 | William Cowper - 1803 - 310 pages
...we dread, Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. A COMPARISON. THE lapse of time and rivers is the same ; Both speed their journey with a restless stream ; The silent pace with which they steal away No wealth can bribe, no pray'rs persuade to stay ; Alike... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 226 pages
...we dread, Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But hi the sunshine strikes the blow. A COMPARISON. THE lapse of time and rivers is the same, Both speed their journey with a restless stream ; The silent pace, with which they steal away, No wealth can bribe, no prayers persuade to stay ; Alike... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 316 pages
...we dread, Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. A COMPARISON. THE lapse of time and rivers is the same, Both speed their journey with a restless str&am; The silent pace, with which they steal away, No wealth can bribe, no prayers persuade to stay;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 390 pages
...we dread, Frowns in the storm with angry brow. But in the sunshine strikes the blow. A COMPARISON. THE lapse of time and rivers is the same, Both speed their journey with a restless stream; The silent pace, with which they steal away, No wealth can bribe, no pray'rs persuade to stay ; Alike... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 416 pages
...in its flow, Nor mark the much irrevocably laps'd And mingled with the sea !" COMPARISON. CoWPEE. " The lapse of time and rivers is the same, Both speed their journey with a restless stream ; The silent pice, with which they steal away, No wealth can bribe, no prayers persuade to stay ; Alike... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 512 pages
...its flow, Nor mark the much irrevocably laps'd And mingled with the sea !" COMPAKISON. — CoWPEK. " The lapse of time and rivers is the same, . , Both speed their journey with a restless stream , The silent pace, with which they steal away, No wealth can bribe, no prayers persuade to stay ; Alike... | |
 | William Cowper - 1812 - 396 pages
...we dread, Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. A COMPARISON. THE lapse of time and rivers is the same, Both speed their journey with a restless stream; The silent pace, with which they steal away, No wealth can bribe, no pray'rs persuade to stay ; Alike... | |
 | William Cowper - 1814 - 496 pages
...we dread ; Frowus in the storm with angry brow, Bnt in the snushine strikes the blow. A COMPARISON. THE lapse of time and rivers is the same, Both speed their jonrney with a restless stream ; The silent pace, with which they steal away, 'JSo wealth can bribe,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 252 pages
...we dread, Frowns in the storm with angry hrow, Bat in the sunshine strikes the hlow. A COMPARISON. , THE lapse of time and rivers is the same, Both speed their journey with a restless stream ' The silent pace, with which they steal away, No wealth can hrihe, no prayer persuade to stay ; Alike... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 240 pages
...the distant coast: The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. A COMPARISON. THE lapse of time and rivers is the same, Both speed their journey with a restless stream ; The silent pace, with which they steal away, No wealth can bribe, no prayers persuade to stay ; Alike... | |
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THE lapse of time and rivers is the same, Both speed their journey with a restless stream ; The silent pace, with which they steal away, No wealth can bribe, no prayers persuade to stay ; Alike irrevocable both when past, And a wide ocean swallows both... 
