Joseph Addison Hope Poems

  • 1.
    How are thy servants blest, O Lord!
    How sure is their defence!
    Eternal wisdom is their guide,
    Their help Omnipotence.
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  • 2.
    Our lives, discoloured with our present woes,
    May still grow white and shine with happier hours.
    So the pure limped stream, when foul with stains
    Of rushing torrents and descending rains,
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  • 3.
    How are Thy servants blest, O Lord!
    How sure is their defense!
    Eternal wisdom is their guide,
    Their help Omnipotence.
    ...
  • 4.
    Since, dearest Harry, you will needs request
    A short account of all the Muse possest,
    That, down from Chaucer's days to Dryden's Times,
    Have spent their Noble Rage in British Rhimes;
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Total 4 Hope Poems by Joseph Addison

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Vain Hope
 by Ernest Dowson

Sometimes, to solace my sad heart, I say,
Though late it be, though lily-time be past,
Though all the summer skies be overcast,
Haply I will go down to her, some day,
And cast my rests of life before her feet,
That she may have her will of me, being so sweet
And none gainsay!

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