 But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought...  Poems - Page 308by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...down in his lair ; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place ; And mercy, encouraging thought ! Gives even...affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. THE DOVES. REAS'NING at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, While meaner things, whom instinct... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 pages
...down in his lair ; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought ! Gives even...affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. THE FOOTPRINT ON THE SAND. BY DANIEL DEFOE. (From " Robinson Crusoe.") IT happened one day, about noon,... | |
 | 1898 - 524 pages
...laid down in his lair; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought! Gives even affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND ROBERT BURNS NOTE TO THE PUPIL. — Burns, one of the greatest of English... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1900 - 504 pages
...down in his lair ; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There 's mercy in every place ; And mercy — encouraging thought ! — Gives...affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. THE BARON'S LAST BANQUET. ALBERT G. GREENE. O'ER a low couch the setting sun Had thrown its latest... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1901 - 362 pages
...the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Even here, is a season of rest; And I, to my Cabin repair. There is mercy in ev'ry...affliction a grace; And reconciles Man to his lot. EPITAPH ON A HARE. COWPER had three tame hares—Bess, Tiney, and Puss. HERE lies, whom hound did ne'er... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1901 - 524 pages
...sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Even here, is a season of rest ; And I, to my Cabin repair. There is mercy in ev'ry...encouraging thought ! Gives even affliction a grace; EPITAPH ON A HARE. COWPER had three tame hares — Bess, Tiney, and Puss. HERE lies, whom hound did... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 pages
...laid down in his lair; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every the hill, which, coated o'er with snow, Afforded us...gliding-place, just twenty years ago. The old school- WILLIAM COWHEB. FAITH. BETTKR trust all and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 444 pages
...down in his lair, Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There 's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought ] Gives even...affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. A REVIEW OF SCHOOLS. IN early days the Conscience has in most A quickness which in later life is lost... | |
 | 1902 - 364 pages
...laid down in his lair; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place; And mercy — encouraging thought — Gives...affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. WILLIAM COWPER. Have you read " Robinson Crusoe " ? The story is said to be founded on the adventures... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1902 - 296 pages
...down in his lair ; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought ! Gives even...affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot. COWPER. True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will... | |
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