Various poems. The wanderer, The triumph of mirth and health, and The bastard. To which is prefixed a preface, giving some account of them

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Página 85 - He weeps, stamps wild, and to and fro now flies; Now wrings his hands, and...
Página 69 - Now lost, she seems through nether tracts to flow ; Yet, at yon point, winds out in silver state, Like virtue from a labyrinth of fate.
Página 78 - Mark in yon heath oppos'd the cultur'd scene, Wild thyme, pale box, and firs of darker green. The native strawberry red-ripening grows, By nettles guarded, as by thorns the rose. There nightingales in unprun'd copses build, In shaggy furzes lies the hare conceal'd.
Página 48 - Can its foot sharpen, like the vulture's claw? Can the fond goat, or tender fleecy dam, Howl, like the wolf, to tear the kid, or lamb? Yes, there are mothers...
Página 23 - Envy, he replied, all ireful rise, Envy pursues alone the brave and wise ; Maro and Socrates inspire her pain, And Pope, the monarch of the tuneful train ! To whom be Nature's, and Britannia's praise ! All their bright honours rush into his lays ! And all that glorious warmth his lays reveal, Which only poets, kings, and patriots feel...
Página 91 - No Mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer; No Father's guardian hand my youth maintain'd, Call'd forth my virtues, or from vice restrain'd.
Página 76 - Now daisy plats of clover square the plain, And part the bearded from the beardless grain. There fibrous flax with verdure binds the field, Which on the loom...
Página 90 - Pity's eye condemn'd to see. Remembrance veils his rage, but swells his fate ; Griev'd I forgive, and am grown cool too late. Young, and unthoughtful then ; who knows, one day, What ripening virtues might have made their way...
Página 78 - Trees, rich with gums and fruits; with jewels, rocks; Plains with flowers, herbs, and plants, and beeves, and flocks; Mountains with mines; with oak, and cedar, woods; Quarries with marble, and with fish the floods.
Página 15 - Lustre, which, through dim night, as various plays As play from yonder snows the changeful rays ! For nobler use the crystal's worth may rise, If tubes perspective hem the spotless prize ; Through these the beams of the far-lengthen'd eye Measure known stars, and new remoter spy.

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