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Absence, with all its pains, Is by this charming moment wip'd away. - [Meeting] Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest. - [Proverbs] And let th' aspiring Youth beware of Love, Of the smooth glance beware; for 'tis too late; When on his heart the torrent softness pours, Then Wisdom prostrate lies, and fading Fame Dissolves in air away. - [Love] And see the country, far diffused around, One boundless blush, one white impurpled shower Of mingled blossom's! where the captured eye Hurries from joy to joy. - [Country] Custom, 'tis true, a venerable tyrant O'er servile man extends her blind dominion. - [Custom] Ev'n not all these, in one rich lot combined, Can make the happy man, without the mind, Where judgment sits clear-sighted, and surveys The chain of reason with unerring gaze. - [Judgment] For of old time, since first the rushing flood, Urg'd by Almighty Pow'r, this favour'd isle Turn'd flashing from the continent aside, Indented shore to shore responsive still, Its guardian she. - [England] For, firm within, and while at heart untouch'd, Ne'er yet by force was freedom overcome. But soon as independence stoops the head, To vice-enslaved, and vice-created wants, Then to some foul corrupting-hand, whose waste Their craving lusts with fatal bounty feeds, They fall a willing, undefended prize; From man to man th' infectious softness runs, Till the whole state unnerved in slavery sinks. - [Corruption] Gradual sinks the breeze Into a perfect calm; that not a breath I heard to quiver thro' the closing woods, Or rustling turn the many twinkling leaves, Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods diffus'd In glassy breadth, seen through delusive lapse Forgetful of their course. 'Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. - [Calumny] Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise of health. - [Bliss] Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays. - [Landscape] Her lips blush deeper sweets. - [Lips] Here too dwells simple truth; plain innocence; Unsullied beauty; sound unbroken youth, Patient of labour, with a little pleas'd; Health ever blooming; unambitious toil, Calm contemplation; and poetic ease. - [Country] His folded flock secure, the shepherd home Hies merry-hearted; and by turns relieves The ruddy milk-maid of her brimming pail; The beauty whom perhaps his witless heart, Unknowing what the joy-mix'd anguish means, Sincerely loves, by that best language shown Of cordial glances, and obliging deeds. - [Courtship] How slow the time to the warm soul, that, in the very instant it forms, would execute a great design! - [Action] I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop. - [Offense] If misfortune comes, she brings along the bravest virtues. - [Misfortune] In waking whispers and repeated dreams, to hint pure thoughts and warn the favored soul. - [Dreams] Inconstant, blind, Deserting friends at need, and duped by foes; Loud and seditious, when a chief inspired Their headlong fury, but, of him deprived, Already slaves that lick'd the scourging hand. - [Mob] Ingratitude is treason to mankind. - [Ingratitude] Is there aught in sleep can charm the wise, To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life; Total extinction of the enlighten'd soul? Wilder'd and tossing thro' distemper'd dreams? Who would in such a gloomy state remain Longer than nature craves; when ev'ry muse And every blooming pleasure wait without, To bless the wildly devious morning walk? - [Early Rising] It is late before the brave despair. - [Despair] Let no presuming impious railer tax Creative wisdom as if aught was form'd In vain, or not for admirable ends. Shall little haughty ignorance pronounce His works unwise of which the smallest part Exceeds the narrow vision of his mind? - [Creation] Lo! from the dread immensity of space Returning, with accelerated course, The rushing comet to the sun descends: And as he sinks below the shading earth, With awful train projected o'er the heavens, The guilty nations tremble. - [Comets] Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. - [Proverbs] Displaying page 1 of 7 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7
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