Love in a shower safe shelter took, In a rosy bower beside a brook, And winked and nodded with conscious pride, To his votaries drenched on the other side. Come hither, sweet maids, there's a bridge below, The toll-keeper, Hymen, will let you through. Come over the stream to me.
"Robert Bloomfield" was an England/English labouring class poet whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers such as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier and John Clare.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More Robert Bloomfield on Wikipedia.Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall; Did I not see, did I not feel. That One Great Spirit governs all. O Heaven, permit that I may lie Where o'er my corse green branches wave; And those who from life's tumults fly With kindred feelings press my grave.
We see the exhibition as an important part of our Darwin bicentennial.
[The significance of Darwin's ideas] has grown, ... For example, at this moment we're looking at Asian bird flu and where it's going. If not for Darwinism, we would be ignorant of the mechanism of that flu and how it changes over time.
The lessons of prudence have charms, And slighted, may lead to distress; But the man whom benevolence warms Is an angel who lives but to bless.
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