 | William Cowper - 1860 - 506 pages
...wonders it records be sung To meaner music, and not suffer loss. But when a poet, or when one -ike me, Happy to rove among poetic flowers, Though poor in skill to rear them, lights at last, On some fair theme, some theme divinely fair, Such is the impulse and the spur he feels,... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 pages
...wonders it records be sung To meaner music, and not suffer loss. But when a poet, or when one like me, Happy to rove among poetic flowers, Though poor in skill to rear them, lights at last On some fair theme, some theme divinely fair, Such is the impulse and the spur he feels... | |
 | Selections - 1862 - 348 pages
...wonders it records be sung To meaner music, and not suffer loss. But when a poet, or when one like me, Happy to rove among poetic flowers, Though poor in skill to rear them, lights at last On some fair theme, some theme divinely fair, Such is the impulse and the spur he feels,... | |
 | Truman Rickard - 1863 - 152 pages
...mere mortal touch : 20 To meaner music, and not suffer loss. But when a poet, or when one like me, Happy to rove among poetic flowers, Though poor in skill to rear them, lights at last 25 On some fair theme, some theme divinely fair, Such is the impulse and the spur he... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1863 - 420 pages
...wonders it records be sung To meaner music, and not suffer loss. But when a poet, or when one like me, Happy to rove among poetic flowers, Though poor in skill to rear them, lights at last On some fair theme, some theme divinely fair, Such is the impulse and the spur he feels... | |
 | William Cowper - 1864 - 454 pages
...wonders it records be sung To meaner music, and not suffer loss. But when a poet, or when one like me, Happy to rove among poetic flowers, Though poor in skill to rear them, lights at last On some fair theme, some theme divinely fair, Such is the impulse and the spur he feels,... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...wonders it records be sung To meaner music, and not suffer loss. But when a poet, or when one like me, Happy to rove among poetic flowers, Though poor in skill to rear them, lights at last On some fair theme, some theme divinely fair, Such is the impulse and the spur he feels,... | |
 | 1867 - 134 pages
...wonders it records be sung To meaner music, and not suffer loss. But when a poet, or when one like me,! Happy to rove among poetic flowers, Though poor in skill to rear them, lights at last On some fair theme, some theme divinely fair — Such is the impulse and the spur he... | |
 | 1868 - 902 pages
...expressed, with unrivalled precision and ease, thoughts and feelings common to every Christian who is " Happy to rove among poetic flowers, Though poor in skill to rear them." He is never obscure, his emotions are never fictitious, his humor is never forced, nor his satire pointless.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1870 - 574 pages
...wonders it records be sung To meaner music, and not suffer loss. But when a poet, or when one like me, Happy to rove among poetic flowers, Though poor in skill to rear them, lights at lut On some fair theme, some theme divinely fair, Such is the impulse and the spur he feels,... | |
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But when a poet, or when one like me, Happy to rove among poetic flowers, Though poor in skill to rear them, lights at last On some fair theme, some theme divinely fair, Such is the impulse and the spur he feels To give it praise proportioned to its worth,... 
