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Page iii - Read from some humbler poet. Whose songs gushed from his heart. As showers from the clouds of summer. Or tears from the eyelids start; Who, through long days of labor.
Page 89 - CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies: Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan; That mountains weep in crystal rill; That flowers in tears of balm distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers...
Page 36 - Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measur'd by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man.
Page 21 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Page 193 - Of mountain heath and moorland thyme, And trifles that tell the lover. How wildly sweet is the minstrel's lay, Through cliffs and wild woods ringing, For, ah ! there is love to beacon his way, And hope in the song he's singing ! The bard may indite, and the minstrel sing, And maidens may chorus it rarely ; But unless there be love in the heart within, The ditty will charm but sparely.
Page x - Nash," a third describes his Muse as ' ' armed with a gag-tooth (a tusk), and his pen possessed with Hercules's furies." He is well characterised in " The Return from Parnassus." " His style was witty, tho' he had some gall ; Something he might have mended, so may all ; Yet this I say, that for a mother's wit, Few men have ever seen the like of it.
Page 145 - I HAD a dream — it was not all a dream"— Methought I sat beneath the silver beam Of the sweet moon, and you were with me there ; And...
Page v - THE AUTHOR MOST RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATES THIS LITTLE VOLUME, IN TOKEN OF HIS GRATITUDE FOB THEIR KINDLY SUPPORT, AND ZEAL.