T was my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more ; My Mary ! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still... Poems - الصفحة 236بواسطة William Cowper - 1815عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Thomas Taylor - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...rather to augment it, as the following beautiful poem, written about this time, will show : TO MARY. ' The twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky was overcast, And would that this might be the last, My Mary ! Thy spirits have a fainter glow ; I see thee daily... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...resource to prove, And may ye, sometimes landing here, Instruct us how to love ! June, 1793. TO MARY. THE twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our...sky was overcast ; Ah ! would that this might be the lastl My Mary ! Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow 'Twas my distress that... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...are still current among the peasantry of that coast East Lothian Journal. VERSES TO MRS MARY UNWIX. THE twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky was overcast ; Ah, would lhat thia might be our last ! My Mary. Thy np'rits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow... | |
| 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...to augment it, as the following beautiful poem, written about this time, will show: — TO MARY. " The twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky was overcast, And would that this might be the last, My Mary ! Thy spirits have a fainter glow; I see thee daily... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...resource to prove, And may ye, sometimes landing here, Instruct us how to love ! June, 1793. TO MARY. THE twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our...; Ah ! would that this might be the last! My Mary I Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow 'Twas my distress »that brought thee... | |
| William Smyth - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...the word " my?" says Mr. Godwin. You remember Cowper's poem to Mrs. Unwin in the decline of life: " Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily...'Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary." And he goes on with words and pronouns, ending as he supposes each stanza in the most emphatic manner,... | |
| Elizabeth Stone - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...of such a nature would be the feelings which suggested these well-known but exquisite lines : — " The twentieth year is well nigh past, Since first...spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker gruw, Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! " Thy needles, once a shining store, For my... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...errour now behold mo free, Since I receiv'd him as a gift from Thee. TO MARY. [Autumn of 1793.] THK twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky...! My Mary ' Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see them daily weaker grow 'Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ' Thy needles, once a shining... | |
| Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...of such a nature would be the feelings which suggested these well-known but exquisite lines : — " The twentieth year is well nigh past, Since first our sky was overcast, Ah, would that this might he the List ! My Mary ! " Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker gn»w, 'Twas my... | |
| William Cowper - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 406
...And, steep'd not now in rain, But in Castalian streams by you, Will never fade again. 1793. TO MARY. THE twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our...overcast ; Ah would that this might be the last \ My Mary I Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow 'Twas my distress that brought thee... | |
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