The Life of William CowperC. J. Farncombe & sons, 1921 - 368 من الصفحات |
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Albans amusing appeared April August Avenell Avenell Collection beautiful became began brother Bull called Catfield church cousin Cowper Museum Cowper says Cowper Society Cowper wrote Cowper's letters Cowper's Poems dear death December Eartham Edition of Cowper's favour February garden gave Gayhurst Hall Hannah happy Hayley Hayley's heard Homer hope Huntingdon hymn Inner Temple January John Cowper John Newton John Throckmorton Johnson Joseph Hill July June Lady Austen Lady Hesketh lines lived London Lord Dartmouth March Martin Madan Milton mind morning Mundesley Museum at Olney never night November October Olney Hymns once parlour poet poor portrait prayer Romney Sam Roberts says Cowper seems sent Summer House Teedon tells Temple Theodora Thomas thou Throckmorton Thurlow took town translation Unwin verse vicarage walk Weston Weston Underwood William Bull William Cowper Wright's writes written
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الصفحة 197 - From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books.
الصفحة 215 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing they are lost, and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve.
الصفحة 48 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.
الصفحة 11 - Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss, Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes.
الصفحة 11 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
الصفحة 81 - FOR a closer walk with God ! A. calm and heavenly frame ! A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb...
الصفحة 81 - So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb.
الصفحة 81 - Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord ? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and His word ? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoyed ! How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
الصفحة 9 - Could Time, his flight reversed, restore the hours, When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin, (And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head, and smile,) Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here ? I would not trust my heart ; the dear delight Seems so to be desired, perhaps I might.
الصفحة 272 - There is in me, I believe, more of the Donne than of the Cowper ; and though I love all of both names, and have a thousand reasons to love those of my own name, yet I feel the bond of nature draw me vehemently to your side.