A Collection of Poems: Occasionally Writ on Several SubjectsJohn White, 1731 - 176 sivua |
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Sivu xv
... Arm around her Waift ; ( Such Freedom , native Innocence allows , When all the Heart with kind Affection glows . ) Touch'd with a tender Sorrow , thus began The Swain in mournful Numbers to complain . My Dear ! to die with thee , would ...
... Arm around her Waift ; ( Such Freedom , native Innocence allows , When all the Heart with kind Affection glows . ) Touch'd with a tender Sorrow , thus began The Swain in mournful Numbers to complain . My Dear ! to die with thee , would ...
Sivu 10
... Arms I lie , And foftly tell the Thoughts which Abfence rais'd , How oft I figh'd her Name , how much I prais'd : How many Times my Proftrate Soul did move In ardent Prayers to ev'ry Power above , To guard my Charmer , and preserve my ...
... Arms I lie , And foftly tell the Thoughts which Abfence rais'd , How oft I figh'd her Name , how much I prais'd : How many Times my Proftrate Soul did move In ardent Prayers to ev'ry Power above , To guard my Charmer , and preserve my ...
Sivu 16
... ! For all Things feel the Joys of Love but 1 . WHAT holds my Dear from coming to thefe Arms ? What Pow'r ill - fated , ftill detains thy Charms ? Come , Come , bring one Glance of thy deluding Eyes , 16 The PENSIVE SWAIN .
... ! For all Things feel the Joys of Love but 1 . WHAT holds my Dear from coming to thefe Arms ? What Pow'r ill - fated , ftill detains thy Charms ? Come , Come , bring one Glance of thy deluding Eyes , 16 The PENSIVE SWAIN .
Sivu 20
... Arm the hung , And Swains all lift'ning crouded to my Song ; Rapt to the Heart , their nimble Feet were feen , To fhift in fprightly Dance , and trip the Green ; Pleas'd with my Numbers , ev'n the ancient gaz'd , And heard with Wonder ...
... Arm the hung , And Swains all lift'ning crouded to my Song ; Rapt to the Heart , their nimble Feet were feen , To fhift in fprightly Dance , and trip the Green ; Pleas'd with my Numbers , ev'n the ancient gaz'd , And heard with Wonder ...
Sivu 32
... Arms you caft , " When ( touch'd with something that foretold my Pain ) " My Heart the heavy Grief could scarce sustain ; " Your melting Words fubdu'd my rifing Fears , " And your deluding Kiffes ftop'd my Tears ; " With promis'd Faith ...
... Arms you caft , " When ( touch'd with something that foretold my Pain ) " My Heart the heavy Grief could scarce sustain ; " Your melting Words fubdu'd my rifing Fears , " And your deluding Kiffes ftop'd my Tears ; " With promis'd Faith ...
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Abfence arife Beauties Bleffings bleft Blifs Bloom blooming Groves Bofom Breaſt bright caft Charms DAMON Daphnis dear Defire Delight diff'rent Ev'n ev'ry Eyes facred fafe Fame feems felf fhall fhining fhould figh'd fince fing Fire firſt Flame flow flow'ry fmile foft fome foon ftill fuch fweet fwell gen'rous Genius Glories glow Groves happy Heart Heav'n heav'nly Hills John Joys juſt lafting laſt lefs lov'd Love Mankind melting Mind moſt Mount Ida mourn Mufe Muſe muſt ne'er Numbers Nymph o'er OENONE OVID Paffion Paftoral Pain PARIS Plain pleas'd pleaſe Pleaſure Pow'r Praife Praiſe PRIAM purſue Rapture raviſh'd rife Robert Rofe Scenes Seafon Senfe Shades ſhall ſhe Shepherd ſhine Silvia's Skie Skies Song Soul ſtay ſtill Streams STREPHON Swain tender thee thefe theſe Things feel thofe Thomas thoſe thou Thought thouſand thro Verfe Verſe VIRG whofe Whoſe William Youth
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Sivu viii - ... wing, (Her guide now lost) no more attempts to rise, But in low numbers short excursions tries: Content, if hence, th...
Sivu 129 - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
Sivu vi - Ten cenfure wrong, for one who writes amifs ; A fool might once himfelf alone expofe, Now one in verfe makes many more in profe. Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go juft alike, yet each believes his own.
Sivu 154 - Flocks, fecms to be the firft Employment of Mankind, the moft antient Sort of Poetry, was probably Paftoral : 'Tis natural to imagine, that the Leifure of thofe antient Shepherds requiring fome Diverfion, none was fo proper to that folitary Life, as finging, and that in their Songs, they took Occafion...
Sivu 101 - No doleful fighs in airy circles rove, But all be rapture, blifs, and joy and love ; Without a ruffle, ev'ry moment flow, More gentle than the fofteft breezes blow.
Sivu xv - Rofes in Hedges, King-cups on the green, Birds in the Woods, and Larks upon the Skies, Say, is't not Spring that makes you all rejoyce?
Sivu 33 - Swell'd to my Eyes, and melted out in Tears; " My trembling Limbs could fcarce my Weight fuftain, " And Life furpriz'd, ftood paufing with the Pain.
Sivu 30 - Place for Contemplation, or for Care, To lift the Soul, or pour out fad DeJpair ! And And here lay Cc///'», haplefs Swain!
Sivu vii - One moral, or a meer well-natur'd Deed Does all Defert in Sciences exceed. Moreover, I can ajjure all my Readers, 'who are not of my Acquaintance, that I am not extravagant...