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God moves in a mysterious way / His wonders to perform; …
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The twentieth year is wellnigh past / Since first our sky was overcast; …
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Out of Norfolk, the Gift of My Cousin, Ann Bodham / O THAT those lips had language! Life has passed …
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Written When the News Arrived; 1782 / TOLL for the brave,— …
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From “The Timepiece”: “The Task,” Book II. / O FOR a lodge in some vast wilderness, …
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Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, and Came Safe Home Again / JOHN GILPIN was a citizen …
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Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose; / The spectacles set them, unhappily, wrong; …
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From “The Task,” Book VI. / NOT to understand a treasure’s worth …
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Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade, / Apt emblem of a virtuous maid! …
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The twentieth year is well-nigh past, / Since first our sky was overcast; …
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Mary! I want a lyre with other strings, / Such aid from Heaven as some have feign'd they drew, …
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Extracts from “Friendship” / WHAT virtue, or what mental grace, …
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From “The Task,” Book I. / TEN thousand warblers cheer the day, and one …
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During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez / I AM monarch of all I survey,— …
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From “The Winter Morning Walk:” “The Task,” Bk. V. / ’T IS the morning, and the sun with ruddy orb …
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Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade, / Apt emblem of a virtuous maid,— …