Poems by Mr. Gray. A new editionOsborne & Griffin, 1787 - 132 pages |
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... train Disclose the long - expecting flowers , And wake the purple year ! The Attic warbler pours her throat , Responsive to the cuckow's note , The untaught harmony of spring : While , whifp'ring pleasure as they fly , Cool Zephyrs thro ...
... train Disclose the long - expecting flowers , And wake the purple year ! The Attic warbler pours her throat , Responsive to the cuckow's note , The untaught harmony of spring : While , whifp'ring pleasure as they fly , Cool Zephyrs thro ...
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... train ! Ah , fhew them where in ambush stand To feize their prey the murth'rous band ! Ah , tell them they are men ! These shall the fury Paffions tear , The vultures of the mind , Difdainful Anger , pallid Fear , And Shame that skulks ...
... train ! Ah , fhew them where in ambush stand To feize their prey the murth'rous band ! Ah , tell them they are men ! These shall the fury Paffions tear , The vultures of the mind , Difdainful Anger , pallid Fear , And Shame that skulks ...
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... Train be there To foften , not to wound my heart . The generous fpark extinct , revive ; Teach me to love , and to forgive ; Exact my own defects to scan , What others are , to feel , and know myself a Man . . THE PROGRESS OF POE S Y A ...
... Train be there To foften , not to wound my heart . The generous fpark extinct , revive ; Teach me to love , and to forgive ; Exact my own defects to scan , What others are , to feel , and know myself a Man . . THE PROGRESS OF POE S Y A ...
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... life , the Mufe was given to mankind by the fame Providence that fends the day , by its chearful prefence , to dispel the gloom and ter- rors of the night . Disease , and Sorrow's weeping train , And Death , 38 THE PROGRESS OF POESY ,
... life , the Mufe was given to mankind by the fame Providence that fends the day , by its chearful prefence , to dispel the gloom and ter- rors of the night . Disease , and Sorrow's weeping train , And Death , 38 THE PROGRESS OF POESY ,
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Thomas Gray. Disease , and Sorrow's weeping train , And Death , fad refuge from the ftorms of Fate ! The fond complaint , my fong , difprove , And juftify the laws of Jove . Say , has he given in vain the heav'nly Mufe ! 3 Night , and ...
Thomas Gray. Disease , and Sorrow's weeping train , And Death , fad refuge from the ftorms of Fate ! The fond complaint , my fong , difprove , And juftify the laws of Jove . Say , has he given in vain the heav'nly Mufe ! 3 Night , and ...
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art thou beneath bluſh breaſt breath brow Caernarvonshire Cambria's chearful cloſe crimſon crown dauntlefs death Denmark Difdainful dread dreft Dryden's Edward Eirin Eolian ETON COLLEGE fable fate feen fend fhade fhaggy fhall fide Firſt fkies flaughter fleep flowers fmiling foft folemn fome fong forrows foul fpirit fpring ftately ftill ftrains ftream fublime fuch fway fwell glitt'ring glory hafty hand Hark Hauberk heart Heav'n Henry VI Hoder's horſe Italy kindred King lance lefs loft Lord Love lyre Milton Mufe ne'er numbers o'er Odin OWEN Paffions pain Paradife Petrarch PINDARIC ODE pleaſure Prophetefs purſues Quarto reign repoſe reſt rhime rifing rill rofe ſhade ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhield Snowdon ſpeed ſpread ſtate ſteep ſteps ſweet Talieffin tear thee thefe theſe thoſe thou thro thund'ring tomb triumph Twas tyrant Virg voice wave Weave Welch Where-e'er whofe wing youth