk , succesive , stole Their ... flocks , commixing , play'd secure . This when , emergent from the gloomy wood , The glaring lion saw , his horrid ...
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... flocks , What have ye done ? ye peaceful people , what , To merit death ? You , who have given us milk In luscious streams , and lent us your own coat Against the winter's cold . And the plain ox , That harmless , honest , guileless ...
... flocks , What have ye done ? ye peaceful people , what , To merit death ? You , who have given us milk In luscious streams , and lent us your own coat Against the winter's cold . And the plain ox , That harmless , honest , guileless ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
affects the various amid art thou Autumn beam beauty beneath bloom bosom boundless breast breathes breeze Caledonia Celadon charm clouds Coriolanus deep delightful descends descriptive poetry earth ether Ev'n exalted fair fair brow fancy fierce flame flocks flood gale gentle gloom glowing grace grove happy heart heaven hills Lapland light luxury matchless maze mighty mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Musidora Nature Nature's night numbers o'er Palemon passions peace plain poet poison'd pomp pride race rage rapture rills rise rocks roll round rous'd rural scarce scene Season described Season on Animals shade shine smile snow soft song soul spreads Spring storm stream stretch'd Summer swain sweet sweet emotions swell tempest tender thee Thomson thou thought thunder toil train tribes vale vegetable vex'd virtue walk waste wave wild winds wing Winter wintry wonders woods youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 301 - Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound His stupendous praise ; whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Página 299 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Página 303 - tis nought to me: Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where he vital breathes there must be joy.
Página 249 - SEE, Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train ; Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme; These, that exalt the soul to solemn thought, And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms...
Página 99 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 56 - Sits on the horizon round a settled gloom : Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed, Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of nature. Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm ; that not a breath Is heard to quiver through the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall.
Página 265 - And heedless rambling Impulse learn to think ; The conscious heart of Charity would warm, And her wide wish Benevolence dilate ; The social tear would rise, the social sigh ; And into clear perfection, gradual bliss, Refining still, the social passions work.
Página 49 - COME, gentle SPRING! ethereal Mildness! come; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Página 88 - The whole creation round. Contentment walks The sunny glade, and feels an inward bliss Spring o'er his mind, beyond the power of kings To purchase.
Página 263 - In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.