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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.

William Cowper

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Pain Pleasure Poet Poetic Poetry
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Admit Degrees Enslave Judgment Leave Pleasure
What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Know Memories Pain Peaceful Pleasure Poet Poetic Sweet
To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Easier Eye Foolish Government Precedent Think Thinking
Still ending, and beginning still.
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Beginning End Life Still
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Ease Mean Modesty Please Press Remember Still
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Hand Rock Spring Tree
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Forbear Forgiving Happier Kindest Occasion Pair Pity Something
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Lodge Solitude Some Successful War Wilderness
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
WILLIAM COWPER

Fall Giving Great Men Office Talent
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Air Brisk Ear Heart Martial Melt Mind Music Pease Pitch Soul Sound Sympathy
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
WILLIAM COWPER

Color Enforce Fellow Find Guilty Power Skin Slavery Wrong
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Cole Devil God Made Pit Pride
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
WILLIAM COWPER

Ceaseless Corrosion Divide Joy Know May Passionate Temper
And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Address Anxious Become Change Conscious Feed Gesture Grace Guilt Impressed Messenger Much Tender
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
WILLIAM COWPER

Check Employed Good Happy Life Man

The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.

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