 Cataracts of declamation thunder here ; There forests of no meaning spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But...  Poems - Strona 100autor: William Cowper - 1802Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | William Cowper - 1900 - Liczba stron: 346
...spread the page In which all comprehension wanders lost ; 75 While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...the cheeks And lilies for the brows of faded age, 80 Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons and city feasts, and favourite airs, Ethereal journeys,... | |
 | Arthur Max Hantsche - 1901 - Liczba stron: 160
...»In which all comprehension wanders lost, »While fields of pleasantry amuse us there. »The reat appears a wilderness of strange »But gay confusion, roses for the cheeks «And lilies for the brow of faded age »Heaven earth and ocean plunder'd of their sweets. »Here runs the mountanious and... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - Liczba stron: 624
...the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost. While fields of pleasantry amuse us there \Vith merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange Hut gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks. And lilies for the brows of faded age. Teeth for the toothless,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - Liczba stron: 716
...wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, 80 Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n,...Sermons, and city feasts, and fav'rite airs, ^Ethereal journies, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - Liczba stron: 948
...amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange r"But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks And lilies for the brows of faded age, go . Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, > Heaven, earth, and ocean plundered of their... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - Liczba stron: 916
...of faded age, 8o Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean plundered of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons and city feasts, and favourite airs, .Ethereal journeys, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1916 - Liczba stron: 802
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us the'e With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean plundered of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - Liczba stron: 580
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean, plunder'd of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and... | |
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